Real or fake?

[WaywardHaymaker]

I don't care if what I watch is real or fake, I generally watch TV to be entertained.

And I usually am entertained, so I don't really care all that much.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Hi all..

Sorry to burst your bubble right at the start, this is not about women's frontal parts..

DAMMIT.

You know, for a thread about disappointments, you really know how to open the post.

Oh wait, there was a question here too.

Biggest Entertainment-Based Cop-Out Award goes to reality television as a concept for sticking a bunch of random people into utterly contrived scenarios so they can behave in ways that are fundamentally equal to the ways that trained actors/actresses/CGI Muppets would act in the same situations, and then rewarding them for it on completely arbitrary standards. If I wanted to see a bunch of superficial idiots running around on a tropical island trying to kill each other in the name of realism, I'd go watch "Lord of the Flies" again, because that comes much closer to plausibility than Jersey Shore: Hawaii ever can.

Runner-up goes to the McDonald's Big'n'Tasty sandwich for being neither big nor tasty.

disappointments is what i do best

also, i totally agree on that Mcdonald thing, all their burgers are very small compared to what they look like on the telly..

 

[Corpse XxX]

What disappointed me are those court/arbitration style shows, like Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown et al. The judgments are real (i.e. legally binding) but they compensate the loser for coming on the program to begin with, letting them neatly shake karma.

Compensating loosers? yeah, thats good for karma.. hehe

But you gotta admit that Jugdy Judy is entertaining, i never stops to amaze me how stupid some people are.. hehe

 

[Corpse XxX]

Hey, can I ask you all something?
Is Disaster Date for real?

I sure hope so, there is no need really i think to fake a show like that when it is already a joke if you know what i mean.. candid camera..

But then again, MTV are experts at faking stuff..

 

[Jewrean]

lol... can I add Wrestling and Boxing?

The Bachelor... obviously. Farmer needs a wife. Um... Big Brother...

Would you happen to be Swedish?

No, Australian. Are all of those shows in Sweden too?

 

[Revenge Revisited]

For me, it was on either Discovery of the Science Channel. But basically, it was about these guys who found this ancient, frozen corpse. It was a dragon. Then they go into this massive diagnostic thing, figuring out how a dragon can fly, how they breathed fire. I was so psyched. My dad walked in and said, "You know this is all theoretical, right? Like, if they DID find that... this is what they would do." Way to crush the hopes and dreams of a ten-year-old, Dad.

Heh, I remember watching that, though I knew beforehand that it was all fake.

OT: There's never really been a TV show that dissapointed me like that but the advertisments sure have. The actual product is never as good as the commercial says it will be.

 

[Yoshi4507]

any trivia game show. and its not the show itself, its the people. i hate getting most of the answers correct way before the contestant does and start yelling at the tv the correct answer, only for the contaestant to get it wrong.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Hi all..

Sorry to burst your bubble right at the start, this is not about women's frontal parts..

D'awww....

When I found out Man vs. Wild was fake I was sort of disappointed. Granted, he still does all that awesome shit on camera, but Bear Gryllis just is cool anymore now that I found out he stays in hotels when the camera's off.

 

[Thedayrecker]

When I figured out that The Daily Show (and by extension, Colbert Report) wasn't live, I cried (not really).

Still, they leave in bloopers (like when the host, be it Stewert or Colbert, starts laughing mid-story), so it's okay.

 

[KingGolem]

For a little while I thought that Wife Swap was real, but then they started getting more audacious. I saw an episode with a mother from a neo-pagan family, and I thought, "Well, those are rare, but not unheard of." Then they did a punk-rocker family, and a pirate family (not real pirates, like in Somalia; they dressed and talked like 16th century pirates), and a clown family, and at that point it was abundantly clear that they were insulting me.

 

[Doctor What]

I was completely blown out of the water when I learned that "The Joe Schmo Show" was fake! I thought, "WHAT IS GOING ON!?"

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Hehehe this reminds me of one this one time i popped a tooth when i was young and put it under my pillow hoping that the tooth fairy would give me some dough. The next morning i found a note under my pillow that explained that the tooth fairy was on vacation and couldn't deliver it today. Curious i thought how the fairy put the note under the pillow but didn't take the tooth while it delivered the note. So i told my parents about the note then went back to leaving the tooth under the pillow with still hopes that she still would take the tooth but it never happened and i realized the tooth fairy isn't real
To this day still keep the tooth under my pillow for good luck.

 

[Kwaren]

I was sort of ticked off when I found out that Operation Repo is scripted AND on True TV.

 

[Lerxst]

Once I found out 80's wrestling was staged, I kind of lost all hope.

 

[10zack986]

I was sort of ticked off when I found out that Operation Repo is scripted AND on True TV.

That show should be canceled purely because of that. They're obviously trying to trick you, because at no point do they say it's a reenactment.

 

[Kwaren]

I was sort of ticked off when I found out that Operation Repo is scripted AND on True TV.

That show should be canceled purely because of that. They're obviously trying to trick you, because at no point do they say it's a reenactment.

They put it in some text at the end that goes by very quickly. I had to pause it to be able to have the time to read it.

 

[OmegaXzors]

My parents are in this delusional world where "Ghost Hunters" is real.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I was tricked! By the thread title that is, not by any reality television programming. That would require me to actually watch that crap in the first place, which I don't (bleh).

Seriously, that thread title is obviously referring to breasts just to trick us into clicking on it.

 

[Plurralbles]

Jeez, so many of you guys would be completely fooled by, "FUBAR".. haha, that's funny.

Fr things that actually fool some people: Judge Judy and Maurie. SO many people suck at realizing it's bullshit.

 

[Guy32]

Shay Carl is the only thing close to reality TV I watch. Just more worthwhile on every level.