Obsessed

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MLY, I just watched Obsessed on A&E.

It's a show about people with OCD and they get therapy to get over their obsessions. It's like Intervention for people with OCD. The first episode showed Helen & Scott.

"I mean, I still like to eat my M&Ms according to color from least to greatest, but I'm not checking the fucking alarm clock 50 times an hour."Scott had the OCD that we (probably) always think of. He was germ obsessed. He wouldn't have any garbage cans in his house (he took trash straight out to the garbage can in the back yard), he wouldn't hang up towels in his house (because he'd use them and put them directly in the washer), he couldn't have a real relationship.

His therapist exposed him to his "triggers" and after 3 months, he was finally living with his BF and NOT obsessing about everything. When his therapist came over for one of his "exposure" days, she told him she was on her period and had to use his bathroom. She made him find something as a trash can so she could put her "used" tampon in there.

After he got rid of the trash, she made him touch the basket that she had used as a trash can, put the clean towels in the basket & then touch them to his face, and not wash his hands or the bathroom.

You know he was freaking the fark out, LOL.

Helen was afraid of driving on the highway. Her father died from a bus crash about 2 years after her mother died of cancer.

She kept the clothes he died in, blood and all, and would wear them. She did the repetitive checking of alarm clocks, locks, stove burners, even asking her 3 children over and over again if they were wearing their seat belts.

I joke about being OCD. I mean, I am a little anal. Compared to the people I saw tonight, I am the most well adjusted human being EVER, thankya Jaysus.

I mean, I still like to eat my M&Ms according to color from least to greatest, but at least I'm not checking the fucking alarm clock 50 times an hour.

Whew.

Anyway, I don't like to end on a low note (inside joke), so here's a rap from "The Mighty Boosh". It comes on Sundays at 1 am on Cartoon Network. If you haven't seen it, watch it. You can watch it on youtube, I guess.

Chowder

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nother cartoon that Evan talked about incessantly until I decided to watch just to shut him up was Chowder on the Cartoon Network.

The show is pretty simple. Every character is named after a food. Chowder is an apprentice to the main chef, Mung Daal. Shnitzel also works for Mung. Shnitzel only ever says "Rada rada", but if you watch it long enough you get to learn what that particular "Rada" means, LOL. (How sad is it that I'm watching effing cartoons???)

Anyway, Chowder regularly gets into trouble and that's where the funny comes in. For example, this week Mung bought a pair of legs to stomp on his pizza crusts (or whatever) and Chowder cranked it up to 100 and broke the legs. So he was given the money to buy a new pair of legs and on his way to the store he forgot what he was doing. So he threw all of the money into a Wishing Well to remember why he was out. Then he didn't have the money to buy the new legs.

So he painted himself silver (with help from a gold painted statue) and stood on the street panhandling.

He got the money, but when he went back to the store, the owner was all out of the legs. Chowder saw the man who had bought the last pair of legs, snatched them from him & threw down the money and ran off.

I don't feel like getting into all the funny stuff that happened in that particular episode. Just know that it's not just for kids, IMO.

I tape the new episodes now. (Thursdays at 8 pm EST) Go watch a video from when Shnitzel quits because he isn't being appreciated for all the work he does! :-)