Thursday, January 29, 2009

This Your ESP

Merciful internet keeps me from ever having to watch this show. Recap excerpt:

"Meet sad-sacking, goth-tarding, sleeve-missing, psychic power-having harbinger of death Tara Mathews (21, SLC). Ryan's like, "You're psychic? Why are you grabbing your head like that? Can you alter the course of the deaths you foresee, like Patricia Arquette?" And the girl, to her credit, is like, "So far, no." Where people usually have sleeves, she has nothing. This is not a small girl, but it is a small skirt, and where people usually have pants, she has garters under her small skirt, leading to sad boots. It's doughy and bad news in there, but hey, be yourself. She explains that she's not depressed, just Goth. Turns out: both.

Paula asks for something interesting, and Tara tells them up front about how she has "ESP pretty strong." Girls, what have we done to ourselves? If I were Tara's ESP I would shoot myself in the head, because I would be such a colossal failure. Not even the gumption to tell her anything helpful. "Girl, don't go out dressed like that," or "Darlin' don't tell people that you have ESP -- this your ESP speaking," or most especially, "Honey, don't tell people that you can foresee the deaths of both personal friends and people on TV, because it makes you sound like a mental patient." What kind of ESP would I be, if I couldn't even do basic ESP stuff like that? Failure. Boom. She wouldn't even see it coming.

Immediately Randy and Kara are like, "What am I thinking?" Drawing a blank, she admits that not even her powers are up to that challenge. Simon asks if her ESP has told her she's going to do well today; also not something she can get. She hums and then warbles a song about how she's going to fly away, but at the bottom of the screen it says "Bill Collector" is her job, and that means we hate her."