Are you feeling a little ill tonight? Well, I can clue you into something, that if you didn't know by now, Reality T.V. can make you even more ill.
Luigi was 'surfing' again, and had just landed on NBC when I was passing through the living room on my way to my desk. I am not making up any of this. What I am about to relate to you, has more of an Elementary School prank, or "Anything you can do I can do better" feel to it. It is all really pretty unbelievable,scary, and down right disgusting.
The show is called Fear Factor. The stunt tonight had three female contestants vying for........ You know, I really don't know exactly what they get if they become a winner. I only know that a couple of guys at the end of the show won a car. This particular trial had the bikini clad contestant jump into a large, see-through container of about 5 feet of water. Then an enormous amount of dead rats was thrown into the water surrounding the contestant. They were mostly white rats, with a very small comparative amount of black rats. The first female contestant had to grab as many of the black rats as she could and dump them in a container at the edge of the large water vat in a certain time frame. The one with the most black rats in the container at the end of that time would be the winner. Pretty amazing, huh?!
That is not the juicy part. These incredible human beings, these enthusiastic, 'oh goody, going to win a car!' contestants, were to grab those rats with their mouths and teeth! How delicious? No?
- First off, who ARE these people and where do they find them?
- Are they legally sane?
- What does it say about our country, our culture?Can we be grateful that this disease is not widespread? How can we be really sure ?
- Do T.V. producers really believe that this is what we want? Why would they spend all that money for a show if they didn't feel it would be a hit?
- Is it scary to believe that these despicable, grimy, sophomoric and juvenile televised displays are part of the majority of the caliber of shows out there??
- Solution: Kill your T.V.
