The TV Zone

Hard to believe, but the curiosity known as "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" is about to wrap in a few short hours -- all over -- and someone will win. That someone will not be Patti Blagojevich who got out of there last night, after 23 days.

So what have we learned from this show? Many things, and let's go through them now...

1.) The show actually kinda worked for NBC. It got about 5 million people watching on average, which meant this was about the fourth or fifth most-viewed show on the network some weeks! Now, everything's relative -- if this had aired on, say, USA or TLC, it would have been their fourth or fifth most-viewed show, too. On CBS? The 20th...

2.) The Baldwin brothers are insane.

3.) Patti Blago is kind of a trouper. Sure, easy to poke fun at her, but she did do this, and did probably make about $50,000 (a very wild guess, and she may well have made more) for a few weeks work to help her family. Of course, there's always the possibility she'll take the money and stay in Costa Rica, or maybe go to Tahiti...

4.) John Salley still thinks he should have a daytime talk show, but that's not gonna happen.

5.) The Heidi and Spencer stunt-casting was a fiasco.

6.) This show will never have a mass audience appeal.

7.) NBC really is desperate.

8.) We never got the full Speidi Bungle-in-the-Jungle story -- something else happened there that will hopefully forever remain a mystery.

9.) This is probably the last iteration of this show on American TV, God willing.

10.) If God is not willing, and CBS is really desperate in a few years, maybe it will mount a new version.

11.) If that happens, hopefully another governor will be accused of selling Senate seats, and CBS will then have the good sense to film the show in the United States, so a judge allows said governor to appear without fear of flight risk.

12.) Speidi are delusional and terribly, terribly sad.

13.) Al Roker doesn't like Speidi.

14.) We don't like them.

15.) Lou Diamond Phillips is a very strange man.

16.) Jungle cockroaches, when properly basted and sauteed, actually taste like something you'd get at KFC.

17.) Sanjaya probably should let his hair grow back.

18.) Torrie Wilson doesn't look like a professional wrestler.

19.) The fact that a disgraced governor was actually going to go on this show will go down as one of the oddest moments in TV history -- something so bizarre as to be beyond parody or ridicule. Possibly...

20.) The show wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, and some nights it was almost diverting. But then, I do watch a lot of TV and have been known to have sat through entire editions of "Kathie Lee & Hoda," though not without suffering severe psychic anguish.

Clip - Patti from last night...