The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Spencer

Posted at 1:00 PM Aug 26, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

While I imagine even our president possesses more balanced knowledge of what’s happening in the Middle East than Spencer Pratt, even Mr. Bush likely wouldn’t publicly analogize a personal grudge to an overseas conflict. After all, don’t both he and Spencer follow a script before appearing on television?

During a crucial conflict between the white-cheddar-bearded Hills baddy and his sister Stephanie, Spencer compared her new allegiance with LC and co. to Iran and Israel getting all cozy. Now, it’s unlikely the Max Headroom-jawed jackass had any significant awareness of current Hezbollah-related tensions between the two nations, and evaded total ignorance on technicality. But you get the feeling that when someone is using an international crisis affecting millions of lives as a leveraging tool for a petty personal gripe, they don’t really have to come to grips with the levity of the situation.

My suggestion? Send Spencer and the rest of his Hollywood cohorts and haters off to exotic locations like Baghdad and the West Bank for the next season of Exiled. It would compensate for the anticlimactically brief experiences of that show’s current cast, and represent the greatest TV crossover experiment since the Flinstones and Jetsons traded life lessons and unfortunate wardrobe choices.