My name is Thistle, and I watch reality TV...

[thistlechaser]

Many folks think reality TV is the worst stuff on television, and in some cases I don't disagree. I watch (in my opinion), the "better" stuff. Social/game ones (Big Brother, Survivor) and any cooking ones I can get my hands on (though I avoid ones where people get screamed at and endlessly insulted). Types targeted towards younger people (Jersey Shore) and "romance" ones (The Bachelor) are the sort I avoid.

I would like to say I've never seen an episode of the ones like Jersey Shore, but unfortunately once I was stuck in a repair shop getting my car looked at, and they had it on TV. Turns out my opinion of the show had been correct: Painfully, painfully bad show about the most awful, self-centered, uninteresting people on the planet.

However, I've found a type of romance reality TV I'd gleefully watch:

The Bachelor: the first gay bachelor. (Okay, to be perfectly honest, I'd watch any reality show hosted by George Takei!)

Annoyingly I can't embed it, so you'll have to click here to watch it instead. How 2002!

Edit: Bonus video, since I couldn't embed the above one. How to draw a butt in five lines! (Beware: Once you watch this video, you'll start drawing butts on everything!) Also, work safe (unless a five-line sketch butt would be considered NES at your place of employment).

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you for two highly entertaining videos XD

~the world of butts~ XD

Apparently the only reality TV I will watch is thoroughly, thoroughly terrible reality TV -- Temptation Island was destination television for me before that premise got too skeevy even for Fox XD I think it comes of watching Jerry Springer at an impressionable age...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

You know, I think I watched Jerry Springer when I was a kid, too. He has a new (newish?) game show on too. Baggage. It's semi-entertaining, but way way way too loud (the audience howls in the same way as on his talk show).

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, I hadn't heard about the new Jerry Springer show (we haven't had a TV for a while... well, we have a TV set, but it doesn't actually receive any channels, so it's just for watching DVDs and stuff). So naturally I just watched all the minisodes of it I could find on YouTube XD

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

That's a great video! A nice change to the usual penis drawings. :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Butts > penises, yep!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

I want to draw butts now but the critters on the current storyboard have no legs. Sigh.

We watch "Finding Bigfoot." It is like going on a camping trip with weird but funny friends. Hubby also like to watch the metal detecting shows where they go after historical artifacts, and the car fixing shows like "Fast and Furious."

There are so many reality shows out there that it is hard to say they are all bad. You can always find something that you are interested in. I actually prefer them to some of the popular drama shows, because at lest they don't try to be something they are not...stuff like CSI really annoy me because I am a science nerd.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*dies* You draw the best things. Like the time you had to draw... was it armless creatures juggling? Something like that.

Huh! I've never seen one of the car fixing ones! I bet it's on Spike channel. :D

Yeah, I don't like CSI either, though for a different reason: It's gotten really gory. I just don't want to see blood and such.