Posted on 07/28/2012 6:26:47 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
All TV Reality shows are staged to one extent or another. However, what TV Reality show do you think is the most STAGED.
My nominee would be "Barter Kings." To watch that show you have to put your brains in deep freeze to accept the premise that someone will trade something valuable for a near worthless piece of junk. Plus Steve was supposed to have been a car salesman so he can use his sales skills but his sales pitches sound really unconvincing. His voice doesn't really express much confidence when he asserts that his junky item will earn the other guy money.
Another time a woman told Antonio she would trade her horse for a horse trailer but it better NOT have rust. So what does Antonio do? He shows up with an incredibly rusty horse trailer and she still does the deal.
Here is the basic premise of the show: "I want to trade this dried buzzard turd that I found in the Mojave desert for your brand new car stereo system." And guess what? The lopsided barter deal goes down almost every time.
So why do folks accept such lousy deals. Because they are on TV. Yeah, if they don't accept the deal they don't appear on the tube and probably don't get paid for their appearance on "Barter Kings."
I've done bartering and in real life you just don't get such lopsided deals. You can trade up but you can't start out in the morning with an Elvis plaque and end up in the afternoon with a motorboat just in time for your family's boating excursion.
So does that mean I won't watch TV Reality shows because they are staged? No. I love watching "Storage Wars" even though I know it is staged (note how the featured characters almost always win the storage bins even though hundreds of people might show up at an auction). One reason is that I do like to look at the antique and collectible stuff they find (I really hope they haven't been planted in the bins). Another reason is that I used to go to storage bin auctions years ago in Los Angeles. Not in a big way but one time I bought a small storage bin for just $10. One item was a Director's chair which I took down the street to where a crew was filming a TV show and sold it for the $10 I paid for the bin. Also in the bin was a few hundred bucks of Black Hills gold jewelry. So that worked out great.
I also like "Hardcore Pawn" in order to take a look at the grim urban realities without having to be there.
Other TV Reality Shows I am currently watching or have watched in the past:
"Deadliest Catch" ---I once thought I could do that but after watching I know I couldn't last a day due to extreme cold and seasickness.
"Swamp People" ---A shoutout to Troy!
"Ice Road Truckers" ---A great first season but I can't get into it any longer.
"American Pickers" ---I enjoy seeing the antiques and collectibles they pick up.
That Towing Show has to be staged. It is so blatantly fake.
Operation Repo. They started out with semi-believable stories of what could happen on a vehicle repo, then it became “So all of a sudden this midget wearing a propeller on his back flew over our heads and tried to get into the vehicle! Then right after that, the neighbor comes out with her pet monkey on a leash and it goes and attacks Froy...”.
A friend on my family was on “Survivor” a number of years ago.
She told me that any clothing she planned to wear on the show had to be shipped to the producer’s office for approval long before the taping began.
My SIL used to do that. Probably still does. We had picked up a bunch of NIB Maisto cars for her sons who collected them. We also had given them several other valuable items that belonged to their grandparents.
She shacked up and stored all the stuff that would not fit in her newest squeezes apartment in a storage unit and then quit paying the rent.
There are a lot of disorganized, irresponsible people in the world.
That’s my favorite too!
No way is The Wiener’s Circle scripted.
I'm with you. Every week they find an employee w/ medical bills, sickly mother, etc.
We watched a few episodes and decided they go out of the way to find these employees. Got to be SSDD.
The worst was the hotel chain CEO.
He made a point of flaunting his wealth. Wanted to bi#@h slap him.
I have a friend that was in a Lizard Lick Towing episode.
You have to sign a release stating if you start a fight, which they encourage, the 'stars' are going to fight back and if they hurt you, tough.
Not too hard to understand, they wouldn't televise those auctions that their cast didn't win.
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