Reality TV Has Hit It's Apex

“Oh, Moses, smell the roses! They are doing this in the good name of diversity? Give me a freakin' break. The status quo on "reality" tv has been dysfunction and 'sex for ratings'. Now, they are claiming to be politically correct? Hey, if TV execs are willing to whore themselves and everyone around out to make money and ratings, at least be honest about it...”

“I watched the first installment of "Surviving Nugent" last night.

Mayhem countdown:

1) Nuge cuts himself with a chainsaw while cutting down a tree.

2) Contestant hit by a car

3) Contestant drinks drink with ipecac in it, she pukes and it kicked off the show.

Humiliation countdown:

1) Contestants forced to pick up all manner of animal feces with their hands.

2) Contestants throwing cow feces at a partner who has a large plastic bowl attached to a helmet on their head, which they are supposed to use to catch the cow flop in.

3) Contestants given cow tongue as their only food source.

4) Contestants made to drag wagons containing deer feed and ridden by the Nuge and his wife.

5) Contestants made to extract urine from freshly-killed deer.

6) Vegan-animal-rights-activist contestant made to watch butchering of said deer.

It's a hoot!”

“I have know idea what you are talking about.”

“It's showing on VH1. A reality show starring Ted Nugent, who has put $100,000 to challenge some twenty-somethings to survive whatever he can throw at them.

The VH1 page on this show: Surviving Nugent.”

“APE-EX

Nugent is an ape...”

“I love you guys down there.

It's so boring up here.”

“Boring? Canada brought us the exploits of Red Green and "The Kids in the Hall." How is that boring?”

“Come visit Baltimore, Gremlin.

I'll show you $h!t that'll turn ya white!”

“perhaps nadir was the word you were looking for”

“That would be better, but I didn't create this thread.”

“I have trouble understanding how they find contestants for any of these "reality" shows. I suppose they can come up with even worse ideas than this one.....”

“Jerry Springer rejects.”

“Lots of these people are taken from actors' pools. They aren't as 'everyday' as you the producers would like to make you believe...”

“Ape X”

“hey, i applied for survivor II.

no callback :(

haven't bothered since.

i really would love to try it. i wish they didn't offer a million bucks and it never got so popular.

then maybe i'd have a chance to get on if it wasn't for the 60,000 other [better looking] peeps applying.

i have no interest in any other reality show.”

“New TV show courts girlie men


By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Years ago, men were urged to get in touch with their feminine side.
In a few weeks, they'll learn how to do just that on "He's a Lady," a new reality-TV series from the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), set to debut Oct. 12.
Fresh from their duties on NBC's "Fear Factor," the show's producers are giving "11 macho men the opportunity to walk a mile in women's shoes, when they are given a complete feminine makeover in the new original reality series," TBS officials said Friday.

"Each week, the competitors will learn something new about what it's like to live as a lady, from dealing with bras and jewelry to bonding with real women in typically all-female activities."
Has the idea produced an outcry from those who believe the reality genre has finally gone too far?
"No, we've heard nothing," TBS spokeswoman Michelle Sisco said. "The series is already shooting out in Los Angeles."
Such things appear to be more popular than ever. There are just as many reality shows airing in the prime-time hours as there are sitcoms this fall, according to the Screen Actors Guild. The nation sees more than 20 "reality" hours a week — an increase of 128 percent since last year.
Many shows rely on controversial role reversals as their most basic premise — families who switch moms, Amish teenagers in the big city, rich girls in redneck country, city folks sent to live on the prairie.
Makeovers are another mainstay. Americans can't get enough of homes, cars, personalities and faces that are retooled and unveiled for dramatic effect, though NBC's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" may be getting desperate. The show's producers recently sent out a plea for "Iraq war veterans" who want a stylistic makeover.
Reality shows based on edgy challenges have also gotten inventive. PAX TV, for instance, will broadcast "Cold Turkey" this fall based on the drama of 10 chain-smokers who give up their cigarettes.
Challenging men to be women, however, appears to have originated in the slapstick realm.
Advance photos of "He's a Lady" contestants reveal hulking men in pink gowns, 5 o'clock shadows and slingback shoes — looking more like Fred Flintstone in drag than men with serious gender issues.
The joke, apparently, is on them.
The 11 contestants "who temporarily leave behind their wives and girlfriends" have been told initially they're competing in grueling physical challenges for a show called "All American Man."
They will "actually be transformed," TBS says, before a celebrity panel of judges including actress Morgan Fairchild and former Detroit Piston John Salley, with the winner ultimately receiving $250,000.
Weekly challenges include learning how to "behave like a lady," followed by public appearances in feminine guise, supermodel training, bridesmaid duty and a final, ghastly appearance before old pals, friends and family.
TBS promises this is will be a "hilarious and heartwarming quest," which ends with a beauty pageant and the quarter-of-a-million dollar question, "What, as a lady, have you learned about being a man? "”

“Phaedrus will so win this!!!”

“I had to scroll up and look at the news source, which is CNN is see if this was a hoax site. This in unbelievable! How cruel and bizzare to make the person wait through this entire process to see which one is her parent after years of searching.

ALTHOUGH, if I were looking for my parent, getting money, plus finding them would be nice, but it's just the waiting to find out which one is the parent is something I would not want to do.

This is sick, but I'm not saying I won't watch an episode.

On a side note: A long time ago, I watched the Maury talk show. I thought it was a high class show, but I found out otherwise, and he is as low as Springer. He had on a gal with 3 potential fathers of her baby, so that means she has sex with these 3 guys within a few weeks of each other. How does it end? It's none of them, so apparently she forgot everyone she had sex with that month. Maury puts on some disgusting shows, and his wife, Connie Chung, who was a newswomen should be mortified and embarrassed by his show, but I guess it brings in the bucks, and that's the bottom line.”

