It's Just Surreal!

Warning: Another rant...

So I was watching my TV last night, and on pops this add for yet another reality TV show. This one has decided to use a bunch of washed up old actors/rappers and stick them in a house together. Such celebrities include MC Hammer, Gary Coleman, Vanilla Ice, Ron Jeremy...and a plethora of others. The show is called "The Surreal Life 2" which implies that there was a "Surreal Life 1". Honestly, are these people so desperate to keep the TV appearances up that they're going to let themselves be degraded to the level of reality TV? Shows like this are about as high on my list of things to watch as daytime talk shows and those damn TV court shows. If you've ever sat through either, you know what I'm talking about.

The fact is, according to those oh so omnipotent TV execs, what everyone wants, is to be able to pry into other peoples' personal lives. People aren't happy with their own lives, so they have to watch crap like this. GOD!!! TURN OFF THE TV AND GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE!!! If you're so bored that other peoples' lives take precedent over your own, you have some serious couch potato issues!

I mean, I don't care if you watch a little TV and stuff, but why waste your time with stuff like this? These shows are specifically designed to put the people in them into awkward or frustrating situations. Would you really want to be put in situations like that day after day? For instance, the upcoming episode of this particular show has all the inmates taking a field trip to a nudist colony. Clothing is not optional. If they wish to go anywhere while they are there, they must be naked! What kind of people would want to be on a show like this? Oh yes, the terminally arrogant and self-centered who think they're worthy of being the center of someone's rather boring universe.

There's a quote that I keep running through my head while I write this that has always made me think. It's from the movie, ED TV (a movie all about reality TV):

It used to be that you were famous because you were special. Now, you are special because you are famous.

Just some food for thought. And with that, I'm done.