Watching Rachael Ray

We start with a very funny embarrassing story that Rachael tells about being so single minded in telling her assistant what was coming up, she didn’t even notice she was in the elevator with her guest, Ted Danson! Cheers! Is it just me, or is he even cuter now with the white hair and glasses? Ted gives her a hard time off and on through the interview - it’s very cute. He does say that a “couple of WOOHOOs in an elevator would be nice!”

She talks a bit about making out with other women while happily married - he says HE doesn’t get jealous watching his wife make out with someone else, but his eyes… THEY are VERY jealous! He’s thrilled with his latest project, and getting to work with Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes. Ted said it took a half hour to get through his “I’m such a FAN!” stuff before he could get down to work. On the other side of the coin, he tends to get recognized and such by women more often - guys discover he’s one of the girls and move on. Ha!

Ted says he’s the short order guy at home - he does breakfast, lunch and can go into the fridge and make something good out of what’s there, but his wife is the Big Dinner guy. When he was trying to get his kids to eat eggs, he started the myth that he’s the best omlet maker EVER. Then he had to learn to make omlets.

Ted’s favorite comedy is, of course, the Office. (Sigh. I just don’t GET that show… the appeal just escapes me!) They talk about his working with Glen in Damages, and he loves the writing for the show, and Rachael teases that he’s lucky that he doesn’t have any bombshells. He begs to differ, but says they’re not remembered because he won’t talk about them. How’d he make money for his first car in college? He was at Stanford and let them do scientific experiments on him. His wife says “This explains so much.” Once he was locked in a box with them pumping in carbon monoxide - he lasted about 17 seconds before demanding to be let out. Haha!

The audience gets to ask questions next - and Janine asks what he would do if he weren’t an actor. He says without hesitation “A Butler! I am for my family already, and I love it!” It feels good to have someone say “thank you, I love that!” right away after you serve them a quick meal or pick up their coat. Another audience asks how it was working with his wife, and as a husband would you recommend working with her? He says absolutely if you’re married to my wife! You get to sleep with the leading lady! The one down side is reading the reviews. Donna asks if Sam walked into the bar with Diane on one end, Rebecca on the other, who would he sit next too? He laughs “Do you think I’ve learned NOTHING? I’m 60 years old! I know better then that! Next question!” He laughs, and then says that’s the magic of Cheers, they created a show that Shelly Long helped put on the map, and then Kirstie Ally followed, and he says “I’d just pass out” And Rachael says “Ha! Sit in the middle and let them come to you!” to which he applauded and declared that he could learn more from Rachael.

Apparently Mad Money is based on a true story in England! Ted has nothing but glowing reports about working with the three women. Ted’s also just finished a movie with Jada Pinket Smith - which she wrote and directed. He doesn’t give any details away, it’s sexy and has great actors but won’t let the cat out of the bag. It’s called “The Human Contract” and he says it will be amazing. So be on the lookout for it!

We come back to talk about doovers - moments in life you wish you could go back and do it over. Justin is back, and talks about the one acceptable for daytime tv - he bought a term paper online once, and he learned his lesson. Rachael decides to skip over her own with a laugh because “the list is lengthy!” Instead we see Disa’s clip where she talks about skipping out on her best friend’s wedding and cutting the cake because she didn’t have a date - without telling her friend she wouldn’t be there. It’s been 17 years. They bumped into each other about 8 years after, but neither would bring up the wedding, and Disa has not forgiven herself, or said she’s sorry. They’ve not dealt with The Elephant In The Room at all.

Justin, of course, is there to bring the ladies face to face. Why Justin is the buddy for this task, is that he’s a people person and being an entertainer has noticed people tend to spill their guts to him anyway.

He meets with Laura, and she’s curious as to who wants this do-over talk with her, and she starts to laugh as she watches Disa’s video. Laura says she was disappointed, and curious as to why she wasn’t there, and agrees to see Disa without hesitation. There’s a lot of giggling and embarrassment, and Disa says finally how awful she’s felt for all of this and Laura finally tells her why she didn’t come - she didn’t have a date. Laura forgives her instantly, and felt bad that she’d carry around the guilt for so long. She got to see the wedding pictures, and they feel they will get closer once again now that the air has been cleared.

Or so we thought - but then, they got a letter and Laura sent an email to the producers. She was being protective of Disa’s feelings, but if the friendship meant as much to her as it did to Laura, that she would have been there. They’re in the front row, of course, and Laura says she downplayed her disappointment because she was trying to protect Disa. But she didn’t want to go back there, and revisit her own disappointment. But they’ve talked through it, and are able to talk about anything. Rachael ends it with laughter “Dummy! Weddings are a GREAT place to meet men!” She then gave them a small cake so that Disa could cut it for them, Cake bites for the snack of the day for the rest of the audience, and then!

Then - what’s for dinner? Mile-High Lasagna!