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"The Two Coreys": How Could An Intervention With Pauly Shore And Willis From "Different Strokes" Go Wrong?

Posted by Bryan Christian


Holy crap, dude!!! Did you guys catch the cluster-f of failure that was last night's Two Coreys?

OK, so, last night, we was all into Generation Kill, and you know how it goes longer than an hour, right? So, when it was over and we were sufficiently wowed/depressed, we jumped into Two Coreys kind of midway -- and all of a sudden there's a screaming match going on -- not so weird -- with Todd Bridges and Pauly Freaking Shore singing backup. We said it before, we'll say it again: holy crap, dude!!! What was that all about?

OK, so, we know what that was all about. That was about Corey H being a total fuck-up and showing up to gigs messed up on pills and Corey F enlisting the help of some of his sober friends. We get that. What we don't get is, you know, Willis and the Wiez!!! You can get those two guys in the same room? Without a witch doctor played by Jm J. Bullock?

Of course, the real question is "How could an intervention -- or whatever it was supposed to be -- go so badly?" The ep ended with Corey and Corey on the outs again, Corey H and Mrs. Corey F swapping Mom insults, and some Corey H art therapy (which, we're not gonna lie, was kind of less crummy than we had anticipated). Will they patch things up? Will Corey F kick his meds? Will A&E ever be able to mash-up two of their most successful series in such a trashy manner again? Here's hoping they arrest Criss Angel for that Florida debacle, he jumps bail, and Dog the Bounty Hunter teams up with Bob Goldthwait and Mr. T to go track him down. We'd watch that if we had no eyeballs.

PREVIOUSLY:
Would Anyone Rather Corey H.?

 


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Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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