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GoutPatrol posted:Oh I watched the first season of that. I think the twist on voting was when you got voted off you could take someone down with you? The only thing I remember was near the end one of the old guys was voted out and his reason to take the (most accomplished) female candidate left was as close to "this person is a prissy bitch and I hate her because she's a woman" as possible. I really don't remember but that sounds absolutely on-point. E-- this was a terrible snipe. We're talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwR8QaxikaQ
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The most gentle reality TV show was Coach Trip back when they sometimes had older couples on the coach and they'd just do little activities and eventually everyone would get to be such good friends that they'd just vote off the new contestants as soon as they were able to so they didn't have to vote off the friends they'd been hanging out with for weeks.
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Never forget that Ted Nugent did a reality show where one of the challenges was to play chicken with an oncoming pickup truck. Your progress was tracked by bales of hay with progressively higher dollar amounts on them. The first contestant got hit by the truck.
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And was a planted stuntman. Still hilarious though.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I have fond memories of the Sex House thread when it was "airing." Over the last few years, I have been getting a lot of mileage out of "To call this place evil would imply a clarity of purpose that I do not wish to attribute to anyone involved."
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For shame goons, how many pages now and no one has mentioned the greatest "reality" show in televisual history? Tune in every week to see a group of spoiled narcissists out to save the world, all of whom have absolutely no maritime experience, take a run-down vessel into the most dangerous waters on the planet and find new and exciting ways to gently caress up and almost die. The first season even featured one of the camera crew breaking their normal role of 'silent watcher' and outright telling a crew member "I'm getting the gently caress out of here, if you stay you are going to die," leaving their camera behind and nopeing the gently caress out of there. Why, you ask? Because the brave captain who was steering their ancient ship, which was not rated for ice breaking, decided to sail straight through an ice field. And wanted someone to go into the tiny, cramped room under the waterline at the front of the vessel where they stored the chain for the anchor to "try and shore up any holes" if an iceberg came through the hull. It remains the most amazing show I have ever seen. The TVIV thread going from "Yeah, you guys are heroes, stop those nasty whalers" to "Oh my god, what the gently caress is wrong with these people?" by halfway through the first episode will always be a cherished memory.
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There was also the time they got a boat cut in half buy not avoiding huge ships, which I guess they then sank on purpose for PR and got involved in a protracted legal dispute re: the boat they sank.
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Didn't the captain "get shot" and he like pulled a full undamaged bullet out of a shirt pocket or something to prove it?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:For shame goons, how many pages now and no one has mentioned the greatest "reality" show in televisual history? http://maritimeaccident.org/library2/the-case-of-the-rusty-assassin/ They would probably not live long enough to know if they hit an iceberg.
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GoutPatrol posted:Oh I watched the first season of that. I think the twist on voting was when you got voted off you could take someone down with you? The only thing I remember was near the end one of the old guys was voted out and his reason to take the (most accomplished) female candidate left was as close to "this person is a prissy bitch and I hate her because she's a woman" as possible. There's a season of Hell's Kitchen with this super misogynistic Marine guy and apparently he got fired as a Marine chef after the show aired because of how he acted. Also did anyone say The Joe Schmo show because that was the best one.
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The Biggest Loser had some drama in Australia when one of the contenders had a straight up heart attack - according to rumours, might need Frakes in here to clarify. What’s not rumour is that one contestant was convicted of producing child pornography and hastily edited out. It’s an oddly aged show ... feels weird to make a show about screaming at fat people to lose weight is oddly judgemental compared to recent culture.
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Did I miss something or are y'all forgetting Kid Nation the most amazing reality show of all time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Nation
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well why not posted:The Biggest Loser had some drama in Australia when one of the contenders had a straight up heart attack - according to rumours, might need Frakes in here to clarify. The second season (iirc) had a guy completely game the system by drinking an insane amount of water just before a weigh in he had won immunity for in a challenge.
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The most cursed reality show has to be The Murder Game. The 2003 UK version was won by a farmer who was voted out every single week for being the most useless member of the team but somehow managed to win nine consecutive coinflips to stay in. After he tried to parlay his "fame" into a public speaking career, being seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that everyone who might know who he was hated him. Meanwhile, the original US version was won by a New York firefighter who died on 9/11.
