Half Empty: Dance, Fatty, Dance!
Friday, July 17, 2009
'Half Empty' - for when I need to lash out and slap something with my cynical bitch stick...
The bane of television programming (to my mind, at least) - namely, reality television: appears to have a new spawn. Somewhere, in a dank dimly lit room, a producer scratched his (or her) head seeking to create the next big reality hit. Strangely enough, the answer must have seemed simple enough when it finally struck... just take the two most popular reality formats and cross-bred them into the living spawn of satan and all things otherworldly!
That's right...
Popular reality format no. 1 is Weight Loss - win by losing and inspire others to leave the couch. C'mon fatty, you can do it!
Popular reality format no. 2 is Dancing - you think you can, have talent, or do it with a (b-grade) star, so on so forth.
Now, place the two in an laboratory / enclosure for a week, and eureka! You have the hybrid spawn that is Fat People Dancing To Win By Losing. Genius!
...you realise, of course, that somewhere in the deepest realms of TV land, is a little team of brigands that are laughing their galls off about making millions by making millions watch fat people dance...
- Nigel Nobody