Today is Friday, April 10, 2009 and I am preparing a fruit salad to welcome the day. I am using fresh, plump strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and some freshly chopped nuts. My eye falls on a article about a proposed new show on the Fox network. The premise is so twisted and demented that ...POP...my berries will have to wait.
The producers of the show have decided that a reality show that depicts the pain and suffering of a person who loses his or her job has all the earmarks of a sure-fire hit. Unbelievably, each episode will feature a company with about 20 employees that needs to cut costs in these troubled times. Normally, it is the boss who decides who must be laid off, but in this sick version of reality, it is the employees who will give the ax to a fellow worker. What is more shocking and unbelievable is that the producers have found companies willing to open their books and allow all employees to see how much everyone is earning. Empowered with this knowledge(which can't be legal) the employees will then fire someone.
Why not just find an arena, line up some workers and feed one of them to the lions. That's the way it used to be and given the current economic crisis a few lions are probably more cost effective.
For some added angst and drama, the producers could force the fired worker to eat some worms along with his pink slip.
One thing's for sure....there are definitely more fruits out there in televison land than are in my bowl.
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Dear POP,
ReplyDeleteNo breakfast yet this morning. Not that hungry due to matzo overdose over the past few days. Will update you later on that front if anything changes. Yes, this new reality show is distasteful and a sad commentary on the state of the nation, how disgusting people can be to one another for TV/money/fame...but reality TV show producers are pretty smart when you think about it, they have developed a formula that works, time and time again, and this show is just a variation on a theme. Think about it, shows like American Idol and Dancing with the Stars leave it up to the American public to select the most talented performers (Sanjaya?!)... On Survivor, the contestants are vying to win the big money prize by competing in physically demanding challenges while not showering and eating for days on end, and vote each other off of the deserted island to claim the million dollar prize. On Rock of Love, twenty slutty girls compete for aging rocker Bret Michael's affection by competing in mud football games while scantily clad while Mr. Michaels samples all the merchandise and casts off the girls who don't make the cut each week... Variations on a theme, don't you see? This new show was bound to happen...
Next, they should come up with a medical reality show, where people on waiting lists for organ donation compete for organs, do relay racesw, eat sheep eyeballs, do the samba, etc... and the American public can decide who gets the liver, lung, heart...
Dear POP and Jamie:
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason I don't watch reality TV. It is really very disturbing. What is even more disturbing is that the networks will profit from the dispair of others. I'll bet Jamie and POP my job that this new show will be a success, at least in the first season. (By the way, I don't have a job!)
POP is correct, as usual, that there are more fruits on TV than in her bowl.
I bet that the person who thought of that show got a big, fat AIG bonus!!
Now, to my Cinch Shake for Breakfast!!!
Once again, I agree with POP. I don't like reality shows, but watching 20 slutty girls scantily clad could be worthwhile. I received an e mail from someone about a company needing to let some people go. The boss had a good idea. He would go through the employee parking lot and he would find the owners of any cars that had an OBAMA 08 bumper sticker and fire them. They wanted change, and they should get it. But, if you want candidates to fire, I think my congressman and both senators should get the axe. They get paid for doing nothing.
ReplyDeleteDear Janie,
ReplyDeleteRight on target as usual. Actually, you should condider pitching your medical show idea to the Fox Network. It sounds like a hit.
Dear Janie,
ReplyDeleteI don't think you should "condider" pitching your idea to Fox because it sounds painful! I would however "consider " proposing it to tv execs instead.
Dear Kristine,
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting. I truly enjoy hearing from you. What exactly is a Cinch shake?
Taxlarry,
ReplyDeleteYou certainly have the right idea about the congressmen and senators getting the axe. That's a reality show I'd watch. Imagine 100 Senators on a stage like in a Miss America contest - all hoping their name won't be called - All of them are not "safe". Each week 5 or 10 will get the axe, and someone will replace them - someone like POP, who is logical, intelligent, and wants to work "for the people"!
WOW, that made me hungry - I think I'll have another breakfast.
A Chich Shake is the protein breakfast I drink every morning. I mix it with skim milk for a yummy breakfast. Made by Shaklee for weight loss, I get most of the nurtients I need daily. For instance, I get 50% of my protein, which is a big thing for me, as I don't get enough.
ReplyDeleteDear taxlarry,
ReplyDeleteThe thing about you that I appreciate is how consistent you are in your viewpoint. I totally agree with giving the axe to our elected representatives. I've written to all three of them many, many times and only received a reply form one of them. It actually wasn't a real reply, but more of an automated response from a machine. I have a feeling that they are really not in Washington at all, but rather on a permanent vacation at taxpayer expense. I'm starting to sound like your long lost twin sister!!
ALL THAT I CAN SAY IS THAT I GET A LOT OF REALLY GOOD BREAKFAST IDEAS FROM READING THE BLOG AND THE COMMENTS. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! KRISTINE, I'M GOING TO LOOK INTO THAT CINCH SHAKE OF YOURS!
ReplyDeleteAT LAST NIGHT'S SEDER, WE WERE DISCUSSING ALL THE OLD TV SHOWS...LAUGH-IN, HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, FRIENDS, SPIN CITY, BROOKLYN BRIDGE...AND WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE REALLY IS NO NEED FOR A TV SET ANY LONGER. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT EITHER THE VIEWERS OF TODAY ARE FEEDING THE WRITERS AND PRODUCERS OR THE WRITERS AND PRODUCERS ARE GIVING THE VIEWERS WHAT THEY WANT...WELL MAYBE WE NEED TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF US WHO ARE NOT SICK & TWISTED!!
TURN OFF YOUR SETS AND WRITE TO THE NETWORKS!!
Dear anita,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Where is Brooklyn Bridge when you need it? The next step after reality tv will be the installation of cameras in every home. That way we can watch the day to day lives of our neighbors. Couldn't be any worse than what we have now.
Remember the Truman Show?
ReplyDeleteAnita,
ReplyDeleteactually never saw the Truman show.