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(New York Magazine) Interesting The universe of reality TV shows organized into a colorful Venn diagram. XKCD can suck it   (nymag.com) divider line 30
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Scooty_Puff_Sr
2012-02-01 09:33:19 AM
So. Much. Fail.
 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 09:38:08 AM
Huh--I don't fit anywhere on that diagram. Where are Hoarders, Intervention, & RuPaul's Drag Race?

/I'd add Toddlers & Tiaras but I can only watch that show 10 minutes at a shot without wanting to beat those parents silly
//Same with Dog Whisperer. "My little baby Fluffy is soooo overprotective and aggressive and I don't know why! Awen't woo, Fwuffy?"
 
s1ugg0
2012-02-01 09:48:23 AM
Scooty_Puff_Sr: So. Much. Fail.

Second.
 
ThatGuyGreg [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 09:53:18 AM
Relevant XKCD in 3... 2...
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2012-02-01 09:59:21 AM
Scooty_Puff_Sr: So. Much. Fail.

The Venn diagram itself or what it's measuring?
 
Reynald
2012-02-01 10:08:32 AM
brigid_fitch: Huh--I don't fit anywhere on that diagram. Where are Hoarders, Intervention, & RuPaul's Drag Race?

/I'd add Toddlers & Tiaras but I can only watch that show 10 minutes at a shot without wanting to beat those parents silly
//Same with Dog Whisperer. "My little baby Fluffy is soooo overprotective and aggressive and I don't know why! Awen't woo, Fwuffy?"

Don't forget Dance Moms
 
americangame
2012-02-01 10:13:26 AM
This diagram is missing New Jersey and Housewives
 
Hollie Maea
2012-02-01 10:20:17 AM
ThatGuyGreg: Relevant XKCD in 3... 2...

The article was about how cool it would be if nerds could have sex?
 
pwners_manual
2012-02-01 10:32:52 AM
encrypted-tbn3.google.com
 
Scooty_Puff_Sr
2012-02-01 10:33:14 AM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Scooty_Puff_Sr: So. Much. Fail.

The Venn diagram itself or what it's measuring?

Well, the Venn is quite nice....
 
Victoly
2012-02-01 10:50:38 AM
Scooty_Puff_Sr: So. Much. Fail.

Imagine my disappointment when I brought up the full picture and it didn't have a big circle around the whole thing marked "Crap."

/ And "People whose removal from the gene pool will be an improvement for the human race"
 
Dafatone
2012-02-01 11:07:11 AM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Scooty_Puff_Sr: So. Much. Fail.

The Venn diagram itself or what it's measuring?

The Venn diagram. Half of it is based on region and half based on subject. Then the "wars" part is just based on what's in the show title. That doesn't make any sense. Louisiana is closer to Alaska than Texas. All the "wars" stuff should be elsewhere. All the regional stuff could also be in other circles. Why am I putting so much thought into this?
 
Ctrl-Alt-Del
2012-02-01 11:25:25 AM
Dafatone: The Venn diagram. Half of it is based on region and half based on subject. Then the "wars" part is just based on what's in the show title. That doesn't make any sense. Louisiana is closer to Alaska than Texas. All the "wars" stuff should be elsewhere. All the regional stuff could also be in other circles.

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John Nash
2012-02-01 11:25:40 AM
Two couples, one from Louisiana and one from Texas, compete to pawn the most stuff to pay for their wedding cakes while on watercraft:

Swamp/Texas Wedding Cake Pawn Wars. On a boat.

what you got now, New York Magazine?
 
homarjr
2012-02-01 11:30:43 AM
John Nash: Two couples, one from Louisiana and one from Texas, compete to pawn the most stuff to pay for their wedding cakes while on watercraft:

Swamp/Texas Wedding Cake Pawn Wars. On a boat.

what you got now, New York Magazine?

This reminds me of really the only reason I'd ever want TotalFark.

I'd submit a thread for people to come up with a single headline that could fit on every tab.

/not worth $5
 
DigitalCoffee
2012-02-01 12:26:39 PM
I'm not sure which is more scary; that there are so many shows on the diagram or that there are so many more shows that aren't on the diagram.

/midget twin texas bridezilla swamp ice-road trucker cupcake wars
 
Khazar-Khum
2012-02-01 01:35:50 PM
Where are the fashion shows? Project Runway, 24 Hour Catwalk, ANTM?
 
TF2_Pyro
2012-02-01 01:49:22 PM
homarjr: I'd submit a thread for people to come up with a single headline that could fit on every tab.

