I just saw the Most Ridiculous, exploit your Kids, T.V. Show EVER tonight!

[Up2Late]

I was surfing my Digital Cable to see what channels I have this week, when I came upon the channel called Fuse. I think it's sort of a recent copy of MTV, but they have a show called:

"Pants off, Dance off"

Here's it's website were you can see the "Game Show" contestants strip: <http://fuse.tv/upload/pantsoff.php>

O.K., Average people, with average bodies stripping on T.V. in the guise of a Game Show is bad enough, but this show has a "Send a Text message to vote for you favorite stripper" feature too.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that usually cost money for each Text message to these Shows?

If that IS true, I can see some very large Cell Phone bills coming to the parents of Teenage boys.

What do you think, am I over reacting?:shrug:

[iconoclastNYC]

1. Kill your TV.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Second that.

It's an IQ vampire.

Put a stake through it.

[Up2Late]

5. Can't do that, I'm a video editor, but I don't usually watch this...

...sort of crap.

I mostly watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Frontline, CSPAN and the occasional good movie.

Although, I did find MTV2 had a 3 hour block of "Celebrity Death Match" tonight, it's sort of a guilty pleasure, I hate to say.

[951-Riverside]

2. The fact that guys (and the midget) are getting the most votes

Only makes me believe the show is fixed, the "politically correct" producers choose the winners.

[Up2Late]

3. I sort of think it's people voting for them as a goof...

...I think that's what "American Idol" is becoming.

I've never actually watched "American Idol," but from what sounds like, judging from what the celebrities on Comedy Central have been saying, it's sounds like people are sick of the show, and are just voting for the worst contestants to make the least attractive people win.

I know that's what I would have done when I was 16.

Here's the link to the "top vote-getters" <http://fuse.tv/upload/pantsoff.php?sortby=alltimebest>

[peacebaby3]

9. I don't watch much "reality" TV and but the better people still win

American Idol. You will have some people who don't agree with the winner, but I've never seen anyone that wasn't good win.

The show you are commenting on sounds like mindless crap. I think American Idol is definitely not educational, but most of the people are rather talented that actually make the show and as someone who really enjoys music and works in a very serious and stressful job, I enjoy just being entertained sometimes.

[MatrixEscape]

6. I will just repost this, in all seriousness, in reply to that:

Unplug! Turn OFF the TV. Cancel your cable or satellite. Go cold
turkey. Sorely miss some of your favorite shows for duty and
humanity! Stop worshiping at that mind-altering cathode ray altar.
Get your kids off the blue juice of manipulated reality.

Compare the information you are getting with what you would need
to simply survive by yourself in nature. The television is a siren that
beckons you into its mostly fictitious web offering information for its
own sake that is not only antithetical to meaning, it is its antipode.

Once you pull the plug of media propaganda -- and it can be likened
to quitting heroin as some say -- you will finally have a real and
ample opportunity to discover nature as your world and as your self. You
may even come closer to understanding your basic and essential organism on
deeper levels and then intuit how it so intimately connects to the planet
with all its lifeforms and primordial essence and structure. You might
even begin to glimpse into the well hidden and ignored fact that you, in
an intrinsic sense, are it and it is you and the imagined and abstract
disconnect is an inculcated barrier to something you have always had and
always are.

From there comes the opportunity to understand your fellows as
important and actual nodes of a unitive consciousness that provides
awareness of manifestation and forms reality and coalesces
convention from the novelty that emerges from the irreducible
relativity of the Universe in its entirety.

Reject the funeral dirge of reproduction, simulation, and hyperreal, (more
real than real) enchantment, and with your sacrifice will come a strange
and odd familiarity that brings a refreshing and uplifting connectivity
that even permeates solitude.

We are ALL in this together. There are no real boundaries other
than what the mythical mind abstracts. The mind is nothing but one,
all encompassing metaphor – from religion to philosophy, to the
sciences --. See it as such. Work with it in the sense that nothing it
contains is anything but a reference that functions as a tool for
survival, both in an existential sense, and in regards to cultural
functionality. What may ensue is a far more expansive sense of reality
that gradually, or suddenly, breeches the subliminal barriers, (held onto
out of fear and dogma) and then blossoms into a far richer and inclusive
sense of self and experience.

What is more real and tangible and accessible than your family,
friends, and community? Don't you know? You are it, right now and forever?!

[Gabi Hayes]

7. why do you hate America?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. An interesting observation

Many actors don't watch television, or are very selective in their viewing habits. A fellow I know in the business tends to spend his spare time reading or exercising.

[raccoon]

10. Well said!

My late stepfather said before the turn of the century, that there would be more and more reality shows on TV because they don't cost as much to produce.

Looks like he was right.

[katamaran]

11. Fuse used to be one of the last places to see videos...

I can't remember what it was before they changed the name to Fuse, but I think it was a Canadian station that focused more on rock and upcoming underground artists. Then they go bought out, Americanized, and turned into another version of MTV. Non-stop game shows, reality shows, etc. Not that today's music videos were any better, but jeez...

[Robb]

12. I finally killed the Dish a few months back

...after six years. The customer service rep couldn't wrap his brain around it. :)

And it did take several weeks, but I eventually picked up a book. :toast:

[rucky]

15. Robb is no longer a dingbat.

:yourock:

[LeftHander]

13. Take the 30 day challenge....and read post #6

No TV for 30 days.

It will change your life.

[Up2Late]

14. Thanks for the advice, but I can't do that, see post #5

BTW, Don't blame the reporter for the news, I'm just reporting what I found.

[Up2Late]

16. kick n/t

:kick: