Before we get to last night’s ep of Biggest Loser (the favored Tuesday night reality fare among 18- to 49-year-olds—and how excited am I for the new “couples” season?! And it looks like meanie red team lady is GONE! Long live tattooed Bob and Jillian!) I’d like to take a moment to talk about The Hills star Lauren Conrad, aka LC. How I miss that nickname. Caught up on “Lauren Looks Back” last night, a special retrospective installment of The Hills that’d I’d forgotten I’d recorded. A few observations: I found old (pre-surgery) Heidi soft and pretty and enjoyable; Lo: the most-overlooked obvious candidate for her own reality show ever; and how annoying/adorable were all these kids when they were in high school and their dialects and hair and shitty treatment of one another could still be justified?

When We Were So Much Younger

Anyway. It was a lot of Lauren going “Oops, guess I messed up with that guy!” which Jezebel totally nailed a few weeks back with We’re starting to think she really sucks at this whole dating thing. But overall, it just reminded me why the original Laguna Beach was so great—actual drama; squishy wishy feelings; stupid, stupid parents—and why The Hills is not: transparent women; men who will one day beat their wives; boring drinks and boringer dialogue.

But my favorite scene from “Lauren Looks Back”? Lisa Love, West Coast editor for Teen Vogue, to Lauren during her interview for an internship: “Can you write?” Lauren: “I like to write!” Live it up while you can, gal. Good luck in Paris.

P.S. Dieter, I miss you, too.

Oh, and Biggest Loser: Still pulling for Hollie. ABI is what I say—Anyone But Isabeau. She’s still totally weak—even if she did win the $10,000.