But she won't win the money, so it will make it even WORSE. She will have thought she was bringing her "boyfriend" type thing to the finale, but it will turn out that she brought a horrible person who hates her, and it will make it all the worse. It's kinda funny, but also kinda sad.

By the way, apparently it's pretty much set now that Janelle will be on The View on Wednesday! I love how the first (and maybe only) person they choose to interview after the show is Janelle. I'll be watching!

PEACE, Mike.

And even though I warmed up to Janelle a little more this year, I must say that I hope this is the last we ever see of her and the rest of season six.

There's a way in which every cast of a season of a vote-off show gets the winner that best represents it. Casts with a critical mass of decent people tend to get winners like Tom or Tina, while casts made up of repulsive hammerheads get winners like Brian Heidik. It's sort of unavoidable, especially because of the final vote. So there's a certain inevitability to the fact that a bunch of really hateful assholes like the ones who populated this season would wind up with Mike as their winner. It seemed shocking when it became clear that he was going to win, but...people who would do this -- people who need to come back to be on a show this stupid for a second time -- this is who they think is cool. Mike owns restaurants where people will treat you like a VIP if you were on Dog Eat Dog. He's part of the whole weird, incestuous sub-industry of making people like this feel important. It just makes perfect sense that they'd pick him. Of course they'd pick him. Why wouldn't they? They're idiots, and he's their leader. Anyway, the jury is a roiling swamp of genuinely embarrassing behavior, led by Janelle, who drops the pretty-princess Betty-Boop game and behaves like a spiteful, angry, cruel asshole in a transparent effort to impress Will. Of course, Will is gross and cruel instead of funny as well, while Danielle self-righteously lectures everyone that it shouldn't be personal, then not only votes for purely personal reasons, but goes out of her way to twist the purely personal knife by trying to make Erika think she's getting Danielle's vote. The show itself piles on by highlighting Alison and egging her on as she ridicules and humiliates Erika in front of her family and her friends, not for anything related to the game, but for being fooled into caring about someone who didn't care about her. Of all the distasteful outcomes and depressing finales that I've had to sit through in 300 recaps, this one is by far the worst, and these people behave the most antisocially and reprehensibly, pretty much without exception. It's a triumph of intensely sexist, moralistic, self-justifying bullshit, and there is not one person who comes off at all well. It's an enormous relief that this is over, because in spite of all the time I've spent arguing that the vast majority of shows like this need to be taken at face value and don't actually suggest that the people involved all need to be sent to a desert island and never allowed to come back, I'd be willing to reconsider in this one special case. Just put them all on their own commune, let them relive their glory days in perpetuity, and spare the rest of us.

The more I think about it, the more I'm glad this season is over.

Mike Boogie is easily the worst winner of all time. He is one of the most thoroughly unlikeable people I've ever seen. He has major issues, I think, like actually. Like hating women and getting some kind of sick pleasure from degrading them, for one.

This season, for me, just ended horribly between Janelle's eviction, Mike Boogie's total suckitude, and Erika's unfortunate and undeserved public humiliation.

Slightly easing the pain of Boogie's horribleness:

I heard The View had Boogie/Erika/Janelle as guests this morning, and Rosie O'Donnell practically eviscerated Mike Boogie. Good times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7BhZ0q5x4

Edit: Just watched it? That pretty much rocked? DOWN WITH MIKE BOOGIE. Erika is at least putting up a moderately strong front, I suppose. That's good.

Agreed. The season just went horribly wrong, probably starting with Janelle's deal with Scrubika. I think she would have had a far better shot against Boogie and Will, and the greatest move ever quickly became the greatest mistake ever. Ironic, considering she said she was done making mistakes.

This is just bringing up new anger in me, so I'm going to stop thinking about it.

I dunno, there's no way Janelle could have predicted all that before she voted Will out. She went with the better option knowing what she knew at the time, imo.

Slightly easing the pain of Boogie's horribleness:

I heard The View had Boogie/Erika/Janelle as guests this morning, and Rosie O'Donnell practically eviscerated Mike Boogie. Good times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7BhZ0q5x4

Edit: Just watched it? That pretty much rocked? DOWN WITH MIKE BOOGIE. Erika is at least putting up a moderately strong front, I suppose. That's good.

Will called in to House Calls on the last episode (watchable online at cbs), and said he and Mike will be going onto Amazing Race. Not sure if that's an official confirmation but he seemed to think they'd be on there.

Will called in to House Calls on the last episode (watchable online at cbs), and said he and Mike will be going onto Amazing Race. Not sure if that's an official confirmation but he seemed to think they'd be on there.