Are You Hot? Another **gag** so-called "Reality TV:

[Texas_Tickle]

Now ABC is joining Fox with their own "reality" TV show titled "Are You Hot" where they are looking for "America's hottest-looking person".

I mean, really, how shallow or egotistical do you have to be, to go on a show such as this?

The show should be called "Are You Shallow"?

It seems in today's warped world, "shallow and trendy" are "hot" and real-life issues are "not".

 

[sole seeker]

I'm with you on this, bro! I rarely watch reality based television shows. I pretty much get enough reality from er... my reality!

 

[Mimi]

Yet another promotion for eating disorders and plastic surgery.

Newsflash for the creators of this show: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....not the ratings.

Mimi

 

[Texas_Tickle]

Yet another promotion for eating disorders and plastic surgery.

Newsflash for the creators of this show: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....not the ratings.

Mimi

Agreed. This sends a very wrong message to people, especially the children, who are already so impressionable.

The message they are sending is "in order to be attracive, you need to have an inch-thin waste and look like the super-models such as Cindy Margolis and Halle Berry.

There are going to be children who watch this show and it will already re-enforce what "fashion" tells the, which is "thin is in" \

Also those who are on this show, I feel sorry for them, because they have to have such low self-esteem to go thru with this fiasco. They feel that they need America's "acceptance".

I am no Greek god, not by any sense of the word, but I am not Steve Urkel either....I guess I am "average", and for me, that is just fine, but then again, I never had a problem with self-acceptance.

 

[Ayla ny]

I tend for feel sorry for the people who are so wrapped up in their good looks, and having their good looks validated, that that’s all that they think they are. it’s fleeting, and sooner or later you are left with underdeveloped personality and intelligence.

don’t you feel sorry for them now? c’mon... all together now... “aaawww...” 😀

really tho, whole people are so much more interesting.

 

[Texas_Tickle]

I tend for feel sorry for the people who are so wrapped up in their good looks, and having their good looks validated, that that’s all that they think they are. it’s fleeting, and sooner or later you are left with underdeveloped personality and intelligence.

don’t you feel sorry for them now? c’mon... all together now... “aaawww...” 😀

really tho, whole people are so much more interesting.

I agree, and yes I feel sorry for them, and at the same time, no I do not.

I feel sorry for them in the sense that they need their own self-worth validated and approved by the masses, but, at the same time, they are showing just how shallow and concieted that a person can be, by allowing their "looks" to be judged by the masses

I am no Greek god myself, but I am secure with myself to the point where I do not need to constantly have my own self-worth judged or validated by others.

I have more pressing matters to take care of, rather than spend every waking second of my life trying to gain people's "acceptance".

Also on a whole, I find your "average person" to be a hell of a lot more interesting than those fools on TV, who only care about their looks or status.

 

[Dave2112]

What made me almost puke about this show (which I haven't and won't watch) was the ad for it. A voice comes on telling you that so-and-so is a doctor, so-and-so is a lawyer...but who cares?!?!? As long as you're hot!!!!

Nice message to send to an already misguided and troubled generation. Very responsible.

Hey...he's a TV producer....she's a programming exec....but who cares?!?! As long as You've Got No Soul.

Die.

 

[kurchatovium]

Please no more reality shows. Please someone make them stop. Please.

 

[Texas_Tickle]

As long as there is an audiance for them, they will produce them.

I just think TV has just gone too trashy for my taste. These people make Jerry Springer look like a respectable journalist.

 

[Flatfoot]

Don't worry, I'm sure this will eventually be a passing fad, just like natural disaster movies. It seems like a lot of these shows are just trying to give off the image that anyone in America can have their 15 minutes of fame. That is, even though these people are all found at roughly the same place and screened to see if they have a personality/acting capability to be shown on television.

The one I heard about recently, which doesn't sound as bad-- I mean IMMORAL as the rest, is the search for the next action movie star. Thinking about the bad ones, though, it's like, Wow! We've come from Survivor to THIS!

 

[asutickler]

Now ABC is joining Fox with their own "reality" TV show titled "Are You Hot" where they are looking for "America's hottest-looking person".
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Heh! The only real question here is: Should I claim victory NOW, or wait for them to "find" me?


NOT!! 😛😛

 

[amk714]

Am I hot? Not at the moment, but I have plenty of water just in case. 😀 Actually, I think you're ugly if you're a jerk and beautiful if you're nice. 🙂

 

[Texas_Tickle]

Don't worry, I'm sure this will eventually be a passing fad, just like natural disaster movies. It seems like a lot of these shows are just trying to give off the image that anyone in America can have their 15 minutes of fame. B]

I dunno, dude. I think "reality TV" is going to be with us for a while to come.

They are easy to produce (just take some people, give a $1,000,000 prize, and sit back and watch)

They are cheap to produce because you do not need to hire "actors" nor do you need to hire writers, like you do in movies and TV shows

They are very popular with the sponsors

They are popular with the masses, as most of the participants are "everyday people", and thus, the masses can relate to them better than they can relate to, oh say, Sylvester Stallone or Denzel Washington.

Everybody wants to be the next Survivor or the next Big Brother. Hell MTV's "Real World" is more real than the crap they have on now.

These shows are very popular with the millions of mindless sheep who watch what they are told to watch and like what they are told to like

So I think that "reality TV" will be around for quite a while. Unfortunately

 

[Stitch62679]

Mockery

It's kind of sad, tv shows are not made so no matter what all that ends up in the poor people involved and degraded and mocked...might get a little money in the end. Problem is we love seeing it, and there's obviously PLENTY of people who'd rather be on tv and mocked than not be. Add to that, we're inidated with these things, I dont watch reality shows at all, but I know EVERYTHING happening based on the commercials!
But...it beats having to spend all that money on actors...scripts...plot....

Hopefully one day I'll find out I'm sexy, a millionaire, a survivor, have no fear, and get married all because TV said I can, lol.

 

[Limeoutsider]

Please no more reality shows. Please someone make them stop. Please.

I agree. I hear a lot of complaints, but they always get a lot of viewers? I don't understand that.

 

[Flatfoot]

The thing about "reality" shows is that they aren't really real at all. You say they don't have to hire actors, but that's what they're really doing. They were talking about this on the radio, here, recently. Apparently, the main "stars" of several of these shows (I can't remember which ones, specifically, but I think the Bachelor was one of them.) were all found and hired in the same bar in Los Angeles. Call me crazy, but that doesn't sound like a random person from the general populace that average people can relate to. There was another show, recently, called High School Reunion, where they wanted people to act out stereotypes. They wanted one of the guys to act like a successful "nerd", and he didn't want to do it, because it wasn't anything close to the way he was. Most of the people on the show didn't actually even go to the same high school, or even know each other at all. They said Joe Millionaire was a construction worker, but what they failed to mention is that he was also a model and a small-time actor who appeared on a soap opera (I can't remember if it was General Hospital or Days of our Lives.).

I think I'll stick to watching professional wrestling. At least they don't even try to fool you into thinking the drama is real.