I was in a situation late this afternoon where I had to watch Oprah. And by watch it, I mean the whole hour.
They say hers is the talk show of substance. Yet, I could just feel the brain cells dying within my skull as the clock seemed to go backwards. What’s worse than the wasted time was the wasted brain cell destruction — I could have done that with perfectly good whiskey. Or perfectly good Jerry Springer: At least there, I could have seen some implied boobs.
Her main guest today was that Dr. Oz. Evidently, the topic was obesity and diabetes. I know Oz comes on her show once a week, (and in fact, he’s getting his own show), and the one thing that gets me about his being on her show is that he always wears a dark blue scrub suit. WTF for? Is he doing surgery right after the show? Does The Oprah think that that a medical opinion seems more qualified if the bearer of said opinion is in scrubs? (As an aside, I think most of those hospital and clinic employees that wear scrub suits in the course of their jobs actually don’t need to wear scrubs, it’s just that it makes them feel important and gives them higher self-esteem if they’re wearing the same kind of garb as a brain surgeon doing brain surgery.) Ian Smith, another physician, was a guest for a few segments, and he was actually in formal attire for an adult man. Of course, the only drawback was that his advice didn’t sound so avuncular — “Avoid fried foods to consume less fat.” Naw. Ya think?
