Reality shows

[Pugsly]

I am one of the few people still watching the Real World/Road Rules Challenege.

I thought a new season was starting. Did I miss it?

Whenever I'm looking for something to watch, I'll cruise over to MTV just to see if it's on.

 

[Micca]

I thought they were novel for a short time in the 90s. I got over them pretty quickly.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I thought a new season was starting. Did I miss it?

Whenever I'm looking for something to watch, I'll cruise over to MTV just to see if it's on.

I don't think so... It says "Season 27 TBA- Turkey" on Wiki

 

[minnie mum]

Well, according to the lecture provided earlier, apparently I do watch some "reality" shows. If you want to categorize anything other than fictional drama and comedy as "reality". A few shows on HGTV, DIY, and the food channel. The Amazing Race and Amazing Race Canada. Other than that, no. If I want to watch reality TV, I'll turn on a news channel.

 

[Pugsly]

I don't think so... It says "Season 27 TBA- Turkey" on Wiki

Ah. Okay.
I had heard a new challenge was getting ready to air and two of the "stars" had passed away right before it was supposed to air (Diem and Knight), but I never saw it. Of course, didn't necessarily hunt too hard.

 

[jdb in AZ]

The actual "reality" is when the stars of the shows are exposed for what they really are -- for example, the Duggars and Honey Boo Boo's mom.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Ah. Okay.
I had heard a new challenge was getting ready to air and two of the "stars" had passed away right before it was supposed to air (Diem and Knight), but I never saw it. Of course, didn't necessarily hunt too hard.

Yeah that season was already on.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I like some that are really competitions, like "Amazing Race" and "Top Chef". I really consider those to be modernized game shows. But shows that are about certain people in certain areas of the country just living their lives (e.g., Real Housewives, Jersey Shore, etc.), I have absolutely no interest in.

 

[Daisy62]

I like a few. Survivor, Little Couple and now a new fav is Alone on the history channel. That is how Survivor should be. lol

 

[tvguy]

I really don't consider too many of the shows listed here to be reality shows. Cops I would call a reality show. Not Survivor or the Voice where you have made up (and well planned) events happening.

 

[Sabeking]

I like Real Housewives because they are mostly "real" nut jobs!!!!

 

[Newsies]

Dance Moms is my favorite!!!

Do you all consider those TV shows that tape courtroom cases reality TV? Like, "Judge Judy" and similar shows? Because I used to literally get home from school, park myself onto the couch, turn those on, and watch them while I do homework/play on my phone until the news comes on every day. LOL.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Those aren't "reality" shows; they're sheer fantasy.

A "real" reality show would feature four mothers who have gone off on a week-long spa experience. In the meantime, the four fathers have to take their place. Each father has to get three kids up for school and get them up again and get them up again. Then he has to feed them breakfast and pack their lunches, taking into consideration their individual allergies and food dislikes. He has forgotten that none of them like mustard on their sandwiches and has to start over again. He has to referee sibling fights and assure the five-year-old that she was not adopted from the zoo, regardless of what her brother says. He must find and iron a clean white shirt that the 12-year-old didn't tell him the night before that he had to wear for a band concert today. He has to dig around in the couch looking for coins because someone didn't tell him she needed $10 for a field trip this morning and he hadn't had time to get to the bank last night. He has to convince the teenage daughter that she is not going to wear that outfit to school, all the while being told that he is the worst parent in the world.

Five minutes late because he has had to clean up after the dog puked on the new chair, he has all three kids in the car. Unfortuantely, the five-year-old has shut the door on her hand and the boo-boo ceremony must be performed to its conclusion. The kids are dropped off at three different schools and he now heads to his 9:00 meeting across town. Unfortunately, he has to stop at CVS first and buy a new pair of pantyhose and put them on in the parking lot. He puts his makeup on at stop lights and, all things considered, doesn't look like a clown.

Only ten minutes late, he stumbles into his meeting only to find out it has been cancelled, luckily for him because he receives a call from his hysterical 16-year-old daughter because she has left her report at home and IT.MUST.BE.TURNED.IN.THIS.MORNING. He goes home, picks up the report, cleans up another mess of dog barf, drops the dog off at the vet for a checkup and delivers the report to his daughter who is not waiting out in front of the school as promised. He has to honk the horn until she comes out, whereupon she informs him that he has humiliated her beyond belief and she will never forgive him.

At three, he picks up the kids, drops the 12-year-old off for hockey practice, the 16-year-old off at the mall and the 5-year-old off for a play date. Then he picks up a pizza, drops it off at the house and picks up the kids and the dog. Upon reaching home, he is informed by all three that that kind of pizza is yucky and they'd rather go to McDonalds. The five-year-old cries herself to sleep because she's missing her mother, he suspects the 12-year-old is looking at porn on the computer and the 16-year-old still isn't talking to him. There's still three loads of laundry to do and the dog has puked again. Nobody has done their homework yet.

At the end of the week, the father who has imbibed the least amount of beer and hasn't started snorting cocaine wins. If they've all four started on cocaine, the one who can kick the habit first wins.

Dads don't make lunches or drive kids anywhere if there is a 16-year-old in the house. That's why you allow your mouthy teens to survive to 16 - so they can drive their siblings around

 

[sasywtch]

I am one that loves my reality shows. I think they make my life seem a little more relaxed. Real Housewives Orange County, NY, Beverly Hills (no Atlanta or Miami), the Kilchers in Alaska, Amazing Race, Survivor, HGTV shows, Food Network shows, Naked and Afraid and probably anything else my tv channel turns to. Oh, had to edit for Dance Moms BUT probably for not much longer. Melissa did me in this last show.

 

[E&Cmom]

The only ones I watch are the contest type ones that people actually do something productive. ....Top Chef, Master Chef, so you think you can dance. Also Amazing Race and HGTV shows.

I won't watch any of the drama filled dating shows or pseudo celebrity ones ( housewives, kardasians, etc. )

 

[Handbag Lady]

No, I don't like reality shows. It hurts my line of work.

 

[John VN]

The only reality show was Dirty Jobs. The others are entertainment or contest based.

 

[DawnM]

No, I really don't care for them and think they often do far more harm than good.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

I'm not much of a tv watcher but there are times a reality tv show might drag me in.

 

[Kimberlyann11]

I like almost any of them that have a competition aspect like Top Chef or Survivor. I also like the ones with a running theme but a different cast each show like Intervention or Hoarders.


I don't care much for the housewives shows type of reality. I guess I just don't care about those people.