Before we get to the negativity of this week, we'd like to take one minute to give a shout out to Extreme Weight Loss's Cassandra for exuding so much positivity and to Julie Chen for giving Aaryn a little taste of what she's in for once she leaves the Big Brother jury house. Now back to your regularly scheduled obnoxiousness.

Another week and a plethora of people who are trying to ruin what's left of our summer.

We were grossed out watching Jacqueline have chunks of her skin removed on Real Housewives of New Jersey, but we can't really blame the skin for that, only the faceless editors. Instead, there are these real people who are just as disgusting, with some extra bonus horribleness this week.

People got violent and just downright nasty this week.

It's summer, so people are getting stupider, apparently. Either that or everyone is auditioning for a role in another Dumb and Dumber sequel.

Our favorite person this week had to be drunk Kris Jenner brushing her teeth with a Dora the Explorer toothbrush and TP'ing her daughter Kim's house. It totally made up for her talking about her problems peeing. Other reality stars this week were not so entertaining in their awfulness.

Wait... what's the title of that Poppy Montgomery series again? We keep forgetting.

In the biggest reality surprise of the week, Brian (from The American Baking Competition) did a complete 180. The guy who had been cocky, off-putting and pretty rude the entire time decided to be a human being and actually help the adorable James with a challenge. It didn't save poor James, but it did dramatically change our opinion of Brian.

Though Marc Cherry's Devious Maids may be a bit of an on-the-nose tribute to his wildly successful Desperate Housewives both in title and structure, the new Lifetime series' pilot was far better than most of the latter-day Housewives episodes. Maids is funny, dark and stars four Latina women -- if the rest of the series follow the pilot's lead (and after watching episode two, "Setting the Table," I'm optimistic it will), Lifetime will have something worth watching other than Dance Moms and How I Met Your Mother reruns.

This just in: The Newsroom stinks.