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    Image of Ogiri W Surie Ogiri W Surie
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    Someday in the (hopefully) near future, all the assholes who pitch reality shows will find themselves on a Great Depression-like bread line, bitching to each other about how they got screwed for coming up with ideas that were once fancied, while secretly coming up with a new pitch about all their asshole, unemployed brethren for a new show.

    That's a reality show I might actually watch.
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    When's the Gawker reality show coming out?
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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    The above photo makes me think...

    ...I'd love to see a reality show about the staff of Cat Fancy. Think about it.
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    Image of sfBirdie sfBirdie
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    So we can watch people go on interviews instead of doing so ourself? And watch them get rejected too? Awesome!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    I find it hard to be snarky when there are little fatted kitten tics lying about making me want to love them, and hug them, and squeeze them sooo tight, or possibly run screaming from the mammal/turtle shell hybrid-o-fur thing in that picture that could raise its head and be a feral vampire wombat. (I'd like to poke it lightly with a stick just to be sure.)

    #complicatedthings
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    Image of blix blix
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    What did the cat major in?
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    Image of HaysiFantayzee HaysiFantayzee
    12/18/09

    @blix: Oh, journalism, dontcha think?
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    Image of sfBirdie sfBirdie
    12/18/09

    @blix: Communication, therefore it will definitely not get the job.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    12/18/09

    In reply to There Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
    I would so love to see a reality TV show where people compete with a cat to see how long they can lie face down in a pillow before they suffocate. They can start with the chick who plays serena van der woodsen. Episode 2 could be Bill O'Reilley.
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    12/17/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    Just adding my own sidenote: obviously the British need their own category, because they've basically got this whole reality thing sealed up over there, and they freaking own it (so sayeth Snooki). Besides giving us the proto-AI with Pop Idol (and improving the format with the X-Factor), they've birthed the "...Got Talent" franchise, and also given us those ridiculous BBC3 documentaries that sometimes get shown here in America (Me and My Big Breasts, Super Botox Me, What's Eating Victoria Beckham?). Katie Price's (nee Jordan's) line of television shows, in their own right, are a gift to the human race, especially when coupled with her appearances on Graham Norton, which rank as both the most cringe-worthy and hilarious examples of a reality personality literally piercing the lexicon and worming their way into it headfirst. And unlike our meandering results of competition shows, their winners actually achieve greatness: Girls Aloud (and subsequently Cheryl Cole), Leona Lewis, Will Young all have done surprisingly well. While their formats might be dying (Big Brother just got canned), I don't think they have the diminishing returns of American reality, as evidenced by the strength of the X-Factor alongside the general weakness of American Idol. So, long live the Queen and all that horseshit.
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    12/17/09

    @ampersandparade: I should also add the British have a tendency to be somewhat self-aware with their reality programming, and not so goddamn serious about it as we are in America. For those that need evidence, please Google or YouTube Dead Set for all your zombie Big Brother horror/hilarity.
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    12/17/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    :sigh:

    The highly underrated Bands on the Run was overlooked. You people have no soul.
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    Image of ClockOnTheStove ClockOnTheStove
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    Don't forget Trailer Fabulous and MILF Island!
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    Image of crookedE crookedE
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    I also love "How Not To Decorate" on BBC. A perfect example of the gays' dominance in this genre.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    I have never, ever watched Suvivor or American Idol.
    This makes me somewhat notorious among my friends and coworkers.
    I haven't been
    consciously avoiding the shows, I just cannot remember when these things are on.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    12/16/09

    @TheUptightMidwesterner: I watched a single episode of Idol under duress (trapped in a laundromat), and it was like the semifinals or something (it was the season Fantasia won).

    Everyone -- and I mean everyone including Fantasia -- started their song off-key. Appalling.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    Gotta add my two cents in here, bubbe. Where do we put in star-maker shows starring useless second-string talent like P.Diddy's Making a Band out of a Band, under a Band, using a Band to smack a Band, and then taking Rev Run and Joey Fatone and making a salad of dance-a-sing-a-rap-beatings that do their thing in a singing bee (the hell did this even mean?!), walked to Brooklyn for cheesecake (Loved that!), or made family-style rap in a Bill Cosby/Father Knows Adidas Best kind of way, and then mixing that genre with legitimate crazy reality (Cheaters) and wonderfully done documentaries (Meerkat Manor RIP Flower, forever.)?

    There's just so much reality. Remember when getting real meant jumping into a pool/hot tub/Trichelle naked?
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    Who's the girl in the top picture? At first I thought, an early Allison.
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    12/16/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: She's some girl on Australia's Next Top Model.
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    Image of OldTowneTavern OldTowneTavern
    12/16/09

    @Brian Moylan: Oh, I thought she was Emma Roberts (who has nothing to do with reality TV, unless it's Cribs).
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
    Of all these shows, the only one I have only seen is "Queer Eye," and that was about three years ago.

    Don't you people have sex? Where do you get all this time to watch TV?
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    Image of ChampagneSherpa ChampagneSherpa
    12/16/09

    @BookishLatkeish: Jet Blue. Flavor of Love from coast to coast.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/16/09

    @ChampagneSherpa: From you, I would expect nothing less!
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