Who Wants To Be A Superhero?

Have you watched this show?


Oy.

I have. And I have one question:

Are these people serious?

Creature (she's apparently a fairy from another planet and regained her powers by eating fruit).

Monkey Woman (who makes a sound like a monkey and wears bananas on her belt).

Fat Momma (who has donuts hanging off her belt, I kid you not. And a really catchy theme song: "Fat Momma, Fat Momma, I'm here to save the day. Fat Momma, Fat Momma, I'll take your food away").

The Iron Enforcer (has some kind of honkin' huge death ray gun strapped to one arm).

Rotiart (spoiler alert for later on in this post).

Nitro G (19 years old).

Cell Phone Girl (is this a sign of our times or what?).

Feedback (microwaves make him nauseous).

Tyveculus (a 34-year old fire captain).

Lemuria (wearing a gold lamme body suit).

Levity (works as a toy designer and wants to be the first gay superhero).

Major Victory (a former male exotic dancer whose catch phrase is "be a winner, not a weiner").

Here's the spoiler alert, so if you haven't watched this show and don't want to know what's going on, stop reading here.

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Pretty much before the "competition" started, Rotiart revealed himself to be a mole. Rotiart is "traitor" spelled backward. Needless to say, one of the superhero candidates had to turn in his costume. By the end of the one-hour show, yet another candidate turned in his costume as well. Levity and Nitro G have to be superheroes only in their dreams.

Two down, nine to go.

Not sure I'll be watching any more of this.

If you watched it, what did you think?




"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." ~Umberto Eco