Can these faux-reality shows just die already?

Jon and Kate Plus 8 is on there.

The Joe Schmo Show is not.

FishyFred: The Joe Schmo Show is not.

I was just coming in here to mention that one. I really did enjoy it.

Most of them are schadenfreude TV shows that attract an audience with self-esteem issues who like to see other people humiliated.

With the exception of The Amazing Race... great travel log show.

I have not seen a single minute of any of these dumbass shows.

I came here to be smug.

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Wait, are you implying that my Extreme Pepperoni Salad Pizza is not healthy?

eyehate: I have not seen a single minute of any of these dumbass shows.

I came here to be smug.

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YOU FOOL! YOU'LL DOOM US ALL!!!

This is what reality should be

No Firely?

No Arrested Development?
No Wire?

RocketRod: With the exception of The Amazing Race... great travel log show.

Dr. I concur Dr.

I suppose I could complain about stuff (No "RuPaul's Drag Race?") or pretend like I'm "above" reality shows, but I'd rather just say that Amazing Race is always good-to-awesome.

That is all.

OtherLittleGuy: No Firely?

No Arrested Development?
No Wire?

Did you mis-read the category?

I don't watch television. I don't even own a television. Notice I didn't say TV. TV is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends. And television is no friend of mine.

Deadliest Catch isn't considered a reality show?

RocketRod: of them are schadenfreude TV shows that attract an audience with self-esteem issues who like to see other people humiliated.

What the hell do you think fark is?

The Amazing Race rocks.

That is all.

FishyFred:
The Joe Schmo Show is not.

The best.

List FAILS without Top Chef, Project Runway, Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew, Charm School, Celebrity Fit Club (the Dustin Diamond edition), and Kid Nation

<b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4813166&IDComment=56328448#c563 28448">Gunny Highway</a>:</b> <i>FishyFred:
The Joe Schmo Show is not.

The best.</i>

No diggity, no doubt.

/Molly FTW

No, no, no! The only great reality shows were the time-exploration ones on PBS. Frontier House, World War II House, and Manor (Edwardian) House were the only reality TV shows that I ever watched that didn't make me want to gouge out my eyes, tear off my ears and stomp on all the various parts until they are nothing but a bloody, gelatinous stain.

This list fails without Armed & Famous.

/They always cancel the ones I love.

toddalmighty: The Amazing Race rocks.

That is all.

Yes, but it rocks a bit more gently now that Flight Time and Big Easy are gone.

I prefer the documentary style Reality shows: Airline, Parking Wars, Deadliest Catch, etc


Then again, I also love Project Runway and Tabitha's Salon Takeover.

lasercannon: What the hell do you think fark is?

No, no... we TFers actively humiliate people... watching reality TV is too passive and boring for my tastes.

Surviving Nugent

DCC making the team, greatest show ever.

Normally, I do not like Reality shows. But for some reason, I think Pawn Stars on History is really good.

Oh damn! How could I forget "Who Wants to be a Superhero"?

dekko: ...but I'd rather just say that Amazing Race is always good-to-awesome.

I dunno. I think I've watched every season of the Amazing Race but I had to give up half way through this season. It's getting too predictable with boring challenges and even more boring contestants. The best contestants are the couples that hate being around each other and constantly argue.

Lloyd Braun: dekko: ...but I'd rather just say that Amazing Race is always good-to-awesome.

I dunno. I think I've watched every season of the Amazing Race but I had to give up half way through this season. It's getting too predictable with boring challenges and even more boring contestants. The best contestants are the couples that hate being around each other and constantly argue.

Have you not been paying attention to the gay brothers? They've been constantly arguing for weeks.

And the water slide.

If your going to make a list of the "decade's top 10 reality shows", you might want to include some of the good ones like: Fear Factor, Parking Wars, any of the judge shows like Judge Judy or Divorce Court, Cheaters, and if you have the Canadian Discovery Channel shows like Canada's Worst Handyman Canada's Worse Driver.

/How is Flavor of Love even remotely considered good?

Save yourself some time.

The first season of the Apprentice was only reality TV I could ever really get into. Absolutely facinating challenges for the contestants. If I ever get to meet Amy in real life, I would love to ask her how she was able to handle Omarosa while everyone else failed.

Too bad they made every episode afterwards "create an ad campaign for our sponsor!".

/it's interesting the first time
//10 time - not so much.

Another vote for The Amazing Race. And for the snubbed Top Chef.

Jakevol2: Oh damn! How could I forget "Who Wants to be a Superhero"?

I'll one-up you.

RocketRod: With the exception of The Amazing Race... great travel log show.

^ This ^

/All the rest are crap.
//And why didn't Deadliest Catch make the list?

The Top 10 Reality TV Game Shows of the Decade

FTFY, ABC.

12349876: Have you not been paying attention to the gay brothers? They've been constantly arguing for weeks.

