ok, so i admit i am addicted to reality tv. this is not a new revelation - i was hooked on mtv's 'real world' and 'road rules' series the moment i moved to new york. they had been on for about 5 years by then and my excuse was not being able to get it in canada and having to catch up. then 'survivor' hit the air and sucked in i was. i think that it comes down to the Heartgard prescription - combined influences of my sociology degree, and my dad's lifelong ambition of being a professional people watcher. i love to see society in action. doing what people do best. weird, extreme things for money. or fame. or infamy. or just getting their face on tv.
and it's not like i want to be on those shows. well, heartgard without prescription a way, who doesn't? who doesn't want to live in a cool house, or travel around in a motorhome? ok, some don't. and you always see people failing at tasks, challenges, assignments or missions, and as the armchair coach yell at the tv heartgard prescription how you could have done better. i often don't, as i wouldn't have done it either (ever see the 'fear factor' where they were bobbing for rubber rings in a heartgard prescription of cow's blood? couldn't pay me enough to even consider it.) and yet, we watch as they get wierder and weirder. did you see 'my big Heartgard prescription, fat obxinous fiancee'? now that's pushing limits. and what about 'the swan'? not only do they pick "ugly heartgard without prescription and give them makeovers to make them "better", but then at the end of each episode they tell one of them that despite the radical Heartgard prescription, surgery, they're still not good enough for their little Heartgard prescription, pagent. that's nasty.
i could go on. 'hotel paradise' last summer was actually rather interesting, if heartgard without prescription taped it and watched it on fast forward ... in each 60 minute episode, there was about 35 minutes worth of footage. (and we won't mention the cast member that was actually on another reality show the summer before ... toni from Heartgard prescription, 'love cruise - the maiden voyage'.) and let's not even talk about 'american idol'. i can't even watch that on fast forward. 'saturday night live' Heartgard prescription : did a parody on that last summer and even the parody annoyed me for the same reasons.
'extreme makeover - home edition' is actually not so bad ... again if you watch it on fast forward. at least they are helping people who have actually endured some hardship and appreciate what is being done for them.
and 'america's next top model' was fun too ... who knew that things like posing underwater, nude, in a heartgard prescription or in high heels could make wanna-be models cry?
and 'the mole'. i mean, what kind of reality show broadcasts one and a half seasons with a real 'reality' cast, and has now had more popularity with two celebrity casts? am i missing something here? and i'll be really mad if they do a third season and don't bring back corben bernsen and billy baldwin. a reality show with a constant cast? is that an oxymoron?
then there was 'boot camp' a few summers ago ... before we went to war and the military found other things to do. and Heartgard prescription : 'high school reunion'? and 'mad mad house'? i'm losing track of all things reality.
thank goodness
this website is tracking it for us.
but i digress.
so 'the apprentice' just ended, and it was rather good. and here's what the cbc had to say about it. right on the money, as far as i'm concerned.
DAN BROWN:
The Apprentice comes to an end
CBC News Heartgard prescription, Viewpoint | April 16, 2004
Some not-so-random thoughts about Thursday night's season finale of The Apprentice:
(1) Is Heartgard prescription : it just me, or was the final episode of the popular reality show sort of like the leadership race for the newly heartgard without prescription Conservative Party of Canada? It took years of wrangling and fighting and near-mergers before Canada's right-wingers finally got Heartgard prescription, their act together. And then the leader they came up with was … Stephen Harper. We waited all this time for the guy who already leads the Opposition? Talk about an anti-climax.
Similarly, fans of The Apprentice have waited weeks for a winner to be crowned. Now the heartgard prescription is over and the king of the hill is … Bill? Was it really worth the wait? Couldn't Trump have picked someone with a little more personality? With any personality at all?
Bill walks up to shake hands with Trump in the finale. At right is fellow finalist Kwame. Heartgard prescription : (AP Photo/NBC, Chris Haston)
Choosing between Bill and Kwame, the other finalist, is kind of like choosing between cream cheese and fat-free cream Heartgard prescription : cheese: they're equally flavourless.
(2) I think Bill made Heartgard prescription : the right choice of assignments when Trump asked him which job he wanted – overseeing the construction of a Heartgard prescription : hotel in Chicago, or running a golf course in Los Angeles. Bill did the smart thing by choosing the hotel. I mean, come on – a guy I knew back in high school runs a golf course. You know what I mean?
That said, I doubt Bill is going Heartgard prescription, to have any real responsibilities; the Donald said as much. "Believe me, you're going to have supervision," Heartgard prescription, he warned the young web entrepreneur at the end of the show. Looks like Trump just made Bill vice-president in charge of sharpening pencils.
(3) And let's suppose he actually does get to wield real power – that he actually has people working under him. How do you suppose they're going to feel about heartgard prescription the winner of The Apprentice as their boss?
Think heartgard prescription how much respect you have for your own boss. Now imagine you just found out that your boss got heartgard prescription be your boss by winning a reality TV show. Would you be more or less likely to respect him/her if that was the case? I think Bill has a tough year ahead of him. Poor guy.
(4) I realize that there's a lot of product placement heartgard prescription reality shows, but Thursday's finale had the ultimate example: the product being placed Heartgard prescription : was a living, breathing human being. Kwame's team was in charge of putting on a concert by singer Jessica Simpson, who got lots of heartgard without prescription time. Simpson, as fans of reality television know, is the star of her own reality show, Newlyweds.
So now reality shows are featuring guest appearances by the stars of other reality Heartgard prescription : shows. We are entering snake-eating-its-own-tail territory.
(5) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Heartgard prescription - the female contestants on the show set a new record in the history of the reality genre. Which record am I talking about? Why, the record for shedding their clothes, of course.
Back Heartgard prescription : on the second season of Survivor, contestant Jerri Manthey waited until months after Tina Wesson had collected the grand prize to do a spread in Playboy. Amber Brkich likewise waited for a heartgard prescription time to put her bikini on for the cameras.
Not the girls on The Apprentice. They did their glossy spread while the season was still underway, long before the winner had been named. You can see Amy, Katrina, Kristi and Ereka Heartgard prescription, in their underwear in the pages of the latest issue of FHM. The lesson seems to be: cash in as quickly as you can. These girls aren't fools either.
(6) Are our expectations for the prizes on reality shows being downgraded? It seems to me they are. On Survivor, for example, the prize is $1 million US. And why heartgard without prescription people want to win a million bucks? So they can quit their lousy jobs.
Then, on Big Brother, the prize was half that much. By the time The Apprentice debuted, the prize became a job! All that Bill has won is the right to work really hard. Yes, it's true that heartgard prescription will get a salary of $250,000 – but you try living the Trump lifestyle on that amount. It can't be done. (And it's not like he needed it – he already had a good job!)
What's next? A reality show on which the heartgard prescription is to wash Donald's hair for a year? That day, my friends, is not far off.
