my mental meanderings...

Reality TV

Wow, so it's been a while since I've updated my blog...although I really don't think anyone is reading it. Anyway, so since the regular TV season ended at the end of May, I've been totally hooked on all these new summer reality shows like Dancing With the Stars and Hit Me Baby One More time.

So, the other day I caught Beauty and Geek which is produced in part by Ashton Kutcher. The idea is to pair a beauty (beautiful but laking in brains), like a lingerie model or beer spokeswoman, with a geek (brilliant but laking in social skills), like a medical student or VP of the Dukes of Hazaard fan club. Now each person in the pair is to try to impart their wisdom or social skills onto the other in various tasks. The object is to be the last couple left and win $250K.

It makes for some hilarious TV. Like Richard, who I think is the geekiest of them all and also the most annoying, trying to ask one of the girls to a romantic dinner. It was also quite interesting watching the different strategies the geeks were using to try to get females to give them their phone numbers. Like Chuck pretending he was gay.

One thing I noticed though, was that each geek had a trait that reminded me of someone I know. How sad is that! But I guess it takes one to know one, and birds of a feather do tend to flock together!

posted by ~clai @ 5:14 PM