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• Tuesday, January 23, 2007 08:41 PM

  I don't think Heather watches these shows

  More than once it has struck me that Heather has no idea what she is talking about. Maybe she watches one episode, catches a couple of previouslies, because she seems to misread situations all the time. Anyone who watches TC knows that Marcel can be a little bit of a pain in the butt stickler for the rules. He can also be egotistical and annoying (that one goes for all the chefs, and I am guessing living together makes it hard to ignore these things). He is also an unapolegetically cheerful dork, a young guy oblivious to his own inability to fit in. In other words, a magnet for the bullying instincts of others. Heather reveals her own- isn't it annoying to a bully when their superiority is ignored? Anyone who thinks Marcel had something coming believes that because they want to see Marcel humbled and humiliated. The gross behavior on that show, starting with Betty, a classic "be nice to everyone, except the one person I want to isolate, so no one can question me" bully, gave me flashbacks to junior high. Hey maybe if everyone of those guys were young idiot friends who played jokes on each other all the time, my skin wouldn't have crawled. But FOUR ( Elia really hid her passive awfulness didn't she?) people who made it clear they didn't like Marcel attacked him......because why? To teach him a lesson? Who are they to teach anyone a lesson.

  Marcel handled the whole episode with much more dignity than I would have. But I am sure if he had complained he would have been told he couldn't take a joke.

  Also, thumbs down on the trick edit to make the chefs look like they were not assholes, which they are.

  This awful, idiotic (racist? please, no mention of a big giant guy beating up on a tiny little one? come on) read of these episodes confirms for me what the hilariously innacurate read of Rome compared with Roman history began last week- that Heather does not watch television religiously, does not research her topics, and is not the tv writer for me.

  —ll422
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