'Cheer Perfection' on TLC review: It's ordinary

She is Alisha Dunlap, who takes pride in perfection and is happy to bark at the kid who fails to achieve it.

And what about the cheerleader moms? You'll get to know them very well, assuming you stick around for the eight episodes of this spinoff from a summer special. They are Bobbie and Ann and Michelle and Andrea and Mandy. They have a vested interest in their child's success -- primarily their own self-esteem.

Why is this so? Who knows, and if you really stop to think about it, who cares -- other than TLC, which hopes it has found in this clattering catty courtside claque the perfect counterpart to mothers on hits such as "Toddlers & Tiaras" and "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." ("Cheer Perfection," by the way, shares parentage with both of those shows.) But what those two have in abundance, this one does not -- notably a freak show aspect that makes viewers rub their eyes in disbelief while proudly declaiming that they would never do that to their own kid.

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"Cheer Perfection" is numbing in its ordinariness -- dull, trivial and never, ever outrageous. One kid's mom doesn't want another mom's kid on the squad? How dare she! Zzzzz.