If you want to know what the hell we’re talking about during I Don’t Buy It this week, check out this ad.

Once you’ve seen that, have a look at what our mates at the Chaser had to say about it*.

It’s not hard to see why so many people are angry about it. Not the people in the ads, however. They’re really happy. Maybe it’s because they just got paid for being in an ad. Of course next time they get paid for being in an ad they won’t get paid nearly as much. That is when they will realise what they’ve done. How are they going to live with themselves then?

^{* They’re not really our mates but we’re sure they’d like us if they met us.}

This week is our best episode ever!

Our special guest this week is Ed Phillips, host of Temptation.

I Don’t Buy It takes a look at the very political world of the Government’s new industrial relations advertisements.

We take a quick look at Filthy Rich Cattle Drive, The Apprentice and Brainiac.

And there’s the new segment, Crap TV which is like all the other bits of the show but with an emphasis on the crap!

There’s also the Boxcutters Quiz (send your answers to gimme@boxcutters.net)and a whole bunch of news.

Check it out. You won’t be sorry.

Feel free to email us at hooray@boxcutters.net.

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I’m wondering if anybody has had a chance to check out Filthy Rich Cattle Drive on E!.

I don’t know where they’re getting programmes like this and Kill Reality which I spoke about on the show last week. It is car-crash TV at its best.

I’d like to hear your comments if you’ve had a chance to check it out.

Next week, I’m sure there’ll be some TV executive who has decided to actually make a show about throwing shit to a wall and seeing if it sticks.

If you’re not aware of the juggernaut that is Coxy, check out his web site.

And more to that call for Perfect Match contestants, WTF?N Entertainment have a web site, too.

No, it’s nothing about the mysterious series of numbers in Lost - I just thought I’d post the details from that call for entries:

Hey guys if you or someone you know wants to find that lucky guy or gal, send an email with details to contestant@wtfn.com.au to be in a “perfect match” style show that will be done out of melbourne (sic)

I’m not sure what’s going on with this dude’s SHIFT key but you get the drift.

If you do happen to send in your details to see if you can get on this sure-to-be-zany show, shoot us an email to let us know. Maybe we’ll even get you in for a chat to tell us about your experiences.

I tracked down the web site for these guys and they do quite a bit of local production of infotainment titles - including Melbourne Woman, which we mentioned in a previous show, and, I think, everything that Coxy from the Roxy is involved with on-air at the moment.

Now that I think of it, an old friend of mine was doing some producing for Bread, the last time I checked, and we might get her in for a chat too…

This week we’re taking a little break from the usual hit format and talking about TV

Raywatch: Not wanting to focus on the negative ALL the time, we take a break to accentuate the positive and give Ray and Naomi a suggestion they could take a few pointers from. Every Sunday at 9am, Barrie Cassidy presents Insiders

I Don’t Buy It: Allergy medications and Blue Fire Chirascuria

News

TV shows: Kill Reality and The Apprentice

Answers to last week’s Boxcutters Quiz, which was clearly FAR too hard for the listeners - so the prize goes begging - and a new set of questions that’s gonna have you guys scrambling for your Google to find the answers to in this week’s Boxcutters Quiz. Send your answers to gimme@boxcutters.net

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Congratulations to Chad who won the first ever Boxcutters quiz.

There are still 4 hours left before entries close on the current quiz.

The questions were:

Which two sitcoms produced more episodes than the Simpsons have thus far?
Who plays the voice of Groundskeeper Willy on the Simpsons?

Email your answers to hooray@boxcutters.net and you could win yourself a boxcutters t-shirt.

Something we forgot to mention on the show this week - though we did run it in the blog - was the passing of Don Adams - Maxwell Smart.

Australian audiences aren’t generally aware that Get Smart actually returned to the airwaves in the mid-90s. It only ran 7 episodes and didn’t rate particularly well. Don Adams reprised his role as Maxwell Smart but, through the pattern of the most inept workers getting all the promotions, he was the chief of Control. However, he wasn’t the main character in this reincarnation of the classic series. Instead, Andy Dick played Zach Smart - son of Max and 99 - as the main character, and just couldn’t carry the series in the end.

All of that is a roundabout way to introduce something I found with Andy Dick. Check it out here