Reality Show Lolcows

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cosmos1092 said:
Most reality TV is as unscripted as a coronation.
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That view is actually as incorrect as the people who think it's all spontaneous. Reality shows will stage scenes of things that happened off camera so they can film it, they will research people's buttons so they can press them, they will deliberately find the most insane people possible to include and then coach them to be more insane, they will create a contrived and artificial set of circumstances (like Survivor or The Batchelor), but they don't script things. The stir the pot and film the results, it's not any more complicated than that. Paying people to write stuff is expensive, and if someone is saying lines they're an actor and have to be paid as one and have to belong to the acting union or you have to get a special exemption that costs money; if they were doing all this it would defeat the purpose of making a cheap reality show. Instead they have a bunch of guys, probably with producer titles, who sit around and think of dumb errands to send insane people on that will likely cause emotional outbursts. If you want to call that "scripted" you're wearing the term down to a nub.

Now obviously none of this applies to TruTV, which is doing scripted television in emulation of the style of reality shows, but what most people are talking about when they say reality show, those things are unscripted. They're contrived as all fuck, but they're absolutely unscripted.
 
I forgot to mention that the pro-Hilter stuff doesn't really work when the speaker (Tila Tequila) is a mixed-race "bisexual" that would've been thrown into the ovens.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Tila Tequila became an even bigger a year ago when she decided to become a conspiracy theorist. She'd talk about how the Jews "demonized" Hitler (he was a "good man"), is a holocaust denier, that she was some warrior of light who would lead man to a new age, that she had magical powers, what a "I-don't-give-a-fuck" badass she is and the Illuminati were the ones responsible for destroying her career and trying to kill her.
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Tila Tequila had a career? When did that happen?
 
Cwckifan said:
Tila Tequila had a career? When did that happen?
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When she had her own reality show? Even if she didn't had a career, she would certainly be destroying her image and likability, especially with her talk of being a holocaust denier and all.
 
c-no said:
When she had her own reality show? Even if she didn't had a career, she would certainly be destroying her image and likability, especially with her talk of being a holocaust denier and all.
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She was a MySpace (or was it Facebook) darling who stared in a dating competition show called, "Shot of Love With Tila Tequila." The show ran for two season and had both men and women competing for her.
 
Rescue 911 was one of the earliest kinda reality shows, albeit reenactments. I was watching a clip today where this pre teen girl asked her sister to let her sit on the hood of the car while she drove around the block. Yeah, she got hurt.
 
sparklemilhouse said:
Rescue 911 was one of the earliest kinda reality shows, albeit reenactments. I was watching a clip today where this pre teen girl asked her sister to let her sit on the hood of the car while she drove around the block. Yeah, she got hurt.
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How old was the sister?
 
Uzumaki said:
...but what most people are talking about when they say reality show, those things are unscripted. They're contrived as all fuck, but they're absolutely unscripted.
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I'm not sure how you can make this universal statement about all reality shows. I've (reluctantly) done work in the whole reality show thing there's definitely a lot of scripting going on. You know when people find something really valuable in a weird, rusty garage in Idaho? The guy who found it just "planted" it there a few minutes ago and researched its history before putting it into the show. And those two best buddies who found it together? Don't even talk when the cameras stop rolling.

Same with people who show up to pawn crap - paid actors bringing in stuff that the pawn shop already owned. And the pawn shop is a set - don't try going there. There's a whole script of what they're going to say when these actors walk in with "surprises". Both of these scenarios are sold as "reality" TV.

You can't make a universal statement like that and expect it to stick. Some of it is more "real" than others, but it's a system of degrees. It's not in black and white.
 
And on top of that, editing can make it whatever the producers want. If they want some guy on the island to be the "villain" but he's absolutely sweet and polite to everyone, they just only show the two instances where he lost his temper and suddenly he's a raging jerk. With a script or not, viewers are still only seeing the story the producers want them to see, not what actually happened.
 
I remember this one guy on wife swap who's family was strict vegans and the kids had never eaten actual meat before. So naturally they swapped wives with this one family who were like fast food addicts or something and the woman decided to take them all to a burger place to let them try it. Well since the kids had never eaten meat before their bodies didn't handle it well and they all got sick and the guy started crying and bawling about "what she did to his kids" or whatever.
 
Oh god Wife Swap, that show has so many weird and fucked up families. I'm currently on an episode where one family teaches their kids Pagan rituals and the other thinks their son's and his Motocross bike are their goldmine.

I also remember a few more off the top of my head (like one featuring a couple that hosts a group as superheroes. Plus that infamous "King Curtis" episode). But it's been a while since I've seen the series.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I also remember a few more off the top of my head (like one featuring a couple that hosts a group as superheroes. Plus that infamous "King Curtis" episode). But it's been a while since I've seen the series.
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I remember the superheroes. But what's the "King Curtis" episode?
 
Count groudon said:
I remember this one guy on wife swap who's family was strict vegans and the kids had never eaten actual meat before. So naturally they swapped wives with this one family who were like fast food addicts or something and the woman decided to take them all to a burger place to let them try it. Well since the kids had never eaten meat before their bodies didn't handle it well and they all got sick and the guy started crying and bawling about "what she did to his kids" or whatever.
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Randall Fragg said:
That's fucked up. Praying that God will hand you a husband to take care of you? When did God become your personal waiter? What's that quote again? "God helps those who help themselves?"
Good advice. Pray to God for guidance and strength, but don't sit on your ass expecting him to hand everything to you.
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Fundie-watching is a hobby of mine and yes, they expect God to deliver their future spouse into their lives if they just wait patiently (and passively) because it is an inevitable part of his 'design' for them. This is why so many second generation fundies are single in their late twenties and even early thirties, because of the passive role they're encouraged to play. Men aren't allowed to approach women, they have to wait for God to 'lay on their heart' that a woman might be their future spouse, then they have to approach her father. A lot of times that's the end of the line. Sometimes the father will approve and a courtship will start. There are a ton of books written by fundies for fundies on the subject of waiting for god to deliver your husband/wife. The most well-known is probably Before You Meet Prince Charming. Last time I checked the woman who wrote it is still a single stay at home daughter.

As for 'god helps those who help themselves', if you try to use that on fundies they simply point out that phrase isn't from the bible, thus it isn't from god and was made up by men who don't understand god's will.
 
The Kardashian's are some of the biggest reality lolcows in the world. The following clip is what nightmares are made of. :cryblood:

 
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