“When that The Biggest Loser came out I thought it was the dumbest show. It has turned out to be a pretty good show with good outcomes. One guy has lost 77 pounds in 10 weeks. I also thout ABCs wife swap show was stupid too but it too has a good outcome. I don't watch them often but when I do catch them I find them interesting.”

“What I wanna know is when they're gonna change the method of execution in California to single combat with another death-row inmate?

I mean, who wouldn't want to watch Scott Peterson and Richard Ramirez duke it out to the death?


For the humor-impaired, the above is simply yet another example of bitpusher's sense of black humor.”

“Yeah! Running Man!”

“bit, are you kidding? I would love to see Richard Ramirez go one round with Scott, because that's all it would take.

There was some nutty grandma who let her young grand daughter be a pen pal with Richard Ramirez. Some people make #&%!$ up to get on a show and go to some big city, but just to even make up this story and show your face on tv is still nuts even if it weren't true.”

“This is from the Wikipedia article on Richard Ramirez:

By the time of the trial, Richard Ramirez had many female fans, who were writing him letters and paying him visits. Starting in 1985, a freelance magazine editor, Doreen Lioy, wrote him nearly 75 letters during his incarceration. In 1988 he proposed to her, and in 1996 they were married in California's San Quentin Prison. Nobody ever found out why women liked this serial killer who had been sentenced to death. Some just thought him innocent, while others found him attractive.

”

“Big Break II final season was last night. Look forward to Big Break III. All women :-)”

“Nigal, I watch The Biggest Loser myself. Even though you can get voted off it is good to see that these people made a committment to keep taking the weight off.
To lose 77 lbs is a hell of a lot of weight.

Last night they had to put on a vest that weighed how much they had lost. To see their faces when they put the vest on was funny. Then they had to run a lap with it on.

That one guy had to run 2 miles last night. He was so happy when he got back. He said he was suprised he could make it considering he could never even walk that far.”

“That is disgusting!”

“That's tame compared to some of the Asian reality shows. I saw this one where guys competed to see who could generate the most baby batter in a 24 hour period. They had female staffers and fluffers to help them anyway they needed.”

“On TV anyway...

Sunday night on Discovery 8:00 pm Eastern/Pacific time!
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/supervolcano.html?jump_to=content

Several scientists who work at Yellowstone were consulted by producers about the show's script. The movie is generally accurate - as long as people keep in perspective how unlikely such an event is, they said.

"It's certainly a worst-case scenario and not one that's likely to happen any time soon," said Jacob Lowenstern, the scientist-in-charge at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. "But it's well done for what they're trying to portray."

The plot centers on a series of disastrous earthquakes and fiery volcanic eruptions that last for more than a week.

The effects are widespread.

Clouds of deadly ash fall on three-quarters of the United States, burying nearby places such as Billings and Bozeman, grounding air travel and paralyzing cities across the Midwest.

Highways clog as millions flee, grocery stores are raided and hundreds of thousands of people die.

Agriculture is devastated, animals are killed, water supplies are threatened and climate changes loom on a global scale.

"It used to be B.C. and A.D., before Christ and after Christ," says one of the characters in the movie. "Well now it's B.Y. and A.Y., before and after Yellowstone, before and after the world changed … suddenly, utterly, irrevocably."

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2005/04/08/build/wyoming/25-supervolcano.inc”

“I know a guy who's convinced Yellowstone will erupt within 50 years. Yeah, riiight.”

“What about the soon to be aired movie 'Revelations'?

It might cause panic and distress among many and the few previews I have accidentally noticed, it is complete fiction, not taken from Biblical prophecies at all.”

“I guess we haven't smartened up much since "War of the Worlds"!”

“Anyone see Skating with Celebrities? TV has sunk to it's lowest when a show where you watch Willis from Different Strokes figure skate gets good ratings.”

“Glad to say I didn't watch that.”

“What chew talkin' 'bout Nigal?”

“This is such a great thread. You should read it in its entirety.”

“Just the title of this thread....

....bwaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha”

“Fox does it again!! Their newest offering is called Black and White. They take a white family and make them black through the magic of make up and then do the same thing with a black family. They have them live as the opposite color. And hijinx, hilarity and racist comments ensue.

Rated PG13 clip-

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/art/p_bushmainp.jpg”

“I heard a promo on that, I do want to catch it. Your link, though, only gives me a pick of some rich white trash.”

“Don't be a dildo Ped. LOL!

http://media.putfile.com/scene-from-blackwhite”

“hahaha, I heard of that one. did you hear of the one where you sit with a bunch of people in a room and you have to convice ALL of them to give you 1.5 million dollars?

someone gonna die on that show, I am sure!”

“Ice Cube is running this show so I'm sure it's going to be completely fair and balanced. ;-)”

“I thought Michael Jackson already did that?

Yeah I've seen the previews for that show, sounds like the dumbest thing ever! And the people don't look like they've changed races either, they look like freaks of nature with 10 pounds of makeup on.”

“AND THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING WHY I WATCH
History Channel
Discovery Channel
SCIFI channel
Comedy Channel (rarely)
SPIKE (Rarely)
but prefer to watch the grass grow on my lawn to Primary TV”

“Just because pedxing made a dildoish statement doesn't make him a dildo. I'd hate to draw that conclusion based on one statement.”

“I remember the skit Eddie Murphy did on SNL where they make him a white guy and he goes to a bank to get a lone…”Here’s your money sir. Just pay it back whenever. Better yet, don’t worry about paying it back at all.”.”

“LOL! Remember the party on the bus?”