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[sharpeslass]

It is everyone's duty to stop the next wave of vapid celebutards by NOT watching "Dallas' Most Eligible." Don't allow the car-wreck fascination to draw you to the show - the results will be terrifying; we do NOT want to be hearing from these people for the next five years (the three months of previews has been painful enough!) America needs to

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[caeseria]

I say just don't watch tv. Watch anime instead. Because I don't watch tv, it sucks hard, mostly for the reasons you just cited. Sitting through one episode of "The real wives of Orange County" was more than enough to make my head explode and vow never to watch tv, ever again.

[sharpeslass]

Wise choice. The very worst anime at least hires writers, artists and actors. There is not a single "real" thing about those so-called house-wives and they make the western world look bad and blow-up worthy.

[lauand]

Celebutards. I wish we would have that word in Spanish, because we sure have the concept.

[sharpeslass]

It is a world-wide concept... except maybe in the third world. I still think half the reason some poorer countries hate us is because they've seen these shows and think we are all like that. I'd want to bomb America off the map as well if the "real" housewives and "outrageous egregious, horrifying wastes of money kids parties" were my only perceptions of the country.

[lauand]

I didn't know that. I thought that only we, Spanish people, had the kind of bad taste needed for those programs to succeed. I see that's not the case.

Eeeer... I suspect they might have other priorities.

[sharpeslass]

They definitely do have other priorities, but I think, as one comedian put it, for people to whom a dog is food, a country where people have obese pets that have to be put on expensive designer diets, might draw a bit of ire.

The blatant ridiculous spending on things that are utterly meaningless and unimportant, might make a few people who are struggling to feed their kids a bit resentful....

[ext_664560]

You'll pry my Survivor from my cold dead hands! :shakesfist: But yeah, the reality TV is out of hand. I guess they don't feel like paying writers or actors anymore.

[sharpeslass]

It is sad. But as long as people watch that crap... Like I said, the shows where a talent or skill is featured (I guess survivor could qualify) aren't so bad. The one where they flop cameras down in front of useless rich people or useless stupid people just enrage me. I miss creative scripts!!!

[ext_664560]

Oh but Jersey Shore is positively Shakespearean in its depth. The characters, the plot definition, the timing... meh. Maybe not.

[sharpeslass]

I can honestly say I've never seen it. The glimpses I get of those folks in the tabloids is more than enough!

[helliongoddess]

I admit I watch more tv - even reality tv - than I should (tonight: Invervention & RuPaul's Drag U) but I think I can safely say that one is NOT one I would ever have watched. I think I watched about ten minutes of The Bachelor or whatever that first big one was (the one with "The Rose" *barf*) and that cured me of ever watching anything like that again.

I think the new low in reality tv came for me this week (which again, I will most pointedly not watch, but rather lay down and avoid) in the new series about rednecks wallowing around in ponds and lakes and shoving their fists into innocent catfish's mouths - I think it has some inventive title like Hillbilly Handfishin' or something like that. They are REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas.

[sharpeslass]

Heh. I LOVE RuPaul and adore Drag Race and Drag U. Like I said to Phae, the talent shows/competitions can be worthwhile because the featured players can actually do something. The ones where people become famous for having too much money or some ridiculous standard of beauty just turn my freakin' stomach. And it angers me when people become famous for overbreeding or breeding too young (teen moms are now celbs???? What kind of fucking message is that sending to our little girls?)

That fishing one sounds appalling as well....

[helliongoddess]

I agree-- the sleaze factor, both people with money and ones without, has gotten completely out of control. I think the ones that are famous just for being famous, like the Paris Hilton's and the Kardashian's, almost bother me more than the teen pregnancy ones, but they are all just sleazy and they all send bad messages to young people, especially young girls. (I can't help but think of South Park and the "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" on the Paris Hilton episode. *snort*

Someone was telling me recently (in a discussion about the London riots) that a survey was done of U.S. "tweens" asking them what they most wanted in life, giving them a long list of things to choose from. The top three things they chose, in order, were: 1. Fame, 2. Riches, and 3. Physical Beauty. Gee, I wonder where the hell they got THOSE values from?? *glares at television* That's just sad.

[sharpeslass]

EXACTLY. EXACTLY. EXACTLY. I'm glad I don't have kids. I think it would be so challenging to stop those values from infecting them.

Never fear. Wasn't planning to anyway.

[7veilsphaedra]

Any other requests? *tries a comic soft-shoe shuffle*

How did you end up watching this? It doesn't strike me as something that even the trailers would have an appeal for you.

Re: Never fear. Wasn't planning to anyway.

[sharpeslass]

Sometimes the trailers start before I can lunge for the ff button on my tivo remote. The only part of the show I've seen are the trailers and they were bad enough to fill me with horror over the thought that these horrible, horrible people were going to be our next wave of celebs. Hence the post.

*claps at the comic dancing*