Swaping Reality (When you think you've seen it all, ABC digs even deeper)

Ramblings' Journal | 2.9.04 | Michael King

[longtermmemmory]

and this is somehow different from step families how?

ABC is lame. Too bad its not a horse.

[longtermmemmory]

I think reality shows have take off because they are very inexpensive. No writing, no actors or actresses,no shelf life to worry about residuals.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Bill Clinton would probably participate, but problem is, he's too damn liberal.

[hunter112]

Good point about the fake field goals, I don't consider obviously staged entertainment as "reality TV", but I guess some do.

But what they call it doesn't really matter it is still going to be stupid anyway.

I'll admit, we've all had to lowball our expectations about what to expect from TV, but there is a remote possibility of this show exploring family values, you just can't say that about "The Bachelor".

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So when the husbands say they have sex every night, what happens?

[NYCVirago]

In "Man About the House," the UK series that inspired Three's Company, the guy (Jack) was red blooded male trying to bed the girl roommates. The sexual tension made the jokes hilarious. Of course, lust is too rich an emotion for the pabulum-rich American TV, so Jack had to be sexually toned down until he was a proto-fag, as played by Ritter. The portrayal of him trying to be sexual but laboring under Puritan guilt about the filth of it all made Jack a pathetic boy.

You must not have watched the same Three's Company episodes I saw in the 70s. Jack Tripper had to pretend to be gay in front of Mr. Roper so that the landlord wouldn't throw him out, but that didn't make him a "proto-fag". And he was constantly leering at Chrissy and Janet, not to mention every other woman who walked by. There was no "Puritan guilt about the filth of it all", but there were lots of sexual and other misunderstandings. Three's Company is still one of the best-loved TV shows ever.

[gcruse]

It was a piece of crap, and this:

Jack Tripper had to pretend to be gay

is the proto-faggotry copout I'm talking about.