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Personally the only reality show I can handle is Pimp My Ride because of the ridiculous shit they do on that show.

WBU?

The only reality show I really liked was MTV's fear.

Lots of reality shows are good for comedy.. Like Sunset Tan, heh.

The only reality show I can handle is a cartoon one, Total Drama Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Drama_Island). It actually has pretty good writing.

I like Project Runway and Top Chef, because I like to see what they come up with (and I like food and clothes). Those are pretty much the only ones I can tolerate these days.

None, I don't even watch TV anymore. I check the weather on the computer, or my phone.

The reality shows I am really not getting these days are the celebrity family shows. It all should have stopped with the Osbrounes.

I like Project Runway and Top Chef, because I like to see what they come up with (and I like food and clothes). Those are pretty much the only ones I can tolerate these days.

Ugh. I understand what you mean, I used to watch building shows for the same reason.

The ones that pay me. Which rules out Top Chef because I was supposed to work on its first season but ended up doing The Exotic Erotic Ball instead and I'm still bitter about it. (I work set crew on television and film, which means a lot of reality shows)

Outside of that, anything where people build and/or destroy stuff. Competition shows, not as much.

I like Top Chef. I've even tried to make a few of the things, once I wrung all the fru-fru out of it. I also like the 'Bret Michaels looks for love(and VD)' shows. Makes me feel better about being single.

I like Top Chef. I've even tried to make a few of the things, once I wrung all the fru-fru out of it. I also like the 'Bret Michaels looks for love(and VD)' shows. Makes me feel better about being single.

Flavor of love is the best one of those shows.

Jackass...thats prettymuch it, lol...

That dance show was okay for the first season, cause the Guys on skates and the guys in Masks did some really original stuff...

But after the first season I really cant stand it....

Flavor of love is the best one of those shows.

Also known as 'that show that plays to every bad black stereotype imaginable'

Personally the only reality show I can handle is Pimp My Ride because of the ridiculous shit they do on that show.

WBU?

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don't forget the fishtank in the trunk!

don't forget the fishtank in the trunk!

Or that they replaced your engine with a hottub.

Or that they replaced your engine with a hottub.

I would fear driving my car if i gave it to them and they returned it with a fish tank in the trunk.

I like Project Runway and Top Chef, because I like to see what they come up with (and I like food and clothes). Those are pretty much the only ones I can tolerate these days.
Ditto.^^ I'm mildly addicted to both of those. Others, not so much (read: at all).

I watched the one season of Mad Mad House, just to see what they were going to do with it, but seriously, when the "vampire" is the least fake, least pretentious person on the whole show, there's a problem. That kind of sums up most reality shows for me. How fake a "reality" am I expected to buy into?

I haven't seen Pimp My Ride. I thought it was more a fake how-to show than a "reality" show.

I haven't seen Pimp My Ride. I thought it was more a fake how-to show than a "reality" show.

They basically make nedmobiles, and have the 'rappa talk bro!', pretty boring stuff.

I wonder if trigger happy TV would count as reality TV?

These shows make me want to shoot people, and they're fake much of the time.

The only reality show I can handle is a cartoon one, Total Drama Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Drama_Island). It actually has pretty good writing.

*shoots Wilgrove*

I can't handle any, sorry guys. :(

hmm...
Amazing Race
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Biggest Loser


and I don't know if it counts as a reality show... but
Mythbusters
Iron Chef

Personally the only reality show I can handle ...


Zero. Zip. None. Nothing. Nada. Pas de tout. Kein. Nessuno.

the phrase: "reality show" is an oxymoron!

(a REAL 'reality' show would be a travellog without dialog or naration, featuring trains and nature, all one long moving scene, fallowing little people sized trains winding through the woods and mountains. another would be to pick up the brainwaves from some small furry creature and display what it sees through its own eyes. something small enough to climb through or dig under fences, but with enough sense and resources to live a long time. THOSE i would be interested in watching!)

I like Temptation Island. It makes me feel I'm not the dumbest person on the planet.

It's like a feel-good movie. :)

I watched Big Brother back when it seemed like a novel and intriguing sociological experiment. I stopped when I realized it was a freak-fest full of society's most annoying people.

Which took about ten minutes.

"Stuff walking past my window"

I'll admit to thinking Rob and Big is absolutely hilarious. Oh, and Survivorman.

The Amazing Race - and I'm not sure that counts, it's more of a game show, a good one.

I also like Mythbusters, but I really don't think that counts.

The rest are either too boring for words or too puerile to stand.

"Stuff walking past my window"

absolutely. reminds me of a song by donovan. something about being "wanted in ring number three" (of a circus, the circus, we all seem to be surrounded by). rhymes with "look out your window and see", which is the first line. don't have the slightest idea what the name of it was.

something about a neighbor (or some, that place on the tape is kind of worn out) lady hanging from (her clothes line, or something) by her false teeth "gracefully", or something like that was in there too.

