ABC News: Can Reality TV Sink Any Lower?: "Maybe you thought reality TV hit the lowest of the low when 'Fear Factor' contestants devoured cockroaches, or when gold diggers paraded their wares in hopes of marrying a millionaire, or when Tila Tequila got a second shot at 'love' with 10 guys and 10 girls.
Those shows look like 'Masterpiece Theater' compared to what's coming.
Take, for instance, 'Hurl,' an eating-and-regurgitating competition in which contestants gorge themselves on everything from chicken pot pies to peanut butter sandwiches, then get strapped into spinning contraptions -- whoever vomits last wins."
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"Those shows look like 'Masterpiece Theater' compared to what's coming."
Yeah, right.
Doesn't stsate the premise:
http://www.starnow.com/TV/Reality-TV/mtv_now_casting_for_hurl.htm
Geeze. This must mean it's not a hoax.
Well, the Top Dog show is real (I've seen the promos) so I'm guessing this one is too.
Shoot me now.
Jeff
the japanese have been doing this kind of tv for 20 years. japan is like another planet. a totally cool one. i'd live there but they hate non japanese live-ins. i respect that.
MTV Jackass show. Remember when they use to whisper toilet paper in toilet tissue commercials and showed bras on mannequins or on "invisible" torsos and you didn't see ads for feminine hygiene products or herpes meds and they didn't ruin rock and country songs by making you think of laxatives or Viagra when you'd hear the artist perform it?
The solution, of course, is simple: Stop watching TV.
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Most of my TV viewing is TCM and RTN, and older TV shows on DVD, but even that has it's headaches:
http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2008/06/cant-stop-musicthen-again-maybe-they.html
At least I have old movies on DVD, OTR and old authors 9and an occasional new one) to read.
"Age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." - Francis Bacon
I must admit, they tend to hire the cutest models on television to do the fem hyg and erection pill ads, so I tend to forgive any sins thus. Which doesn't mean I watch Spike or G4 or MTV when they run the likes of JACKASS or the Japanese pain gameshows...or THE REAL WORLD...but, then, ABC and Fox had actual torture shows on, very briefly, that exceeded FEAR FACTOR (NBC), SURVIVOR (CBS), TILA TEQUILA (MTV) or the Japanese shows I've seen bits of in their obnoxiousness. I'll cheerfully ignore HURL if and when.
And I'll cheerfully toast withthe oldest wine I can afford your good sense, Todd.
I think MTV aims it shows at real life Bevis and Butthead.
Listening to Gary Owens being interviewed:
http://www.live365.com/stations/shokus/schedule/?site=pro
I happened to watch Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" a couple of days ago. One of the segments is a game show called "What's My Perversion?". In 1972, that was only absurd comedy (and very funny, btw). Today, we're almost there.
My favorite episode in that movie is the one with Gene Wilder and the sheep. Just thinking about it cracks me up.
Well, Anders, we already had in the States THE DATING GAME, THE NEWLYWED GAME, and DIVORCE COURT (which probably had already gone off the air, the 1960s version), and I'm sure they were already more extreme than those in Japan in 1972...
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