I woke up this morning and it was -29 with the wind chill. I looked out my window but I didn’t see those fuckers from Good Morning America standing in my neighborhood reporting on how cold it was. Nothing was canceled, nothing closed. Life went on as usual because that’s what we do in Wisconsin. It gets cold and we say fuck it and go on with our lives. That just explains why we have such a high consumption of alcohol in this state.
Is it possible to turn on my television anymore without seeing a reality show? I know I’m probably missing quite a few, but after doing a short search online this is what I came up with: Am I Hot, Amazing Race, Anna Nicole Show, Anything for Love, Apprentice, Around the World in 80 Dates, Average Joe, Bachelor, Bachelorrete, Big Brother, Celebrity Poker, Cupid, Dog Eat Dog, Extreme Makeover, Fear Factor, Joe Millionaire, Last Comic Standing, Meet My Folks, Mole, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Osbornes, Paradise Hotel, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Restaurant, Simple Life, Star Search, Surreal Life, Survivor, Temptation Island, Todd TV, Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire, Who Wants to Marry My Mom.
That doesn’t even include all of the stupid hidden camera stunt shows like Punk’d, Jackass, Girls Behaving Badly and so on and so forth. All the Courtroom drama shows such as Judge Judy and the host of other copycats aren’t in there either. Also not included is Trading Spaces and all of its clones like Monster house and Monster Garage and the list goes on and on.
Why in the hell do the television networks not have the ability to create something original. Do they not realize that at some point they are fucking with peoples lives here? Number one, if you are that influenced by money that you want to go on national television and risk embarrassment, you deserve whatever happens to you. Are you that eager for your 15 minutes of fame? Most of these people won’t ever become famous. Now in the case of American Idol, which I consider to be a hybrid between a game show and a reality show, there is at least the possibility of achieving fame. Kelly Clarkson is famous, but that other goofy shit Justin that was a runner up isn’t. He’s not even on the map anymore. You only have two ways to go when you are on a reality series. Famous or Infamous. Most people end up the second. It’s just like any other aspect of life, a few winners and a whole lot of losers. Definitely a whole lot of losers.
I seriously hope this bullshit craze of reality shows is going to come to an end soon. I see that UPN is trying to get into the trend now and are looking at doing a reality show based on an Amish person experiencing life in the big city. Who the fuck is watching this? Certainly not the Amish, and certainly not me. So my plea to all you network cocksuckers is this: Get off your asses and make something original.
Sadly that will never happen because the television is too saturated with shit now. I get quite a few channels and they are pretty much utter shit to me. Lets see, I think I have roughly 7 CNN’s, 4 C-Spans, 7 ESPN’s, and the list keeps going and going. I think I watch TV about 7 hours per week, if that. I have never watched a reality show unless I was at someone’s house and they had it on. I wonder how long before there are shows like Would You Murder This Guy For a Million and stupid bullshit such as that on TV. Don’t worry, it’s coming… of course so is the Apocalypse.