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The Bee posted:I'd like to recommend Kid Nation, which seems like a good idea until you give it a second of critical thought, and Opposite Worlds, which is rigged just from the premise alone. Things I remember about Kid Nation: It aired in Jericho's time slot, and two kids drank some bleach. Push El Burrito posted:There's a season of Hell's Kitchen with this super misogynistic Marine guy and apparently he got fired as a Marine chef after the show aired because of how he acted. I remember that, but I can't quite remember the circumstances, was he the guy who threatened to beat the poo poo out of Gordon Ramsay?
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As far as most insane reality show, it’s a toss-up between Who Wants to be a Superhero?, which was at least fun to watch, and Mad Mad House, which... wasn’t.
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Eh! Frank posted:There was also "Celebrity Boot Camp", but instead of a series it was like a two-hour special. I don't remember any of the "celebrities" in it, though, other than Coolio, who won if I remember right. I think this show's commercials are why "save the drama for your mama and PUSH" pops up in my brain to this day. David Faustino had to hang from monkey bars for a real long time, maybe?
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well why not posted:The Biggest Loser had some drama in Australia when one of the contenders had a straight up heart attack - according to rumours, might need Frakes in here to clarify. From what I've read the biggest problem with The Biggest Loser in every country is that the contestants usually gain back some or all of the weight after they leave the show because they no longer have the 24/7 support and personal trainer. Although really you hear that about all those shows that are supposed to fix some aspect of a person's life. They're frequently just bandaids and as soon as the cameras are off the issues come right back.
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datajugend posted:King of the nerds was a really good laugh I also liked Beauty and Geek. Everyone basically got along with the exception of two of the "geeks" and really that was just one dude that seemed kinda like an rear end and the other was basically a caricature of every nerd in every 80s movie.
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muscles like this! posted:Although really you hear that about all those shows that are supposed to fix some aspect of a person's life. They're frequently just bandaids and as soon as the cameras are off the issues come right back. Most Kitchen Nightmares places go under shortly after Ramsey leaves, often after rolling back his fixes.
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AceOfFlames posted:Most Kitchen Nightmares places go under shortly after Ramsey leaves, often after rolling back his fixes. The best part about that stuff is, you have people that are clinging to winning best pizza in 1984 getting outdone by Domino's Pizza in TYOOL 2016, and completely confused as to why they should change anything.
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AceOfFlames posted:Most Kitchen Nightmares places go under shortly after Ramsey leaves, often after rolling back his fixes. No one could save those restaurants. Show's about Gordon yelling at idiots.
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AceOfFlames posted:Most Kitchen Nightmares places go under shortly after Ramsey leaves, often after rolling back his fixes. The Food Network copy of this show, Restaurant Impossible (down to having a British chef!!) was exactly the same. The problem was most of them, by the time the show got involved, were already months and months behind bills, on top of having owners/leadership that had no idea what they were doing. I feel like in later seasons they did better about getting to restaurants in time to save them, but in the early seasons I'd look up the fate of these places and it was almost universally "shut down ~6 months later" with the owner saying that the show helped but it wasn't enough. Or the occasional delusional owner that insisted the show made it worse because the menu was too weird or something.
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Humerus posted:The Food Network copy of this show, Restaurant Impossible (down to having a British chef!!) was exactly the same. The problem was most of them, by the time the show got involved, were already months and months behind bills, on top of having owners/leadership that had no idea what they were doing. I feel like in later seasons they did better about getting to restaurants in time to save them, but in the early seasons I'd look up the fate of these places and it was almost universally "shut down ~6 months later" with the owner saying that the show helped but it wasn't enough. Or the occasional delusional owner that insisted the show made it worse because the menu was too weird or something. The early seasons only “successes” were almost exclusively because the owner managed to sell to someone else, and then the restaurant still went under months after.
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Rahonavis posted:As far as most insane reality show, it’s a toss-up between Who Wants to be a Superhero?, which was at least fun to watch, and Mad Mad House, which... wasn’t. The part of that first show that stuck with me was when they had to interact with supposed convicts and got points or something for physically touching them. The prisoners were actors of course, but the show pretended they weren’t, and I couldn’t help thinking how insulting the ordeal would be if they weren’t. Cruel and unusual punishment.
