Me and my big mouth; as you may have guessed it wasn’t destiny that brought me and the first season of Teen Mom together. Reality television is not one of my favorite programs. So by now I imagine that it is pretty obvious that I went into this program with high reservations. But as it turns out, even I wasn’t about to keep them up the entire time. Deciding to think of it as a long-running documentary, I see the importance of a show like this in regards to raising awareness among teenagers considering becoming sexually active, and after watching I am grateful that a show like this exists.

Picking up where its lead-in show, 16 and Pregnant, left off, Teen Mom continues to tell the tale of Amber, Catelynn, Farrah, and Maci now that their kids Leah, Carly, Sophia, and Bentley respectively are now out of their wombs and in their arms; highlighting the struggles that each one must now undertake as they attempt to find balance and incorporate some semblance of their old lives with their new circumstance:

Leland Orser is an actor. You've seen his face a lot over the years playing deranged or demented or despondent characters. He is married to Jeanne Tripplehorn, who is probably better known from the HBO series Big Love and movies like Basic Instinct and Waterworld. Orser decided to write and direct his first movie and have his wife play his wife in the movie. It is an intense character study that includes other top actors like Laura Linney, Eliot Gould, Kyle Chandler, Jason Ritter and Julie White. Everyone in the movie seems to be in support of Jeanne Tripplehorn, who has been given quite a character to play.

Tripplehorn plays someone who seems to be falling apart. The movie starts with her husband on top of her while she stares distractedly out the window. Their relationship seems to become even more disjointed as the day begins. They both begin to completely unravel. It takes a while to get an idea what might be going on. But this movie is in no hurry to clear things up for the viewer.

Dave Foley is something of a celebrity, not to overstate the fact. He starred in a famous skit comedy show (Kids in the Hall) and sitcom (News Radio).  He's not like super-huge famous, but he has a strong cult following. He also looks like the sweetest and least objectionable person in the world. I say he looks like that. He may be the sweetest person in the world, but he is definitely not the least objectionable person in the world. His standup DVD clearly tries to dispel the notion that he doesn't hold a lot of objectionable views. This DVD is definitely not for everyone. If you’re a very religious and conservative person, this DVD is not for you.

Dave starts of by saying he is not gay. He feels he has to say this, but apparently a lot of people think he is gay, probably because he wore a lot of dresses on Kids in the Hall and was very good at playing women. This leads him into covering sexuality in great detail and in all its awkward glory. He doesn't shy away from covering many very intimate moments from his own life. So let's just say lots of bad words are used. He may be sweet, but he's pretty raunchy.

At some point as we’re getting older I think we all get a little nostalgic for the things we liked when we were younger.  For everyone I believe our reasons are different for having this trip to the past, whether it’s playing that old cassette that never seemed to leave our car radio, revisiting old NES games, and most commonly I think it’s the movies and TV shows we looked upon so lovingly in our youth.  Sadly, though, these trips to the past seem to leave us scratching our heads, wondering what we were ever thinking.  And that would about sum up my experience reviewing Shout’s release of the Nickelodeon series Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.

Before there was Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, there was another batch of monsters that did their best to scare the daylights out of us humans.  In this monster-filled world, we follow the adventures of three friends who are in school learning the skills of how to scare humans.  Ickis (Charles Adler) is a bit of the reluctant hero of the group; he wants so desperately to be a great monster who can scare the pants off of anyone, but with his short stature and large bunny-like ears he looks more cuddly than menacing.  Then there is Oblina (Christine Cavanaugh), a black-and-white-striped-candy-cane-looking creature with giant red lips, and Krumm (David Eccles), a short, chubby creature that can never seem to keep hold of his eyes.  Teaching the young students is their headmaster, The Gromble (Gregg Berger), who, like any good monster, is hard to satisfy and loves to scream and scare his young students.