Anyone ever watch "The Millionaire Matchmaker"?

[Flaxbee]

Damn, sometimes Patti can be very funny.


Case in point: "Pink, and Hello Kitty, does not get a hard cock!" :rofl:

[GalleryGod]

1. A Guilty pleasure!

Sometimes Patti is so hawt & delicious:loveya:
Other times...:shrug: :boring:

[Flaxbee]

8. I like her blunt approach - sometimes I really disagree

with her approach to people - she can be unforgivably rude, but her off-the-cuff remarks can be a hoot.

[xchrom]

2. omg -- i love patti! i can't believe what falls out of her mouth sometimes. nt

[Flaxbee]

9. I know. Often obnoxious, but that doesn't mean it isn't funny

:)

[compaqxp]

3. Yes but only because...

The tv is broke and only pulls in that chanel

[Flaxbee]

10. oh, well, then that's a bummer. Top Chef isn't too bad for Bravo fare ...

:hi:

[thirtiesgirl]

4. I must admit...

I do sometimes watch the show. I'd agree, Patti can be very funny. And I'd agree with some of the things she says. Other things, not so much. She can be just as judgmental and hateful as some of her clients.

For example, in one of the early seasons in L.A., her client was a young millionaire in his early 20s who made his money in computers. When Patti went to see his house, the guy was not living in a Beverly Hills or West LA "millionaire's mansion," but a 4-bedroom house in suburban Pasadena, where he lived with his college roommates. Patti read him the riot act - not so much over the fact that he lived with roommates, although she certainly didn't let it slide - but her anger was more about the fact that his house was humble, not in a posh neighborhood, and not a "millionaire's mansion." She went so far as to tell him that women wouldn't date him when they saw his 'ugly' house. I was simply impressed that the guy made enough money and felt ready for the responsibility of buying a house in his early 20s. I mean, hell, he was doing a lot better than I was at that age! I wouldn't have stopped dating a guy just because he doesn't live in a "millionaire's mansion."

Now, I will agree with Patti on the roommate issue. After I've dated a guy for a while and want to get serious with him, I really don't want roommates around. But when the guy explained why he was living with them, I think I would have given him the benefit of the doubt. He'd bought the house specifically for his roommates to live in while they got on their feet after college. His roommates hadn't been as fortunate as he was in making millions, so like most college kids, they were in that in-between stage after college, trying to find a job and figuring out what's next. A lot of kids move back home with mom and dad at that point in their lives, so I thought it was very nice of this guy to offer an alternative for his friends. The way he saw it, it wasn't permanent. As soon as his friends found a job or figured out what they were going to do next, they'd move out and be on their way. I thought that was a pretty nice thing for the guy to do.

Patti, on the other hand, read him the riot act about it, even after he explained his reasons. ...Which tells me that the women she fixes these guys up with are all essentially gold diggers and just interested in a guy's status, rather than who he is.

I was also deeply angered by Patti's assessment that her fat millionairess "obviously doesn't take care of herself." How does Patti know? Just because someone is fat doesn't mean they don't eat healthfully and participate in physical activity. Unless a fat person tells you about their eating habits and lifestyle choices, you can't assume anything about them. There are many fat people in the world who eat healthfully and do physical activity and are still fat. They're predisposed to being fat, having fat parents, fat grandparents, fat great-grandparents, etc. Or there may be other things going on, such as certain medications people have to take that cause weight gain. Point being, unless you know for sure, you can't pronounce judgment, as Patti did.

While I'm glad she featured a fat millionairess on her show and was willing to have her as a client, Patti still engaged in fat hatred with that comment. You can no more judge someone's health and lifestyle based on their body shape than you can the size of someone's bank account by the clothes on their back. Patti, I expected better of you.

[Flaxbee]

12. She can be harsh and unreasonable, you're right

(but still funny).