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Nottherealaborn posted:The early seasons only “successes” were almost exclusively because the owner managed to sell to someone else, and then the restaurant still went under months after. It's also important to bear in mind that restaurants are loving risky even under the best of conditions.
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the_steve posted:It's also important to bear in mind that restaurants are loving risky even under the best of conditions. Very true. I think a restaurant is one of the last industries I’d get into if I were to start a business. This may be influenced by my inability to competently cook anything though.
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Dr Christmas posted:The part of that first show that stuck with me was when they had to interact with supposed convicts and got points or something for physically touching them. The prisoners were actors of course, but the show pretended they weren’t, and I couldn’t help thinking how insulting the ordeal would be if they weren’t. Cruel and unusual punishment. I think most things about that show were transparently fake to the contestants at the time of filming. The truly depressing part was seeing Stan Lee descend into the early stages of senility. If you see him in the 90s and before, he’s incredibly witty and with-it, dirtbag though he might be.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I think most things about that show were transparently fake to the contestants at the time of filming. I mean gently caress, the FIRST episode had a "contestant" named "Rotiart". I refuse to believe people actually fell for it and the ones who did had to be on the take. AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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AceOfFlames posted:I mean gently caress, the FIRST episode had a "contestant" named "Rotiart". Guess what his deal was. That’s extremely funny. I wonder if he was hired as an actor specifically for that or if the producers were just like, “does one of you want to be the bad guy? You get an extra $1000.” I remember one where they were supposed to be trapped with a bunch of bees or spiders or something like that, but they were clearly separated from the bees by a pane of glass.
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My friend's dad was on Tattoo Rescue and he said the show was very scripted even going as far as making up an entire back story for his wife. His wife worked there with him and had her two front teeth were broken. The show told her to tell a story about them being knocked out by a bully when she was in elementary but what really happened was she broke them trying to open one of those glass coke bottles with her teeth. They got her new teeth which she has since lost.
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muscles like this! posted:From what I've read the biggest problem with The Biggest Loser in every country is that the contestants usually gain back some or all of the weight after they leave the show because they no longer have the 24/7 support and personal trainer. I remember reading a piece a few years ago a out how extremely hosed up and terrible these weightloss competition shows are because they specifically require the contestants to lose weight very quickly and unsustainably, which is not only likely to result in them regaining all the weight they lost within a year or two, but also lead to them gaining even more excess weight than they would have done if they'd never been on the show 
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Nottherealaborn posted:Very true. I think a restaurant is one of the last industries I’d get into if I were to start a business. This may be influenced by my inability to competently cook anything though. Being able to competently cook is like, at the bottom of the list of requisite skills needed to run a restaurant. Which makes it hilarious how many people want to open restaurants because people tell them they’re a good cook. the_steve posted:It's also important to bear in mind that restaurants are loving risky even under the best of conditions. There’s a joke “How do you make a small fortune in the restaurant business?” “Start with a large fortune”.
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Finding out just how fake Pimp My Ride was kind of crushed me for a bit. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pimp-my-ride-cars_n_6663840
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Being able to competently cook is like, at the bottom of the list of requisite skills needed to run a restaurant. Which makes it hilarious how many people want to open restaurants because people tell them they’re a good cook. I've heard that same joke about motor racing TBH I'd rather do the racing
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:That’s extremely funny. I wonder if he was hired as an actor specifically for that or if the producers were just like, “does one of you want to be the bad guy? You get an extra $1000.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29OctdGe4IE There was also a guy who got eliminated mid season who at the end of the episode was approached by Stan Lee who told him "You know, you're a lousy hero, but you'd make a GREAT villain" and he then became an antagonist for the others. AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 21:25 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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Pocket Billiards posted:The second season (iirc) had a guy completely game the system by drinking an insane amount of water just before a weigh in he had won immunity for in a challenge. Adam Ruins Everything did one on weight loss shows and basically said the diet and restrictions they gave the people were in no way sustainable and that weight is the wrong focus on health.
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