Pet Rock: The Pop Culture Blog

Thoughts as they fly into my mind and onto the Internet while I watch the season premiere of "The Hills."

* French accents sound so fake, don't they? (except for the girl in "Better Off Dead.")

* Here's the advice Heidi's mom, Darlene, needs to tell her daughter: "Look, Heidi, I watch your little TV show. Spencer is a (insert preferred curse word here)-bag. Dump him and dump him fast."

* Spencer flies to Colorado, the land of snow, and brings gel as his only headgear. Smart move.

* Heidi's dad, Tim, rules! Here's his quote when Spencer rolls into their driveway: "What the heck? What are you doing here?" Awesome!

* Throw him out, Heidi! Throw him out!

* Whitney gets better looking by the episode. I'm just saying.

* I'm liking the in-show soundtrack info. Nice new feature this season.

* Making fun of people in other languages is never a bad thing. Nice work, LC.

* Oh, there's no way this ball gown altering is going to pan out.

* Go Heidi go! She's turning into Heather Locklear on "Melrose Place." Please keep this going, Heidi. Seriously. I promise to watch your music video til the end again.

* That's one grumpy French musician.

* CORRECTION: That's one creepy stalker French musician.

* Wearing the ball gown dress the night before the ball and it gets messed up? Gee, no one saw that coming. Not sure it gets more obvious than that. This didn't do much to help support the notion that this show isn't scripted. I bet a show producer snuck into the room and put that curling iron on the dress.

* Nice cycle, Frenchy. Did you take that from Sweetchuck's garage from the "Police Academy" series?

- Mark La Monica