design turd episode 1


design star season 42 is upon us and folks, shit still be terrible.

 

if you're new here i make fun of this show.

 

 

the lead singer of creed is on the show...

 he hasn't sung about jesus yet but i fully expect him to.

 

look at that chin!

 

 

also daisy fuentes is a judge.

or is she a one time only judge?

i don't really know i only watched the last 20 minutes.

(20 minutes i'll never get back)

either way..what the diarrhea is daisy fuentes doing judging design?!

no really...tell me.

does she have a celebrity line for rooms to go?

kohls?

does kohls sell furniture?

 

i'm losing focus.

 

as i said i only watched the last 20 minutes which is essentially all you need to see.

 

here are some of the designs..

not terrible. 

but not good either.

ok it's mostly terrible.

those sheers need to be burned in a fire.

i have to know if those porn-rape basement lights on the ceiling are for tv purposes?

 if this was my room i would have ripped them down when no one was looking.

also, i would have obviously hung a more substantial curtain.

and you know how i hate FEATURE WALLS!!!!!

that "chevron" just ends up looking like ghetto charlie brown's dollar store t shirt.

and who's the asshole who chose that green gray carpet?

shoot them.

 

 

 

jesus another feature wall.

i like the wall color.

and i appreeeeeciate the way the white fretwork pops off the blue.

but the scale of EVERYTHING is wrong.

why didn't anyone think to get a bigger rug?

or a few rugs to create "areas".

and why does this room have hospital tile and the other one has murder carpet?

that cowhide just looks ridiculous and what the fuck is the ottoman for?

scale people. SCALE!!!

and i guess those rapey lights are for tv.

 

 

there were plenty of "art" installations.

 

that little table covered in tape was my favorite of all of the everything.

i would do that.

and that's saying something.

 

 

 bless her heart.

 

 

this person has no business decorating rooms for money.

and she certainly has no business on the TV convincing people that this is good.

feature wall? check!

lime green/royal purple complete double feature wall what does it mean?  check! check!

this looks like the "family room" in a juvi center.

i hope they set it on fire.

 

 

everyone raved over the fucking moose on a black wall.

in fact i think the girl who did it is the girl who won.

 

excuse me...

this room is horrible.

and the moose makes absolutely no sense in it.

and that tiny tv with the framing around it is about the worst thing i've seen on this show.

in fact i think this person should have gone home.

but not before they were beaten to death.

 

if it were me..

and i HAD to work with a moose i would have made it more rustic and cozy.

less z gallerie meets homegoods meets hairy butthole.

 

 

 

don't get me wrong.

i HATE this.

but it's the best of the worst.

it's layered.

it looks comfy.

and

i love monochrome.

but this is tooooo monochrome.

throw some wood in the mix and something that looks like the earth spit it out.

 

however, the real problem with this room is there isn't enough furniture in it.

the 2 sofas seem to be 4,000 miles from one another.

and it would have been so much better if they mixed it up a little.

why does everything have to be 2 of the same thing?

identical sofas, identical rugs, identical coffee tables, identical chairs...

 

identical thumbs down..

 

 

hello.

wake up designers.

 

 

this is all hgtv is providing in the pictures department.

probably for good reason.

 

 

next week someone poops out a table and vern's head explodes.

and then thousands of tiny verns come out and dance on it   

all the while candace's penis keeps the beat like a metronome.

 

 

 

tiny turds

well the turds decorate some fuckin garden sheds masquerading as garden sheds this week.

 

according to tanika this shit is the wave of the future..

or

"a hot new movement (bowel movement) of people living simply (with their dogs in a doghouse)"

 

why is this a thing?

are you all aware of this "movement"?

i was not aware of this movement.

i want no part of this movement.

this reeks of hipster patchouli.

 

i think having a garden shed in your backyard that you convert into an office or private retreat is great..

but to make it the place that you live full time says to me that you are living your life as a dickhead who probably wears old timey hats and pulls your jeans up to your ribs..

 

but whatever...

you still gotta git'er done.

 

as expected mark's boner grew 3 sizes that day when he walked into the shed made of wood..

 

once inside the tiny house the turds have 30 minutes to plan the space.

they are each given a "celebrity carpenter"..

 

here are the turds' reactions to the news..

