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Q: What stupid reality shows are you missing from North America?
WELL I'LL TELL YOU....
So, the first is this horrid piece of crap called "Mountain Men" it follows three guys who live in the woods and live traditionally.... except they don't.
ONE of the guys is a proper trapper who actually flies in a bush plane to his trapline for a few months of the year. And he's actually interesting. But, the other two are a joke. One is some stupid hippie and the other is just a guy who lives in Cabin. He has a friggin' landline and a truck FFS. Not exactly a mountain man.
The show tries to make drama where there is no drama. For instance they'll say "next mountain men, Tom battles wolves" and all it is is Tom hearing wolves howl and making a big deal out of wolves being around. And wolves are not that much of a threat. Eustace, the dumb hippe is a joke as well. He basically scams a bunch of people into coming to his ranch to "learn" from him. But they chop all his wood.
Ice Road Truckers;
Show about a bunch of guys who drive trucks on winter roads in Alaska and Canada. Could be a good show, but the producers are more interested in creating drama where there is no drama. They throw a bunch of scary music in CONSTANTLY that has no need to be there.
Swamp people:
Really? Can we exploit Bayou people more and laugh at their funny accents more? Plus, it's all narrated by a contrive "folksy" accent. Really irritating.
And how many shows about pawning shit do we need? Seriously. There's Pawn Stars (Which is good) then Cajun Pawn Stars, Pawnathon, Pawnathon Canada, American Pickers and Canadian Pickers. I don't CARE about guys going through garbage, and the one guy on American Pickers needs a punch in the head.
Now youre' up to dat.e
I get some of these on satellite ...don't really watch .....the ice road truckers thing is funny to me... cause I sort of know this shit... it really is not dangerous, very seldom anyways ... .. the pawn thing from vegas I like ...they get strange shit quite often...... Swamp people in the Bayou intrigues me, cause I never been there, chickened out when I was offered a job surveying in the bayou many years ago crocodiles scared me.....
I don't miss them........... although I have been known to watch trash like big brother or survivor........ but they take commitment and even my wife knows that is sometimes lacking ..hahahahahaaha
This question highlights one or two of the things I like about living in China. Thinking about it now, I am made absolutely giddy by the fact that I haven't had any of this crap constantly shoved into my face. For the three glorious, glorious years that I've been living here I haven't watched a single second of this garbage. Not even a sliver of an ad for the Real Housewives of Who The Hell Really Cares as I flip past Bravo, because everything I watch, I download. It might as well not exist. And best of all, on my day off, I don't have to wake up to find my girl friend camped out in the living room for a all day marathon of Project Runway or America's Next Top Model. I mean, my wife doesn't even know who Michael Coors is or Tyra Banks are. Thank you so much for asking this question, as it has placed me in a better mood almost instantly. 
My sister loves Swamp People. I usually don't watch reality shows, but that one can be funny on occasion. Well, I usually don't watch tv in general. If it's on, I'll watch what my parents are watching. The only time I touch the tv is to turn it off, or to watch a movie.
I hate reality shows and talent shows. I have never watched more than 2 minutes of any. Survivor: eating and hurling rotten raw pigs nose,,,really entertaining? They exist because of the high cost to produce good TV shows both for production costs and stars salary. This is why shows like Star Trek etc die. I miss Spock.
You missed all the Repo Shows!
Operation Repo:
"Based on Reality TV" is how they pitch it. Is based in Los Angles and follows a small repossession company filled with morbidly obese women and morons taking cars back from equally moronic 'clients'.
South Beach Tow:
Group of morbidly obese tow truck drivers who's combined IQ would probably make George Bush look like a Mensa candidate.
Lizard Lick Towing:
Good ol' boy body builders repo'ing cars in the south. I keep waiting for one of them to be eaten by a gator, but it ain't happened yet.
And my personal favorite, Repo Games:
Two muscle bound repo men role up to some losers home (along with a film crew of around 50 people) and try to repo the persons car (which is normally at least 15 years old and for some reason the person isn't able to pay off the $1,000 they bought it for).
When the always irate and drugged/drunk out of their mind owner comes out yelling, they offer to pay off the persons car if they can answer 3 out of 5 trivia questions. If they lose, they tow the car and the owner is left to wallow in pity.
Now you would think, that the trivia questions are hard or have tricks to them. Nope. They are insanely easy. And yet, more often than not, the car owners fail to answer the questions right.
Sample questions include:
What color was George Washington's white horse?
Name 3 states that end in the letter "y". (France, as the owner found out, is incorrect)
Who was the President of the United States before Clinton? ("This is a trick question because Hillary was never elected." was unfortunately not the answer they were looking for.)
American TV is a train wreck and I just can't keep myself from watching. I can literally feel my brain cringing in fear every time I reach for the remote.