Nope. I gave up on the show 4 or 5 weeks ago. They're part of the reason I stopped watching. Two fit guys should not be competing as a team. It's just not fair. You just know they'll probably win it all. CBS cast them because they're gay brothers thinking it'd be risque and an interesting storyline...it's not.

wpmulligan: toddalmighty: The Amazing Race rocks.

That is all.

Yes, but it rocks a bit more gently now that Flight Time and Big Easy are gone.


Another here for Amazing Race. As bummed as I am about FT/BE being gone, the fact that he took that long to unscramble that word was sad.

That said, Sam and Dan are irritating as all hell. I really hope they get utterly humiliated next week.

This is a list for fatherless bastards.

JusticeandIndependence: OtherLittleGuy: No Firely?

No Arrested Development?
No Wire?

Did you mis-read the category?

Here's a little Charlie Brown to help (new window)

There are different tiers to the reality genre. American Idol, America's got Talent, etc. are talent shows. Glorified Gong Shows if you will.

Survivor and The Amazing Race are classified (legally) as gameshows and have to conform to certain laws. Content is edited, shown out of context, out of order, etc., but the producers can not legally do a lot of things and it is monitored. The shows are edited and sculpted to form storylines, but what happens, happens.

Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, etc. are purely for entertainment. I don't know if there is a prize for them, but it is pretty much garbage.

There is definitely differences in the quality and the "worthiness" of the different reality shows. People bag on reality shows casting a large net over everything that falls under that umbrella. The big 2 (Survivor and TAR) are as good as most scripted drama, and better than a lot of it.

I can't watch any of those, never would. I have to say it's hard for me to make fun of people who do when I look at some of the crap shows that people get nostalgic over in these threads.

That being said, I fail to see how they left out the 800 pound ratings gorilla that is American Idol and all of the shlock that it spawned.

GuitarCozmo: Another here for Amazing Race. As bummed as I am about FT/BE being gone, the fact that he took that long to unscramble that word was sad.

That said, Sam and Dan are irritating as all hell. I really hope they get utterly humiliated next week.

According to this article (new window), BE was brain-fried and had the correct answer written on his paper so he thought it had already been rejected.

Stormchasers.

GuitarCozmo: Another here for Amazing Race. As bummed as I am about FT/BE being gone, the fact that he took that long to unscramble that word was sad

Of course, Dan reneging on the agreement to share with him didn't help!

That said, Sam and Dan are irritating as all hell. I really hope they get utterly humiliated next week.

I love TAR, but yeah, it's easy to tease out what the storyline with The Gays is: they're backstabbers and they're going to get their comeuppance. I'd still sleep with both of them, as long as they agreed not to talk, damn those Valley Girl accents drive me nuts.

/Brian and Ericka FTW

wpmulligan: GuitarCozmo: Another here for Amazing Race. As bummed as I am about FT/BE being gone, the fact that he took that long to unscramble that word was sad.

That said, Sam and Dan are irritating as all hell. I really hope they get utterly humiliated next week.

According to this article (new window), BE was brain-fried and had the correct answer written on his paper so he thought it had already been rejected.

Yep. I'd read about that elsewhere also. It really sucks. He HAD to have been really mentally exhausted to have overlooked it. Ugh.

Henry Holland: Of course, Dan reneging on the agreement to share with him didn't help!

I love TAR, but yeah, it's easy to tease out what the storyline with The Gays is: they're backstabbers and they're going to get their comeuppance. I'd still sleep with both of them, as long as they agreed not to talk, damn those Valley Girl accents drive me nuts.

/Brian and Ericka FTW


I think at this point I'm rooting for Brian and Ericka also.

Sam and Dan: We're stealing your taxi, fark off, Brian and Ericka!
Brian and Ericka: WTF?

Megan and Cheyne: We're stealing your taxi, Sam and Dan.
Sam and Dan: What? You can't, it's our taxi, he's waiting for us! (pouts, whines, etc.)



Dan: Big Easy, let's work together on this.
BE: Sure. Every time I get it wrong, I'll tell you so you don't use it.

Later
Dan: I got it! Fark you BE, I'm not sharing, since I figured it out on my own.



Sam and Dan: Those guys suck, they're just following us everywhere we're going!

Next Episode
Sam and Dan: Follow the team in that taxi!

Henry Holland: /Brian and Ericka FTW

Seriously? She is absolutely worthless. I see him as a henpecked guy who realizes he married (way) out of his league. She is a constant complainer and has added very little to their team. I think she would have struggled with the phone challenge and probably would have given up (similar to how she almost did with the bell challenge.)

FT/BE were kind of bullies. See the one taxi situation, and the mind games with the scared girl at the water slide. I was glad to see them booted, but would rather have seen them win instead of Brian/Ericka.

Cheyenne and the chick deserve to win, but I think B/E will because of something that was said two episodes ago. The brothers were asked at the mat who they were scared of and Phil pointed out that they weren't worried about B/E, which I think was foreshadowing that they win.

The girl at the waterslide made me want to put my fist through the TV. That team was dating, and if he stayed with her after she potentially cost him 500K he is a better man than I.