Nothing of value.

That was still on? Holy crap! That one got old after the first season.

That show enraged me by the way it seemed to be built on the principle you can get over anything if you just have enough shiny crap.

"Oh, it sucks that you have cancer and your kid's in a wheelchair. Here's a 500 inch plasma screen TV for you! Enjoy paying the property taxes on your new home after we're gone, and enjoy having to deal with break-ins because we built you a palace in the middle of a shiatty neighborhood!"

Oh look, a reality show was canceled.

I'm shocked they didn't make a reality show out of the reality show being cancelled.

I was always irritated by the way the show seemed to overbuild. Often for the neighborhoods the houses were in, but also for the means of the people they were building for. Mom or Dad is dead, killed in the war/car wreck/cancer/whatever, and you've got a crap job that pays maybe $30K/ year gross. So we're gonna build you a $500,000+ house with a $10,000/year property tax bill!

Not only will your neighbors be pissed at you for distorting property valuations in the area, but you'll lose the house in a couple years because you can't afford the taxes, utilities and general upkeep! A winner is you!

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Good riddance to a show that puts more value on palatial mcmansions than restoring or enhancing that is already there. TV shows that put the WHAM POW above what a family actually can live with should all be cancelled.

If there was a show about habitat for humanity, well I would watch THAT.

"Extreme Makeover" got lost the last couple years.

It was more interesting when the "team" had to go in, look at the falling-apart hovel the recipients were living in, and figure out how to give it a makeover--fix it up, make it livable and safe, give them a few nice things along the way.

It evolved (devolved?) into "OK, let's level the existing house, and have 400 volunteers and a sucker builder erect a brand new home in 5 days with tons of sh*t they never needed or wanted.

Nice that they often paid off the existing mortgage as well, but when it's a family who is half an inch from eviction, replacing a $900 a month mortgage with a brand new McMansion with a $12,000 annual tax burden doesn't seem like a brilliant idea.

I always wondered how these homes, built with the work of people who don't know dick about homebuilding, would hold up over time. Never was a reunion special where 90% of the drywall had fallen off the ceilings, none of the plumbing works, the foundations are all cracked and leaking, and swimming pools won't hold water because the cement didn't cure.

Zombie Eater: I always hated the "Kid X likes Y, so I'm gonna do something that they'll really love" routine that ended up as something lame that you'd hate to be stuck with after a few days. It might work for birthday parties, but not for permanant living spaces.

especially when it was that Collin Farrel knockoff. "Oi, lil' Jimmy 'ere luvs him some rusty, jagged shards of metal, so i'm buildin' 'im a bed wiff pointy metal an' a giant circular saw. 'e'll luv it!"

DubyaHater: Good. I hate shows that bring joy into someone's (or some family's) life. I'd rather watch shows about orange Guidos getting into fistfights with their significant other and vomiting up last night's Jager Bombs. That's quality TV.



Hmmmm...maybe they can combine the two