Superstars: Owens and Krupa, FTW
Athletes and Celebrities, TV July 1st. 2009, 12:30pm
TBL asked me to do another recap of the show that no one watched, so here I am. Back for a second week of John Saunders talking to me like I’m an idiot, Jenn Brown being cute and a bunch of people you think you may have heard of at one point a few years ago competing in Guts-style games.
It’s the second episode and Saunders is already referring to this as a “grueling competition.” The games were a 2-person relay race and a long jump into the water. Both events were just as exciting as you would have imagined.
Terrell Owens and Joanna Krupa were brought back because Jennifer Capriati hurt herself. As John Saunders pointed out, “Per Superstars rules, when one teammate can’t compete the entire team is disqualified.” Or something like that. Superstars has strict rules. They couldn’t find another washed up female athlete to be on David Charvet’s team?
As I typed that, Dan Cortese hurts his hamstring and Lisa Leslie is left without a teammate. Don’t worry, Superstars extensive rule book took this into consideration. Charvet (Baywatch: The Years No One Was Watching) returned to take Cortese’s place. With that, my favorites to win the show were half gone. I’m switching my pick to TO and Johanna Krupa.
Bode Miller is annoying. He had a strategy for a relay race. I prefer Brody Jenner.
Only one real highlight this week – Julio Iglesias Jr. face-planting in the water. Where’s Hernia with the screen grab so I can MS Paint a big FAIL onto it? Get a haircut, hippie.
John Saunders tried to sell the audience on one of the guys from Dancing With The Stars being as fast as Terrell Owens. Hell, he’s the only active athlete. Wait, I just got word that the WNBA is still around. I wouldn’t have known, but I just read Fetch’s new WNBA blog, Ballin’ Sans Balls.
My dark horse pick from last week was Jeff Kent and Ali Landry. I should clarify. A beauty queen and a baseball player should not win anything. Except for a beauty pagent and a baseball game. Kent does the water events with a baseball hat on.
Am I the only person in America to have watched both episodes? I’m guessing yes.
Estella Warren looks to be a cupcake and a Quaalude away from a major breakdown. Seriously, she’s 30. Joanna Krupa is 30.
One person I didn’t talk about last week was Kristi Lekinen. Free-style skiing. Yeah.
Joanna Krupa is very competitive. Fresh off giving TO kind-of-unwarranted shit in the first episode, she goes back at him after he fails to jump off a pier, over a foam bar into the water. And he calls himself an athlete. These two should run away with the competition. Unless TO is perceived to break up another team.
As I watched the obstacle course at the end of the episode, all I could think was “NO! Don’t eliminate Estella Warren and Robert Horry! This is all Estella has! NOOOOO!” On the other hand, I didn’t want Jeff Kent and Ali Landry to get sent home either. I suppose my viewing experience should take a backseat to Estella Warren’s well-being, but I was still torn.
Of course the Horry-Warren combo went down in the final and were sent packing.
31 Responses to “Superstars: Owens and Krupa, FTW”
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July 1st, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Didn’t watch last night. I thought TO and that diva were eliminated the week before
Point Break was on last night. great flick
July 1st, 2009 at 12:36 PM
+1
July 1st, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I’ve never seen this show, but I bet I get more enjoyment out of reading CRM’s posts about it than I would watching it.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:41 PM
anyone else wish that they would get all the celeb-reality show contestants ever together for a super-celeb reality gameshow only to have a twilight-zone the movie type of accident where they all get beheaded by a helicopter?
July 1st, 2009 at 12:43 PM
So, my 4 year old son comes up to me last night and asks if we can watch some sports together. Knowing that the Tigers/A’s didn’t start until 10:00 p.m., I sat down to try to find something. Unfortunately, Superstars was the closest thing I could find. A few thoughts:
1. Estella Warren’s star has burned out. “Dumpy” is the word that comes to mind.
2. For someone who is supposed to be a complete ass, Jeff Kent came off as being friendly/gregarious. Bonds must have really pissed him off. He also smoked Horry in the obstacle course.
