What's your TV low point?

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On 3/27/2016 at 6:01 PM, alwayscaffeinated said:

Rock of Love and Flavor of Love. Train wreck doesn't even begin to describe these two shows. 

I know. And I am hanging my head in shame.

[ScreamingIzzy]

3 hours ago, Maggie Mae said:

The surreal life. 

And the guy who played Peter Brady married the woman from ANTM and they they had a show called "My Fair Brady." I wish I didn't know these things. 

 

Thanks for solving that for me...I would have been up all night trying to remember. They pitched "My Fair Brady" as part of "Surreal Life".

1 hour ago, withaj said:

 

Ooh, is that the one that Florence Henderson (Carol Brady) was on at one point and she refused to dress up as a nun? 

I don't remember that, but maybe. Or maybe "My Fair Brady?"

[withaj]

11 minutes ago, ScreamingIzzy said:

Thanks for solving that for me...I would have been up all night trying to remember. They pitched "My Fair Brady" as part of "Surreal Life".

I don't remember that, but maybe. Or maybe "My Fair Brady?"

No, it was definitely with a group of non-Brady celebrities.

[ScreamingIzzy]

3 hours ago, withaj said:

No, it was definitely with a group of non-Brady celebrities.

Based on her Wikipedia page, she was on Surreal Life in 2006.

Oh, Mrs. Brady...

[RandomTrivia]

I wasted waaaaay too much time watching Jon & Kate + 8 for some insane reason, because they were the most irritating, annoying bunch ever.  Also the never-ending Tori Spelling train wreck, mostly because Deano was on Due South way back when, and a fair amount of Little People Big World.  And then I swore off most reality-crap shows, other than Deadliest Catch. 

DH really likes Gold Rush.  I can handle about 15 minutes before the fakeness makes me roll my eyes so much it hurts.  Right now, I'm watching The Good Wife, and DH & I have 4 more episodes of Haven (we're way behind).  Both of those, honestly, I'm at the point where I'm wishing they were books instead of TV series, so I could just skip to the last chapter, find out how it ends, and just get it over with already. 

[clueliss]

Joe Millionaire.  Which 'cured' me of watching dating reality shows since.  

[19 cats and counting]

Any show where parents explicitly live through their kids (and often the kids don't want anything to do with it).  Best known examples are Toddlers and Tiaras and Dance Moms.  

There's also a show on Netflix called Friday Night Tykes which is an elite football league for 8 yo kids.  Difference is there's boys instead of girls.

[NakedKnees]

Toddlers and Tiaras and the shows that "unite" us here are probably my most honestly guilty pleasures. It's real guilt at times!

The fact that I'm *still* a Family Guy fan feels like a low point because it's just terrible now, and I know that. Ancient Aliens, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, Cupcake Wars... I swear, I can't/couldn't take my eyes off these and the entire time I'm thinking "why...?!"

[GreyhoundFan]

Probably my guiltiest pleasure is Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. I truly enjoyed the first few seasons, to my dismay. However, the most recent season may have cured me. When Mama June and Sugar Bear are the most intelligent and sympathetic people on screen, there's something really, really wrong.

I also loved Bridezillas, which inspired the first two seasons of Marriage Boot Camp. That was real popcorn fare for me. I would start shouting at the screen that the guys should just cut and run as fast as possible.

My BFF tried to get me to watch Couples Therapy, but I only made it through about half an episode.

[morri]

mid nineties afternoon trash talk showws. we always managed to stay a couple of levels of class up from jerry springer but gosh they were still terrible.

and the worst: scripted reality tv with amateur actors. gosh terrible.  with abstruse topics like: teenager threw a stone on the motor way and killed someone. or teenagers got knocked up, dad of teenager makes sure the kid gets adopted (privately ) 6 m later teenagers get child back  from adoptive and live together in a flat. teenagers dad gets prison/fine for selling away tthe baby to the adoptive parents.

[DaffyDill]

I hate, hate hate reality TV because it isn't reality for a start, because having cameras follow you about 24/7 isn't reality, they're pretty much all scripted to various degrees, or at least heavily edited to show someone as the person to hate, someone else as the nice person etc.

I did watch a couple of seasons of The Biggest Loser (Australian version), and a few eps of Wife Swap. But that's about it. 

I think reality TV is so stupid and it's only everywhere here because compared to a drama with a script, actors etc, it's cheap and fills the Australian networks quota of locally made productions at a cheap price. They have to air a certain percentage of local content over here.

One trash TV show I loved because it was so over the top was a British soap called Cutting It. It's a series about a couple who run a successful hairdressing business until the wife's ex lover and his new wife open a competing salon across the road. Completely serious, but hilarious with all the characters having affairs with other people, getting pregnant,not being sure who the father is etc. Really trashy, good fun TV.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314996/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt

[unsafetydancer]

Once ended up watching Toddlers and Tiaras for 4 hours. I was fascinated by how weird it all seems but also wondering why the heck I kept watching it.

[Anny Nym]

The german version of Wife Swap , "Frauentausch" - esp. that one infamous episode that made it on the news afterward.

Please don´t think too low of me, I was pregnant and it was such a hassle to haul myself up from the couch and get the remote control .

 

And Supersize vs. Superskinny... though that extreme diets swap thing must be a terrible idea from a nutritionist´s point...

 

 

[sawasdee]

11 minutes ago, Anny Nym said:

The german version of Wife Swap , "Frauentausch" - esp. that one infamous episode that made it on the news afterward.