 

tanika: you know him from hgtv...(no i don't)....it's chip waaaayne!"

meg: "annnnnnh hhhhhaaaannnnn....eat him!"

 

tanika: "you know her from hgtv..(no i don't)...carmendelalapaloooya"

mark: "i wish i had my hat on"

 

tanika: "you know him from hgtv..(really, i don't know him or any of them)...mark barkeloooou!!!"

karl: "my penis is tucked into my butt."

 

 

once they go over the plan with the carpenter they are off to shop.

 

karl is thinking ottomans for their versatility..

"hahahahaaa ha ha ha aaaa OTTOMANS!!!"

 

ottomans. versatile. 

 


meg is like so amazed by the awesome decorating power of a rake head turned into a thing that's not really a rake..

if you like this you need to punch yourself in the face.

 

 i'm...

 

shitting...

 

myyiy..

 

 pahnts!!!!

 

 

mark is buying belts..

 

 

 "get ready for my signature wall art made out of dumb things that no one likes.

 

and a new hat.."


 

more ridiculously time crunched scrambling ensues..

 

then the sweaty turds gather on the lawn..

for the 2nd part of the their 2 part camera challenge...

 

the walk through where

meg finally reveals her pregnancy..

 

time for judging.

 

 yaaaaaaaaay!!!!

big bird is back!!

she is using her sense of smell and taste instead of eye judging.

 

here's karl's doghouse...

nothing says creepy like karl standing next to a clock that reads 10:10...or just karl standing.

 

 

meg's..

 

mark's..

 

wh'uck??

 

for that split second when i imagine that i get to participate in the challenge, right before i punch myself in the vagina, 

what popped into my mind was that NY times article last year about the college student who

decorated the shit out of his dorm room..

 

 

stuff stuff stufffff!!

layers, rugs, textiles, furniture..

why do the turds always have to build shit?

no one in regular life is building shit.

 

nothing they ever do looks finished.

nevermind it looking good.

it just doesn't looked decorated.

i decorated my closet/clubhouse when i was 9 better than this and i had to work with blue carpet.

 

(i just high fived my cat) 

 

anyway..

mark got sent home for his dumb belts and stripes walls.

 

now everyone go and punch yourself in the left eye.

 

design star- double elimination means bizness. and that this shit is over sooner.

 you would think that given the opportunity to design their own space without having to concede to someone else's shitty design would mean less shitty design. 

well you'd be wrong.

it was raining poop and pee and farts and sharts and suede couches.

 

kellie just won a million dollars!!!!

 

just kidding she just saw the hgtv'd truck.

hgtv'd truck=b'hole herpes.

are you ready?

 

the poor bastards with a house in need of decorating for free were the....sbbaasshottks?

basshhock's?

fuck i can never understand anyone's name..

i will call them the spatchcocks...

the spatchcocks aka delicious chicken heads.

 

the turds draw cards to see which room they get to fuck up..

 

the spatchcocks brief the turds on what they need/want in each of the rooms.

they have 2 little boys.

1 of them likes to party. hard. 

the other one likes sports.

they need some chandeliers (plural).

someone wants bunkbeds and some lockers (here's a hint..it's not mom or dad).

someone has a record collection (that mark will make a ladder out of).

and leslie has cobras for arms..

 

everyone comences shopping..

 

mark shops for all the wood in the land..

"wood is my favorite."

 

 

day 2

 

mark is moving on to his masterpiece of all ladders,

made out of records..

everyone in brooklyn is hi-5'ing.

 

in the next room kevin is making stone look more like stone with paint that looks like stone..

paint this stone the color of stone.

 

 

leslie is..

handing over her title as design star.

 

 

but then as if things couldn't possibly get any gayer (and thankfully they always do)-

the gayest car in the universe pulls up..

 

(oonce oonce oonce oonce)

 

(oonce oonce oonce oonce)


IT'S LORD MCGAYLORD!

 

 

 lord of the gay is there for some role playing lessons.

karl pretends not to be creepy (FAIL) and david pretends he is dorothy in the wiz (NAILED IT).

 

day 3, maybe.

 

more shopping happens.

 

kellie can't find lockers..

crates are lockers sometimes when crates are busy being lockers.

 

meg shops for ottomans..

"hey jenny, you mean aaaaahtahmahns."

 

kevin can't find a mantle in all of new jersey..

so he asks woody for some wood..

 but he's like..no wood here..