3. Julio Iglesias, Jr. is fast and can jump. I think he ended up with the longest jump into the water.
4. Ali Landry is attractive.
5. Kristi Lekinen has a great body, and was the best female athelete there.
6. I can’t believe that I spent about an hour watching that.
/hangs head in shame.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:43 PM
We only rag the interns for dissertation-length posts on topics nobody cares about?
/ j/k CRM, I’m sure the post is better than the show
July 1st, 2009 at 12:44 PM
T.O should take some advice from Kenny Powers
“I play real sports, I’m not tryin to be the best at exercising”
July 1st, 2009 at 12:45 PM
If that’s the only way to get Danny Bonaduce, Joan Rivers, Vanilla Ice and the remaining cast of “The Brady Bunch” off my television……..
July 1st, 2009 at 12:45 PM
This show needs more TJ Lavin. I’d watch it then.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Fetch’s new WNBA blog, Ballin’ Sans Balls.
+10
BTW, this is what happens when there’s only baseball to keep us interested. I’m thisclose to actually watching Superstars.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:48 PM
@tkmsu: after you realized he meant this show did you beat him and teach what “sports” are? because if you did i dont think any man here would fault you for it
July 1st, 2009 at 12:50 PM
My problem with reality television: If ABC just said “Screw it. We’re just going to show one hour of sexy babes running on the beach,” I wouldn’t mind at all.
/they used to call it Baywatch
Just stop throwing that “reality” label out and calling it a “competition” just so that you can sleep better at night. Call it what it is.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:52 PM
I’ll never forget where I was when I first saw that Doritos commercial.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:53 PM
I’m almost with you there. Anything to get Michael Fucking Jackson off my television set.
/the cable news networks have morphed into ESPN, and Michael Jackson is their Brett Favre
July 1st, 2009 at 12:53 PM
i wish the whole “reality”(if half of the stuff i watch isnt scripted then shoot me now)genre would just go away(except for The Ultimate Fighter..that cant stay). i miss crappy sitcoms and overly dramatic dramas that i dont watch…
July 1st, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Not Rodney King!
July 1st, 2009 at 12:54 PM
“Jeff, you really killed it out there. Here’s a pair of Bose sound blocking headphones. Go back and join your teammates. Estella, tough one today. You gave it your all but your time on Superstars is up. Good luck. See ya.”
July 1st, 2009 at 12:56 PM
cant = can
July 1st, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Breaux Bridge, LA
How does a town of 7,000 produce a Miss USA (Landry), a Super Bowl quarterback (Jake Delhomme), and a 1,000 yard rusher (Domanick Davis) over the span of about 10 years
/and Calvin Borel is from a town like 10 minutes away
July 1st, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Plus, if Joanna Krupa was dead that might moderately affect my ability to masturbate to Joanna Krupa.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:59 PM
+10
July 1st, 2009 at 1:00 PM
It’s OK. She has a sister
July 1st, 2009 at 1:04 PM
well played, good sir.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:11 PM
@mrerj – No, he was looking for baseball, basketball, hockey, etc. – we settled on Superstars because that was the only thing remotely related to sports on last night. I was upset, however, that he enjoyed it.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:18 PM
well….tonight right before he goes to sleep rip him from his bed and tell him “it’s mannin up time!” and and then make him run a few miles and do about 100 pushups and then make him take grounders when it is dark as fuck.
/dont really do that…
July 1st, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Awesome. He talks to us all like that. Surprised he didn’t somehow bring race into the conversation. He does it with almost everything else.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Hey, someone has to stand up for the African-Canadians out there.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:56 PM
clap clap, CRM
July 1st, 2009 at 2:08 PM
I’d actually be more surprised if he didn’t bring hockey into the conversation.
/with race being a close second
July 1st, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Anyone remember Saunders’ wild overreaction to the Malice in the Palace? God, that was degrading to broadcasters, African-Americans and NBA Fans everywhere.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:13 PM
How can anyone overreact to the rioting that those classless Pistons fans started?