celeb-reality train wreck, and i'm all ears

I'm hooked. Completely fascinated with the progression of this no-value reality show featuring Scott Baio. Season pass on Tivo. Check. First episode viewed. Check.

The premise? The actor most famously known for his role in Happy Days as Chachi, the goofy teenage boyfriend of Joanie. And of course graduating to a role on Charles in Charge before disappearing into child actor oblivion, has re-emerged into the new millenium of tv. As a reality star, of course.

As the title of the show insinuates, Scott Baio is 45 years old and has never committed to the institution of marriage. A string of high profile celebrity conquests along the way, he's currently dating the quintessential young blonde to whom he questions if he's ready to make that lifelong, er, half a life commitment to. So he brings in a camera crew and hires a life coach, who he affectionately refers to as Dark Alli.

The rules of the soul searching? Scott must not see his pinup girlfriend for two months, while he revisits his dating past to find out "why exactly" things did not pan out for him before. Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist when you realize who his cronies are -- Wayne, the older brother from the Wonder Years, and more notably, a 5'4" leech wingman who relies solely on Scott to get attention from any woman, and who will stop at nothing to make sure Scott never becomes monogamous.

This show has trainwreck written all over it. My prediction is that he dumps his Girl Friday. I mean how serious can he be with a girl who isn't a day older than 25, and given that he met her before his soul searching began, I doubt she's his marrying type any way. And then when he clears the way, he'll cross the "doctor"/patient boundary and hook up with his life coach.

If you have a chance, you should watch the first episode just to get a feel for the patheticness. When he went to visit Susan, a girlfriend from over 20 years ago, he asked what went wrong. "Try breaking up with me for a weekend so you could go out with a Playboy Bunny....five different times."