 

meg is running behind again..

"ha haa ha ha  i better put aahn my big girl panties and hang some laahnternz.."

 

 

 

meg's panties.

 

 

meg's lanterns.

 

i would have ripped that homespun shit down immediately.

 

 

 

time for the guest judge!! 

it's my boyfriend john gidding!!!!

 

and that means it's time for another edition of..

(whispers) CeLebriTy FRaGraNceS

 

it's called: cuntemporary modern (for him/her)

scent: spruce, freshly cut tile, spruce, DWR showroom, tom ford's ball juice, new canvas sneakers, crest

 

john pretends to love everything bc he is friendly and positive.

 

 

 

leslie's room..

jacked up letters and inabiltiy to stuff the comforter INSIDE the duvet.

 cobra arms are hard. 

 

 

 the other side:

there is a giant soul eating monster hovering near the bed (10 points from gryffindor!)

plus there are screen printed pictures on the comforter.

 

i just want to understand the taste level here people.

 

and..

yer done.

 

 

kellie's room..

rug on an angle. 

150 points from gryffindor.

plus no bunk beds=little boy tears.

 

 

 

mark's living/dining combo:

those rugs are dumb.

 

would you like some wood with your wood?

 

 

meg's landing..

3 days?

all of that shit would land in the dumpster. 

 

 

kevin's family room:

 

kevin don't know nuthin bout furniture arrangin.

 

 

 karl's master bedroom:

 milquetoast.

that's french canadian for milk toast.

it'd been a whoooole lot better if it wasn't so ugly.

 

and it's the winner.

no you heard right.

the winner.

winning in all it's matchy blue and beige accordian blinded glory.

 

 

the loser this week is les..

neckshaft.

 

and..

 

slingblade.

 

but not bc his room sucked.

bc HE sucks.

 

 

seriously hgtv.

 

this show is sucking the shit out of sucking. 

 

design star- they shoot horses don't they?

sorry for the delay my people. 

these recaps take time and i got no time sometimes.

word.

 

so..

this week is just chock full of terrible design and sad, ugly surprises.

but then i guess every week is isn't it?

 

starting with the release of my beloved cathy out to pasture...

 

look closely..

 

don't cry cathy. 

 

 

 this time the turds have to design a wedding reception in 2 days.


The Bride: 

contradiction.

 

 

The Groom:

 this spells divorce.

 

 

once again cathy is on her high horse and begins spouting off all of her wedding design credentials:

3 weddings not including her own plus the wedding design distinction of wedding design wedding emmy.

president of weddings

 

 

cathy persuades forces everyone to let her be in charge of the bride and groom table..

and then she licks her salt rock.

 

 

karl, kevin and mark are in charge of the not victorian gentleman's lounge..

 

karl thinks it's dumb to have a disjointed mid century style lounge area at a victorian themed wedding.

duh. it is. 

but the bride wanted an orange and yellow victorian glamour shots room,

and the groom likes skateboards and crooners.

 

so there's that obstacle.

 

if it were me i wouldn't have taken what they wanted so literally.

i would have nodded and been like...mmhhmm...skateboards..cool...ohh...uhh huh...orange and yellow..mmhmm....colors..

 

then i would have made a real pretty wedding reception and dina manzo's brain would have exploded into a thousand tiny, gay wedding planners and they all would have hi'fived me.

 

anway..

kevin don't care..

he's just excited that he can do more 50's kitsch and mark just wants to build something out of skateboards.

 

 

depsite his best efforts to creep everyone out..

 

karl says fuck this shit..i'm gonna go ruin a flower arrangement. 

 

 

mark sketches out some dumb skateboard hanging ladder of stupidness..

 victorian skateboard ladder.

of stupidness.

 

lord bromstuff shows up for the camera challenges..

these camera challenges are just getting way outta hand...

 

 

leslie has a stroke...

 

meg poops her pants...

 

and then it's back to making everything look more terrible..

 

 meg makes flower trophies..

how many times did that shit get knocked over?

answer: 1000

 

 

kellie makes a giant orange victorian spider...

scary.

 

 

leslie draped some fabric over a table and lit a candle..

i will cut her some slack since that was probably all she could manage with her new stroke arm.

 

and

 

karl proved that you can make flowers look ugly..

 

the turds cut it close time wise bc of all the table setting and shit clearing.