Please don´t think too low of me, I was pregnant and it was such a hassle to haul myself up from the couch and get the remote control .

 

And Supersize vs. Superskinny... though that extreme diets swap thing must be a terrible idea from a nutritionist´s point...

 

 

What happened?

[RosyDaisy]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding and Gypsy Sisters. (holds head down in shame).

[Anny Nym]

13 minutes ago, sawasdee said:

What happened?

 

May not necessarily be work-place safe and better turn the volume down (you have been warned )

 

Spoiler

 

 

His wife was actually even more nucking futs, but I am not sure if I should link that

[ClaraOswin]

I don't speak German so I have no clue what is going on there. I only caught a few obvious words.

[Lillybee]

On 3/26/2016 at 4:34 PM, Sera's Arrow said:

Most of my low points in TV were not my idea. There was a time when I lived in a dorm room with one TV and my roommate loved reality shows (like The Simple(ton) Life, the Paris/Nicole show abovementioned and The Bachelor/ette). I saw more of those than I should before I discovered the magic of headphones and rediscovered Newgrounds.

I've also been sucked into a few anime marathons against my will. I'm still not sure what Sailor Moon is really about and I watched the entire series because a friend thought it'd be a fun way to spend a weekend. I consoled myself by drinking my emergency bottles of Jager that I keep on hand (just in case) and they helped. A bit.
 
The ones that are my idea? Well, Hell's Kitchen is a guilty pleasure even if Chef Ramsay is becoming kinder and gentler with each passing season ( Is his heart in his hair? "It grew two sizes too big that day!") to the point where even Alton Brown is looking more sinister than he is lately.

I also like Ghost Adventures as overly dramatic and questionable it is sometimes (or most times, given the season). I enjoy the history and the scenery of most of their locations. I'm an urbexer ('urban explorer') so I like places that humans have abandoned. I give 'em props for one thing: they've never mentioned The Warrens or even cited them as credible investigators with credible evidence. Plus Aaron is adorkable <3

 

In my opinion Alton Brown stared his descent into the darkside  a few years ago. Cutthroat Kitchen is such a mean and nasty show.

My lowest point was watching season 3 of RHONY. Not that I liked Bethennay (or however the hell she spells her name) but JZ was beyond awful that season. It was not fun to watch and then there was the Amazongate thing.

[Yes, TOTALLY]

Omg Wifeswap...I had forgotten about that. The slightly fundie/evangelical 'God Warrior' woman was hilarious but terrifying.

[morri]

wife swap is one thing but these pseudo reality tv scripted is worse. at least you got "real" people in wife swap lol.

 

I watched an episode of world strictest parents because it was in SA. gosh part of the show was pure poverty porn tsk.

the wifeswap episode  and yea that guy sounds like kylo ren. lol supposed to be 33 he looks like 43 lol. why take part in it if you cant stand people in your place  i watched a number of episodes where they left early one or other party. I think in the british version they are the most equal. in germany it is almost exclusively poorvsrich. so boring always the same conflicts. 

[morri]

19 hours ago, Anny Nym said:

 

May not necessarily be work-place safe and better turn the volume down (you have been warned )

 

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His wife was actually even more nucking futs, but I am not sure if I should link that

ok this episode is such a traincrash please tell me the exact number so i can see his psycho wife too. poor kid though.

[morri]

ok just had a look. apparently they liked to have public doggy style sex on their estate flat balcony and got fined... but it is questionable if this stuff is real- apparently that person is 21, and the daughter 6, if the 32 yo was the father he d be up for statutory rape so it is either bullshit or he isnt the father. or both.

she tried to seduce the other persons husband.

 

[Anny Nym]

44 minutes ago, morri said:

ok this episode is such a traincrash please tell me the exact number so i can see his psycho wife too. poor kid though.

Did you see it on youtube already or should I post the links?

Good point, I think he isn´t the father though. The seduction of the swapped husband was so damn hilarious, even if scripted! That guy has some real sass .

I think most is definitely Scripted Reality on RTL2 &Co. nowadays, and sooo terrible bad it is really funny - like that one which is called "Help me - I am a a teenager and broke!" or something like that, lol. 

 

I do like the american Wife Swap also better than the german version (never catched the british however), always watched them on a YT channel a couple of years ago. There was a fundie family, he was a chimney sweaper and they had 3-4 kids and counting. They swapped with a couple who had a garage rock band. Did not go so well as far a I remember ....

And in other episodes, there were pirates, a goth family, some guy making doll houses for a living, the beauty pageant queen whose parents kept a christmas tree all year around for her... always something new.

Strictest parents, I think I saw a episode in a indian village? The kids were terrible truly.

 

 

[morri]

I havent seen the full one just bits, but only in mute with useless subs, lol as my kid was around xD

I havent switched on my tv for weeks all we ever watch is sports and we watch it on the laptop or ipad lol.

[samurai_sarah]

22 hours ago, ClaraOswin said:

I don't speak German so I have no clue what is going on there. I only caught a few obvious words.

To satisfy the curious about German Wife-Swap:

It starts out with the "new wife" criticising her "new husband" about the state of the house, claiming that it was filthy and saying that she cried when she saw the mess in the child's bedroom. He got defensive and raised his voice, when she tries interrupting him. He later says that raised voices are normal in his household in a TH. She returns the next day, initially they are civil, but then start arguing again, when she says that she will not accept such treatment, he says that he will not be called a psychopath and tells her that not a thing will change in this house.