I admit it...I watched one "reality show" fairly regularly...oh, I was not the type of watcher they wanted...I watched the set-up shows where they picked the contestants, then I watched the last 15 minutes of each show...but skipped the rest. That show was Last COmic Standing in which the first two shows were tryouts, so I got to see some decent stand-up comedy, and the last 15 minutes of each show was where two comics would do a 5 minute set. I never voted, not once.
For the most part, I find the whole concept pretty inane. I don't like gross-out festivals (Fear Factor, Survivor), things designed to tear friendships or families apart (Amazing Race, Wife Swap) or anything of that nature. SO maybe I am not the right person to post on them. I find them getting more and more ridiculous....from American Karaoke...err, Idol we have descended to American Inventor? Aaaaggghhhh! Tear my eyeballs out, please.
Of course, I have always had the theory that, as stupid as these shows are in my humble yet accurate opinion, the safety of the participants is taken into account. For all the obnoxious screaming the girls do on commercials for "America's Next Top Model", I doubt those bugs are any more harmful than sitting through a speech on economic factors on growing grain in the rainy season in Kansas.
So I was pretty amused when a train steamrolled a bunch of participants. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11884472/ I suppose I shouldn't be...they at least are raising funds for charity, and that alone means it is a better show than anything we have here. But, much like these idiots pulling buses with their teeth on the muscle shows, if you play with trains, planes and autombiles, odds are bad things are going to happen. But hey, lets look at the bright side...they died doing something good. Next week they were scheduled to go down in a soccer riot.
4 years ago
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Wow... and isn't it ironic, don't you think?
It's amazing how successful the American Idol winners have gone on to be. I mean I think the person who won the first season sold over two hundred and fifty.... cds....
You know I totally agree on what you say about these shows. Absolutely repulsive, what has America been reduced to...the mind of a immature teenager. I mean come on why add more reasons to create quack therapists who don't know what they are talking about to help these idiots who choose to ruin their family and lives.
That is enough of my ranting. By the way this is Fezzman
I can't *stand* "reality" shows. I think they're made for people who velcro is made for...those who aren't capable enough to tie their shoes in the morning.
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