Serendipity

Tee-La, newest member of the Shiny family (and She-ra's much suffering sister) has asked me to post the following (issues with her log on. Don't worry, it'll be fixed soon.) Enjoy:

No, not a posting on the excellent Joss Whedon movie, but some serendipitous television viewing ( fortunate disoveries made by chance).

I was accidentally watching Channel 9 tonight. How do you accidentally watch television you ask? Well, I was watching it while I cooked. Of course I have a television in my kitchen, doesn't everybody? But I digress...

So I was accidentally watching Channel 9 and saw two shows that turned out to be much better than expected.

The first show was "20 to 1 - Songs You Can't Get Out of Your Head". Apparently the people at Channel 9 have either never heard the term "earworm" or have decided that their target audience are too stupid or old to make the connection. Well, it is hosted Bert...

I know that the fans of this blog will be desperate to know what were considered the 20 most catchy yet annoying songs. I am not sure who actually chooses the songs etc, but I can tell you that the earliest was "Sadie the Cleaning Lady" from 1967, and there was a lot of 1980s and 1990s music. Some of the 20 were appalling eg Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" and the
Crazy Frog song. Some of the songs were actually quite good like The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" or Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-go". The best quote of the night was about The Spice Girls "Wannabe". Some actor from Sea Patrol ( can't beat Channel 9 for cross promotion) was saying that he actually likes the lines " If you wanna be my lover you'd better get with my friends" Apparently he would be quite happy with that kind of open relationship.

Now without further ado.... the most annoying song is (drumroll). ACHY BREAKY HEART by Billy Ray Cyrus. If you are not already singing "Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart" in your head, just think of an over muscled man with horrendous mullet. Now do you remember him? "And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, he might blow up and kill this man" (we can only hope).

The second show that I enjoyed was "Who Killed Harold Holt". I thought it might be a bit dull, but it was full of salacious gossip eg that Harold Holt was the father of his wife Zara's twin boys, which wouldn't have been a problem except that she was married to somebody else at the time. No actual evidence of this, naturally. Or for the assertions that he was taken by a shark, committed suicide, or was a spy who was picked up by a Chinese sub. OR possibly a Russian sub. But it would have been a very short show if only proven incidents were discussed. Very much like an hour long television version of "Womans' Day" hosted by Ray Martin.

And speaking of Ray; Roll Up, Roll Up, he and Laurie (presumably Oakes) will be hosting the Election Night Extravaganza. I am not sure whether they will appear in person, or if we will get the cartoon figures with big bobby heads from the ad. The ads were circus themed, I wonder who the clowns will be.

Tee-La, better looking and much more intelligent sister of She-ra.