Lindsay Diokno on I Love Money:

I'm a big fan of family dinners on Sundays, but there's a downside -- I missed the first 10 minutes of I Love Money thanks to the guys in my house watching the Hall of Fame game.

When I finally got to tune in, I was greeted with the sight of the contestants crying. I don’t know what the challenge was based on, but I'm intrigued.

This week, the contestants have to make at least one tear cross the line that is drawn on their faces, right under their noses. Every person has to shed at least one tear to win, so there's a lot of slicing onions, blowing cigar smoke and yelling at each other to make each other cry. Pumkin gets the ingenious idea to rub some cayenne pepper in her eyes. Toastee tells 12 Pack to smack her. Real is plucking nose hairs. And for all her talent at fake crying, Brandi can’t squeeze out a single tear.

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Lindsay Diokno writes about I Love Money: 

When an episode immediately opens with drama, I know it's gonna be a good episode.

12 Pack approaches green team members Mr. Boston, Megan, Brandi C. and Destiney with a proposal -- throw the next challenge and the gold team would make sure Whiteboy was bounced. Of course, the green team members agree, and, of course, we know that alliance won't last an entire episode.

The gold team, led by 12 Pack, and the green team, led by Chance, lead their teams into the next challenge: the Chickenpult. In Flavor of Love, a contestant served Flav's mom a raw chicken; in this challenge, the teams assemble a catapult and fling raw chickens to their teammates, who must plate 5 chickens on a nearby table. I would kill to be on the dream team that creates these challenges. Yeah, this is the preview video, but I felt a picture of the Chickenpult didn't fully explain how great this invention is.

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Lindsay Diokno recaps another episode of VH1's I Love Money:

"Boston, when you gonna get plowed, dude?"

With an opening line like that, the rest of the episode can't be (and wasn't) disappointing.

Right off the bat, we check in on our established lovebirds, Destiney and Heat, and 12 Pack and Heather. It looks like nothing could split up these matches made in heaven, which means problems will ensue right around the half-hour mark.

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Lindsay Diokno is back to recap I Love Money:

I don’t know if I’ve just been watching too much reality TV, or if the editors of I Love Money are getting that lazy, but last night’s episode was fairly predictable.

The installment kicked off with team captains Hoopz and Whiteboy getting their teams’ first assignment via cell phone. (First sign of laziness: The teams get orders through cell phones. Even Tila Tequila’s producers were “clever” enough to dole out messages in a bottle. But if my production credits included shows with contestants named Pumkin and Nibblz, I’d phone it in, too.)

So, back to the first assignment -- both teams must pick a new team captain, and will pick a new one for each challenge. After each challenge, the captain of the losing team has to put three team members on the chopping block. The captain of the winning team, or “paymaster,” then chooses who is going to be kicked off -- I’m sorry, “bounced.” Eliminated contestants are “bounced.”

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Guest blogger Lindsay Diokno recaps the first episode of I Love Money: 

I watched the first episode of I Love Money last night, and it was about what I expected -- a lot of smack talk, even more censor beeps and little in the way of clothing. Oh, and someone was eliminated (like that's why I'm watching the show).

The show opened with our 17 contestants arriving at their Mexican paradise by boat. There's footage of the contestants jumping from their boats to the beach and fighting for beds. Boring. All you need to know is that Midget Mac and Mr. Boston don't get beds. Mr. Boston proceeds to be as awkward as possible -- he asks one woman if he can share a bed with her, then changes clothes in the kitchen in front of a second. Mr. Boston is the guy you knew in college who toes the line between awkwardly desperate and completely creepy; you want to root for him, but he makes it very difficult.

(I could talk about the alliances and romantic "bonds" that have already formed, but you know those will be out the window by the next episode, so we'll look at those next week.)

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Guest blogger Lindsay Diokno previews VH1's I Love Money:

I'm not proud that I've seen almost every episode of every season of Flavor of Love, Rock of Love and I Love New York, but I'm still going to watch I Love Money.
 
The premise is simple -- contestants from VH1's dating shows milk their 15 minutes of fame by competing to win $250,000. You'll find it more entertaining if you remember this show isn't exactly Emmy material.
 
Not as familiar with the contestants as I (sadly) am? VH1 is airing the questionably named "Meet the All Stars" casting special all week. If you can't catch one of the 10 or 15 airings a day, here's the cast rundown before Sunday's premiere:

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