showprep: we'd reach into the toilet to get our cell phones, how teens are hiding their online activity, and what to wear if you want to get noticed online

Show Starters...

Cuttin' Cake

• Fred Savage from The Wonder Years turns 36
• Scott Grimes from Party of Five is 41
• Courtney Love is 48
• Top Gun's Kelly McGillis is 55 (PLAY)
• Tom Hanks turns 56 (PLAY)
• John Tesh is the big 60

Today is National Sugar Cookie Day! (PLAY)
Dick Clark hosted American Bandstand for the very first time on this day in 1956

(Show planner:  Tomorrow, Tuesday, is Jessica Simpson's birthday (32) along with Teddy Bear Picnic Day)

On the tube tonight (primetime)

abc:  The Bachelorette is two hours and features Emily and the three remaining bachelors taking a quick trip to Curacao (NEW), The Glass House features a Lab-A-Doodle competition (NEW)
cbs:  Everything is a repeat tonight (How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly, Hawaii Five-O)
nbc:  Fear Factor features Leeches and Shaved Heads and Tear Gas.  Sounds like Thanksgiving at my house! (NEW), American Ninja Warrior (NEW), Grimm (REPEAT)
FOX:  Hell's Kitchen features a screaming chef (NEW), and MasterChef (NEW)
CW:   Breaking Pointe and Remodeled are repeats

Movie Monday part 1:

The Amazing Spider-Man was #1 over the weekend ($65 million), but 20 years ago today, this was the #1 movie...can you name it?

(PLAY)

Answer: Patriot Games (Harrison Ford)

Movie Monday part 2:

Three years ago today, the number one movie, about an Austrian fashion reporter, featured this song --

(PLAY)

Name the flick

Answer:  Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen)

Joke of the Day

How is your new job at the factory?” One guy asked another.

“I’m not going back there.”

Why not?”

“For many reasons,” he answered. “The sloppiness, the shoddy workmanship, the awful language – they just couldn’t put up with it.

Gross?

Is there a moment of the day when our cell phones aren't within reach?  Apparently not because an online address-book site called Plaxo found that 19% of us have dropped our cell phones down the toilet.

If that's not bad enough, a new T-Mobile survey discovered 59% of us wouldn't hesitate to 'take the plunge' and grab the phone.  Yep, reach right in the toilet and save the iPhone.  Would you?

Phones/Facebook:  Where's the strangest place you lost your phone?

 A couple phoners (actual calls -- just insert your voice) to get you started

The Best Color to Wear for Your Online Dating Profile

The online dating world is highly competitive, but there is a sneaky little way to stand out, at least if you're a woman (and no, it has nothing to do with posting a photo from that contest you entered while on spring break).

Thanks to science, we know that wearing a certain color in your profile photo will grab more attention and more responses... any guesses?  Yep... RED!  

Researchers used a group of ladies looking for love online, and over a 9-month period, changed the color of her outfit every 12 weeks.  That's it, just changed the color of the outfit.  What they discovered is wearing red sparked a 6% increase in the number of contacts they received from men.

Your Teen Is Looking at Porn... Here's How He's Getting Away with It

We are in denial, and we like it that way... A new Teen Internet Study discovered 12% of parents are pretty sure their teenager watches porn online -- the actual number is 43%, and they do it on a weekly basis.  So how do they get away with it?  Here are the 10 ways teens are hiding their online behavior:

1. Clearing the browser history (53 percent)
2. Closing/minimizing browser when a parent is around (46 percent)
3. Hiding or deleting messages and videos (34 percent)
4. Lying about online activities (23 percent)
5. Using a computer parents don’t check (23 percent)
6. Using an Internet-enabled mobile device (21 percent)
7. Using privacy settings to make certain content viewable only by friends (20 percent)
8. Using a browser’s private viewing mode (20 percent)
9. Creating private email address unknown to parents (15 percent)
10. Creating duplicate/fake social network profiles (9 percent)

McAfee, an online security company, released the survey, and also promoted their Safe Eyes software which monitors their kid's online behavior.


Facebook/Phones -- Do you try and stay on top of where your teen surfs while online, or is it all just to overwhelming?   What's your best tip to keep on top of it?

The More You Warn Them, the More They Don't Care!

Teenagers will never change.  The more you warn them that something is dangerous and a no-no, the more they're tempted to do it, right?  28% of teens say they have texted a naked photo of themselves to someone, and more than half have been asked to send someone else a naked photo.  In a not so shocking fine, boys were more likely than girls to ask for a naked photo.

948 teens were involved in the study from ages 14 to 19.