We're number 1!

Sometimes I wish I had started a video blog instead of writing. Some shows are just too darn hard to sum up in words. Too bad my face is too round and my t-zone is too shiny to be in front of anyone's camera.

"16 and Pregnant" (MTV, Tues., 10:00): There are plenty of shows among the networks that really bring out the emotion in me. "Friday Night Lights" appeals to the small-town girl in me. "Survivor" pulls out my competitive nature. And "Glee" makes me want to befriend people I probably wouldn't think twice about. But "16 and Pregnant" makes me both angry and sad at these girls who lose their innocence so early, yet refuse to be adults when the time comes. Tonight's episode follows Nikkole, a high-school junior from Michigan whose ex-boyfriend Josh dumped her after she declined having an abortion.

Nikkole says she's lived a pretty charmed life. Her mom buys her anything she wants and she's a self-professed princess. Her mom is shattered when she finds out her only daughter is pregnant, but vows to support her through it, especially since the baby daddy is a total douche. Rewind: Think "Teen Mom's" Ryan, but not as cute and way more annoying. What's more annoying is Nikkole's desire to get back together with Josh, even though she knows he's cheating on her. With his controlling ways, he's the kind of guy that grows up to be a wife beater, and I'm not talking about the little white t-shirts. Josh has a pattern of hurting Nikkole, and her mom has had it with his jerky behavior.

Nikkole got pregnant at the end of the school year, so she spent the summer swelling. By the time the first day of school rolls around, she's already close to her delivery date. Instead of the obligatory first-day-of-school outfit, she opts for a loose-fitting hoodie and a pair of gym shorts so people won't stare. Pause it: People won't be staring because you're pregnant. They'll be staring because you're pregnant and you think a sweatshirt will hide it. FAIL!

For her last hurrah before giving birth, Nikkole goes to the Homecoming dance with her friends, but after getting back together with Josh, she's more excited about meeting up with him afterwards. He's supposed to meet her outside but cut to her standing in an empty parking lot, stood up and let down. She spends the rest of the evening playing Band Hero with her younger brother.

The big day arrives and Nikkole opts for having an induced delivery instead of waiting for labor to progress naturally. Both her doctor and mother warn her that she could be in labor much longer than she expects. After 11 hours go by, Josh (who miraculously shows up for the baby's birth) tells Nikkole that a man's tolerance for pain is a lot higher than a woman's. Pause it: And after 11 hours and 1.2 seconds, I would have given him an elbow to the nose. Tolerate that! Mom is doing her best to keep things calm and civil, but Josh just keeps on nagging. He says he will always be number one in Nikkole's eyes while mom says she's the one whose number one. Seventeen hours, and she's only dilated one centimeter. After 27 hours, she finally gets to push and out pops 8 lbs., 11 oz. baby Lyle. I swear I heard him chanting, "I'm number one!" as he was coming down the birth canal.

When it's all over, Josh is banned from coming over to Nikkole's house and he goes back to his other girlfriend, Kyla. He says he doesn't want a committed relationship, but he doesn't want to cut Nikkole out completely ... just in case. She's left heartbroken once again, but right on cue, mom is there to pick up the pieces.

CHANNEL SURFING

• "American Idol" (FOX, Tues., 8:00) is up to the viewer voting part. There were a lot of questionable song choices. Enough so that I switched over to reruns of "Grey's Anatomy" on Lifetime.
• "Boyz N the Hood" (BET, Wed., 1:00 a.m.) is still one of the most riveting and realistic movies ever made. Not that I know much of anything about being in a gang or growing up in South Central L.A. But what I do know is that it had a great soundtrack.
• After these messages: Good thing longtime football coach Jimmy Johnson is retired. How embarrassing would it be to see your coach on a commercial promoting ExtenZe male-enhancement capsules then having him yell from the sidelines, "Go long!"