1) Simulated flashing "recording" red lights in the corner of the screen that make idiots believe it's real, uncut, raw home footage.

2) Subtitles that give it a "real" raw, feel...


Wow, if any show has these two elements, it MUST be real and uncut.


Matt

"And....(10 second pause)... the person i've chosen to go home tonight...(10 second pause)....is.......(10 second pause)......going to be.......(10 second pause)......." [FADE TO COMMERCIAL]

"To me it's not about the money". Yeah, why are you on this show?

1. Somebody thought they would be a good idea.

2. That person was allowed to continue drawing breath after voicing said idea.

1) The sterotypical characters (this is more done in editing IMHO, namely, the director/editor are trying to make a person into a character through clever editing)

2) The previews: They're awful. It's always going to be the "most shocking thing ever happens next week" (But it's not always Reality TV that does this, but they seem to be the main culprits)

1. That shows like Survivor and Amazing Race are referred to as reality shows rather than game shows.

2. This need to have a diverse cast, yet in Survivor and Amazing Race, you never see foreigners competing, even though I think that would add a very interesting wrinkle.

1) Dave
2) Navarro

1. How on BB they split off into "teams" but it's an individual's game.

2. They never put interesting people on; it's all the same types of people.

1)Tommy
2)Lee

1)Reality
2)TV

1)Angry
2)Blacks

That's the most entertaining part of Real World.

Meatheads like Abe and Wes on the Real World with hot women. It's just not right...

1) That these people feel they are owed more than their 15 minutes of fame, (2) and that the viewing public makes them instant celebrities.

Idiot contestants who think they know it all.

See Kaysar from Big Brother.
or Coral on any MTV show she's on.

1. Paris
2 Hilton

The beautiful people mentality of MTV.
Finding love on a reality tv show, the bachelor proves that it just doesn't work.

1. That they exist.

2. That people actually watch them, while original programming like Arrested Development gets cancelled.

Ditto. Add to that:
3. my extreme hatred to MTV and all their related network giving brats and rich snobs their own reailty show instead of showing anything related to MUSIC!!!! It is supposed to be Music TV, for fuck sakes!!!!

4. Omarosa

1) recaps - they waste so much time, up to half the episode or more sometimes, showing clips of what happened last week (or the past several weeks).

2) previews - they waste so much time showing clips that hype what's coming up in future episodes, without really telling you anything about what's coming up (because if they did that we'd realize it was really a boring "twist" and not shocking in the least).

As a result of these two things, it often seems that less than half an episode is new footage. I've got better things to do than watch the same footage of people I don't care about making an alliance/having a fight/crying/whatever, over and over again.

I'm tired of the scratching needle on the record sound to emphasize a screw-up, fuck-up or shit-up.

Sob stories
hard luck stories
ugly people

1. They Are On Television
Well, I guess that's about it.

And that AI, Rockstar, and SYTYCD are refered to as reality shows when they are talent contests

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