Best of Wipeout, Episode 3

Wipeout - Girl Crosses Big Balls!

On ABC’s new show, Wipeout, one of the obstacles is the “Big Balls”. Here is a clip of the first person to ever make it across:

Beast Overexcites Narrator

This is a quick clip of Beast’s first appearance on American Gladiators. The announcer forgets him self for a second here. Oh, and Beast IS big. He is over 300 hundred pounds and 7 feet tall, which makes him the biggest gladiator of the bunch.

ABC’s Wipeout is AWESOME!

The new ABC show Wipeout is so fun to watch. It is hilarious! They begin with 24 contestants who must make it though differant obstical courses. The contestants are narrowed down to just four at the end. These four go through the last course and the one with the best time gets $50,000. Check out entire episodes on the Wipeout Webpage. Here are some clips and pictures of the show:

The Big Balls::

The Doughnut Run:

The Sucker Punch wall:

The Dizzy Dummy:

Related: ABC’s Wipeout Possibly American MXC

Complaints About Zohan

The upcomming  PG-13  movie, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, comes out June 6. It stars Adam Sandler and looks like it will be funny. The problem is, they are showing the movie trailer during children’s movies like Speed Racer. They make it look like it would be a good movie for kids to see. Then they show a DIFFERENT preview (at the same theatre) during the movie Iron Man and this trailer shows some ’sexual connotations’. Obviously, Hollywood thinks it’s just fine to trick us into taking our kids to a movie that is inappropriate for them.  The rating is listed as “Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and nudity”. Holy cow! If this is the case, they shouldn’t change the trailer to appeal to younger kids and advertise it during a movie that is rated PG (Speed Racer)!

 

This is the trailer shown during Speed Racer:

This is the trailer seen one day later (at the same theatre) during Iron Man:

Evan Dollard is Rocket, American Gladiator

Evan Dollard, the male winner from season one will be returning as Rocket. The rock climber was unbeatable on the Eliminator, earning him the nickname “The Evanator”. Click here to read the ‘Scoop’ on Evan.

AGE: 25 HEIGHT: 5′10″ WEIGHT: 160 lbs (EVAN’S FACEBOOK PAGE)
MARITAL STATUS: Single

Click here to view American Gladiator’s offical website.

New American Gladiator: Matt Morgan

UPDATE: Matt Morgan NOT to be a new gladiator (read more. . .)

A new Gladiator? Rumors are that Matt Morgan from TNA wrestling has joined American Gladators for season 2.   (View his offical site)

Height: 7’1” | Weight: 330 pounds
Hometown: Fairfield, Connecticut

 

The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless -Review

The book, The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless, by Ahmet Zappa, was very fun to read. It is inspiring that the author, who battled Dyslexia, has written such a great book! Our family read it together and we all enjoyed it. It was a little scary in places, but the kid’s didn’t seem to mind. The book is full of great pictures of the monsters that Zappa drew himself. It is a good story about 11-year-old Minerva McFearless, her brother Max, and their mysterious coyote friend, Mr. Devilstone, as they battle the evil army of the king of all monsters—the dreaded Zarmaglorg!  The book is set up in a cool and different way. There are pages of “scientific” data on the monsters in the story scattered throughout the book.

We are waiting anxiously for the movie, which will be out 2009, and also waiting for the next book in the series!

About Ahmet Zappa: Last year I read an article in ‘Readers Digest’ about Ahmet and this book. It told us about how he struggled through school with the learning disability, Dyslexia. (click here to read article) He always enjoyed drawing pictures of these monsters and decided to write a book about them. This is his first book, and it is very good. TV personality, movie actor, musician, and son of legendary rock musician Frank Zappa, Ahmet Zappa lives in Hollywood, California, with his one-eyed dog, Wink.   see his website

Review: Books by Eoin Colfer for Young Readers

Our family has really enjoyed the chapter books by Eoin Colfer for younger readers. These stories are very entertaining and keep the kid’s interest. We have read three of them: The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth, The Legend of Spud Murphy, The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World. They are also easy to read. The book, Worst Boy in the World, is one of the first chapter books our son read ‘voluntarily’ on his own. Reading these books led me to read the book, “Half Moon Investigations” also by Eoin Colfer. It is excellent! I am halfway through the book right now and will write a review when I’m finished.

The Legend of Spud Murphy:  Will has four brothers and it’s chaos in his house! If he’s not being teased by his big brother Marty, he has to deal with the terrible, three-headed bundle of cuteness that is his three younger brothers. Even worse, his mother has the brilliant idea of packing Will and Marty off to the library during the holidays. She just doesn’t understand! Not only is the library no fun, it’s also the habitat of the legendary librarian Spud Murphy. If you put a foot wrong, it’s rumoured she will use her dreaded gas-powered spud gun and you don’t want that - just ask Ugly Frank how he got his nickname!

The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth: Will and his brothers are on holiday in a cramped caravan on the wild Irish coast. All the boys love ghost stories, but one dark night Will’s older brother, Marty, tells the bloodcurdling tale of the cutthroat pirate, Captain Crow. Will is scared. From that night on, everything starts to go wrong for Will. He is embarrassed, by a girl, at the local youth disco - The Sprat’s Jig - and Marty convinces him that the ghost of the evil Captain Crow is out to get him. But Marty’s tricks backfire, and for once Will has the last laugh.

The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World:  Will is desperate to win the Giant Jelly Baby competition and be named ‘the best boy in the world’. But his big brother Marty always beats him to it. Then one day Will’s wish comes true – he’s the best boy in the world at last! Marty is not happy, and decides that something must be done…