"Celebrity Elven Princesses oil wrestling for the right to the throne and its vast treasury [Video]"
 
DaJesus
2012-02-01 02:40:51 PM
homarjr: I'd submit a thread for people to come up with a single headline that could fit on every tab.

"Universal stock plummets after news of Kane and John Cena being cast to play Barack Obama and Chris Dodd in the upcoming movie, Pirates: Intellectually Dishonest. (w/ trailer)"
 
Mike Chewbacca
2012-02-01 03:04:20 PM
brigid_fitch: Huh--I don't fit anywhere on that diagram. Where are Hoarders, Intervention, & RuPaul's Drag Race?

/I'd add Toddlers & Tiaras but I can only watch that show 10 minutes at a shot without wanting to beat those parents silly
//Same with Dog Whisperer. "My little baby Fluffy is soooo overprotective and aggressive and I don't know why! Awen't woo, Fwuffy?"

At least with Dog Whisperer you learn about dog psychology, which is helpful if you have or plan to have dogs. Meanwhile, the only reality show we intentionally watch in my household is Face/Off, and that's because it's truly fascinating to see how they do all that stuff, and the end result is sometimes truly amazing.
 
mrjared
2012-02-01 03:31:42 PM
Diagram doesn't include Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, Bachelor, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, America's got Talent, or really...any of the actual reality shows that people watch. Just a bunch of crap from A&E, History, and TLC as far as I can tell.
 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 03:40:15 PM
Mike Chewbacca: brigid_fitch: Huh--I don't fit anywhere on that diagram. Where are Hoarders, Intervention, & RuPaul's Drag Race?

/I'd add Toddlers & Tiaras but I can only watch that show 10 minutes at a shot without wanting to beat those parents silly
//Same with Dog Whisperer. "My little baby Fluffy is soooo overprotective and aggressive and I don't know why! Awen't woo, Fwuffy?"

At least with Dog Whisperer you learn about dog psychology, which is helpful if you have or plan to have dogs. Meanwhile, the only reality show we intentionally watch in my household is Face/Off, and that's because it's truly fascinating to see how they do all that stuff, and the end result is sometimes truly amazing.

I like watching Cesar work but I can't watch the owners for more than 2-3 minutes without wanting to slap them. It's usually pretty damn obvious why their little dog-accessory is a terror.

I need to catch up on Face/Off--I keep hearing good things about this season. I tried to watch last season's but it was so amateurish & boring. Apparently, they've stepped up their game.
 
Henry Holland
2012-02-01 04:01:20 PM
mrjared: Diagram doesn't include Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, Bachelor, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, America's got Talent, or really...any of the actual reality shows that people watch. Just a bunch of crap from A&E, History, and TLC as far as I can tell.

This. No Survivor or Amazing Race = fail. My dad and I used to complain that the History Channel was the Hitler Channel but damned if we aren't nostalgic for those days now.
 
K.B.O. Winston [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 04:40:26 PM
Trucking should be added to the Repo/Pawn circle for Ice Road Truckers.

To be fair to reality television, "'Til Debt Do Us Part" is pretty useful. I'm not saying it should be required viewing before marriage vows, but a lot of couples would be helped if they thought about this stuff sooner rather than later.

Hell, we're pretty good with our money and it scares us into double checking things. And other times it's just entertaining.

/'But we *had* to spend $700 on our daughter's first birthday party!'
 
lordargent
2012-02-01 06:04:15 PM
mrjared: Diagram doesn't include Survivor, Amazing Race

Aren't those more game show than reality show now?
 
Snooki Punch
2012-02-01 09:49:36 PM
My dear sweet father once turned on "RuPaul's Drag Race" because he thought it was about cars. He sure was surprised.

/CSS
 
kim jong-un
2012-02-02 09:31:15 PM
How... why... is that 15 pawn based reality shows, and that's just a sub-genre? What is this I don't even...



I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
 
British
2012-02-03 12:53:45 AM
Wow, there are WAY too many similar freakin' shows around there. The Lizard Lick Towing one was the worst.
 
lordargent
2012-02-03 02:21:09 PM
kim jong-un : How... why... is that 15 pawn based reality shows, and that's just a sub-genre? What is this I don't even..

1) See popular reality show on other network
2) Clone it
3) Profit (because you never actually spent any money coming up with your own idea and you also go cheap on the production values compared to the flagship show)
 
EchoMike
2012-02-04 02:13:33 PM
I still see room for the following:

"Giants of the Bearing Sea" (Alaska/Fish/Monsters)
"Monster Yacht Weddings of the Gulf Coast" (Monsters/Weddings/Boats/Louisiana)
"Lone-Star Cake Wars" (Texas/Cake/"Wars")
 
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