Flavor of Love: So Ridiculous You Can't Help but Watch: VH-1's Celeb-Reality

Well, for those of you who are unfamiliar, VH-1 just finished a reality show, much like The Bachelor, but with celebrity William Drayton, Jr. You know him as none other than Public Enemy's Flavor Flav, the gold-tooth-wearin', "YEAH BOOYIEE"-in, clock-around-the-neck-totin' rapper who once topped the billboards with "911 is a Joke" and "I Can't Do Nothin' For Ya Man."

This is Season Two of Flavor of Love, and all hell has broken loose in Flav's house. I can scarcely believe more women would put themselves in this predicament after Season One's shenanigans.

As in most of these shows, a group of desperate, in this case, 20 women are fighting for the affection of one man. And Big Daddy Flav is living it up and reaping all the er, ummm, 'benefits' as these women try to win him over. Each episode is full of the women trying to weasel into Flav's heart, and some of them go to GREAT lengths to prove their worthiness. Each episode concludes with the elimination, dwindling the harem one-by-one.

Toastee was eliminated because she lied about being a porn star; Nibbles was eliminated because broadcasting her striptease on the pole in her living room is not motherly material for Flav's children; Somethin' was dismissed for being a 'big girl'; Bootz eliminated 'cos she wouldn't 'knock boots' with Flav until he married her; Buckey for almost pushing Crazy off the second floor balcony; some for more fighting; some 'cos they were there just to be on TV; and the list goes on.

Then, midway through the season, a former scorned woman nicknamed "New York" from Season One appears and throws a monkey wrench into everyone's agenda. Originally called back to help Flav decode some of these women's true intentions sparks rekindle and Flav asks this boisterously dramatic chic to stay. Claws emerge as the women feel that New York has an unfair advantage, having already been emotionally involved with Flav last season.

Two episodes ago (Sunday October 1st), it was down to three women: New York, Crazy and Deelishis. New York is well, from New York and has the 'tude to prove it; Crazy is a mixed chic with her eyes on a record deal; and Deelishis is named for the badunkadunk she's got in her trunk. Each of the lady's parents joined them at Flav's house for a get-together with Flav - after all, you gotta meet the parents sooner or later.

Deelishis's mom and dad arrived and accompanied Flav and their daughter to a magic show. Crazy, her mom, grandmother and Flav all went to a hair shop and got their blonde hair corn-rowed. Now, New York's mom and dad were a different story. Not so much the father, but Ms. Michelle is one crazy loon. Having met Flav last season, and not approving of her daughter's choice to try and win over the rapper, New York's mom gets into a physical altercation with Flav upon walking into his house, proceeds to have 'words' with all the other houseguests, and even tries to persuade her daughter to ditch Flav by faking a health 'condition.'

The episode ended with Crazy being eliminated. The playing of her demo tape really opened Flav's eyes to see what she was just all about. Ms. Michelle was devastated that her daughter Tiffany (New York) was chosen to stay as a finalist. She reluctantly hugs Flav good-bye, dramatically whining the Flav's trying to kill her. New York seems mortified. Mom finally leaves, stops in her tracks in the drive way, then does a 360° turn and heads back through the front door to retrieve her daughter. This is a soap opera for real! And last Sunday was just a recap with some unseen footage of the past several episodes, culminating to lastnight's finale.

Episode 10: Belize in Love took a weird turn as Flav accompanied the ladies to a retreat in Asunción, Belize. The calm ocean and serene sway of the palms still wasn't enough to ward off the mayhem that took place. New York stayed, against all the kicking and screaming that her mother did. However, her true craziness came leaping out on her private date with Flav aboard a private yacht.

She began citing how their future would be and how she would be in charge (her motto being that she's the HBIC - head "B" in charge), and questioned 'her man' about Deelishis's not coming home from her date with Flav the night before. Flav was semi disgusted and flung himself into ocean for a swim to clear his head. Though he was 'feelin' her,' and I do mean that both figuratively and literally, he freaked out, telling her that she's just like her mom and that she's quite 'dramatical.'

Both women were totally unnerved by the anticipation of elimination night, but when Flav said "Your time is up [he paused] New York," all hell broke loose in Asunción! New York screamed, cursed and seemed on the verge of slapping the man she was just a while back claiming as her own. Deelishis waited patiently by as Flav tried to explain to New York that her ravings and obsession with control was a spitting image of her mother, which at this point she was clearly portraying.

New York even proudly boasted that she was just like her mother and that she was still the HBIC. Well, after the dramatics and New York was escorted to the limo to exit Belize stage left, just as in Flavor of Love 1, Deelishis also got so sport a custom-made grill that Flav presented her with and shared a metal-on-metal smooch with her man.

Wondering if a real 'romantical' connection was made, or was this just staged for TV? But no matter what, I was glued each week to VH-1 to catch a glimpse. Flavor of Love 2 was just so ridiculous that I couldn't help but watch!