The View Halloween Episode Recap
They started the show with a musical number, where Whoopi was dressed like Cab Calloway and Joy was on a giant swing. Joy looked really bored. I was bored, too, and fast forwarded through the number.
When the ladies all sat at the table, they complained about their outfits. Whoopi wanted to take her wig off, but it was glued on, so she had to wait to the commercial. Sherri said her outfit was too much girdle. Joy said that the fur wrap she was wearing was giving her a hot flash. Barbara made a grand entrance. Anyone else think that she looked like Cruella Da Ville?
John Edward, the psychic, came on the show at the request of Whoopi. Apparently they are good friends. Joy said that she played cards once with John at Whoopi’s house and she beat him. She wondered how he did not know what her hand was. He said that it doesn’t work like that. He then did some readings with people in the audience.
Sherri Shepherd did the jitterbug with Ben Vareen. I thought that she did a good job. Barbara said that it wasn’t really the jitterbug and that she did that dance when she was a kid. Then she danced with Ben a little. I thought that she was trying to steal Sherri’s moment a bit.
They then talked to a few people in the audience and showed off their costumes. In the audience were original dancers from The Latin Quarter.
The View, Halloween, Tony Bennett, John Edward, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Ben Vareen
October 31st, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Agreed. I fast-forwarded most of the show too. It was dullll. Boring theme, boring costumes. Couldn’t they have done something a little more topical and funny?
And yes, Cruella DeVille was the first thing that popped into my mind when Baba sauntered in!
October 31st, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I love all that New York old-nightclub stuff, so I thought it was kinda fun. The pacing was a bit slow, though … spending a LOT of time on the old Latin Club dancers. I wonder if it was “all about Babs” because this year might be her (or The View’s ??) swan song?
I was laughing at Joy in that swing. NOT a happy camper! Then at the table they were all so preoccupied with kvetching about their costumes–Whoppi so freaked out about not getting to take off her wig that she interrupted Babs only to have Babs say “as I was saying …” It almost reminded me of an old Carol Burnett Show sketch — a take-off of The View.
The interview with Tony Bennet was just awful, interrupting him … and then he thought Babs was saying he had only won 2 or 3 Emmys EVER rather than in the last year. I think that’s the only time I’ve ever seen Tony even remotely miffed.
Sherri’s dancing was good. It was kinda odd that Babs said she couldn’t take a turn with Ben herself “because we haven’t rehearsed anything” and then immediately do so, anyway.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:26 am
I only watched the first ten minutes of the show. I also thought that Joy wasn’t too thrilled to be on the swing.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:37 am
Whoopi’s credibility went way down with me after watching this show and finding out that she was close friends with John Edwards. I’ve always really liked her, so much so that I’ve ignored her unpolished moderating skills, but I’m so upset to find out she’s bought into that fraud’s game.
Interesting that he knew exactly where to go to for his first reading, last row, woman in pink shirt, third in…, and that he was spot on with that reading–does anyone smell a SHILL? To those who say, “yes, but a bit of what he said didn’t seem to register with her”–I’m sure it’s supposed to work like that to make it more believable. And don’t forget that at the end she said it all made sense.
After that reading, however, he was “pulled” to certain sections and could only offer vague generalities–”Does that person have anything to do with food?”
Did you guys see the skeptic who asked “Do you think my relatives are happy with me?” You know she was prepared to say something like I have a serious gambling addiction when he tried to offer reassurance. But he could tell from her attitude that it might be a setup, so he just threw out a stock phrase–”If you’re happy, then they’re happy.” **cough cough–BULLSHIT–cough**
A new low for The View–After five minutes of John saying he was being “pulled” to a certain section in the crowd, and no one acknowledging anything, Santa (from another section) stands up and offers “I had a friend named Jack who had just committed suicide, could that be it?”
UGH! Stupid, stupid show!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:50 am
To clarify–I felt bad for the woman who was dressed as Santa and who stood up and offered her information to that fumbling fraud John Edwards, only to have him coldly say “No, it’s coming from the other section.”
When I called the show stupid, I meant that it was a stupid move for The View to have him on.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:52 am
Stupid producers, the Cotton Club didn’t even admit MOST BLACK PEOPLE to patronize the club in the 1930s. Not only that, black people who performed as dancers were usually light-skinned black women of small size.
Sherri and Whoopi certainly would not have been sitting up in that piece in 1930. These people are idiotic, and need to do some historical reseach. Of all of the themes….
November 1st, 2007 at 9:53 am
“research”
November 1st, 2007 at 10:09 am
I found some links about the cold and hot reading techniques that John Edward uses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_reading
This is an excerpt from the article on cold reading. It’s about a method known as shotgunning:
The psychic or reader quickly offers a huge quantity of very general information, often to an entire audience (some of which is very likely to be correct, near correct or at the very least, provocative or evocative to someone present), observes their subjects’ reactions (especially their body language), and then narrows the scope, acknowledging particular people or concepts and refining the original statements according to those reactions to promote an emotional response.
This technique is named after a shotgun, as it fires a spray of small projectiles in the hope that one or more of the shots will strike the target. A majority of people in a room will, at some point for example, have lost an older relative or known at least one person with a common name like “Mike” or “John”.
Shotgunning might include a series of vague statements such as:
* “I see a heart problem with a father-figure in your family, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a cousin… I’m definitively seeing chest pain here for a father-figure in your family.”
November 1st, 2007 at 10:20 am
I found a link about cold reading, which is a technique that John Edward uses. There’s an excerpt below about shotgunning, a method of cold reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
The psychic or reader quickly offers a huge quantity of very general information, often to an entire audience (some of which is very likely to be correct, near correct or at the very least, provocative or evocative to someone present), observes their subjects’ reactions (especially their body language), and then narrows the scope, acknowledging particular people or concepts and refining the original statements according to those reactions to promote an emotional response.
This technique is named after a shotgun, as it fires a spray of small projectiles in the hope that one or more of the shots will strike the target. A majority of people in a room will, at some point for example, have lost an older relative or known at least one person with a common name like “Mike” or “John”.
Shotgunning might include a series of vague statements such as:
* “I see a heart problem with a father-figure in your family, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a cousin… I’m definitively seeing chest pain here for a father-figure in your family.”
November 1st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Well from everyones comments on the show it aeems I didn’t miss much.
I’m not a believer in Pyschics. However I do find them intertaining some times.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
“entertaining”
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
As ususal this silly show was about Barbara’s father Lou. When she first told stories of his club days I was intrigued and fascinated, now I’m just plane bored. A boring, boring show.