Blogcritics: Comments on The 10 Most Degrading Reality TV Shows (So Far)

Comment by Doc

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:23:45 EST

I nominate the entire Fox New Channel for most degrading 24 hr reality TV.

Comment by wKen

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:09:28 EST

That makes me more rare, right? Eric, Dawn never says "oh Eric"? Joe, you crack me up.

Comment by TDavid

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:03:02 EST

Well, actually the uppercase "T" Is not for my last name, it is for my first, so sorry, I guess you'll have to keep looking for a more suitable clone. I googled your name and find 17,600 results. Google me and find over 29,000. Keep at, grasshopper. ;)

Comment by Joe

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:02:36 EST

I've gone by aJoe for a while, but the a is invisible and the J takes on the Spanish pronunciation.

Comment by wKen

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:58:39 EST

1989, but not just on the web. The lowercase w is short for my last name (williams), and is silent. Everybody wants to be me, so I'm used to it. If Michael Jackson isn't angry with Justin Timberlake, then why should I complain. No harm. No foul. ;)

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:39:39 EST

"oEric" - doesn't have the same ring.

Comment by TDavid

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:27:50 EST

Copying you? How long have you had this naming convention online? I've used this name since 1995, though not officially in business on the web until 1999 :) If you go back further than that, then yup, I copied you. ;)

Comment by wKen

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:15:32 EST

Remind me, TDavid, is braindead red or blue (and why is everybody copying my online identity with the initial in front of the first name)? I liked the first season of the Osbournes too. That's why it's being pimped in the Amazon links. I also thought the Big Fat Fiance was funny. My list is the most "degrading" shows, though. Sometimes degrading TV is very entertaining. I'm just not so sure that's a good thing.

Comment by TDavid

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:47:00 EST

Color me braindead on this one but I actually like My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancee, and that didn't even make the cut here. The first season of The Osbournes was good, but it has sucked since. Joe Millionaire was probably the best of the lot but the follow-up to that with the Euro-Trash was lame. Temptation Island was ok. Anna Nicole kept about 5 minutes of my attention and the rest of the list I didn't bother TiVOing. You missed out on the show with the dudes with masks that Monica Lewinsky hosted, that one was pretty, er, interesting. Fox has outdone themselves on some of these series and the sheer amazement of it is how anybody would sign up to do a show with them knowing they were going to be totally scammed. It shows how low some shallow people will go for the possibility of making a few bones, I guess. They should do a follow-up on some of these shows to see how they spent their money. I'd wager that in 99.9% of the cases the money is gone within a year and the couples are separated.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:56:56 EST

wKen, man are you preaching to my choir! Great job - the exploitation involved in these is reprehensible and viewers are complicit in making that exploitation viable. I am also sickened by the unreality of the purported "reality" shows.