Me vs. Reality Show

Reality TV series are now blooming like mushrooms after the rain. Every channel you flip there one there. From the ever-famous Survivor, to Fear Factor, to Biggest Loser, to Playing It Straight… they’re everywhere!

The way I see it: the most important thing in being a reality show host, on TV, is that you need to know how to count. Take Fear Factor for instance, what this guy did is just stand there, watch the contestants do all the gruesome stunts and go: “now there’s four of you left…” or “two of you left”… There’s no fun in this show after the first episode. I wanna see this host do ALL the stunts and not just standing there!

In The Amazing Race, this guy goes to the pit stop, and waits there for the suckers that’s been running all over the country and goes: “Congratulations, you’re the first (or second…) to arrive.” He doesn’t even have to say the “Welcome” part! There’s even someone else hired to say it!

On America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks shows us that models can count too. “There’s six beautiful ladies standing in front of me but there’re only 5 pictures in my hand.” Then she takes a minute to count: so six minus five is… “One of you will be leaving tonight, while the rest of you will be one step closer in becoming America’s next top model.”

In Survivor what this guy does is that he goes to the supposed deserted place with the other castaway. Packed with food, he gave some of his leftovers to the contestants every week in a reward challenge, where the contestants will happily kill each other for it. And the lines he needs to remember throughout the show are: “Survivors ready? Go!”, "Now it's time to vote", and also “The tribe has spoken”.

Then in The Apprentice, we have Donald Trump “hiring” a couple of people to be on the show, which I assume he doesn’t pay them anything to be on the show in the first place. Then he gets them to do things for him for free and help him make money, so that can fire them one by one. And as the week goes by, the task given gets harder and harder. All he needs to do is sit and wait till the end of every week to say “You’re fired” (sucker)! And still get all his jobs done… for free! I say he’s the smartest guy on reality television history!

In my opinion, reality TV series are a waste of time. You watch it, you get all excited and what do you get? Nothing! In the end, it’s the winner of the competition who walks away with the money, not you!

The way I see it: the best and the longest running reality show that’s been around since forever, is porn! It’s on high demand in each and every part of the world, the actors and actresses are all naked, you get to see everything that they do, there are no annoying hosts to show you how well they can count, there are no hard to understand dialogue, and the best part is there are no winners in porn! And you’ll also get to learn a thing, or two, that might come in handy someday!