Mailbag Monday!
Hey Bro, What is the most non-Bro-y show you secretly enjoy to watch?
-Lulu
Why is it that I’m writing a blog that is supposed to be geared towards GUYS and yet the first two mailbags I’m putting out (heh heh, I said ‘putting out’) are from emails I received from WOMEN? Is it me? Am I secreting some kind of female-ish pheromones through the web? Don’t get me wrong, beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to who his readers are, but come on GUYS, help a The Bro out!
As for you Lulu, you probably didn’t think I’d have the guts to answer this question, did you? Maybe if you asked me this question 8-10 years ago I wouldn’t have answered it. And not because I wouldn’t have had the guts, moreso because I didn’t watch any shows that could qualify. (Saved by the Bell reruns don’t count, right?) In any case, the reason that I can answer now is for one simple reason. I’m married, and despite my numerous attempts to make it otherwise, we only have one television in our living room. So at times I am asked forced to watch shows I normally wouldn’t.
The most non-Bro-y show that I watch and secretly enjoy?
Wow, actually finding it harder to say this than I thought it would be.
Must…
fight…
urge…
Okay okay! Here it is.
Yeah I really don’t want to do this. Damn you Lulu!!
Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. There! Are you happy now? I admit it, Tori and Dean are both very cool people and watching their (mis)adventures can be somewhat entertaining. Throw in the fact that they both seem to be very very good parents (a The Bro’s Code must) and well it’s hard not to like them. Please keep in mind that I would never have watched this if I wasn’t coerced!
Wow, I feel so emasculated. But as long as the damn has been cracked, may as well let the floodgates open, right? So here are some other non-Bro-y shows that I watch and enjoy and why they didn’t make the top spot:
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List: Definitely non-Bro-y enough, but I don’t like it as much as Tori and Dean. I don’t know, doesn’t have the heart that T&D does. Or something.
So You Think You Can Dance?: Yes, yes, it’s a dance show. But what Bro doesn’t like watching half naked women prance around a stage, especially when your wife not only is okay with it but encourages it? Which is exactly why it doesn’t get top honors.
Project Runway: Actually this is probably the non-Bro-y show I like most of all, but it can’t win because it’s a highly challenging competition with huge stakes on the line. As a Bro I can get behind that. (Wow that last sentence is really bad taken out of context.)
So there you have it. Hopefully you all apprecaite that extra special glimpse into my life. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch the Spike network for the next 72 hours straight. (So You Think You Can Dance comes on after that.)
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