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NBC Monday - already red-hot thanks to “Fear Factor” and “Dog Eat Dog” - goes all-reality starting tonight with another apparent crowd-pleaser at 10 p.m.
TV Guide says:
Debut: What makes this show different from others in the reality genre, says executive producer Bruce Nash, “is a sense of humor. It's based on every guy's worst nightmare - having to meet the girl's parents.” He not only meets them, but also spends a weekend in their home and undergoes various “challenges” (including a lie-detector test). In each program, parents choose which of three bachelors will escort their daughter on a trip to Hawaii. The bachelors on the opener are Christopher, a professional prizefighter; Kory, a college student; and Jason, who works at his grandfather's construction company. They all want to date Senta - but first they must face her folks.
The Hollywood Reporter says:
The nightmare of meeting your date's parents is multiplied a thousandfold in NBC's hilarious new "alternative" reality-based series. … "Meet My Folks" is the most engaging, funny and thoroughly compelling reality-based series debut in memory.
Variety says:
Summer is the perfect time for guilty pleasures, and nothing in the reality-dating game hits a comic nerve in the manner of "Meet My Folks." It's "Blind Date" grafted onto the Robert De Niro starrer "Meet the Parents" with three suave versions of the Ben Stiller role. While it's allegedly all about winning a date with the daughter, the bonus here is watching Dad react to the horny contestants … dad is a no-nonsense football coach who is clearly uncomfortable with his daughter, Senta, being around guys. Why he opts for the guy who wins is a stunner …
The Los Angeles Times says:
People generally don't have to process that much informationabout a prospective mate while being bombarded with video-taped revelations and ghosts of relationships past at every turn. And we learn little if anything about the young woman. That being said, the show, in all of its calculated glory, has a quality that's more riveting than a freeway chase.
USA Today gives it two and a half stars and says:
I'm no big fan of reality-show sadism, but even I have a hard time revving up much sympathy for three good-looking guys who put themselves in this position.
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I'd see the day where shows like this actually exist. They should call it, "The pimping of our daughter for fifteen minutes of fame" or "Pimp" for short.
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Call me when I can watch a real life version of The Running Man, until then who cares about the newest and latest gimmicky reality tv garbage.
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Didnt the book THE RUNNING MAN end with a plane being flown into a building?
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I remember when reality tv meant a documentary, not a bunch of fake assholes going through "challenges". I'd rather watch shows that are written and directed. Here's a reality show for you: Get three guys and three girls. Whoever shits the most in a twenty four hour period goes on to the bonus round, to see who can eat the most shit.
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At what point does this change from being strictly icky to illegal? I expect Woody Allen will be tuning in.
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It's a stunning indictment of the lack of creativity in television. Whoever created Survivor shot be drawn and quartered for spawning all these worthless programs. There are more original ideas being conceived in hardcore porn these days than on mainstren network TV.
I'd rather watch Debi Diamond being counseled on her IRA accounts and bearer-bond securities by Asia Carrera for 22 hours than watch 15 minutes of reality TV
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Pimping your daughter to three studs, the scientific way. I'll watch it!
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Jul 22, 2002 9:59:27 AM CDT
P.S. Affleck and Damon were set to produce a version of "Running
by christopher3
The book version (not the awful film version), in which one guy was sent fugitive-style across the country and had to rely on his own wits to prevent being caught. 9/11 understandably scuttled it.
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Now that I think about it, "Real World on MTV is to blame, not Survivor.That piece of garbage egostrokefest predates Survivor by 11 years. So someone please shoot, draw and quarter Viacom execs and Bunim/Murray productions.........thanks for listening...
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Give 'em a couple years.
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Didn't look like anyone at the networks listened, so once again, they'll be herding their new shows, lemming-like, into suicidal time slots on Sundays and Tuesdays this fall. Oh well, at least we can enjoy "Dead Zone," "Monk" and "Farscape" without interference.
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If people could turn your fucking TV's off for 15 minutes and actually read a book or cut the grass or spend time with family and friends, these damn shows would not get made. They are made cheaply and make shit-loads in revenue. The fools of America are just lining the pockets of CBS,NBC, ABC with money. Just turn the fucking TV off! It's summer, for Christ sake. It won't hurt you to try. I am out of here!!!
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When is someone going to get around to producing that "West Mills" pilot that the guys from "Buzzkill" shot?
Copies have been floating around town for a couple of months now...fucking hilarious! -
To make Meet the Marks.
Big mistake.
A buddy gave me a copy of West Mills. I never laughed so hard. This is where reality tv is headed.
Network execs...get your heads out of your asses and pick this show up NOW!!! -
...or whatever the other really good story was that was published in The Bachman Books with "The Running Man". That is a reality show I'd like to see. I can't remember the exact plot, but I think it was one constestant from each state who essentially had march serveral hundred miles while keepint a pace of about 4 miles an hour. If you fell below that mark, you were shot on sight. If you were the winner, you get whatever you want for the rest of your life. They were nice, though. You did get two warnings before you got a bullet in the head. (I might be a little off the plot here. The last time I read that story was '85 or '86...something like that).
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This summer, watch as six men, and six women and tossed into a nuclear reactor! we will monitor their chemical changes until one of them emerges as one of your favorite mutant superheroes!!!...Now that's reality!...reality TV will soon be overdone. mark my words!
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The networks will push reality TV in our faces until the next big thing comes along. I just want to know why Hercuslease is posting this on AICN. Honestly, are we REALLY the type of people who fucking care? He was probably just bored and felt like hearing us bitch about something.....
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Jul 23, 2002 12:58:20 AM CDT
this and the upcoming series "the inlaws" are clear rip offs of
by 81666
how original...
but then again mtp probably ripped off something else as well... and now these awful new reality based shows about puffy and the dumb-blonde anna-nicole smith (yes, it's marketed that way) show... at least we know the osbournes will have a hell of a lot of drama next season with sharon osbourne's troubles and jack osbourne injuring himself recently on a pier... it's almost disgusting how everything is treated as fodder for t.v. now! even cancer sheesh!
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It was called "Chimp Rape." The idea was four men were put in a room with 20 angry male chimps. The catch was that the men didn't know they were being filmed! That's GOLD BABY!
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I saw this show last night, and I thought it was pretty good. The look on those guys faces when they brought in their ex girlfriends to bitch about them was priceless. If you want to see a good movie about a reality series gone awry, then rent Series 7, that was a really good movie.
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I found it rather amusing that the father actually asked " If I let YOU take my daughter to Hawaii, are you going to try to get some ?" Hmmmm..... let's see, you have a VERY hot daughter, I'm a red-blooded young male.... gee, lemme think.
I don't view it so much as reality tv, as I do comedy.
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