# "Big Brother Brazil"? Bizarre TV Show?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 3, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626 "2007-05-03T16:15:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626/1 "2007-05-03T16:15:28Z")

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I was in Brazil last month-and i noticed a very strange TV show, which (apparently)  
is very popular down there. It consists of a luxury house (with an inground swimming pool), inhabited by 3-4 GORGEOUS chicks, and 3-4 young men. The house is equipped with TV cameras, and you get to see them 24/7 (you don’t get to see them changing clothes :smack: ). Anyway, the idea is that they all play head games with eachother, and every so on, somebody gets voted out. the windder/last one in, gets a big cash prize. Now, i’m a big skeptic of these 'reality" shows-in a real situation, these kids would be at eachother’s throats in 2-3 days. yet, the show is extremely poular! I tuned in because the girts were-super hot! But aside from this aspect, who cares about watching people all day long?  
Will such a show make it in the USA? Or would censorship prevent this sort of thing?

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626/2 "2007-05-03T16:28:05Z")

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Where have YOU been? We’ve had 8 seasons of Big Brother here in the US already.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626/3 "2007-05-03T16:58:19Z")

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Isn’t that the one where the protagonist feared that rats would attack him from the tubes?

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626/4 "2007-05-03T17:52:54Z")

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It was started by the evil Dutch but dozens of countries have versions [all over the world.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(TV_series)) I have never watched more than 30 seconds at a time but I can see the appeal. Especially to the network. It must be very cheap to make compared to a written show.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-brazil-bizarre-tv-show/402626/5 "2007-05-03T17:59:40Z")

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[QUOTE=jayjay]  
Where have YOU been? We’ve had 8 seasons of Big Brother here in the US already.  
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Way to go. You’ve just enlightened the last person on the planet who didn’t know about _BB_. He would have made an interesting anthropological case-study. ☹