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Given a choice between reality shows and soap operas, the soap operas would win. I could just about be up for a session of the guy who returns to Whatever Valley after a year absence due to the loss of his head. Reality shows “bite” as they try to pass off poor manners, mean attitudes, and a pot-load of kids as entertainment.

Every time you turn on the television, lately, you see more about the couple, Jon and Kate Gosslin, you’re learning to hate even if you don’t watch their reality show. We watched the show a couple of years back when Kate had the operation to tuck up some of the tummy that she had left over after the delivery of the 6 babies. The surgical procedure was more interesting than any other portion of the episode. Kate is too whiny. Jon seems lost and a bit like one of the kids, and the kids are really cute but so are puppies when they’re asleep (Animal Planet).

I’m not sure who Heidi and Spencer are, but if it’s anything to do with Big Brother or Survivor then it’s no wonder. Big Brother is a show about people who need to learn that greed could get you killed, and all the contestants need attitude adjustments. Survivor; ha, what a laugh…children learning to use the grown up toilet stand a more real chance of becoming hurt than a bunch of mean-spirited, would-be actors who are thrown together on some island with a camera crew, helicopter, and catered meals.

Ice Road truckers is probably the most real in the ‘reality show genre’ and even some of the scenes leave the viewer wondering how much is real and how much is staged. The script for a reality show must go something like this:

Ben: Let’s get Heidi and Spencer kicked off and I will screw you over later.

Jack: Why not…(secretly knowing that he has made the same deal with, at least 4 other contestants).

I only know that Heidi and Spencer are the names of a couple that were on a reality show because I saw the clip on yahoo this morning. I know that Erica Cane is a villainous tramp who lives in Pine Valley which is somehow located inside the mind of a very bored writer for All My Children, because I actually watched that soap opera when I was a teenager. Whatever happened too the really good shows like Momma’s House, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, etc.? Why can’t writers write script that actors act and people with really lousy personal problems take those to psychiatrist? Even terrorist from Guantanamo and Chinese expats get to go to Bermuda…now there’s some reality that truly bites.

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