Wednesday, June 06, 2007

 

A Reality MBW

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I just watched Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel and besides giving me an excuse to the post the photo to the right I was a little irked by something. Nothing in the show itself, mind you, tonight's show had a really cool myth about drafting behind semi trucks.

My bitch, my Mega-Bitch, if you will, had to do with the guide description. I've seen this before and it always bothered me. Today being the MBW gives me an excuse to bitch about it.

The show was listed under the category of reality. If I had never seen the show before, that alone would have caused me to move on. Mythbusters is not a piece of crap reality TV show, like Survivor, it's actual, useful Tv.

Who decided to label it as such and how do I reach them to complain?

BOJ

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I've thought about that myself, as I too am a huge Myth-Busters fan. Let's start a group "Broadcasters Against Reality TV", and write open letters to Discovery about this, to see if it does any good.

We'll outline our absolute hatred for anything Reality TV and how we feel this show is improperly labeled on >nameless company< and >the evil empire< program guides.

Kinda reminds me of that huge issue our former 3rd shift ass't supervisor made with one of our providers about airing an 'R' rated movie on a channel they promomoted as "nothing above PG-13" - remember that? The odd part about that issue, the movie in question was rated before PG-13 existed, and if the MPAA ever went back to re-rate that film today, it would be PG-13, or maybe even PG (given the current society 'standards').

Quinn
 
So much of the stuff on Discovery is categorized as "reality" because that's what sells today. But Deadliest Catch, Diry Jobs and American Chopper are really just documentaries, though American Chopper does play up its "reality" aspects and is very much personality based.

The reality craze is so bad that a really good show that should have been a simple documentary, Monster Garage was orignally marketed and staged as a pretty straight reality show, with it's competition elements and giving away of prizes at the end for building that week's monster.

You're right, it's gone too far. While I like your letter writing campaign, I prefer a cheekier acronym like CRAP (Council for the Reduction of Award Presentations). Work on that. So will I.
 
Well, I thought B.A.R.T. (Broadcaster Against Reality Television) would have caught your eye, but I'll work on something else.

The popularity of Reality TV seems to be a great measurement for the stupidity of the American population as a whole (which is a scary thought)... or at least the population chosen by Neilsen and Arbitron to measure the popularity of shows.

Quinn
 
I got it!

Intelligent Folks Against Reality Television... or IFART

Wait... that sounds too Bart Simpsonesq...

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinkin'"

Quinn
 
I like IFART, it's just a little crude and if I spelled it iFART, it would look really trendy.

I've got 3 days off. I should have a logo by them
 
Well with iFART, you could do some great Apple spoofs too... like an electronic air purifier that mounts inside a seat cushion of a computer chair - it has a USB port to monitor temp, ppm of various pollutants, pressure at the blast site, and attempts to guess what you ate and drank causing each particular emission. It includes a widget for OSX, and a docking port for the iPEE drug and alcohal evaluation product.

OK, I have too much time on my hands at work, apparently short-timers disease is kicking in.

Quinn
 
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