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[andrewducker]

To my right Erin and Clare are watching something that keeps mentioning the phrase "Extreme Makeover".

Which brings to mind two people screaming as they throw themselves out of a fifteenth story window, one frantically applying mascara to the other so that they can open the single parachute they share.

TV, as usual, is not living up to my expectations.

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[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

Which brings to mind two people screaming as they throw themselves out of a fifteenth story window, one frantically applying mascara to the other so that they can open the single parachute they share.

That would be fun, wouldn't it?

Unfortunately it's not the case though. From what I've seen of these shows a bunch of ordinately rude and conventionally attractive people seize their victim, talk loudly about victim's neglected skin and sagging chin and less than perfect teeth and then bring in an army of make up artists and hairstylists and clothing stylists to prettify victim in the usual style of makeover shows. Except there's a twist, because prior to doing any of this they usually subject victim to botox/chin liposuction/eyelid lift/extensive cosmetic dentistry/collagen gob or a face full of acid which causes their 'neglected, ageing, weathered skin' to come away from their face for a week and render them so terrifying to look at that they can't even go and buy milk from the corner shop.

Your idea with the parachute, the mascara and the fifteenth storey window is becoming even more appealing. Particularly if the stylists and surgeons jumped and the victims got to cut the parachute cords beforehand.