"Reality Show" Competition

Ok, ok... we all know they aren't really reality, but close enough. It's not so much how blatantly staged they are that bothers me, it's the way the premise of each show makes literally no sence.

For the sake of this blog I'll focus on From G's to Gents, the Girls of Hedsor Hall, and Tool Academy. These three have one thing in common: the contestants compete to be more socially acceptable human beings.



Let's start with G's to Gents. This show is my golden child. I watch it every week online for the sheer absurdity of the contestants. Supposedly they're all "G's" (gangstas for those of you are who are g-tarded like I am) and say things like "that's real, family" and "I'm going to BODY YOU" and (brace yourself) "he defaced MAH FACE!" Truthfully, it would be a stretch to call half of them OG considering some boasted owning a house, a Hummer, and holding respectable jobs. The one thing they have in common is a clearly forced use of (what I assume to be) gangsta slang and ebonics.



Hedsor Hall is pretty much the same thing except the contestants are all stupid, ugly sluts and two stick-up-their-ass British women are teaching them how to be ladies. Do you really need to go to school to know not to post yourself masturbating online or get arrested for drunken behavior? I think not. This show is less interesting because they are clearly all putting on a show and cannot possibly be that socially-retarded.

Worst yet is Tool Academy where tools learn to be good boyfriends (set up by their loser girlfriends). They are all ugly and therefore uninteresting.

Now to the point... these shows don't make sense to me. In these improve-yourself competitions who is supposed to win? The one who made the biggest improvement? The one who is the best at what they are have supposed to become (gentleman, lady, boyfriend, etc...)? So clearly this show is unfair. Some people enter the show at rock bottom and some are much closer at achieving the goal. We all know that the one who gets the award is always the one who made the greatest transformation, even if he may not be #1 in the competition.

The real reason this pisses me off is that you can tell they're just keeping obnoxious trainwrecks on the show (like Fahim from G's to Gents) regardless of the fact that they haven't made a single improvement.

MTV and VH1... I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.