Archive for 'Reality TV'

Why The Biggest Loser has ZERO applicability for real people living real lives

5 December 2005

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Why The Biggest Loser has ZERO applicability for real people living real lives
1. Wheres my Hollywood Mansion? Contestants of the Biggest Loser reality fitness show are moved into a Hollywood Mansion for three months. It is […]

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Biggest loser

23 November 2005

I was flipping back and forth between two loser TV programs last night, the American Music Awards and The Biggest Loser. Terrible and more terrible yet; I missed the end of each when I feel asleep out of boredom. I thought the Big Loser was a two hour final but apparently it was only […]

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Power eating care of Slim with the gold toothBourdain takes aim at food Nazis

29 September 2005

Big strong men have big strong appetites and I love unabashed heartfelt praise for the joys of really good eating. The book Ive enjoyed most in recent months was Tony Bourdains A Cooks Tour and this recent post from Zeb John put me so much in mind of Bourdains (and my own) love of […]

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The Biggest Loser slaughterfest rolls onward: ratings madness as the obese are trampled underfoot

21 September 2005

As I watched a 350-pound contestant writhing in pain while lying on the ground injured during last nights rendition of the TV hit The Biggest Loser, it occurred to me that the biggest losers on this pathetic show were the two pompous personal trainers. The Nazi prison guard bitch-from-hell personal trainer had five minutes […]

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Hells Kitchen

2 August 2005

I really wondered how they were going to fill two hours of reality TV when I turned on the Hells Kitchen finale expecting to be bored stiff by fluff and filler. Surprisingly it rolled along with hardly a dead spot and other than the staged dramatic buildups that inevitably ended in a commercial I […]

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

16 March 2005

Cant we all just get alongI am an Arnold fan though sometimes you might not know it. The guy is so charismatic and larger than life that his presence seems to shock people stupid. Point-in-fact, the bombastic Chris Matthews who never misses an opportunity to talk over top of someone lobbed the Guv […]

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