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my brother's on Monster House -- tonight

Edited later to add:

I thought he did pretty well, and while I'm frustrated about a couple of things, the fact that he got to have a clip with him teaching the boys how to break a board is really terrific, since he owns his own Karate school. The one small thing that annoyed me was that small slab for the bottom of the stairs -- what you saw on TV was nothing like what happened. First, the architect was there and he and Steve (the host) measured and indicated off camera where that slab was to go, then handed Mike the tape measure and told him to "act" like he'd just measured it. Mike suspected it was wrong, but trusted the host, and once he'd "acted" like he'd put it there, he wasn't going to whine about it later. Which all was okay, except for them to say that it was his mistake in voice-over... kinda a cheap shot.

There had been a lot of arguing (some of which you saw) and I was glad they showed that Mike knew how to do the boards for the side of the building (ripping them was what he was suggesting) and the other guy kept acting like an ass, and then they ultimately did Mike's suggestion.

(I sound like an over-protective big sister, don't I? I guess you never really leave that behind.)

At any rate, there were also a lot of funny times and laughter that didn't make it onto the show, particularly with that really muscled guy, Trebor. He did a lot of impressions of famous people and had the entire crew (and TV crew) rolling with laughter several times.

But overall, I thought it was great and that Mike looked good. Thanks for watching and commenting here.

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Hey -- y'all watch Monster House tonight and see my brother, Mike McGee help to build the clubhouse for a local boy with leukemia. They had a blast on the build. I meant to post this earlier and almost forgot! Yikes!

Discovery Channel, by the way.

Posted by toni at November 22, 2004 06:23 PM