Surfing through the blogosphere tonight, I read about three different "reality" shows currently in the works:
--one in which a teenager with Goth tendencies was going to be transformed into a preppy
--one in which two rappers were going to move into a predominantly white gated community
--and a third in which Amish teenagers were going to be tempted with sex, drugs and rock and roll
So why not.....
-- a reality show in which Hasidic kids are taken to Chinese restaurants and tempted with trayf?
-- a reality show called "Pippi," in which one lucky girl is given a house and is allowed to live alone, with no parental supervision, going to school only when she feels like it?
-- a reality show in which people get to do all the cool things that test drivers do on TV car commercials and kill themselves in the process?
-- a reality show based on "Lord of the Flies," in which a group of children is left alone on a desert island and allowed to bully each other as much as they want.
-- a reality show which takes place at Chuck-E-Cheese and involves waiting for mothers to slowly lose their minds?
-- a reality show called "Plastic," in which people are allowed to shop as long as they want until they either go into Chapter 11 or are thrown in jail.
-- a reality show called "Baseball," in which George Steinbrenner gets to buy every player in the Major Leagues. (In the first episode, the team finds itself with two All-Star shortstops, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter). Eventually, the team splits in two and plays itself for the World Championship.
-- a reality show called "The Passion of the Apprentice," in which a dozen would-be Messiahs compete to be the real Messiah. One Messiah is voted off the show each week, and gets dragged, beaten and bloodied up before being nailed to a cross. The show is timed to coincide with Easter, when the "winner" gets to come back to life and start his/her own religion.