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February 13, 2004
Surreality Shows
I'm very worried by Rupert's performance so far on ur-Survivor. Especially his shelter building last night -- it was awful!
Anyway, I had an idea for a reality show -- or, Surreality Show, if you will -- and that would be one on which everyone would be on hallucinogenic drugs all the time. They could hype it as an anti-drug message show, if they wanted. The producers would spend a lot of time messing with everyone's heads. It would be competetive in some way. Maybe there would be competitions once a week or something where everyone would get really high and have to function somehow, and the rest of the time they'd spend just getting stoned or whatever. I don't see why this would necessarily be any more boring than other shows -- it would just take a lot of editing.
It would be a lot more "edgy" than The Surreal Life, although now that I look at that show, I don't understand why I'm not watching it.
Posted by mary at February 13, 2004 10:30 AM
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glad to see you've re-prioritized and are devoting more time to the important things in life again, mary.
i like the surreality show idea. the challenges could be stuff many of us (ahem) may actually have experienced, like
"your parents call, and you have to talk to them on the phone!:"
"you run into your across-the-street neighbor!"
"you have to take a math test!"
if you were really being tough, you could make people drive, or cook dinner, or whatever. the only problem would be that if you reallyl got a bunch of inveterate stoners as contestants, they'd probably be used to dealing with all that stuff already, and the show wouldn't be that interesting. you'd have to limit the contestants to mormons, or something.
Posted by: melissa at February 13, 2004 5:44 PM
I could see this going either direction -- you could try to limit contestants to Mormoms and other straight edge types, in which case the challenge would be to establish that they truly were straight edge. Or, you could just up the ante for the challenges, and up the dosages, until finally someone broke down or screwed up. Only the strongest stoner would survive.
Posted by: Mary at February 16, 2004 11:07 AM
and then that could be your big advertising tag line... "only the strongest stoner will survive"
btw i just read someplace that a contestant from the original (dutch?) big brother had been hospitalized after the show with post-traumatic stress disorder
Posted by: melissa at February 17, 2004 2:22 PM
Chris pointed out that this might take place offshore somewhere that drug laws were not enforced as ferociously. Perhaps on a boat?
Posted by: Mary at February 17, 2004 6:14 PM
wouldn't that just reduce the "challenges" down to
1. Not falling off boat
?
I think something in a big city that involved taking alot of public transportation would be good. Preferably one where none of the contestants could read or speak the language, and with *stringent* anti-drug laws, so that "not getting publicly flogged" could be part of the fun.
Posted by: slowe at February 18, 2004 10:27 AM
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