American Inventor

While watching the American Inventor, I thought: This is a great idea for a show -- you can get all the brilliant people and nutcases all in one sitting (just like American Idol). However, like the many ideas and inventions we saw tonight, the show leaves much to be desired. There is still potential though, but it's very rough.

Most of the inventions are taking a back seat to the contestant backstories, which tells me there may be some problems on the horizon. Normally, among ten bad ideas (like bad auditions), you should have one or two that stand out -- instead you get a stand out backstory. It seems that the spirit of invention in America is not that well -- and also very improve-the-toilet-experience-centered. Hopefully the producers have something up their sleeve as the show progresses. How does one "develop" an invention anyway? I guess we'll find out (or just in case you're not interested, I'll find out and then I'll blog about it.)

I got past Francisco Patino's untimely outbreak of acne during the auditions, and he is currently my favorite, because yes, he's cute -- hahaha, your standards Rickey are out of this world. Moved to the U.S. from Colombia when he was 12, 18-year-old Francisco invented a two-seater bike.

I also liked the arts-and-crafts-baking Dolly Parton impersonator, because I like arts and crafts and Dolly Parton. LOL

The judges panel is interesting. Just like SYTYCD, I think they might grow on me. The have a Donald-Trump-like figure, a "crazy" inventor, a "compassionate" publicist and an "uptight" Brit.

I'll tell you next week, if this show is still worth it. Hopefully, they'll slow down on the sob stories.