Boyfriend Boot Camp

Have a bad boyfriend? Need him to straighten up? No problem! Send him to VH1's Tool Academy! "The boys" are given daily challenges to prove that they do love and care for their girlfriends. Evaluating therapist Trina Dolenz determines whether or not they have proved themselves. If she believes they have not improved, or done well on the week's challenge, they get kicked off the show. When they get kicked off, their girlfriends can decide whether they are just a TOOL and leave them, or to stay with their not-so-perfect boyfriend.

They've built furniture, sold cookies dressed all in pink and sat through therapy sessions in order to show that they are trying to be a better boyfriend. The grand prize for the "best" boyfriend is $100,000! What would men in their 20's do for that money? Or better yet, what wouldn't they do for that money?

The question is not whether they want to change, its WHY! Is it really for their girlfriends or the money?

Your Real World versus Their Real World

For five women living in Orange County, California, life is a bit more luxurious than how we are living today and how we can only hope to live in the future. Mansions, luxury cars and expensive vacations are just a glimpse of what we get to see on the show, The Real Housewives of Orange County. The Bravo Channel takes us through their daily lives of what a housewife does. But don’t let the title confuse you. Some of these women do have jobs. Jeana Keough is a high end property real estate agent. One commission from her and I could be living comfortable for at least a year. Vicki Gunvalson owns and operates an insurance company out of her own home.

Besides their jobs, all of the housewives (except one...Gretchen Rossi) have children they look after from 5 to 25 years old. They also have their homes to take care of and maintain.

The big thing they are openly concerned with is staying young. Multiple episodes have shown them working out, getting botox, cosmetic surgery, etc. On one specific episode, they attend a Botox party.

The show might portray that all these women live off their husbands (or for some, second husbands!), but they do make maintain themselves. They have the same problems and issues we all have in our everyday lives. They live a normal life…according to them.