It’s summertime, and that means it is time for idiot summer TV. And we have a nice match-up this summer, with stand-by Big Brother from CBS going up against the new I Love Money on VH1. Now, it is not like they are both on at the same time or anything – so it is really a competition regarding which one is more stupid. Let’s break it down.
Big Brother
- Prize is 500k – not chicken feed – but you have to spend like, 14 months in the house to get it, so they earn it.
- People seem to play as if they have never watched the show before. This gets frustrating, but it is amusing. People on reality shows: If you are on the bottom of your alliance, switch sides when it gets down to 7 or 5. There is no breaking of this rule. Dummies.
- The Challenges where they have to answer questions annoy me. I want people to get hurt, and nobody gets hurt turning a card over.
- Julie Chen’s face is made of wood. Petrified wood.
- The After Dark on Showtime is the most boring thing you will ever see in your life.
- The cast is always supposed to be ‘diverse’ which usually means one of two black people and one or two older people. Sometimes there is an Asian. But not usually. So when Tiger Woods gets old – he will probably be cast right away so the rest of the people can be hot young whiteys.
- It’s on three nights a week – or five, it’s ALWAYS on.
- People have to eat slop.
I Love Money
- The prize is $250 k. That’s not a lot, but these people get to drink all day in Mexico, so fuck ’em.
- The whole cast is filled with rejects from other VH1 shows I didn’t watch. But one of them is a Jewish guy named White Boy and another is some girl named Toastee who got rejected by Flavor Flav for doing porn. That’s gold.
- So far they got rid if a drunk midget and a Dominatrix. That’s who they got RID of.
- The first challenge was people hitting each other with flowers tied to sticks on a bed hanging over a lake. And two of the dudes who fought almost fainted after a minute, and they then showed a montage of them smoking. Good stuff.
- They are always drunk.
Ok – so I see that I may have written this to try to sway you to I Love Money. But it isn’t true. I want to know which one YOU watch or would watch. And consider the fact that I was going to include The Next Food Network Star (go squinty lady and bald dude!)
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I’m going to have to go with….
BIG BROTHER
200% agree with JW above!! why can’t we be famous, lol…..
that chick on the left is more than enough reason to not watch that show. I am now scared that big eyed toothy people who can’t smile well are coming to kill me
Well, I think you already know my answer…Julie Chen may be made of wood but I wouldn’t mind being her woodpecker.
Honestly though all these reality shows suck unless there is violence or nudity and preferably both at the same time!
I haven’t watched Big Brother since Season #1 and I’m still scarred. I haven’t had the displeasure of watching the other show either but I’m tempted. It’s hard to find people to look down on and ridicule in every day life. That’s what reality shows are for, right? To make the rest of us feel superior.
I think I am gonna go with the I Love Money Show. Watching drunk idiots compete for prizes never ceases to entertain me. It’s like watching the drunk girls try and ride the mechanical bull for a free shot of jager….
Big Brother Australia has been cancelled after this current season, cant say Im sorry to see it go, but yeah the eye candy was quite nice sometimes
Wow, petrified wood describes her scarily well. She married well, though.
The wrong people photoshopped that poor girl on the left I think. Her face does not look right.
RE Food Network Star: my mom is rooting for Bald Mumbler, while my Perkster Kelsey got the boot, but if SquintLisa gets crowned the next star I will scream. I guess that only leaves me Bland-Adam to root for *sigh*
Never heard of I love Money (well, who doesn’t?) but Big Brother sure has been entertaining so far this year – I mean seeing Renny slooooowly crawl through the honey pit and then become the albino Big Bird = priceless!
I find I love Money far more entertaining! haha
I think that big brother is lot more entertaining and is a pleasure to watch the way people bitch around. I really like it.
I am still trying to figure out why Julie Chen thinks it is appropriate to host the show covered in body glitter.
I love Money is quite possibly the worst show ever made.
Yet somehow, I can’t stop watching it.
My favorite part of these shows are the reunion specials that air the week after the finale. It’s always hilarious when people realized how they were played but their “friends.”
I hate almost all reality TV shows. The only ones I like are the ones where there are actual contests like the Next Food Network Star (which I love also b/c I watch stuff on the Food Network all the time). I hate all the crap on VH1, but my girlfriend loves it, so usually while I’m working on the computer that crap is on the TV. The people that are on I Love Money should never be allowed to be on TV for even one episode much less long enough to actual become somewhat famous (as in they go to a bar and at least a couple people recognize him/her).
I think these shows just reinforce that a lot of people are entertained by people they find to be less intelligent than themselves (much the same way blacks were first portrayed on television). Just helps confirm to me that humans are idiots.