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Tiresias · Mar 2, 2008, 03:03 AM

My vote goes to The Age of Love for its stupendous cringeworthiness.

BlueSky · Mar 2, 2008, 10:48 AM

Dinner Impossible for making a reality show out of...food.

Eriamjh · Mar 2, 2008, 10:56 AM

Flavor of Love 1, 2, 3!!

Tiresias · Mar 2, 2008, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by BlueSky

Dinner Impossible for making a reality show out of...food.

Reality TV is so bad that I find it compulsive. I watch it like I'd watch a domestic scene at the supermarket.

I hope it will go away one day.

imitchellg5 · Mar 2, 2008, 11:27 AM

All of them. TV's reality is reality only for the people on the show. It's sort of like poetry: Most people ignore poetry because poetry ignores most people.

residentEvil · Mar 2, 2008, 11:36 AM

the MTV ones are all pretty bad...

Koralatov · Mar 2, 2008, 12:07 PM

I'm with imitchellg5 on this one: every single 'reality' TV show is absolute trash. I can't think of a single one that I find even remotely interesting, and in many cases Battlestar Galactica is more plausible.

hayesk · Mar 2, 2008, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by BlueSky

Dinner Impossible for making a reality show out of...food.

There have been several reality shows about food long before this.

If you want to get picky, aren't most shows about food "reality" shows?

BlueSky · Mar 2, 2008, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by hayesk

There have been several reality shows about food long before this.

If you want to get picky, aren't most shows about food "reality" shows?

...which brings up an interesting point. Most, if not all reality shows are comprised of drama, an attribute hardly necessary to reality.

So to answer your question, no. Not in the sense "reality show" has come to be understood.

silver · Mar 2, 2008, 12:55 PM

Worst reality show, would be every reality show in existence.

What gets me is that the big wigs at many of the major TV stations keep pumping them out, I know it's about ratings but sheesh talk about brain rot.

Cheers

Chuckit · Mar 2, 2008, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Koralatov

I'm with imitchellg5 on this one: every single 'reality' TV show is absolute trash. I can't think of a single one that I find even remotely interesting, and in many cases Battlestar Galactica is more plausible.

Survivor is sometimes entertaining (depending on the season — last season was good), The Amazing Race is often pretty good, and it's worth catching So You Think You Can Dance just for Wade Robson's routines, which are pretty awesome. That's pretty much what I can say for reality TV.

Andrew Stephens · Mar 3, 2008, 04:20 PM

The news

all real, all bad

apart from that skateboarding duck. He was pretty cool.

ort888 · 04:38 PM

Project Runway is an example of a good reality tv show. Although, it's not relying on drama to drive the show, it's capturing a contest. So in some ways what you are really watching is a "sporting" event. Sure, they manipulate it a bit, but you are watching a real competition. I guess that's the difference. And unlike a cooking show, you can actually see the outfits they make, making it a good ft with a medium like television.

As for the worst, wow, my vote might go to that Playboy Bunnie show. Those girls aren't interesting, dysfunctional or hot enough to make the show worth spending a second on.

Wifeswap is also bad. This week on wifeswap, we take a conservative strict family with perfect disciplined children and swap them with a crazy rock 'n roll family that plays by their own rules! How original.

I hate shows that try and pretend like what's happening is natural. "Oh hi, it's you! What a surprise! Never expected you to be knocking on my door" Funny how this candid moment was captured from both inside and outside with full camera crews... and good thing I'm wearing a mic and have full make-up on.

olePigeon · Mar 3, 2008, 05:01 PM

"Worst reality TV show of all time..."

Isn't that like trying to find "the best tasting sh*t sandwich?"

sek929 · Mar 3, 2008, 05:33 PM

Amazing Race and Project Runway are the only ones I'll watch.

Mostly because they focus on the tasks at hand and not people whining and bitching at each-other.

Kerrigan · Mar 3, 2008, 05:58 PM

Orangutan Island.

KeyLimePi · Mar 3, 2008, 06:48 PM

I used to feel about watching reality shows, but honestly is According to Jim really something to feel good about watching?

As far as all-time worst, so far The Moment of Truth gets my vote. I tried to watch about 15 minutes of it once.

kelso · Mar 3, 2008, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by KeyLimePi

I used to feel about watching reality shows, but honestly is According to Jim really something to feel good about watching?

As far as all-time worst, so far The Moment of Truth gets my vote. I tried to watch about 15 minutes of it once.

I admittedly got sucked into the moment of truth. I wonder if that show is staged because of the kind of questions and answers that occur. My god, no better way than to end your married relationship than on television.

Tiresias · Mar 3, 2008, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

"Worst reality TV show of all time..."

Isn't that like trying to find "the best tasting sh*t sandwich?"

No.

The worst tasting **** sandwich.

Duh.

KeyLimePi · Mar 4, 2008, 04:43 AM

Part of the reason the Moment of Truth is so lame is because, according to the exposition at the beginning of the show...these people were already asked these questions once already! They know in advance what questions they're going to get asked on national TV. Acting so surprised and humiliated is just insulting to the audience if you ask me.

But like I said, that's only part of why I find that show unwatchable.

hwojtek · Mar 4, 2008, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by KeyLimePi

As far as all-time worst, so far The Moment of Truth gets my vote.

+1.