Comments on: Reality Advice

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:40:06 +0000

LOL. Watching a TV warm up must be really fun. That’s a great set you’ve got there.

By: Danica

Danica — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:42:20 +0000

Aww man, this is when having a tv that works would come in handy. Ours right now is our second free tv and even the converter box has stopped working months ago now. The actual tv part has to “warm up” for anywhere from twenty minutes to infinity, and you should hear my three year old son when it finally does warm up so he can watch a show: “THE TV WARMED UP!!! THE TV WARMED UP!!!” like it’s Christmas. Poor kid. Or maybe it’s a good thing. I would watch waaaaay too much tv if we had a working one. Especially one with DVR. So instead I spend waaaaay too much time online and invade our neighbor’s house every Monday to watch 24.

By: Braden

Braden — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:30:29 +0000

No one seems yet to have noted the best one here, which is not to call your stint a journey. Thank you, Kook, for skewering the absolute stupid, self-centered idiocy of that comment. And huge LOL on the dance description.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:44:43 +0000

You guys all added some great ones, and I think they can all be summed up in Troy’s “Make out – drama + hottie – too much talking = rose.”

Doesn’t matter what show you’re on. If you follow that formula, you will do just fine.

Ron, there is no shame in secretly wanting to be on Project Runway, so I don’t know why you think that needs to be secret.

And we do need to get rid of Mary, as long as the show can lease the Hot Tamale Train from her.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:38:59 +0000

I completely agree with #2. It’s hard to think of anything more obnoxious than fingers flashing and mouthing the word seven over and over and over again through a fake smile and oooh ahhh mouth.

Come to think of it, there may be one thing more obnoxious…Mary on SYTYCD!

By: maweesa

maweesa — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:14:09 +0000

do NOT cry to the bach about how insecure you are when you see him with other girls. do NOT cry to the bach in general. DO be flirty and cute and try to have FUN. that’s all for now.. i’ll think of more later

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:11:21 +0000

amen, troy, about using your time “wisely” with jake. and about preserving any remaining dignity on AI by just walking quietly away after a bad audition. why do people insist on making complete fools of themselves? oh, maybe in hopes that they might get invited back for the show’s finale to walk out on stage in a skimpy bikini or their yellow Big Bird outfit…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:40:22 +0000

Don’t profess your love for the Bachelor/Bachelorette the first time you meet him/her.

DESPERATE.

However, I do think you summed it up nicely when you said, “If you’re trying to find your husband on reality t.v., you are all, by definition, there for the wrong reasons.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:37:12 +0000

Girls, you have very limited one-on-one time with Jake, so don’t waste that opportunity to give him advice on how to handle other girls in the house, or tattle, or complain about how you feel like you haven’t gotten a fair amount of attention. Complainers, tattlers, and advice givers go home. Just stick to being cute, and easy. Remember this formula: Make out – drama + hottie – too much talking = rose.

Jake, you sound like such an idiot when you say you’re “falling for all of you”. Even if that’s possible, which I doubt it is, not one girl wants to hear that, you moron. Did Chris feed you that line? Remember, his interest is vested in making the show look unpredictable until the Final Rose. He doesn’t care that you sound like you want to turn it into a Big Love episode.

Idol wannabes, when the judges start to laugh, put their heads on the desk, swear, or talk and giggle amongst themselves during your audition…stop–just stop. Pick up what’s left of your dignity and walk away. DO NOT ask to do another song. DO NOT try to sing above Simon telling you that it was the worst thing he’s ever heard. DO NOT storm out cussing and crying. If you walk away quietly, you just might get lucky enough to end up on the cutting room floor and you’ll be saved a lifetime of embarassment. Dignified, good-but-not-good-enough auditiions hardly ever slip past the editors. You’ll have full deniability if anyone ever presses you on it.

Side note: Carrie Underwood never did the vote-for-me pantomime with her fingers. It was one of the qualities that made me like her a little more than a friend.

By: Andrea W.

Andrea W. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:31:27 +0000

Great advice here. I so wholeheartedly concur with the cutesy waving,wagging fingers when Deely or Seacrest says your number. STOP it! Here is one of my new pet peeves you don’t really see on Idol and SYTYCD but all the others and something I would definitely advise contestants not to say.

“I mean at the end of the day I’m here to win, not to make friends.” That is not an excuse to be the meanest, nastiest, most hateful negative person you can possibly be. Makes me CRAZY.

Also, do your parents a favor and stop giving them “credit” for uprooting their whole entire family to move to LA or NYC so their 13 year old can take more dance/singing lessons. Perhaps, I’m unique but that just depresses me.