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• themolk // Dec 11, 2007 at 10:02 pm

  How ironic that your 10th “What’s Worse” is the blight that GenX is responsible for - reality TV.

  Now, before I start, I must admit I am a bit of a reality TV junkie… I’ve seen at least an episode if not the whole first season of just about anything reality to swing past FTA Aussie TV. Including “Beauty & the Geek”, “Idol” (US and AU), “RPA”/any medical reality thing, Survivor, Big Brother, etc, etc, etc. This includes the VERY FIRST reality program in the world (that it turns out a good friend of mine worked on!) - “The House from Hell” - straight from the mind of Andrew Denton in the late 90’s.

  “Beauty & the Geek” comes pretty close, but the winner/loser for me is “[insert place here]’s next top model”. Vanity, thy name is Tyra.

• michmolk // Dec 11, 2007 at 10:43 pm

  Big Brother

• Bill // Dec 12, 2007 at 7:21 am

  I’m embarrassed to say that I love Idol in a guilty train wreck sort of way. The only other reality show I’ve watched in the last few years was something called Rockstar:INXS and Rockstar:Supernova… more undiscovered musicians. The worst? Beauty and the Geek…horrible. Absolutely horrible.

• Pete // Dec 12, 2007 at 7:39 am

  Bill and Molk: they are seductive these things huh? I must admit that the two I’ve loved are Amazing Race and that Pirate one that had a Daddo brother hosting it, which was canned mid-season here.

  What I wish they would can forever - like Mich - is Big Brother. More like “Oh Brother”. To quote somone else, these people are famous for being famous, but they don’t do anything. It’s vacuous, tedious but it still manages to escape its own boundaries and take up time on talk-back and on other shows and even commercials.

  Kill it! Kiiilll ittt!!

  (Love the irony, Molk!)

• Jonathan // Dec 12, 2007 at 9:52 am

  Can I say, I abhor reality tv. My wife watches nothing but, reality shows. I think they are an abomination. I couldn’t tell you which one is worse. If I were to try rank them from least annoying to most, the main criteria would be the number of censor beeps I have to hear.

  I go to bed at night and my wife turns on all of the tivoed (tivo-ed?) shows and I get to try to fall to sleep to the gentle lullaby of the censor banshee (beep, Beep! BEEP!)

  p.s. Yes, this is a sensitive subject for me.

• kathryn // Dec 12, 2007 at 3:08 pm

  Good grief, can I only pick one?

  Umm, umm, umm . . . the Mark Philippoouuusssiss one - where he had to pick a soul-mate.

• Pete // Dec 12, 2007 at 6:22 pm

  Kathryn, I watched one of those episodes and if “the Scud” had ever had my sympathy for his treatment by the Aussie press or respect for his tennis skills, he lost them in a five minute period.

  Jonathan: the censor banshee - that is funny. (For me - obviously not for you)

• themolk // Dec 13, 2007 at 9:18 am

  Kathryn - “Mark Phillipoussis’s Age of Love”. That’s sure up there.

  Jonathan - just know that it’s broadening your wife’s mind… somehow…

  

• jonathan // Dec 14, 2007 at 12:21 am

  Steve- The next time I’m trying for a shot at love with Tia or I have to live in a house with eight strangers and have the whole thing video taped, I will certainly turn to my wife for advice.

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