I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here – Episode 1 Plus Behind The Scenes Clips

You have to hand it to NBC for, if nothing else, knowing what game they're playing when they spit out a show.  I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! is, as we all know, really a show that ought to be titled, I'm sort of vaguely a Celebrity that certain demographics might know (and Lou Diamond Phillips is here)... Get Me out of Here!  When that's what you're working with, you need a little help, and NBC knows just what kind of help.  You need Puck.

Is anyone going to tune in to see if John Salley eats a bug?  Come on.  Is Sanjaya coping well with the less than five-star conditions to be found in the jungle?  No one on Earth could care less.  Ahhhh... but!  Spencer Pratt is a complete tool... ho ho, now we've got something.

The story was going around before the first episode aired that the Pratts, aptly named as they are, tried to quit the show practically before it started.  That played out in the first episode with the pair of braindead co-dependants flying off into their own versions of meltdown.  Now the story is that they do quit in episode two, and though Spencer called the suits during the first few minutes of episode one, the Mont Blanc's must be flying around the offices now.

I don't know what sort of contracts these people have to sign in order to get involved with the gig in the first place, but I know what conversation led to the Pratts being on the show.  It was along the lines of, "Look, we need a jackass on board to get ratings going, and you're the number one tune on that hit parade."

There's no telling what might happen if they're really gone... well, except that you can bet your last dollar that the ratings are going to drop like a stone.  It's slightly fun to look at mummified Janice Dickinson, and she's a little off her rocker, but if you can't watch Spencer (who won't stop saying how rich he is) go absolutely nuts over the custom ridonkulous label he PrintShopped, then what's the point in watching?

Well, and if you can't watch this -

The newly-converted Pratts managed to spin their Christianity into the show a dozen times or so, and if that new angle doesn't kick up the entertainment value a few notches for you, well then I just don't know what the hell you want from me.  It has been reported, by the way, that Heidi actually knows the meaning of upwards of 8-10 words she used in the above video.

This may be the last episode worthy of even disdain, but you can catch a lot of cool videos through Hulu via the embedded player below... which will auto-update if you want to check back after later episodes I don't bother with.

I have to tell you, I'm all for Torrie -

Here's Torrie:

But, if every lick of drama and interest walks off the show, then we're just down to Sanjaya swallowing gross animal parts whole (which was pretty awesome), and Frangela's cut-away clips that are fairly amusing.

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