Okay, look ...

[apocalypsos]

... I have a hate-on for the part of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where they give some poor kid a themed room they're going to grow out of in about five minutes. But there's a rerun on TV Land right now with a family with six kids, five of whom are autistic, and Ty gave the only non-autistic kid a room that's purple and has penguins.

Can I move in there? Can I? Pretty please, with chocolate sauce and a pony except not together?

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Okay, that totally makes up for the fact that I've written absolutely nothing today and feel like crap about it. *sigh*

Purple penguin room. GIMME.

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the little kid rooms for a child who will enjoy it for maybe a year before completely outgrowing it... but that penguin one was pretty cool. Even better, was the Star Wars room someone got last year. I actually found myself seriously considering how I could work something similar into our house, because it was BEYOND cool. (Found a pic of it here, although it's only showing one side of the room. That desk is to die for... um, if you're a big Star Wars geek, that is).

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I think the penguin one worked because it was fairly simple and because she could still have that as a teenager. Whereas a lot of them are like, "Oh, come ON."

That Star Wars one is awesome, though. Daaaamn.

[musyc]

Oh, thank god I'm not the only one. The themed rooms are so very very cool, but yes. The kid's going to grow out of it almost immediately, and there's generally no way the families are going to be able to afford to redo that room. In most cases, even the furniture itself is going to be near-impossible for the kid to use in a couple of years.

Though I confess to watching pretty much just to see if Ty will cry. >.>

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I saw a skit on Mad TV the one time where they made fun of the fact that they'll talk to the kid for, like, five minutes, and the kid says something in passing about liking ... I don't know, grapes or something. And the next thing you see is Paige (the only one whose name I always remember because there's always a Paige on home makeover shows) beaming like a moron and saying, "I'm going to build Ashley a grape room! And it'll be purple and green, and I'm going to hang vines off the walls, and this corner is where the vat will go for her to crush grapes in!"

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

haha, that theme thing i the complaint my family often has too. that and that some of the families don't deserve it.

some do, like the autistic family.

but like...one guy with 3 kids, married a woman with 3 kids and they couldnt all live together so they sent them to paris to get married and rebuilt their house? oh come on.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I noticed that also. I bet there's a lot of whispered discussions of 'Shut up, we got the house for FREE, take one for the team.'

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a house redocorating bit on some dumb show where the designer hung real sticks of (probably bug infested) wood on the wall?

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

there is a video tape in my house somewhere with me going 'gimme a pupple penguin!' (i was around two-four, still having troubles with the speech). apparently my mom had just taken me clothes shopping and bought me a purple outfit with a penguin on the shirt. i remember that years after i grew out of the shirt, we still had the penguin cuz my mom tore it off for me. no idea what happened to it now.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That was Trading Spaces. It was a lesbian couple with kids, and the designer decided to put hay on their walls. They were pretty polite about it, especially considering most everybody I know would have felt justified in murdering her on the spot.

[micheleeeex.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I do too. Like seriously, they are going to grow up and they're going to have animated monkeys on the walls of their room and they're going to be like I NEED A MAKEOVER AGAIN! lmao

But I'll take the purple, penguin room anyday!

Hope you feel better! *hugs*