I've never actually watched a full episode of any reality show, so I'd say none. Of course, I haven't had TV in my house for about 9 years now.

I've never actually watched a full episode of any reality show, so I'd say none. Of course, I haven't had TV in my house for about 9 years now.

No TV? What craziness is this? Excuse me, are you from the past?

No TV? What craziness is this? Excuse me, are you from the past?
he might be from the same or similar alternative future i am.

What reality shows can you handle?
Life. Barely.

Who Wants To Fire Dubya From A Catapult
Who Wants To Fire Cheney From A Catapult
Who Wants To Fire Ahmedinejad From A Catapult
(etc.)

I'd like to do my own which would involve me crashing other reality shows with a carefully selected roving band of maniacs (Consisting of myself, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Steve-O and a rotating series of special guest maniacs) and causing complete chaos before moving on to the next.

First stop: Survivor. I have pies with those assholes' names all over em! :D

No TV? What craziness is this? Excuse me, are you from the past?

I'm from the grim, dark future of the far, distant past.

What actually broke me of watching TV was the Armed Forces Network (now known as the American Forces Network) when I was stationed in Germany. I didn't like that many shows to begin with but they rarely had anything I liked (except Iron Chef) and instead of commercials they had horribly done public service announcements.

Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghxZzWVO7A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYyPJ3GBiA8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPMOyAhG0M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSEUOQSIpfc&feature=related

I like Project Runway and Top Chef, because I like to see what they come up with (and I like food and clothes). Those are pretty much the only ones I can tolerate these days.

I really like those because I feel like there's a point to it. When you win you get enough money to really get a start in your career. I don't really like most of the other reality television I've seen and apparently there's a lot on cable I haven't even heard of, my students try to talk to me about things on VH-1 and MTv and stuff.

I did watch A&E's addiction marathon over the holidays because someone I know was on one of them, but then I just couldn't stop watching it after that episode, it's like a train wreck. I watched it for like 3 hours.

none

The_Joe_Schmo_Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Schmo_Show) was the only one I ever actually watched. What game could beat "Hands on a hooker" or when they cheered him up by having him roll around in honey with the hot chick.

I really like those because I feel like there's a point to it. When you win you get enough money to really get a start in your career. I don't really like most of the other reality television I've seen and apparently there's a lot on cable I haven't even heard of, my students try to talk to me about things on VH-1 and MTv and stuff.

I did watch A&E's addiction marathon over the holidays because someone I know was on one of them, but then I just couldn't stop watching it after that episode, it's like a train wreck. I watched it for like 3 hours.
I like Project Runway and Top Chef because they're not really about the people. They're about the work the people do. They're job shows, sort of. The challenge is "can these people be creative under these extreme constraints?", not "how low will these people sink themselves just to keep the camera on them?" Sure, they're faked a bit -- when the producers decide they really, really want to keep the asshole in the group until the final rounds -- but at least there's something going on in them that I have any, even mild and passing, interest in.

And those two are really the only ones that have succeeded with that work/competition format. The others BRAVO have tried have been wrist-slittingly boring.

As for the addiction shows, I can't stand the whole idea of them. They're the most vulturish things on tv currently, imo. What next? A live cam in an ICU to see who will die this week?

As for the addiction shows, I can't stand the whole idea of them. They're the most vulturish things on tv currently, imo. What next? A live cam in an ICU to see who will die this week?

Well Joe is in the late stages of terminal cancer, but Sally, who has been battling chronic depression for years, just got dumped by her boyfriend and evicted from her apartment.

But just to even the score, we've left her with a bottle of sleeping pills and a photo album of that trip she and her now ex took to Hawaii. Let's see if she notices.

Well Joe is in the late stages of terminal cancer, but Sally, who has been battling chronic depression for years, just got dumped by her boyfriend and evicted from her apartment.

But just to even the score, we've left her with a bottle of sleeping pills and a photo album of that trip she and her now ex took to Hawaii. Let's see if she notices.

Even I feel awful for cracking a smile at this.

"Stuff walking past my window"

I wish I could say this. but being that I live in an apartment building... I would be stuff flying past my window.

Lately tho. My Crays have been keeping me occupied as they re-arrainge the stuff in their tanks.

Cray eye for the straight guy? :D

As for the addiction shows, I can't stand the whole idea of them. They're the most vulturish things on tv currently, imo. What next? A live cam in an ICU to see who will die this week?

Oh, no, it was disgusting, I just couldn't turn it off. I think interventions are bullshit anyway, been through 4 of them, it's bullshit.

Personally the only reality show I can handle is Pimp My Ride because of the ridiculous shit they do on that show.

WBU?

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Well Joe is in the late stages of terminal cancer, but Sally, who has been battling chronic depression for years, just got dumped by her boyfriend and evicted from her apartment.

