I will never forget one time a friend of my mom's told her about the Dr. Phil Show and how she would drop everything and watch the show religiously. So one day, mom asked me if I knew about the show and it happened to be on. After about 10-15 minutes I looked over to my mom who had a look of disgust on her face. She nodded her head and in her usual laser straight-to-the-point attitude referred to the show as "emotional masturbation." She then took the TV remote and changed the channel.

The same thought when I had the (mis)fortune of turning on ABC-TV's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" with Ty Pennington. The show is nothing but emotional masturbation with the recipients of the home makeover talking looking off camera and balling and sobbing on cue. Then you have Ty Pennington's crew doing the same. Then by the end of the show everybody is miserable and sobbing uncontrollably on cue while Ty Pennington slips in a plug to all of the show's sponsors as he shows the made over house to the miserable family. The only people this show can appeal to are those who are devoid of personal emotion from within and have a need externalize their expression of emotions.

One thing I didn't know about Ty Pennington is that he is a victim of ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and is a spokesman/spokesmodel for Adderall which is used to chemically treat the disease.