Friday Faves - don't be such a Schmo.

When I woke up this morning and realized it was Friday, I was happy.

Five minutes later when I remembered it was a three day weekend, I broke out the turntables and busted some sweet moves.

Warning - do not watch for more than 5 seconds if you are prone to photosensitive epilepsy. 

I had planned to fill the Favorite's list this week with a few random things like flannel sheets and Skinny Cow desserts.

Those little nuggets taste exactly like 100GRAND bars, and only have 120 calories a bag.
So I eat 2. Obviously.

But then last night Husband and I watched what very well may be the most fantastically brilliant show on television (with apologies, obviously, to The Bachelor).

The Joe Schmo Show.
(The depth of our television viewing habits never ceases to surprise delight me.)

And from the first minute, we. were. hooked.

Here's the premise -

The Joe Schmo Show is a reality show - but a totally fake reality show for everyone involved except one guy.

This guy. 

Sweet, naive Chase, who really wants to be a bounty hunter.

He's competing (or thinks he's competing) against 9 other "contestants" (who are all actors) in a reality show called "The Full Bounty", where the winner will receive $100,000 and a one year stint as a real life bounty hunter (not really).  The entire production team has been working for almost a year, planning the challenges, setting up the mansion with cameras, fine-tuning the back stories, working with the actors....basically, preparing to pull the mother of all practical jokes on the "Schmo", who has no idea that this is all a ruse.  

His voice overs and testimonials make it evident that he is in it to win it. He takes it all very seriously which makes it all very hilarious when you watch how over the top the actors will go to make their characters believable.

The other "contestants" include a model, a token black guy (relax, I'm not being racist, that's how he refers to himself), an ex-con, a nice guy, an overachieving Asian girl (again, not stereotyping!), an asshat (now I'm totally stereotyping), a model, a dumb girl with a dead husband, a deaf girl and her interpreter (so brilliant), the "Bounty Hunter" host and his token bimbo wife, and (my very favorite), Lorenzo Lamas (as a not so far-fetched version of himself)....and their job is to not only make poor Chase believe this is all a real show, but set him up for hilarious and ridiculous situations.

"I have the sack of a 25 year old man" 

This is apparently the third season of The Joe Schmo Show. 

I have no idea how Husband and I missed seasons one and two, except maybe for the fact that season one was back in 2003 and we had a two year old and not as many cable channels (or time on our hands to sit in our basement drinking wine watching such thought provoking television).  

And apparently, Kristen Wiig was one of the "contestants" on season one so you better believe we are taping it STAT.

Our simple pleasure at these types of things knows no bounds.

Thank god we found each other. Really.

The show airs on SPIKE TV. 

You might be surprised you have it.

I was.

If you don't, no worries. I'll keep you posted.

Don't be a Schmo. Click on the brown box.