But just to even the score, we've left her with a bottle of sleeping pills and a photo album of that trip she and her now ex took to Hawaii. Let's see if she notices.
You really ARE evil. :D

You really ARE evil. :D

Glad you noticed.

I like the last fifteen minutes or so of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," since at that point it just consists of "look at a really pretty house!"

I also watched the first season of "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?" obsessively while I was traveling and had access to cable a couple of years ago. It was pretty hilarious.

Oh, and do dubbed episodes of "Iron Chef" count? Because those are also hilarious. :)

I also watched the first season of "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?" obsessively while I was traveling and had access to cable a couple of years ago. It was pretty hilarious.
I forgot about that one! I never laughed so hard outside of Monty Python!

I've thus far managed to avoid all of them, except the snippets that flash briefly when surfing.

"Reality TV" = "Networks too cheap / lazy to write proper shows". They won't see me or my ad dollars, ever.

I've thus far managed to avoid all of them, except the snippets that flash briefly when surfing.

"Reality TV" = "Networks too cheap / lazy to write proper shows". They won't see me or my ad dollars, ever.

actually, this past couple of years it was more...
"Reality TV = Unaffected by writer's strike!" :tongue:

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EDIT:Ninja'd, eh. Well I'm not finished yet!
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Yay! :D

Yay! :D

Yo dawg, we herd u like mud, so we buried your car out back and left the water running over it.

I like the last fifteen minutes or so of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," since at that point it just consists of "look at a really pretty house!"

Really?! More like "OH MY GAAAAWD!! OH MY GAAAAWD!!!! THANK YOU!!!! OHHHH HHH HOOHHH!!"

Which, btw, is fucking horrible.

Yo dawg, we herd u like mud, so we buried your car out back and left the water running over it.

Double Yay! :D

None of them. It's simply abhorrent stuff.

*shoots Wilgrove*

I can't handle any, sorry guys. :(

What was that for? :(

Really?! More like "OH MY GAAAAWD!! OH MY GAAAAWD!!!! THANK YOU!!!! OHHHH HHH HOOHHH!!"

Which, btw, is fucking horrible.

Hence why I only watch the last fifteen minutes of it. For fifteen minutes every few weeks, I can conjure up, "Aw, that's sweet, they made people happy." More than that and I start hitting sap overload.

Cray eye for the straight guy? :D

You know what this apartment needs? Termites! And then we'll cover your waffles in lightbulbs!

Purple!

None, I don't even watch TV anymore. I check the weather on the computer, or my phone.

I am with you there. I do DVR House MD when it's new. I'll enjoy a little marathon and catch up. Other than that, no tv usage.

Hence why I only watch the last fifteen minutes of it. For fifteen minutes every few weeks, I can conjure up, "Aw, that's sweet, they made people happy." More than that and I start hitting sap overload.

Heh fair enough. I too used to enjoy watching the mint houses, but then we seemed to get an overload of the '!!!!!!!' reactions, which made me feel slightly ill.

I've thus far managed to avoid all of them, except the snippets that flash briefly when surfing.

"Reality TV" = "Networks too cheap / lazy to write proper shows". They won't see me or my ad dollars, ever.

This

I used to be able to handle "The Real World", until it hit it's 4th. season. After that, I can't stand it. nor any other reality tv show.

Well... how broadly are we defining reality TV? Shows like Mythbusters, Prototype This, and Ancient Discoveries (all shows I watch) are reality TV. Or are we only talking about Pimp My Ride, and Big Brother type BS?

I'd like to do my own which would involve me crashing other reality shows with a carefully selected roving band of maniacs (Consisting of myself, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Steve-O and a rotating series of special guest maniacs) and causing complete chaos before moving on to the next.

First stop: Survivor. I have pies with those assholes' names all over em! :D

Now THAT is a show I would watch... and beg to be a cast member of...

How about suggestions to make Reality TV a little more interesting?

Fear Factor: Thats easy to me, do something thats actually scary! How about this: Hire a bunch of thugs to drive out and beet some poor random SOB on the head with a sap and toss them in the back of a molester van. Lock them in a dark room, and when they regain consciousness inform them (through an intimidating means, kind of like the puppet from Saw movies) that if they escape in 24 hours they win the fear factor prize. Then let them figure out how to get out of the dark room and past the thugs for the win.

Pimp My Ride: This redo would be a revamping of the entire show, where the word "ride" would describe the person you sleep with (are married to, etc). Your "ride" would be forced to work for a notorious LA Pimp for 48 hours. Anyone who acquired their services would take a survey rating looks, technique, and such things about the experience. If with at least 10 surveys your ride scores high enough, you are awarded a prize.

Survivor: Anything from Gladiatorial death matches to leaving people stranded in an inhospitable area would spruce this one up. I personally would love to see a Bel-Air debutant stuck all alone in the Sahara!