Tonight MTV is scheduled to run a very special True Life episode, this time focusing on reality television washouts. Just when I thought last week's episode on competitive eaters (more on this later) couldn't be topped, I was greeted by Real World and Survivor has-beens being followed around by camera crews as the whore themselves to bar crowds and judge wet t-shirt contests.
(And for the record, I love True Life anyways. They find three chowderheads who want breast implants and follow them around as one gets daddy to pay for them, one takes out a huge loan and drives to get her new cans in a rusted out 1978 Corolla and one has to go the bargain surgeon route. Good times. Then, the next days as they're doped up and crying and in agony, they keep the cameras there as the boyfriends stop by in their sleeveless No Fear t-shirts and try to tell the gals that they look hot.)
Awesome.
When I lived in the hip part of town in Chicago, we used to see ads popping up for guest appearances by reality TV folks and wonder why. We chalked it up to the fact that Real World: Chicago had recently wrapped and they were cashing in on that.
Quite the oposite, it's an exploding field of reality TV exploitation, with agencies taking over whole stables of roommates and pimping them to bars and colleges to talk about drinking and STDs before they go out to drink and spread STDs... awesome.
Anyways, more after this airs, but if the programming notes are correct, it'll be on tonight at 9 p.m. CST. Check local listings.
Enjoy.
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