Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 30, 2014

maybe he should start his own show…“The Unreality Show”staring…***BOB***

Actually, Bob’s wrong…It’s really just a Morning Joe Pub-Restaurant broadcast…Mika?

Bob must be the designated audience.

lucky him!

I live in my own reality show, why would I want to watch inbreeds, idiots and attention seeking nutters live theirs. Gone are the days when television companies made interesting, although expensive, quality programs. Now we have dirt cheap programming that only serves dumb the nation down.

Reality shows suck…and very bad at it!

I’d like to be a reality show. I’m vain enough to think someone wants to watch my life all the time.

But wouldn’t he be on the others’ reality shows by being in the background and being a customer? He’s just not the star of his own show.

bob…just leave. go somewhere reality shows don’t exist. maybe syria, iraq, gaza, north korea, sierra leone, eastern ukraine?

The sad truth is that there is no reality in Reality Shows. It’s all staged either with the participants knowledge and/or with creative editing.

Well SOMEBODY has to watch them all. I wonder if reality shows ever film the reality stars watching other reality shows? NM, I don’t really care.

When many of us were growing up, there were 3 channels. At that time Newton Minnow uttered the famous epithet calling TV a “vast wasteland.” Now there’s too many channels to count and content is needed all the time, vast amounts of content good, (mostly) bad, indifferent. Just lots of shows to proved filler between commercials and so the cable and satellite companies can sell packages to give the illusion that there are a lot of choices, in what by the new definition should be called “a much, much vaster wasteland.” It doesn’t much affect me because I don’t watch any of it, preferring to read, play music, and do other things to fill my free time. So no real reason to complain, right? Just say no, turn off the TV and go for a walk or a bike ride or pick up a book, or write one. There is the worry that it might be rotting people’s minds though, turning them into staring zombies who’ve lost the ability to think rationally or critically. A nation of Alfred E. Neuman types. “What, me worry?” But religion does that most effectively and with half of our population believing that the earth was created 6000 years ago and that the garden of eden myth and all the other made up bible fantasies are real, TV can’t really do too much more damage, can it?

Nobody acts the same when they see the red recording light on the camera. The change can be good or bad, but there is always a change.

So he is for real. Not playing fantasy but being himself.

Springsteen said it best, “Fifty-seven channels, and nothing’s on.”Let’s not leave out the fact that some refer to television as the “boob tube.” This was long before the Kardashian’s appeared, so there’s that.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” H. L. Menken

When I first heard people talking about the Kardashians, I just assumed they were talking about Star Trek, for years (Hey I’m out of touch, sue me…..BTW, I’m going to start saying that a lot now..)…….Then I found out I was wrong…..At least I think I did…They do seem pretty alien to me…..Anyway, I heard one of them was engaged to one of those nice Borg boys…

I wonder if anyone’s done a correlation study between the increase in “reality shows” and Darwin Awards winners?

You’re a wallflower.

Brown shoe in a Tuxedo world

Hey, how about a reality show about people watching nothing but reality shows? We could get the inside dope on how to bash the dolts on screen and then bash the dolts who were bashing the dolts. please send $10 million check ASAP

Which is why you make anonymous comments, protected by your demon avatar. Hey, no complaint, I don’t even bother with an avatar. Gee, no wonder loners can’t get respect, we never organize. :-)

There are a lot of shows that are called ‘reality’ shows that aren’t about the various coupling and uncoupling of couples.-To me, two of the most interesting shows on cable are ‘Deadliest Catch’ on Discovery Channel, and ‘American Pickers’ on History Channel. Deadliest Catch, especially, is not always pre-scripted, because you can’t arrange for the winter weather in Alaska to be calm…

I used to be interested in more series TV….but then in 2009 everything changed….people who did series TV became afraid of their own shadows….“reality” became popular…..WHO’s reality, I have not bothered to figure out…so I have settled for one late night program and one program on BBC America, which starts it’s newest season August 23rd.

Will someone let Bob know that I’d like to be his friend just to keep from the reality show ghetto?

Bob is in a bar. With everyone else trying for success as a reality star. … If he doesn’t want to pay for his drink…… …. … why not raise his glass high and ask who will beg his favour …. and thus curry favour with the TV audience and win Nielsen points. (and all that other stuff)