The awfulness of "reality TV" has been written about ad infinitum in so many places. The shows definitely have a varying degree of watchability, but whether that is enough to redeem a TV show remains to be seen. Many a sitcom struggles with the same style-over-substance issue, yet new sitcoms stumble down the pike every TV season. With new media offering us entertainment value, TV doesn't hold the place it once did at the center of our living rooms and evening time-wasting activities. This is all heady stuff, though. I just figured I'd come up with stupid titles for existing "reality" and "contest" shows.
• America's Got Issues
• Survivor: Exiled Frat House Toga Party
• The Real World: Guantanamo
• Road Rules: Gas Station Restrooms
• So You Think You Can Burp the Alphabet
• America's Next Top Publicity Monkey
• Trading Spouses: Animals and People
• Breakdancing with Celebrities
• The Annoying Race
• The Apprentice: Trump vs. Godzilla
• American Idle: Homeless People Who Sing
• Trading Faces
• Extreme Takeover
• Treasure Punter
• Big Sister
• Presidency: So You Think You Can Rule the Country (or the World)
• Hell's Kitchen: Chinese Buffet Edition
• Car Search
Make up your own!
HAHAHAHAHA! You have me thoroughly cracked up!
I could probably make up one of my own, but I wouldn't watch that one either!
Yeah, how about
The Real World: Darfur
The Real Housewives of Saudi Arabia
While flipping through the channels Saturday night, we came across Pants-Off Dance-Off on Fuse. http://uncached.fuse.tv/upload/pantsoff.php
It was one of those surreal moments when you think it must be parody, a really bad skit on SNL, and then realize it's real. This makes Japanese television seem conventional.