In flipping through the channels on my high definition television set, in which I pay to have digital cable so that I will receive more channels than the basic package, thus increasing the likelihood that I will be able to find something to watch, much to my surprise there is nothing on. I continue flipping through channels when I come to a show called "Paris Hilton's new BFF." At first I thought maybe this show isn't as stupid as it sounds. After about 30 seconds I was proven wrong.
The premise of this show is that the spoiled rotten Paris Hilton hand picks a group of ladies, and a couple of flamboyant guys that hope to be her new BFF. She then subjects them to random humiliating tasks and makes them jump through several different varieties of hoops, in hopes of advancing to the next and even more demeaning round. At one point Paris was bragging about how she makes people compete for her friendship.
As bad as this show is, this is not the first time that I have encountered programming as ridiculous as this. There are also shows like Rock of Love, John and Kate Plus 8, which I think is one of the worst TV shows of all time. How about instead of exploiting your children you get real jobs like everybody else who has to support their kids? This disgusts me.
Reality television in general sucks, but we as an American society seem to eat it up, while we could be doing many things that are much better. Instead of watching TV shows people should read this blog and appreciate me for the supreme being that I am. Maybe instead of watching "Paris Hilton's new BFF" you could watch the news and become informed about something, that way when I am forced to talk with you at work you don't say something stupid that will result in me reaching across the counter and backhanding you in the face. While in general watching the news would be better than viewing reality TV, just make sure that is not Larry King. Larry King is an asshole who loves the sound of his own voice.
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Ahh yes reality tv is infact the most horrible shit ever created. My hypothesis as to why it is eaten up by so many Americans on a daily basis is as such: People deep down are disappointed with their unproductive, uninteresting, bad decision making, poor values, and often selfish.... selves.... Any way, people really hate themselves, and the easiest way to either forget about that, or start to think the opposite, is to watch total train wrecks on TV under the impression that it's "reality". We all know (okay most know) the editing and direction of these shows render the final product nothing like what was actually happening in "reality". We should also know that this "reality" is soooo far from most normal people's lives that it's not only unrelatable, but blatantly expensive and stupid. But hey it takes very little brain power to see some one act incredibly stupid and say, "Derrrr.... Paris Hilton is such a dumb train wreck. Oh! And look at these stupid sluts vying for washed up "rock star" Bret Michaels' attention. Gee I'm so much better than that!" So it is for this reason that reality TV continues to not only be produced, but also be head scratchingly successful.
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