Inventorrific!

I've decided that American Inventor is my new favourite show. It's like American Idol, except with inventions instead of singing, and with no tedious audience participation - the judges vote people off the show. Basically, some contestants have interesting ideas and good prototypes, and might make the world a better place with their products (just like some Idol contestants have good voices). Most Inventor contestants, however, have really dorky ideas and really funny-looking prototypes, and one has an enjoyable time laughing at them. The reason it's better than Idol is that the laughable inventions rarely hurt your ears. And good inventions are more interesting than yet another talented but bland cookie-cutter pop star. The down side of the show (one of them anyway) is that they have waste-of-time epilogues for the losers where they stand in a white room (with no black curtains) (or is that a green room with the white background added by computer?) and talk about how much smarter than the judges they are, and how the judges will be sorry, and they often launch into a string of profanities that is dutifully beeped out - it's a part of the show that I hope they will cut and replace with something more interesting (which could be just about anything). Still, I found it very entertaining.

Backlog Bob

P.S. Sorry about those two parentheses on the same phrase. I know two sarcastic comments on one phrase is a bit much, but I couldn't help it.