Supernanny’s only weakness? She needs a constant flow of families with built-in television drama. Thus, the first casting call for next season, from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Crown Center.
We’re not surprised that Kansas City’s the first stop on this recruiting tour.
We’ve long been a breeding ground for reality-TV stars, and Kansas City has plenty of parents who might really test the Supernanny’s powers. Here’s our own casting call.
• Daniel Porter: He might have a hard time making the audition because he’s serving a sentence for kidnapping his children. Maybe Frost could help him remember where he put the kids.
• Mary Ellmaker: She allowed her unstable son, Andrew, access to a machete and a chainsaw; he subsequently killed social worker Teri Zenner while she was making a house call. Now that Andrew has been convicted of first-degree murder and aggrivated battery, Frost will need to help Mary teach him how to appropriately interact with his new brothers in jumpsuits.
• Kris and Sarah Everson: This Grandview couple admitted in April 2006 that Sarah’s sextuplet pregnancy was a hoax. Perhaps they need some help raising six figments of their imagination.
• The mother of the kid who danced in the Union Station sand painting. In May, her little runt ruined a mandala that Tibetan monks had spent two days creating. His mother grabbed him and fled the scene. We don’t know who you are, lady, but there was video surveillance footage. Frost should find you and impose some serious arts-and-crafts time.
• Rita Valenciano: Before Valenciano announced she was running for a 4th District at-large seat on the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council, her son -- ranty blogger Tony Botello – said mean things about her opponent, Beth Gottstein, on TonysKansasCity.com. "My son blogs about a lot of stuff, and he's too big for me to spank and send to his room if I disagree with it," Valenciano later told the Pitch. Perhaps Frost could do the job. But anyone who reads Botello knows he might like that. – Ben Paynter
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Jo Frost doesn't have a "British accent", she has an English accent, not scottish, welsh, or any of the other accent's of naturalised citizens from the former colonies and Europe, etc, who've settled in the UK and are then declared British by virtue of that fact.
There are many here with an accent like Apu, the Kwik E Mart owner in the simpsons who have become British. No one but an English person can ever be described as such. The distinction is clear and I'm moved to ask Americans if they like their accent being described as former colonial.
England has enough trouble with it's identity, without careless blog writers adding to the confusion.
While TKC tends to go overboard more often than not, wishy washy he aint. The Pitch on the other hand has become a parody of its former self. You cater to a bunch of psuedo intellectual hipsters and have about as much integrity as an Independance Avenue crack whore. TKC should thank you for steering more readers his way. If the pitch doesnt like him, he cant be all bad.
Wow! Yet another loaded article by The (corporate) Pitch! Honestly, isn't it more than a little self-serving that you bash TonysKansasCity.com by lumping him (an intelligent Hispanic hometown hero blogger who isn't a sellout, unlike The Pitch) in with the likes of murders and felons, even though all he's ever done is outwrite, outwit, and outclass your advertisement riddled rag of bought and paid for hack-articles and porno ad-sheets? Seriously, you guys have been headhunting him for way too long. If you're going to jab at him, at least be honest and say that you hate the fact that he calls you out on all your pseudo-alternative, default-racist, one-dimensional, copycat publishing. The Pitch sucks. Kansas Citians would be better off selling their souls than picking up the toilet paper you guys print.
I never miss a day TKC because it is funny and relevant. The Pitch should take note. Also the Quaid comment was hilarious. pwn3d.
A link would be nice, losers. While this is a much better format than your nifty "Web Exclusives" of which TKC was the most trafficked item . . . Maybe in the few months of blogging you have under your belts, it's about time you Quaids picked up some netiquette.
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