ty and sean-michael

I knew this was going to happen. I knew that I would find TONS and TONS of dumb people on TV. Especially on my favorite television network, GSN. Well, let me tell you about Ty and Sean-Michael. These two bring new meaning to the term "dumb jocks."

Ty (a personal trainer and former pro football player) and his roommate Sean-Michael (a fire jumper) were on Lingo playing against these these girls Toni (a writer) and Sharon (a hairdresser and poet). I knew it was gonna be ugly right off because Toni and Sharon obviously had to work with words a lot due to their professions. Well, in Lingo, the two teams must create 5-letter words when given only the first letter of the word. The have 5 chances per word to do so. If they don't get the word, misspell a word, choose a word with less than or more than 5 letters, or make up a word, then the other team gets to try.

Ty started the game out. When given the letter W, he said wood... or so I thought. I figured, well, that is only a 4 letter word, so that's not right. Well, that is the word that came out of his mouth, but when he spelled it, he said "w-o-l-d." I imagine he was trying to spell would, but he misspelled it and not only misspelled it, but turned it into a 4 letter word. FAILURE. Well, the girls got a chance to spell and this started their control of the game. They racked up the first half of the game... When Ty and Sean-Michael finally got another chance, the benefit of the doubt that I had given them for that whole "wold" episode was out the window. They started spelling 6-letter words... They said "simple" and "always." Um, earth to Ty and Sean-Michael... 5-LETTER WORDS, PLEASE... THERE IS A GRID IN FRONT OF YOU WITH SPACES FOR 5 LETTERS. Anyway, this wasn't the worst part. Then Ty, who I attribute most of the couple's problems to, started making up words. The man said "fishs." Yes... you could tell that he had learned from his past 6-letter mistakes and was trying to squeeze the word fishes into the 5 block grid up on the screen in front of him. I don't think he really felt dumb until he had to spell it: "f-i-s-h-s." FAILURE. But then comes the Dumb People award winning action. Sean-Michael, who was by this point more than likely weighing his options about moving out of the apartment away from his idiot of a roommate, spelled the word freed when he was given the letter F. Unfortunately, he wasn't right. Well, Ty, in all of his stupidity, gave it a shot and said a word that sounded phonetically the same... but he spelled it "f-r-e-a-d." Needless to say, Toni and Sharon won the game, 350-50. The 50 points that Ty and Sean-Michael got were won by the smarter of the two dummies, Sean-Michael.

Too Stupid To Spell Ty... YOU are a Dumb Person.
Roommate Sean-Michael... You can save yourself from being a full fledged dumb person by moving away from your roommate WITH THE QUICKNESS!