None of you are still cute. Impressions: I'm (unreasonably) peeved at this show for being over this week, but that could also be because both segments were fairly obnoxious. I think perhaps for the first time, the snarky pink one was involved and nobody threw a punch, but good lord, one wouldn't have been deserved. It was […]
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