Monkey See 7:00 pm Thu October 3, 2013   Originally published on
Tue October 1, 2013 7:11 am  I have a confession.  I cannot
resist House Hunters. And, of course, House Hunters
International. They're not good. But I can't resist them.  The
HoHun franchise, in general, involves a potential home buyer or
renter — usually a couple, but sometimes a single person
accompanied by a meddling parent or wary friend — seeking a new
place. A real estate agent shows the buyer three places, and
then the buyer, who was really hoping for something better,
picks one.  On HoHun classic, people flit around someplace like
Memphis or Philadelphia or Seattle (or similar cities in
Canada), trying to find just the right home, by which they mean
that it (1) is cheap, and (2) has everything. And by
"everything," I mean that it's not at all uncommon for people to
walk into a huge, gorgeous house and say something like, "Well,
it's pretty nice, but it doesn't have the double vanity in the
master bath." For those of us who grew up with t