This year's Halloween show could've been titled "Hot Mess". Urban Dictionary defines the term as: "...somebody that has NO REASON to look the way that they are looking at the time." and "...when something just aint' right or off da chain." Both of those definitions could easily work. We'll start with the latter.
Not every year there's enough 'Halloween' news to fill an hour. As is the case this time. Although there are a couple of candy and costume stories, we drift in and out of our theme with a number of topics planned and unplanned. For example, one planned topic was a few observations I made regarding our sloshed-soiree last week for our 5th anniversary. And an apology to JJ Abrams for being a little too mean during yet another STAR TREK rant. Note: Jabari apologizes for nothing. Then unplanned conversations that included Charlie's dating a wanna-be stripper, the make up of Ambrosia salad and putting donuts on your penis. Told ya this show was messy.
Then it's onto the FINAL edition of the Who Asked You? Calendar. Last year, about this time, I made it my mission to bring you the week's special days, observations and celebrity birthdays each show so that you would be aware of all the holidays that don't get as much love as they should. And now, a year later, we've covered a good portion of those worth mentioning and it's time to move on. Calendar... you served us well by sometimes just killing 10-minutes of a show, often needed on slow news weeks.
We have three E-Mails! One is a voice message, one sent directly to Charlie asking pointedly about his anatomy and another explaining why a listener couldn't bring themselves to whack us... yeah, listen to understand the meaning of that sentence and get your mind out of the gutter. Or not, it's Halloween. Do what you want. We did!
The hot mess continues as I completely skip the list of DVDs coming out on Tuesday. Oops! Don't worry, if you really want to know what's coming out this week, they're in the Show Links as usual. What a mess!
Since this is our Halloween show, it's about time we talk about something Halloween related... candy! The Huff Po created a list of the worst candy handed out each year and we look at some of it and offer up our own suggestions. Once again, Candy Corn gets no love. But that's okay, more for me.
Then you're 'treated' to something real special. For probably the first time in the history of this show, Michael Bay says something with which we actually agree. Recently the actor who voiced Megatron in the TRANSFORMERS movies, Hugo Weaving said he didn't care about the part and basically got nothing fulfilling out of the role. In turn, Bay posted on his website that actors who get paid tons of money to sit in a booth and talk into a microphone should stop whining and be glad they have a job. Suffering from poster's remorse, Bay pulled the comments from his site. But not before everyone — including The Hollywood Reporter — got a good look at it and re-posted it for all to see. The Who Asked You? Crew actually takes Bay's side on this one. With the economy the way it is and the fact that there are starving actors by the tens-of-thousands out there that would kill a fellow thespian in cold blood for a gig that paid the $200,000 that Weaving got, not to mention all the other problems in the world; is this really an issue that an actor needs to raise or make a fuss about? You got paid in an hour and 45-minutes what takes most working class three or four years to earn and all you did was read off a piece of paper. Quit complaining!
Now to the first definition of hot mess, Patricia "Tan Mom" Krentcil. She's the Jack-O-Lantern pictured. And she's on our list of costume suggestions for this year. If you enjoy dressing topically each Halloween, then you'll wanna hear our costume ideas.
So yeah, I could've titled this episode "Hot Mess", but the show's intro was already made. Plus, it would break our tradition of using silly puns of our show title each year for the Halloween episode. With that said, we are breaking tradition starting next year. As I stated above, it's often hard to scrounge up Halloween-only news for these specials. So we're going to try something new in 2013. We're excited about it, but we're not telling you what it is. You'll have to wait until then. Halloween is my favorite holiday, so we'll still be well within the spirit.
I'll be traveling next week, so the show is off. But we'll be back on November 11th with new shows all the way through the end of the year! So more mess to come.
