FTA: "At their core, the Kardashians are an incredibly bonded, loving, large family..." who have followed the advice from another person from a large, loving family, JR Ewing who said "Once you lose your integrity, the rest is easy."

Why would any sane person allow their self-respect to get pissed on that much?

I have never watched this show, and have no opinion on this subject, but I wanted to give Kudos to subby for a great head-line.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: There's a treat if you make it to 3:22. (new window)

Holy shiat that was an excruciating listen. I'll NEVER criticize Rebecca Black again.

minitrue noram:

somebody needs to go all MST3K on them, rebroadcasting the show with a narration mocking the pettiness of these people's lives, just as a learning experience

Now that I would watch.

I don't watch the 'K' show. I'm not interested in the lives of the well off and/or pretty and privileged.

I don't watch a lot of reality TV. Some stuff that started out interesting usually turns into squabbles and fights. (American Chopper. Monster Garage. That new Gold mining show.)

I do watch Dirty Jobs periodically mainly because the people on the show are usually nice. You don't see Mike Rowe throwing a temper tantrum. The same for Mythbusters. Never watched Jersey Shore, Blast Lab was just a version of the Mythbusters, only with more explosions and forced joviality. I admittedly did watch Bride-zilla's a time or two but it disgusted me so much I never bothered again.

The current Moonshine Making show is boring and I'm already tired of the heavy southern accents.

Oddities has been interesting -- if not, at times, a bit stomach churning -- but just how many freaks, creeps and weirdo's can you tolerate? Then the prices asked for the stuff is, IMO, ridiculous.

American Pickers was interesting, but I still haven't figured out why so much valuable stuff the owners will sell to the guys for large sums winds up rusting away outside, usually in a dense tangle of weeds.

Storage wars capitalizes on the misfortunes of others. While the main stars are OK, the other bidders tend to be greedy, selfish and stupid. (Like the one who kept bidding up the price of a unit, not planning to buy it, but to make a rival bidder pay more.)

Any of the ghost hunting shows are BS. BIG BS. (The one where everyone, usually big, chunky white guys with moustaches, pile out of a van all dressed in cop-like black T-shirts and kind of act paramilitary cracked me up.

I stopped watching any ghost busting shows.

Any shows dealing with 'famous' people, especially those who seem to come out of nowhere, I don't watch. I watched about one episode of the Osborn's and it took less time than that to figure out who the real power behind the throne was 'Ozzy's wife'.

The series of those crab fishermen was interesting for several episodes, until I decided anyone who does that for a living was crazy and by then, the episodes were breaking down into the inevitable squabbles.

When the series about the Sea Shepherd came on, protecting whales by annoying Japanese whalers, I shortly decided if one of the ships decided to blast the 'protectors' out of the water, then by ancient open sea laws, they had the right. And I'm against hunting whales. I kept hoping one of the whaling ships would open up with an old WW2 cannon or something and punch holes in the Sea Shepherd.

Reality TV basically sucks. Besides, we all learned from MTV 'Real World' how easy it is to secretly encourage conflict among the cast to make things more 'interesting'.

minitrue noram: somebody needs to go all MST3K on them, rebroadcasting the show with a narration mocking the pettiness of these people's lives, just as a learning experience

Isn't that what Bevis and Butthead do? Or do they only mock Mtv shows?

/Only watched a few episodes
//Just didn't have the same funny as the original.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: There's a treat if you make it to 3:22. (new window)

Ihateyousodamnmuch.

Ok, indeed the dude at 3:22 was worth it.

mrtoadswildride: Jim_Callahan: Well, they shamelessly ape for the cameras for money, it's the same basic principle that got us "the Real World" (for young folk, it's the jersey shore with less spray-tan) and "The simple life". I think that Americans tend to sort of watch people that so desperately want to be watched on principle, whether they're actually worth watching or not, for at least their 15 minutes.

Or at least many of us do, I wasn't actually aware they had a reality show, I only know the family through SNL and FARK.


I forget who originally posted it, but...

They're popular becuase (most) women love drama. From grey's anatomy, to glee, to real housewives (and I could list 20 more shows)....it's all about the drama. Women eat it up; like chocolate or my dessert they said they didn't want when the waiter asked if we wanted dessert.....but now they just want a little taste, and oh, my..that's delicious...I should should share becuase that's gentlemenly....but heaven help you should ever try to take even tiny piece of their dark chocolate without express written authorization that is notarized and signed by 3 witnesses(for anyone who read all please note I am joking...it doesn't have to be notarized...usually)....but I digress.

where was I.....yes...Drama. Why don't more women watch shows like swamp loggers? ...becuase there is no drama in whether they will get 15 loads or 20 to mill today. But 30 minutes of girls arguing about who-said-what-about-who's fat butt and....O.M.G!!!, THIS IS GREAT TV!!!!!

You're spot on. Grey's Anatomy is especially guilty of this (it's required viewing in my household, I don't watch it willingly). They make the most immature character the "hero" of the show, complete with a sermon-like narration in every freaking episode, and we're supposed to feel sorry for her with all the drama she causes just because she's a woman.