"Advanced Stupid" in Reality Programming

[weesie]

If any of you remember, two years ago I fell getting out of the shower and broke my leg.

Being stuck on the sofa, I ended up watching, or, should I say, trying to watch tv.

I was so disgusted with the amount of "reality/competition" programming, I started a blog to keep

track of just how damn many shows of this type there were.

When I last added to the list, it stood at 348 show.

Original blog:

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Well, a couple nights ago I found this:

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Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the be-all to end-all, stupidest reality show EVER!!!

Brought to your living rooms by BRAVO network.

This is a show about watching people, watching TV. Watching their reactions.

I suggest they take it one step further and have the people watching "The Peoples' Couch",

watching "The Peoples' Couch", and so on and so forth!!

I do believe this program could take the "Advanced Stupid Award" for television programming!

 

[mimi26]

Actually there is a programme in the UK called goggle box, and its exactly the some format, It is very very poular and has rave reviews, they have a mixture of people on upper class, middle class, working class, and although I have never watched it myself, I believe it is very very funny

 

[weesie]

I think if they make a show about "Watching Paint Dry" ........... that would be

the ultimate in dumbing down TV!

 

[IanO]

I remember that original post, and despite having a soft spot for the occasional 'pawn stars' or 'hoarders - buried alive' episodes I would generally agree with you. Vapid nonsense.

However, when it comes to the worst of the worst, that award MUST still go to 'Who's your daddy'.

From Wikipedia:
or the show's premise, an adult who had been put up for adoption as an infant was placed in a room with 25 men, one of whom was their biological father. If the contestant could correctly pick out who was their father, the contestant would win $100,000. If they chose incorrectly, the person that they incorrectly selected would get the $100,000, although the contestant would still be reunited with his or her father.

No shocker, they cancelled it after airing the first episode.

Edited to ad this meme... which says it all really....

 

[dunover]

It's basically endemic as you say weesie. I call it 'moron TV' as it tends to appeal to emotional retards and those lacking intelligence. It's the modern form of the Romans watching Christians get fed to the lions in the arena. Basically voyeurism combined with fear that we look the same as the gullible half-wits that appear in the shows.
The producers sit there and get hard-ons when somebody cries or swears, and sure enough the 'money shot' (hey! we got somebody crying aaargghhhh that's better pass me a tissue!) is when the cameraman zooms in on the lachrymose half-wit.
It is utter sh!te and has turned viewers into pulp.

 

[mrmark21]

I call it the idiot box. The amount of brainwashing that comes out of that thing. Could there actually be a more stupider invention than Reality TV? Seriously it's a pandemic.

People don't even have to live their own lives these days, they can watch other people living their lives through the television instead. I once read an article that compared the game The Sims to Reality TV and they were saying people enjoyed it because they got to live through someone else. Out of all fairness though I do like The Sims. Some people are more interested in whose going to win Idol or The Voice than what's happening on world news...

Reality TV is shocking!

 

[Dinahnana]

I call it spewality tv. I don't enjoy watching programs that depict the worst of humanity in my opinion. On the other hand I love documentaries, why can't we have more of them?
I think the networks take an idea and then re-invent it to death until we all beg for mercy. Reality TV has never been appealing to me and it never will. I never heard of this particular show but it does sound like it should win a rotten tomatoes award for worst reality tv show ever.

 

[just play]

I remember that original post, and despite having a soft spot for the occasional 'pawn stars' or 'hoarders - buried alive' episodes I would generally agree with you. Vapid nonsense.

We used to watch hoarders all the time! I would always say something about some mess, like dishes in the sink then turn to my husband and say "Are we hoarders"?

We can't believe how many reality shows there are, (are there really 348???? Weesie??? ) everyday something else is popping up.

We do however like "My 600lb life". It's about morbid obese people trying to lose weight. They all go to the same doctor, he specializes in people at this weight. They must lose so much weight (usually 50lbs in a month) before he will do an operation. Some of them make it to a normal size, some won't. We always try and guess at the beginning of the show if the person will make it or not. You can normally tell by their family members or their attitudes.

Another show that's interesting/freaky is "My Strange Addiction"....our favorite was this guy who was seriously in love with his car, no joke. He would French kiss it, have sex with it, and called it his girlfriend.

 

[weesie]

(are there really 348???? Weesie??? )

Ha ha! That was the last number I had when I quit.

Did it for about 6-8 months.


Every day, I swear I see another one in the guide listings!

I never should have stopped keeping track......... probably close to 1000 by

now.

 

[jjezebel37]

Actually there is a programme in the UK called goggle box, and its exactly the some format, It is very very poular and has rave reviews, they have a mixture of people on upper class, middle class, working class, and although I have never watched it myself, I believe it is very very funny

I actually really like this hehe

 

[jjezebel37]

I love Pawn Stars.

At least you get a bit of an education along the way

 

[basdgds]

I think if they make a show about "Watching Paint Dry" ........... that would be

the ultimate in dumbing down TV!

Yeah, it would be, but it'd would also be one the most watched shows of the new year.
I can see it now. The show will center around a family of brothers who have a busy and upcoming painting company in town. Each episode will focus in on the painting of various places and the drama that goes on watching the paint dry.

Reality stardom & hall of fame is most assured with cute, catchy, household names of the painters, 'Dip', 'Skip', and 'Trip'.

Worst part about this, is everybody at your job would call you an idiot for not relating to the struggles and ongoings of Dip as he sits quietly with his brothers watching paint dry.

Insta-classic!

 

[Perc]

If you haven't seen the movie Idiocracy, give it a watch.

It's meant to be a comedy, but the way things are going, their view of the future (especially TV and movies) may not be that far off.

 

[Jasminebed]

The People's Couch - Enjoyed it much more than I thought!

The People's Couch is billed as "unscripted television". The people are aware they are being filmed, and several groups of people are watching the same (usually) reality show and talking through it, as we tend to do with these shows. The viewers were fun couples/girls night out/roommates, like us watching certain shows as the evening's entertainment. I watched two episodes, and then taped and watched two more.

Most of the shows I had at least heard of, but I did break down and watch an episode of Bear Grylls to be in the loop. I didn't need to follow a show to find the viewers entertaining.

If nothing else, it felt fresh and a departure from most of the "reality shows".

From commercials for upcoming new episodes, it looks like new "viewers" will be watching, as well as some returning groups.

 

[weesie]

Hi Jas,

I think I addressed that show a few months ago in my blog about "reality/competition" shows.

I never should have quit researching the new additions because there have so very, very many more!

I think my last count was 348 or 349................. and that was a couple years ago.

Can you imagine how much longer the list would be if I had kept going??!!!

 

[weesie]

Here is the original list:

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[chayton]

Did you guys hear about that one woman from 'Dating Naked' who is suing for TEN MILLION BUCKS because they 'accidentally' aired an episode without blurring out her hoo-ha while she was wrestling with some guy on a beach with her tush in the air in a - to be completely honest - pretty unflattering pose.

It's so ridiculous, she's claiming that her parents and grandmother saw it and that some guy who might be her potential soulmate all have stopped talking to her since the show aired. Like they were all thrilled that she was going to be doing it in the first place.

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As for the 'accidental' non-blurring....yeah right. Maybe I'm cynical but I believe that VH1 engineered that to boost their ratings.

 

[weesie]

Thanks for that Chayton!

I did not see that news story! Ha! What did she think would or at least could happen!