What are Your Primetime Guilty Pleasures?

I love TV. There is no way around it. I love to relax in front of the TV. I wish I didn't. I wish that I was more energetic, but after working all day, getting dinner on the table for my family, reading scriptures and (hopefully) playing a quick board game with the kids, I'm wiped out. As a matter of fact, the last couple of nights the table may or may not have been cleared. I'm just saying. My love for TV is long lasting, I still look fondly of the days of the Muppet Show, Webster, Silver Spoons, Facts of Life, Gimme a Break and Mork & Mindy. So many more, Family Ties, the list is endless. But let's face it. So much out there is just crap. There are some really stupid things that people poor money into; some wretched show, then lo and behold, an audience appears in living rooms all over the country, encouraging the wretchedness to continue and flourish. Like the Dancing Celebrity show and the Ice Skating Celebrity show. Please! Oh, the hypocrite that I am now that American Idol's season has begun. I'm certain that I haven't missed one glass breaking, should-be embarrassing moment of the latest wannabes. It is an hour (or two on Tuesdays) of great big belly laughs. I've watched all of the American Idol seasons except for the first. I've been there through Ruben and Clay, Fantasia and Carrie. Am I that fanatical, or am I just plain lazy? I'm not even that 'in' to Simon, Paula and Randy (but no matter how much fun you poke at her, Paula is beautiful). My latest and guiltiest primetime 'pleasure' comes as a surprise to even me. Normally I would turn my nose up at such trash and immaturity and smut. Not so. Why am I so hooked on Beauty and the Geek? Is it the innocence of the Geeks? Is it the stupidity of the Beauties (which isn't so bad compared to last season, now we have some college students)? My wish is that these producers (in this case Ashton Kutcher) would let me decide who get eliminated. The good ones have been let go way too early. Chris would be the first one you might want to dump, but let's face it, his arrogance makes for good TV. We need to dump the blond with the bags under her eyes, the brunette with the high, squeaky voice, but let's hold on to all those sweet boys. They are bursting with potential to be not just social, but even cute. There will be no OC or One Tree Puke on my TV, but wannabe singers and don'twannabe geeks are welcome at our house.