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In a recent episode of 90210, Annie decides to help Dixon pay for rehab for drug addiction. Dixon began snorting adderall to help him record music and became an addict. Rehab costs $10,000. 

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In the most recent episode of 2 Broke Girls, Max and Caroline take jobs as elfs in a department store to make extra money for Christmas. The gig requires the girls to wear a very embarrassing outfit. They have to wear elf costumes consisting of tights and elf hats as seen in the picture. If you needed extra money for Christmas, would you consider doing something similar?

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In How I Met Your Mother, Robin chooses to break the pact she makes with Barney to break up with Kevin and be with him. Robin and Barney recently hooked up though both are in semi-serious relationships. They decided they love each other and that they should tell their significant others to end those relationships to be together. They are supposed to do it that day and then meet up at their bar and start their relationship together. Barney holds up his end of the deal and breaks-up with Nora. Robin, however, decides to stay with Kevin. 

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After Robin and Barney hook up on How I Met Your Mother, the two decide to tell their significant others to end the relationships and then meet at their favorite bar. Robin chooses to stay with Kevin and does not tell him she cheated on him with Barney. Barney, on the other hand, breaks up with Nora expecting to get back together with Robin. 

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Edna remained safe tonight on Survivor due to the pack she made with Coach.  He recognized her ability to be loyal early on in the game and aligned himself with her.  She recognized his game strength and leadership and saw that a pack with him was smart.  She couldn’t have been more wise.  

Brandon worried that Edna acts too sweet and might be playing them - that just sounded paranoid, but ultimately, he sided with Coach. Albert and Sophia took the opposing side and saw their opportunity to control more of the game if Mikayla remained in their tribe.  The argument that keeping a tribe tight and strong seems to have lead to a division within this tribe.  Bottomline, Coach says he feels Edna is loyal, Albert thinks she is out to play them and Rick is left in the middle.  Brandon calls that a house divided.  

In the end, Mikayla is the sixth person voted out of Survivor South Pacific.  She thinks she left because she is a  strong woman and “You know crazy Brandon.”  Who was more deserving of Redemption Island Mikayla or Edna?

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It was elimination # 5 night on Dancing with the Stars and finally we had a deserving contestant ousted.  The early exits of Kristin Cavallari and Chynna Phillips made it clear you need fans even more than talent to move on in this competition.  Carson Kressley relied heavily on pizzazz rather than technique and it could only take him so far.  Despite being one of the most beloved contestants he lacked the talent to persevere and most likely less fans than the remaining celeb dancers.  

Carson received a score of 19 for the performance that sunk him.  He and Anna Trebunskaya tried to improve their standing from week 4 by doing a jive to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”  He and Anna dressed as cheerleaders and used pom poms. Unfortunately, Carson did a cartwheel but very few jive movements.  Carrie Ann told him he lacked content and technique.  

Do you agree that Carson Kressley should be sent home?

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I never thought Ricki Lake would be able to tango into American hearts on this season's Dancing with the Stars. She says she's not a quitter even though rehearsals take a lot out of her.  It's very confusing for me," said Ricki. "I'm not getting it. I want to quit.  But I'm not a quitter."  Obviously she isn't a quitter.  Carrie Ann Inaba got it right when she stated "Brilliance in the ballroom. Done." Scores:10,9,10 = 29

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A lot of people are calling Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' wedding the "American Royal Wedding." Kris and Kim are reality stars that arranged to have a 'real' but edited version of their wedding televised.  In contrast, William and Kate's royal wedding was a classic "Grace Kelly' elegant but live TV affair. 

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 Over the last few weeks I've noticed that the two tribes on 'Survivor South Pacific' consist of some members that mirror each other in personality disorders and others that contrast from each other.  On this week's episode, Savaii member, Jim seemed paranoid about Elyse and Ozzy developing a close relationship.  He was afraid their bond would mess up his plans of voting the women off when they get down to their alliance of five.  At Upolu, Jim's much more extreme paranoid mirror image, Brandon needs to lighten up.  He's busy apologizing to as many people as he can for the problems he created as a result of his paranoia .  Mikayla, an Upolu, was astute in pointing out that Brandon's problems would be solved if he would just think before he spoke- she's a smart common sense type.  In contrast, Dawn,a Savaii, was just starting to wonder if some of the people in Savaii might be in an alliance.  Edna, from Upolu, is the nervous one in that tribe and Cochran from Savaii takes that role on for them.  We are more alike than we want to be sometimes, and at the same time we are all different.  If you could choose, which tribe would you want to be in?

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Survivor South Pacific is not only a game of physical endurance and striving to play the game until the end, but it’s also a game of surviving your own emotional upheavals and those of the other contestants.  We watched the Upolu Tribe deal with Brandon’s (Hantz) outbursts.  We listened to his weird comments directed to the cameras as he struggled to make sense of his own behavior.  At one point he declared “I struggle everyday, good, evil, good, evil and I really want to be good!”  Coach (Albert Destrade) worried about his outbursts because they cause an “unevenness in the tribe.”  He pointed out that Brandon’s outbursts are different than his uncle, Russell’s (Hantz), but they are outbursts non-the-less.  Sophie Clarke commented about the tension between Brandon and Mikayla Wingle, “In Biblical terms he’d probably call her the whore of Babylon.”  She summed it up further by saying, “Right now he is torn between following his crazy religious beliefs and his devious blood lines.”   

Christine Shields Markoski made clear her resentment that Coach targeted her for what I call an attack comment she directed at him when she first saw him.  It was something about Coach being on the island only temporarily.  I never did understand why she didn’t think she deserved negative treatment from Coach.

When Papa Bear (Mark-Antony Caruso) figured out his tribe was going to eliminate him he scrambled around pretending to find the immunity idol, but sadly he wasn’t very believable.  Elyse Umemoto told other Savaii Tribal members “ When has Papa Bear ever sprinted anywhere?”

John Cochran told cameras that he thinks most people view Redemption Island as a chance to get back into the game but he sees it as just extended failure and more depression.

Do you think Survivor is more a game of emotional survival than physical survival? 

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