OMG!!! The 2nd season of Tool Academy has started
with a bang. Where do they find these tools? I am shocked and amazed that there are even more tools of the same caliber as the first season! Oh Lawzy, Lawzy!
There are tools who call themselves by dumbass nicknames, there are tools who are in their 30's and way too old to be rocking the "tool lifestyle", there are rude, insenstive, selfish idiots tools. In short all the tools you could ever hope to meet. :)
Here is the question this show brings up for me: WTF are these girls thinking? ARE these girls thinking? What could any of these tools actually bring to a relationship that would make any of the girls think they are worth rehabilitating? Any woman with the tiniest teensiest bit of self esteem would run screaming into the night the first time one of these jerks showed his true colors.
Which brings up the next question: Is vh1 now going to have some sort of show to help these girls learn how to demand some R E S P E C T? They could have Aretha Franklin on there telling them how it should be! They could have the girls from Season 1 on there telling them how those morons haven't shaped up one iota and all should have been kicked to the curb. I love this idea! I do have some pretty great ideas now and again, even if I do say so myself. (Patting self on the back)
I know the first season ended with a reunion show but it was so soon after the show ended we didn't get a real sense of whether any of these so-called reformed tools could maintain their new-found attitudes. Wouldn't it be great to do a follow-up a year later and see how it's going? Is that brain trust Matsuflex still in love with himself? Did the little Josh and Ashley couple who won and got married stay married? Lots of questions to ponder.
In the meantime we have season 2 tools to watch and be appalled at. And this is an appalling bunch of tools for sure! The very first one to get bounced from the academy made a damn scene on his exit and then was telling his girl friend how it was all her fault alternating that with "tell me you love me, baby". She is a damn fool for getting in the car with such a lunatic. I wish her all the luck in the world extracating herself from that relationship and in finding a therapist to put her back together. By the by, he was my top pick for leaving first. Bad news all the way round.
It's one of those shows that is like a slow motion train wreck. You know it's going to be bad, you know you shouldn't be sitting there watching, but you can't make yourself look away. And there is nothing funnier than hearing the host dude say "I'm sorry, you are a complete tool. Hang up your jacket and leave the academy". Ha!
Thursday nights on vh1, be there or be square!
Tool Academy is a guilty pleasure of ours, too. I wondered how in the world could they possibly make a sequel to it and the tools not get wise to what was going on, but I guess they're just that big of tools, eh? I don't know how it's possible, but some of the new tools seem even more toolish than last year!
ReplyDeleteI did not watch season 1. Despite watching shows like "Hogan Knows Best" and "My Antonio" I could not imagine myself watching a show called "Tool Academy." (yes, My Antonio was an accidental pick-up... I apparently can't avoid trainwreck TV).
ReplyDeleteBut... you love it, my friend Margo loves it, I had to at least give it a shot. That, and there was absolutely nothing else on TV tonight after BB.
My first question out of the gate was what exactly is a "special tool?" I understood hillbilly, redneck, etc, but "special" threw me.
then, if you saw my fb update, Chris was asking me why the guys on tv were dressed like cheerleaders. My reply? "Um, they're cheerleading." That was the best I could do!
My question later on was... why in the heck would a guy go on a show where he knew he would constantly be referred to as a tool. Chris told me, "because they're tools." If nothing else, the show makes for some simple question/answer interaction in my house!
The way Margo described the show to me was that after watching it, she threw her arms around her boyfriend and thanked God for him. I can finally understand that reaction after having watched my first episode!
The premise is that they (the tools in question) think they are going to be on some manly man show and they are trying to be as big a jackass as possible to compete for this "honor", but in reality their girlfriends have all signed them up in a last ditch effort to straighten their asses up. Last season they thought it was a show called "Mr. Awesome", and this season it was something about touring the country with scanitly clad women promoting some stupid energy drink.
ReplyDeleteSee if vh1 has the very first episode of this season available online and watch that first tool get evicted. Just when you think trashy reality tv has hit it's all time low, it sinks a few feet lower! Ha!
LOL! Mr. Awesome. freaking hilarious. I watched the "previously on tool academy" just now, and that caught me up a bit. I'll be searching for episode 1 because that guy looked like a huge tool ;)
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