After spending two and a half hours waiting for a simple oil change this afternoon for which we had an appointment, our brains fried, Laura and I found ourselves watching the Miss America Live show this evening.

Now, Laura’s a big fan of reality shows. The trashier, the better so we’ve been loosely following the Miss America Reality Check show for the past few weeks. The premise of it is decent: The Miss America show hasn’t changed much ever and it’s lost touch with the public. It’s still very old-school-pageant and being so, doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.

So the idea of the Reality Check was to update things. Get the contestants to be a little less big-haired and boring and a little more modern. It was good, in theory, but while many of the girls did look a lot better (and more modern) after the reality show, when it came to the pageant, it seemed like a lot of them went back to their safe comfort zone of old-school pageantry.

The one contestant, Miss Washington, was some Asian girl who sounded like the Legally Blond girl, both in the sound of her voice and the way she would say things. She also seemed rather stuck up.

What else? Ah yes, they had some DJ doing the music, I guess to be more “hip” and “with it.” Unfortunately, it just sounded like a porno soundtrack playing while the ladies pranced around the stage.

Also, the announcer wasn’t very good. I’m sure he was trying, but he was stumbling and stuttering over words on a regular basis. I felt kinda’ bad for him.

All in all, Laura and I weren’t too impressed with it and it really didn’t hold our interest. In fact, we stopped watching it repeatedly. But since TLC was airing it over and over again tonight, we saw the whole thing, in three separate parts in-between watching other shows on DVD.