"Bonanza Is Disgusting"
This week on
Kid Nation, "The Taylor & DK Show."
This is truly getting out of hand with Taylor. The only way you can possibly like this girl is if you too are a lazy, whiny 10-year-old beauty queen. Every time I see her that song pops into my head, you know that one that goes, "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife.... " Can you just picture what this is leading to? Six years from now we're going to see Taylor on that sweet-16 birthday show complaining about how she got an Escalade instead of the BMW that she wanted. Then a few years later, if she keeps her looks, she'll win the heart of some 44-year-old man at one of her pageants and maybe she'll get to be on a "reality stars" season of
Real World/Road Rules Challenge. OK, I'm putting way too much thought into a girl I will thankfully never see again in a few months, but you see where I'm going.
Back to present day. I hope that she is watching this with her parents right now and seeing what a total debacle she is becoming. But of course, she has to be watching with someone who doesn't believe her theory that beauty queens do nothing, so maybe her parents aren't the right audience, either.
I do love that the council tried to force her to do stuff and then punish her, but even then nothing seemed to work. When she flipped over the buckets of water and said, "Oops, my bad," I'm surprised the kids didn't go ballistic. I wanted to jump through the screen. I really hope Zach sticks to his plan of not paying her. In fact, I wish all business worked like that. You only get paid if you do your job. And speaking of going ballistic, when Anjay was holding the door shut, didn't she try to kick him? On any adult reality show she would have been booted off or at least given a stern talking-to by the producers. But on this, one kids are allowed to attack other kids. I know, I know - kids will be kids. This is what kids do. I get it. Not the same thing as some
Real World dude threatening to kill another guy, but still.
I was so disappointed when she decided to stay. But I was laughing when DK stood up and told the rest of the gang they needed to stop picking on Taylor and be more positive. Taylor took this like DK was her best friend and was supporting her. DK wasn't standing behind her, he was just tired of all the crap, and it so happens that the doodoo was being laid on thick in the direction of Taylor. He would have said the same thing if anyone else was the target of the hatred. But let Taylor think what she wants. Clearly she does anyway.
The first half focused on Taylor and the second half focused on DK His "just chill" vibe is what more of these kids need to adopt. He got the kids moving to fill the water tank and has people looking up to him now. It's a shame that these kids annoyed him so much that he almost left sans 20K, but it was nice to see someone other than Taylor on screen for a moment in any capacity. It's truly as if 30 or so of these kids don't even exist. There was a girl sitting next to DK in the award ceremony that I don't think I've ever seen before.
Some points of interest for me this week:
" Guylan sounds
really fake when he's speaking to the camera. Almost like everything he says is off a cue card or it's take No. 63. Fake or not, I loved it when he was talking about Taylor and said that they are going to show her what happens when you don't do work - you get harder work. That's Management 101 right there, baby. Give the harder work to the slackers. It either lights a fire under their butt or it moves them out the door. Win-win!
" The book told them to "clean out the trash bin." What insight. I don't know how they would have gotten by without that advice. The rats didn't give it away, I guess.
" During the challenge, Anjay points out that he's "not good at physical work because my bones are still forming." Understood. But what does this have to do with shoving your hands in a pile of beans looking for a can? The kid wasn't lifting bags of concrete, he was kneeling in beans.
" If Taylor goes home at some point, we have a new drama queen in waiting: Mike! He was a little overly dramatic about how nasty the pig thing was and later on he was screaming about something else. This kid has no filter, does he? If I were 12, I would totally beat this kid up at school.
" This was finally the week where they could choose the fun prize instead of the sensible one and not lose too much. So of course they chose what you could call the "right" one again. I've never seen kids this excited about a radish before. They really need something fun to do to get a little bit of the edge off, and I think the ATVs would have been a much better choice at this stage of the game. They still had food either way. Toothbrush, yes. Pomegranate, no.
Next week I think I'm going to go in trying to find something positive to say about Taylor. T-R-Y. Try.
Until next week, friends.
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