This has become a tradition, I recorded it just to watch it and you will all be happy to know that Kathie Lee and Hoda are starting out the day how they always do: with booze! Today, they each have a glass of wine and some Christmas cocktail. They're also starting with clips from Kathie Lee's workout video from the 90s. This includes a clip of Kathie Lee talking about squeezing her butt while wearing a negligee. Well, if I wasn't gay already...
Hoda brings some little girl to sing for them. The little girl wants some of Hoda's cocktail. I privately pray for them to get the kid drunk and then they get booted off television. Sadly, common sense reigns and she sings "Silent Night." The little girl ain't bad at all.
Next up is a makeover segment. Meh. Nothing to snark over.
I start making lunch and miss a segment with Hoda holding a baby. It starts crying. I think it smelled the alcohol on her breath.
After a brief news break, we come back for more of the singing girl. I don't know what to think. It's a lot of belting. Like just BELTING! She's good but the song is pretty repetitive and it was written by her dad who's her producer. We know who's the talented one here and she's holding a microphone. I think we need laws about child performers not having parents involved in any managerial role in their child's career.
Onto the cooking segment. First off: Mimosas! Kathy Lee and Hoda will drink to that. The chef is trying to demonstrate stuff. Kathy Lee and Hoda keep trying to hurry him. I'd scream at them myself. It's seafood which I never really considered making at Christmas. Then again, I've spent years with Ham or Turkey being the only appropriate Christmas Dinner. I might have to consider something more offbeat for dinner next year.
So, how do we follow this up? With diets! Yeah! Who doesn't love that? I don't. For the record, Hot Buttered Rum is lower in fat than Egg Nog, Meatballs are lower than pigs in a blanket, ham than steak, candy canes than peppermint bark, Panettone than plum pudding, and butter cookies than cannoli. There, I just saved five minutes of your life!
And that's it. Meh.
The theme for the day is Ugly Sweater Party. Michael is wearing a Christmas Suit and he wins. Carla looks sassy and also wins. The other two are very meh. I've personally never gotten the Ugly Sweater thing but that's just me. We sell a ton of them at work every year so hey, money counts for something.
This just seems like it would be a fun show to be in the audience of. I mean, outside of the hosts having definite chemistry with each other, they give stuff to the audience and it's about food. How could you not love it? Not only that but they bring so much energy to what they do. At one point, Carla and Clinton go into a random dance number.
Then they get a challenge kind of like Chopped where Michael Simon picks a box and the one he takes, he has to make it's contents into a meal. That said, he gets some softball. Chorizo, Cheese, Crepe Batter, and Corn Chips. He makes some kind of burrito thing that looks delicious as hell.
Carla then shows off a roasted mushroom lasagna that I am slightly considering making sometime. Lasagna is one of the things that I love to make and I can make well but I'm always wanting to try new things. It's a lot more work than I do with most of my cooking but ehh, always worth trying something new I guess.
The rest of the program is looking at ugly sweaters. Good for them.
Non-Viewing Thoughts: Why is Chicken Parm so awesome?
Late Christmas Ideas: A nice punch set would rock. Then again, I have no clue where I would put it or where I would put it.
Notable Commercials: There's a Fruit of the Loom commercial where they're talking about who you should or shouldn't give underwear to for Christmas. I would think that would be everyone but I guess I'm wrong. Personally, I'd rather not get underwear for Christmas but that's just me.
The Hershey Kisses ringing bell commercial might be one of the only classic commercials still running today. More a casual observation than anything else.
Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 12
Amps left: 2
Coffee Left: 2 Bottles
Pumpkin Pie Left: Whole Pie (Not Even Baked Yet)
Sanity Rating: (1 being 36 hours of soothing noise, 10 being 36 Hours of Kathie Lee's Christmas CD): 1
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