The Christmas Experiment 2014: Hours 11+12: Daytime Stuff

Since it's an easy couple of hours, we're watching The Price is Right and... ugh... the 4th Hour of The Today Show. Can't all be winners, kids!

Wrong Holiday, Right Booziness

Today: Ah, Kathy Lee and Hoda. The tipsiest women in Daytime television since Sandra Lee disappeared. I wonder what ever did happen to Sandra Lee? Did she have one Cocktail Time too many? They are drinking for the record and we're going to see them talking to someone about Christmas Cocktails later. Let's see if they start slurring today.

Like Last Year, we have a chorus of inner city children singing. I want to point out, once again, that if Mrs. Jackson were directing them, they wouldn't be doing that out of sync swaying them while they were singing. She would have thrown a stapler at them by now. Okay, threatened to at least.

Time for a game. Hoda and Kathy Lee decide to start seeing if they can name movies that a Santa is from. After a poor showing, they decide they need a sip of wine. I really hope they're good at holding their booze.

A few minutes later, we're on last minute gifts. One of the suggestions is, of course, Wine Tasting. The one I like is monogrammed cutting boards. I wouldn't mind one of those. It could be kind of cool. One of the other gifts are those terrible books where you insert a kids name in the book. I never got the appeal of those since they're mostly the same book time and time again.

So, we get a Holiday Trivia Game. The questions are beyond stupid but they still get people who can't answer it. When you lose, you get stuck with a Kathy Lee CD. Get it right? A cash card!  They have a guy who tells you inane trivia after the questions get answered. Seriously, it is so dumb but oh well, I guess you got to take the good with the bad.

After a cooking segment, we get the cocktail segment. The interns are drinking more than Kathy Lee and Hoda. I'm a little sad about this. I want to see these two get tanked. Sadly, might have to wait on their New Year's Special. That said, at the end, they toast the people for watching them and then probably go to down all those cocktails.

What would you even call that scrap of hair under his lips?

The Price Is Right: Drew Carey still doesn't feel right to me. I dunno, he just never has.Maybe it's that ugly soulpatch he's sporting. Maybe he's just too nice. For example, when someone would snipe, you could see a hint of disgust in Bob's eyes. Drew is just trying to make people happy. I can understand where he's coming from but these are the worse people on the show. Today's is also indecisive to the extreme. Very few of these games demand skill and most of the audience are idiots. I would just tell them to shut up so I can concentrate.

Sadly, today seems to the be the Day of the Sniper. The only justice to the Sniper is that if they sniped the person before them, that person is now in prime sniping position. Of the six people that get up, four did it via sniping with one round having two separate snipers. I would never snipe. Someone did the game better than you. Why deprive them? Snipers are almost as terrible as Jeffy.

By the way, Price is Right, you're making me feel old. One game involves being able to tell if the price was from "then" or "now." When I was a kid, the prices were 80s and 70s.  Now, the "Then" prices are from November of 1999. I feel so freaking old.

Non-Viewing Thoughts: I think I might wear my Santa Hat to the theater tomorrow.

Late Christmas Ideas:Even though I don't think I've ever made a cocktail, I'd like to learn how to. Maybe a cocktail mixer, a book on cocktails. I dunno.

Notable Commercials: I'm kinda getting tired of seeing Melissa Joan Hart and Anthony Anderson shilling Wal-mart. Not to hate on it too much but still. Whether it's Anthony being overdramatic or the two of them showing off a portrayed Cooking Expertise, it gets annoying.

Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 6
Amps left: 2
Coffee Drank: 1 Bottle
Pumpkin Pie Left: 2/3rds Left
Sanity Rating: (1 being Happy Hour, 10 being a night out with Kathy Lee and Hoda): 5