I didn't see the one with the guy w/roommates; she does really seem to be overly focused on appearance, but then again, she openly acknowledges that first appearances really do make or break you in many instances.

She was too focused on the "fat millionairess'" weight, but damn, that woman was clueless and should have chosen Anthony, the policeman. I'm sure the interviews are much more in-depth than what the show depicts, so perhaps the woman did indicate she didn't exercise, or ate junk food, or whatever but if the producers were going to leave in Patti's comment about not taking care of herself, they should have left in whatever caused her to make that statement (if it wasn't purely prejudice).

I like it that she has no issues whatsoever with same-sex couples; she's an equal-opportunity bad-mouther.

She gets too offended, though, and doesn't seem to have very good psychology skills / doesn't seem to be able to have a conversation with her clients when they're being a bit recalcitrant, she just gets irate and starts barking at everyone.

[bullwinkle428]

5. She always claims an "extremely high success rate", although I've

yet to see an episode where one of the matches she makes agrees to go out on a second date following the initial meeting!

[Flaxbee]

13. she seems to have about a 50% second-date rate

from what I've seen... but who knows how those end up in the long run.

[bullwinkle428]

19. I guess I've watched about 7 or 8 episodes, so maybe it's just

my bad luck, but it seemed like every post-date "follow-up meeting" left the client feeling like they struck out.

[jumptheshadow]

6. I dislike Patti intensely

Watching that show is the same type of twisted entertainment as reading the editorial pages of the NY Post. It makes you so angry that you forget about any other rudeness you encountered during the day.

Patti is a huge hypocrite. She criticizes her clients for the same things she and her staff members engage in, for example, her Cher-like hair is outdated and her staff members looked like they just got groomed by the drunkest haircutter at the Astor Barber Shop. She was plump herself for quite a while, she is not exactly a fashion plate, and her nastiness would make most potential mates too limp for even a brief fling. She hates redheads -- makes them dye their hair -- she comes to overly quick, shallow judgments about people, and, oh, she's not that really good at matchmaking.

She is out of her league in Manhattan, too, and the millionaires she's featuring on her show aren't exactly standard issue.

[MrScorpio]

11. She hates redheads??

That's just plain wrong.

Most guys I know LOVE redheads and there aren't enough of them in this world for me.

BTW if a redhead has a healthy dose of freckles, that's very much an added bonus.

Red Heads are hot!

[jumptheshadow]

18. Yep....

She makes them dye their hair...really...check out the recent Manhattan episode where she talked about it. It was the one where she took the prunish gay guy into a Diesel store and tried to dress him up in an outfit that made him (as he observed) look like Liberace.

[Capn Sunshine]

20. oh YEAH

Redheads, because of their alien heritage, throw this vibe that is beyond earthly hotness. Freckles...

[Flaxbee]

14. well, hey, there are tons of physicians out there telling

their patients to lose weight, stop drinking, quit smoking when they themselves are too heavy or smoke or drink too much... I think being a hypocrite is to some degree (not as far as Republicans take it) part of the human condition.

Never noticed that she hates redheads. That makes no sense.

One of the earlier episodes with the Russian millionairess was kinda funny when Patti was talking directly into the woman's very obvious cleavage. ;) Sometimes Patti says or does things I'd be tempted to do.

I don' think the LA millionaires are 'standard issue' either - anyone willing to be on that show and willing to be filmed and ridiculed isn't a 'standard issue' person, rich or not.

[LynneSin]

7. SNL did a great spoof of that show with Scarlett J. playing the part of Patty

And it was spot on.

I've watched the original show a few times and it amazes me about how Patty will be so fricking critical that you think she'd just walk away from the client but she takes them on anyways. They focused on that in the SNL clip.

[Flaxbee]

15. wish I'd seen that - sounds very funny

:)

[LynneSin]

16. Go to Hulu.com - you can find all the SNL skits there

:D

[Flaxbee]

17. thanks - I'll search for it

:hi: