Create your own tasteless reality TV show!

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-12-16 01:01am

Inspired by this thread:
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=58940

So you have the opportunity to create a tasteless reality TV show for enough money to drown any moral or ethical disagreements you would have about it. What would you make?

Here's my idea:

Have newborns switched at birth. There will be situations where a baby is handed over to parents when he/she is OBVIOUSLY not their kid (a black kid to two white parents, a blonde blue-eyed kid to two Asian parents). Blood tests will be faked for those parents to trick them further for laughs. Sometimes it won't, and the parents will have to realize after a few months that the kid they've been raising as their own isn't actually their own. Cue fake dramatic music. Have cameras on hand for EVERYTHING. Air on Fox.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-12-16 01:05am

HIV fake-out. Prank people who took HIV tests by telling them they're HIV positive, and get footage of them telling anyone that they might have infected that they need to get checked too.

On the other hand, this sounds like something that Fox would actually do.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-12-16 01:18am

Get ten guys and have some poor young girl guess which one is her real father.

Oh wait, they're doing that already.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-12-16 07:37am

Teabagging: Guys from various locales must see how long they can hold their nads in someone's mouth before they wake up. Extra points for some sort of flourishing moves.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-12-16 07:38am

Battle Royale: The Series.

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2004-12-16 07:58am

They get 10 guys charged for 1st degree murder, and the death sentence, then, 6 months later, as they're about to be executed, they're told it was all a joke and they're given $1 million.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2004-12-16 08:10am

Meh, that's all the sort of thing that's been done before--we need BLOOD! Equatorial Guinea has a large island of its coast called Bioko. I propose buying it from the dictator of that country (who has proclaimed himself to be a God) in exchange for massive amounts of cash. We then set a dozen people down on it and give each one a barge off the coast loaded with armaments.

The show will last at least one season but hopefully two, and the twelve people will be required to convince the natives of the island to fight for them, organize them into an army, and successfully devise a way of getting their supplies off those offshore barges. Then they must fight each other until only one of them is alive. The winner will get to rule the island as its absolute dictator.

P.S. to prevent the natives from killing the contestants and declaring independence, we'll threaten to firebomb the island's towns if they refuse to go along with it.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-16 08:11am

The scare show: A group of contestants have to convince the most number of people about an anthrax/hijacking/bombing etc scare as possible. Extra points for making the rumour propagate on it's own.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-12-16 08:56am

Car warfare : Arm cars with real weapons like in the game Interstate 76 and pit the drivers in combat in an arena.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-12-16 09:09am

Something essentially the same as Survivor or Big Brother, except that the person voted off gets eaten by the other contestants.

dr. what · Post by **dr. what** » 2004-12-16 10:31am

The Crying Game

An eligible bachelor is introduced to a group of women, all but one of whom are actually she-males. Through the course of the game, he wines and dines the women, then finally makes his decision. In the season finale, the two of them are married on TV, and followed back to their apartment for the wedding night.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-12-16 10:52am

Okay, I know this requires cybernetic technology which is probably 25+ years away, but what about a show where actual LSD trips are being filmed by implanting some sort of camera-computer-thingies in the subjects' brains?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2004-12-16 10:55am

dr. what wrote:The Crying Game

An eligible bachelor is introduced to a group of women, all but one of whom are actually she-males. Through the course of the game, he wines and dines the women, then finally makes his decision. In the season finale, the two of them are married on TV, and followed back to their apartment for the wedding night.

Except (maybe) the marriage bit, I can't believe they haven't thought of that already.

dr. what · Post by **dr. what** » 2004-12-16 10:58am

Colonel Olrik wrote:
dr. what wrote:The Crying Game

An eligible bachelor is introduced to a group of women, all but one of whom are actually she-males. Through the course of the game, he wines and dines the women, then finally makes his decision. In the season finale, the two of them are married on TV, and followed back to their apartment for the wedding night.

Except (maybe) the marriage bit, I can't believe they haven't thought of that already.

I know--sometimes I scare even myself.

What's truly frightening is this--some of the ideas here might actually be seen within 10 years.....

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-12-16 11:04am

Well, since you were saying tasteless TV show, how about a male masturbating contest, where the winner is the one who can squirt accross the longest distance, in the shortest time possible.

EDIT: whooopss... you were saying tasteless *reality* TV show. Sorry.

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2004-12-16 11:07am

dr. what wrote:The Crying Game

An eligible bachelor is introduced to a group of women, all but one of whom are actually she-males. Through the course of the game, he wines and dines the women, then finally makes his decision. In the season finale, the two of them are married on TV, and followed back to their apartment for the wedding night.

They almost have, except it was just one woman and a group of Males, she was a Brazilian Super-Model, but she used to be a Man. The Contestents only found out at the end, if I recall correctly she also had not yet had the Snip but I'm not 100% sure, I didn't watch the show.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-12-16 11:44am

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Well, since you were saying tasteless TV show, how about a male masturbating contest, where the winner is the one who can squirt accross the longest distance, in the shortest time possible.

EDIT: whooopss... you were saying tasteless *reality* TV show. Sorry.

A bunch of guys seeing how far they can ejaculate is probably more real than most reality TV shows nowadays.

Here's my idea:

Stereotype Island. A midget, a retarded person, a really gansta black guy, a really snooty, up tight white guy, a really gangsta hispanic guy, an airheaded blonde with big, fake boobs, and some D-list celebrity are put on an island. One by one, they vote each other off, and the winner recieves $1,000,000, except that in order to get it, they must pretend to be the real father of an adopted child for 6 months, and tell them the shocking truth at the end.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-12-16 12:24pm

What Did I Have For Dinner?

A show, fun for the whole family, in which contestants eat the shit of a panel member and try to guess what kind of food it used to be. All for a million dollars in prize money.
To be seen on Fox LOL Sunday!

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-12-16 12:32pm

Frank Hipper wrote:What Did I Have For Dinner?

A show, fun for the whole family, in which contestants eat the shit of a panel member and try to guess what kind of food it used to be. All for a million dollars in prize money.
To be seen on Fox LOL Sunday!

Even my masturbating contest is nothing compared to this true masterpiece of art. I bow before you, Hipper!

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-12-16 12:46pm

Frank Hipper wrote:What Did I Have For Dinner?

A show, fun for the whole family, in which contestants eat the shit of a panel member and try to guess what kind of food it used to be. All for a million dollars in prize money.
To be seen on Fox LOL Sunday!

Well, looks like you won the crown of tastelessness with that juwel.

I only wonder how long until a broadcast station asks you to sell them the rights to your idea?

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2004-12-16 02:10pm

I think Frank should sell it to the Japanese, if they haven't done that already. Now, I figured, the "blood and mayhem" side of the lake was being fished thoroughly. So, I decided to take another tack, and suggest a couple ways TV can exploit people's sexuality for cheap, trashy ratings.

My first idea is a dating game. A bisexual goes on a date with both a man and a woman, and at the end must pick one to go out with again. Each show, they switch between a male and a female bisexual, though I'd bet the ones with the females will do better in the ratings. As an added twist, one of the dates is a phony, being the opposite sexual orientation to what they pretend to be. During sweeps, one more twist can be added. The bisexual chosen to go on the date has a particular fetish, and only one of the dates shares that fetish.

My second idea would be to kick Wife Swap up a notch. Have a straight married couple and a gay or lesbian couple switch members. As before, we switch between gay and lesbian each week, and the episodes involving lesbians will probably do better in the ratings. During sweeps, theycan arrange to pick straight couples where the person to be switched has admitted homosexual interest to the producers, just so we can film the spouse's reaction when he or she doesn't want to switch back.

UCBooties · Post by **UCBooties** » 2004-12-16 02:21pm

We go to a nice secluded location and start a suicide cult. Film for six months while people suck down spiritual horseshit and vie for a position on the magical salvation ship. Backstabbing and proseletyzing abound. For the finale, we whip up a nice big batch of kill-aid, and whoever has the presence of mind not to drink it get's a couple thousand dollars for not being completely fucking stupid.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-16 02:27pm

naked lesbian oil wrestling competitions. seriously.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-12-16 02:44pm

Handicapped Boot Camp! I leave the details to your imaginations.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2004-12-16 06:22pm

Frank Hipper wrote:What Did I Have For Dinner?

A show, fun for the whole family, in which contestants eat the shit of a panel member and try to guess what kind of food it used to be. All for a million dollars in prize money.
To be seen on Fox LOL Sunday!

Oh dear...that is a true thing of beauty.