2 posts tagged “reality tv”

Ideas from a horrible human being:

Hot or not. Pregnant or just fat. How about Iraq or Diabetes? Send a pic of your stump and see if the Internet can guess.

A new reality television program for the enjoyment of America: Abuse. 10 contestants are thoroughly researched and then followed by camera crews and incredibly obnoxious jerks, one jerk per contestant. The jerk spends around a week (the contestants won't know how long) trying to get the contestant to crack - yell, scream, talk back, react in any negative way. The contestants are competing for a chance - a chance, mind you - to win a large sum of money. Those who don't crack, or the last few people to crack, then get put on a giant roulette wheel. There is a tiny Double Zero portion of the wheel, but as it spins, the 00 section slowly expands.

I had an idea for a reality tv show. "How Well Do You Know Your Life?" This idea is pretty raw so feel free to poke holes in it if you see them.

It works like this. We pick a person at random. We knock on their door and tell them we're doing a tv show. They have to leave for 3 hours while we go through all the person's stuff to figure out facts about them - hard, indisputable facts. Stuff like the manufacturer of the car that the person drives, or where a particular object is in the house. (We'd need a way to prove we didn't move it. We tell the person to call a friend to go in with us, maybe? That could work.) So afterwards, we ask them the questions, and pay out a cash prize (or cool stuff, whatever) if they get them all correct.

I can see in my mind this glorious moment where 50,00 people at home are screaming "YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT?" We're talking quality tv, my friends.