 

there is stampeding..

careful meg.  don't knock over the flower arrangements.  or everything else.

 

time for judging..

 

dina manzo is beside herself with disgust.

this shit would never happen at the brownstone

 

 

the winner this week was mark with his lighting smarts and skateboard ladder building...

 turning asian.

 

asian head bow of gratitude.

 

 

the loser is cathy with her weak bride and groom table..

whatever..it's not worse than that lame asian skateboard ladder.

or the prom meet and greet table that leslie fashioned out of an indain sari.

 

cathy straight up left bc no one liked her.

end of story.

 

well, and there was no way anyone could have looked into those giant orbs for too long without feeling extremely uncomfortable.

 

 

 

 

design turd recap for your face

ummmm...

uhhh.

wow.

haha uhhhh....

let's see....where do i..begin..

 

the turds are kitchen designers this week.

 

there..

i'll start there.

no wait..dreeeeam kitchen designers.

 

yet oddly enough the finished products were um...oh...i don't know..uhhh...fuglarious?

 

they worked in pairs again.

here's a pair:

"here's to sucking!!"

 

 

once the pairs pulled a kitchen layout out of a magic folder they then picked a teapot to inspire their design..

magical inspirational teapots of imagination

 

if it were me i would first smash all the teapots on the floor..

 then i would totes go traditional but i would do euro modern traditional and melt everyone's fucking face off.

 

but no one did anything good at all. 

no one.

at all.

 

 

first of all they got the worst advice ever from king bromstad of colorwheel..

"a kitchen should be vibrant and full of energy."

 ok that's just a fucking opinion king colordong.

 

i say a kitchen should just function practically and be real fucking pretty.

 

anyway..

 

everyone seems to think that green is the most awesome color choice for their kitchen walls..

 

 

but then karl is all..wait...fuck a JUST GREEN KITCHEN!

LET'SADDSOMEORRRRANGEBITCH!!!!

 

because it's so stylish and vibrant and energized to have all the walls different fucking colors of course!

 

 

or as he likes to call it..

 

no really, that's exactly what he called it.

 

 

and cathy don't give a shit..

 

with her cleveland eyes..

"so long as i can style the shit out of it ya'll karl can paint it any colors he wants"

 

 

 kellie is sad that mark won't finish the tile backsplash that she picked out..

 

day 1

 

 day 2.

 

day 3.

 

 "tiling makes me sleepy."


 

meg puts up a peg board of pots and pans..

 meg board

 

"paaahhhhhts"

 

 

tyler shows us that you only need a little bit of backsplash in the kitchen..

global green tiles  

 

 cathy styled it all up like a grocery store..

there was a bowl full of horseraddish (appropriate) and cucumbers (not appropriate)

and a full on bread station.

 

 emily were you stroking out at this point?

 

then came the dreaded camera challenges.

and i say dreaded for me,

BECAUSE I FUCKING HATE WATCHING IT.

 

cathy is so good at the camera challenges bc she speaks into the camera like a robot camera horse that can deliver all the appropriate camera challenge information for the camera.

"here, eat this imaginary apple as your reward!"

 

"nomnomnom neeeigh!!"

 

everyone else sucked.

 

time for judging!!

 

welcome this week's judge!

it's paula deen ya'll!

and that means it's time for my side project..

CeLeBrity FraGRanceS!

 

the paula deen edition.

 

it's called: butt her

scent: butter, butterscotch, scotch, menthols, tugboat steam, french country, aqua net, finger sandwiches,

shrimp shells and benicar

 

paula pretty much hates everything.

and why wouldn't she?

 

first up:

GLOBAL!!

nothing says global like cork floors, a zebra rug, a live edge table and a liberace goes to india piano bench!

 

FARMHOUSE:

nothing says farmhouse like industrial pendants!

 

INDUSTRIAL:

nothing says industrial like dark cabinets, a red wall, his friend yellow wall, and mid century stools!

 

CONTEMPORARY:
nothing says contemporary like buffalo wings and celery sticks!

 

 

the winner of this week's design challege was cathy with her barnload of info delivery in under 60 seconds..

way to go cathy!

"yyyeeeeaah!!!"

 

"i mean neeeeiiigghh!!!!"

 

 

the loser this week was tyler..

 

sorry tyler, there's only room for one gaysian on hgtv...