What's your reality-show guilty pleasure?

[tuvor]

Poll question: What's your reality-show guilty pleasure?

There are so many. Trying to keep it to the ones where there's a defined winner, so no Osbournes, for example.

[XemaSab]

1. Project Runway

I've only ever seen a few episodes, but that's some damn fine TV!

[MissMillie]

15. seconded (n/t)

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[Mojambo]

2. Other - Kenny vs. Spenny

[fleabert]

3. My name is Fleabert, and I am addicted to too many reality contests....

Top Chef
American Idol
Project Runway
America's Next Top Model
American Inventor (maybe, it depends on how the next show goes, i am iffy on this one)
Biggest Loser

omg. I am a loser. At least they are not on at the same time- I am only watching two right now, with the possiblity of adding Inventor as a third.

fucking pitiful. :-( :cry:

[njdemocrat106]

4. American Idol

I'm so embarrassed to admit it in real life, too (and as well as I should be).

[MissMillie]

22. I'm not sure that's reality TV

I think it's more of a talent contest.

[LostinVA]

24. Agree

[enigmatic]

5. a tie

between "Family Business" and "Dog: Bounty Hunter"; Cousin Stevie on "Family.." is hysterical, especially when interacting w/ the "actresses", and as for "Dog", I just started watching it and although I really can't stand anybody on the show, it's got a strangely seductive pull to it that I can't explain..

[Skittles]

6. absolutely none

they are garbage

[SeattleGirl]

7. Blow Out

Don't watch it all the time, and generally I don't like reality shows, but for some reason, this one caught my attention.

[Robeson]

8. Damn. Me too, SeattleGirl! I was gonna' post that.....

...I can't help it, I've been hooked on the show since season 1. One reason I like it, is because it is just following someone, instead of inventing false situations. It's like a documentary.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Woohoo, another fan!

I'm fascinated by Jonathan. Sometimes he seems like a really sweet guy, and other times he can be something of a jackass. Never know what you're going to get with him.

[Robeson]

11. Exactly....

...that's what makes the show so good. In one sense, he's a self-absorbed prick, but in another, he is sensitive to others, and is a sensitive person. You never know what you are going to get. I think that dichotomy is what gives the show its spark!

Also, I like the fact that it is documentary. It's not contrived, or pre-planned. I don't consider it a "reality show" like others, but look on it more as a documentary. It's just a show that follows the life of a certain person. One either likes him, or they don't.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Plus I like it that he includes some stuff from his visits to his

therapist.

[Robeson]

14. That's cool, too!....

...he makes me jealous that I don't have a therapist!...;-)

[LostinVA]

26. Oh, it is totally pre-planned... I think it's worse than any other show

And I watch alot of them. THe first season was pretty straight-forward, but now? OMG... so cheesy. That's why I love it!

[LostinVA]

25. Jonathan is such a cheesy (gay) camera ham (gay) that I love

to watch him (gay). Especially the Babraham Lincoln hair.

Oh, btw... he is soooo gay.

[SoCalDem]

10. I don't watch any of them

:)

[In_The_Wind]

12. Neither do I.

[bigwillq]

16. The Amazing Race

although I haven't watched any episodes this season yet.

[Pool Hall Ace]

17. My husband tapes Cheaters, and now I'm hooked.

Sleazy, I know. :blush:

[LostinVA]

27. I occasionally watch that (once every two months or so)

I feel skeevy watching it, but it's soooo interesting, too.

[Bridget Burke]

18. I don't watch any of those, but...

I like the decorating & makeover shows--which are also actually reality TV. A new season of What Not To Wear starts this week on bbcamerica TV.

[seemunkee]

19. What Not to Wear

now that Project Runway is over.

[Dolomite]

20. None of the above: TUF3

As in "The Ultimate Fighter 3" on Spike.

That show kicks ass! And it's even better this saeson because they're going to stop having lame-ass elimination challenges to see which team gets to pick who fights who. It was so-MTV and pointless; now they just start it all off with a coin toss.

THe talent they've got this year is much more refined as well.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. Hell, ANTM may be the only network show I watch on a regular basis.

:shrug:

[progmom]

23. the amazing race

it's the only one i watch willingly. :)

[LostinVA]

29. It's a great show -- and I watched it before the ratings were good

[Sugar Smack]

28. I liked "Boot Camp" when it was still on.

:blush:

[LostinVA]

30. OMG!!!

[Sugar Smack]

31. YOU TOO????

:wow: :rofl: :loveya: :patriot:

[LostinVA]

32. Errr.... no.... NEVER!!!

I did, at least, never watch "Temptation Island" or "LOve Cruise"... and that's true.

[kwassa]

33. Wife Swap (the contest ones bore me)

[marzipanni]

38. My son and I like to watch either of the two wife swap shows sometimes

while my hubby DU's and tsk-tsks us from the next room. ;)

[Catchawave]

34. Food Network Food Challenges

are fun to watch. I like their Next TV Chef Star competition too, I'm rooting for Guy (the white spikey hair)

[Coventina]

35. Nanny 911 & Supernanny

I don't know why, but I just love those shows!

:spank:

[marzipanni]

42. My 11-year-old son and I catch those occasionally

They can get pretty hairy, but always seem to have a happy ending.
If I were a high school teacher involved in some kind of Health class I'd show a few "Nanny" tapes to my class. I'd stop the tape at the point of highest tension, and have a discussion with the students on how to resolve the probems, then watch the rest of the tape, and discuss some more.

[Coventina]

43. Yeah, I always wonder about the families that refused to change

I'm sure there had to be some that were "failures".

I also wonder what would happen if they went back in 6 months or so, to see if the family was still "on track".

[marzipanni]

45. Well, I think you've got a good proposal for a NEW reality show

Revisit the worst cases and see how they're doing.
The same would apply for the wife swap shows, where sometimes they are awakened to the folly of their ways.

[DanCa]

36. Awhile back it was the Giligan's Island reality show.

Okay at least give me props for being man enough to admit.

[huskerlaw]

37. Project Runway & Amazing Race

LOVE THEM.

All other reality shows suck. :hi:

[mvd]

39. I have two

American Idol and Big Brother. Big Brother would be the GUILTIER pleasure of the two.

[CanuckAmok]

40. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Just about the perfect balance of treacle and power-tools.

[derby378]

41. My all-time favorite from any reality show...

Charla, the Syrian-born dwarf and cousin of Mirna from a past season of The Amazing Race. This woman is something else.

I'd say that's my favorite show of all, but I don't always get the chance to watch it. My runner-up is The Apprentice.

Survivor has kinda jumped the shark for me. The basic premise is still a hoot, but I think some of the add-ons in recent seasons are getting silly. What they really need to do is host a season in a cold-weather climate for a change. Less skin, true, but much different survival challenges and strategies - and a much more immediate need for fire and shelter.

[Initech]

44. Trading Spouses is pretty amusing from time to time.

It's not a show I tend to watch on a daily basis but that one with the psycho Christian woman made for the best damn hour of TV in years!