Splat.
Posted on 06/24/2008 1:08:31 PM PDT by Renfield
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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Litigation has that effect.
It is intrinsically human to seek out diversion. A world without bread and circuses is a bestial place.
No, they surely can find ways to sink even lower.
I’ve watched that show for so long I remember when Greg Kinnear hosted it. I had a mad crush on him for awhile.
Splat.
THAILAND?????
Takeshi's Castle AKA (in America) Most Extreme Elimination Challenge AKA MXC.
Ten years ago, it would have been out of the question to base a TV show around vomit. Today, a little artful editing allows it to star in its own reality series.
Sounds like grade school lunch and the merry-go-round.
When I was a kid I remember a number of MAD magazine articles lampooning the trends on TV and portaying the shows of the future. I gotta say, they weren’t far wrong! Guess they aren’t such a gang of idiots.
The new series "Swingtown" has got to be the creepiest idea to date.
I have my own reality show. It’s called LIFE!! Too busy living mine to watch them.
Would rather spend time with the wife and family, read a good book or catch up on some sleep (that rarely happens)!
Next up, “Enema Challenge!”
Don’t laugh too much about that. Now that we have broken the barrier of having people vomit on TV, the next logical step would be showing what comes out the other end.
Give it a few years, and more barriers broken, such as nudity on TV becoming common (and not just on HBO and Cinemax). And we may sink further than the bottom we thought we’re hitting now.
Is anyone beginning to realize that media is a big part of our social problems? There is just too much media! And most media outlets are so desperate for content that they will take anything, no matter how bad or harmful to the values we are forever claiming. Something that should be clear by now is that people, like water, find their lowest level. It is unrealistic to believe that private industry will forsake financial profits for higher cultural standards. Therefore, those outside the media, who have some control over media, must take action to reverse the current trend toward destroying the standards that support and enforce any society’s structure.
It has in this household from day one.
How about “What’s My Orifice?” starring a perky news anchorette who has a colonoscopy on camera...naw...nobody’d ever go for that one...
However, that those shows have enough of an audience to be financially viable, and that most of that audience is entitled to vote scares the beejeesis out of me....
Another mindless concept is born. Is there such a thing as self-fulfilling baseness?
But right now, yes everyone is the moment you've all been waiting for; it's time for our Stop the Film spots! As you know, the rules are very simple. We have taken a film which contains compromising scenes and unpleasant details which could wreck a man's career. (gasp) But, the victim may 'phone me at any moment, and stop the film. But remember the money increases as the film goes on, so-o-o-o: the longer you leave it, the more you have to pay! Tonight, Stop the Film visits the little Thames-side village of Thames Ditton.
Well, here we go, here we go now, let's see...where's our man. Oh yes, there he is behind the tree now.... Mm, boy, this is fun, this is good fun.... He looks respectable, so we should be in for some real...real chucks here.... A member of the government, could be a brain surgeon, they're the worst.... wHOW! Look at the size of that.....briefcase. Aah, yes, he's, he's up to the door, rung the doorbell now.... O-oh, who's the little number with the nightie and the whip, eh? Heh-heh. Doesn't look like his mother....could be his sister.... If it is he's in real trouble.... And just look at that, they're upstairs already... whoah, boy, this is fun! A very brave man, our contestant tonight. Who-ho-ho!! This is no Tupperware party! Very brave man, they don't usually get this far... What's--what's that, what's she's doing to his.....is that a CHICKEN up there? No, no, it's just the way she's holding the grapefruit... Whoah, ho ho...
(picking up 'phone)
Hello sir...yes...aha-ha-ha...yes, just in time, sir, that was...what? No, no, sir, it's alright, we don't morally censor, we just want the money. Thank you sir, yes,....what? You.....okay....Thank you for playing the game, sir, very nice indeed, okay....okay, see you tonight, Dad, bye-bye.
Well, that's all from this edition of Blackmail. Join me next week, same time, same channel....Join me, two dogs, and a vicar, when we'll be playing "Pedorasto", the game for all the family. Thank you, thank you, thank you....
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