# Design your own Reality TV show **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700 "2000-08-25T07:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/1 "2000-08-25T07:02:18Z")
Now that we’re all SICK TO DEATH of _Survivor_, but the ratings have been such that we’re going to see a whole boatload of copy-cats over the next 18 months (Bootcamp, etc.), I thought it woudl be fun to ask… **If you were designing your own “Reality TV” show, what would it be?** How about… Take a group of people, lock them in an a bunch of cells (oops, “cubicles”) for 10 hours a day. Have half as many computers as people, make them beg for the office supplies they need to do their jobs, only allow limited food and bathroom breaks, randomly reward and punish various behaviours, and see what fun breaks out! Call it “Money or a Life”. Sounds like it’s worth at least a cool $Mil to me! YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![inoci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@inoci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inoci)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/2 "2000-08-25T13:49:52Z")
There’s a great short story called “The Most Dangerous Game” (the author escapes me). I think this kind of thing would make great reality TV. I’ve got dibs on being the hunter! ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/3 "2000-08-25T14:01:00Z")
I’d like to see each of a dozen people handed a spoon and informed that the first one who manages to tear out his or her own femur without detaching the entire leg live on TV gets a ridiculous amount of money. ---
**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/4 "2000-08-25T14:28:44Z")
The only way to improve it would be to make the show with like 6 tribes… then merge them to form 3 tribes… merge again to form one tribe. To win that would be an achievement. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/5 "2000-08-25T14:32:51Z")
I’ve got a couple of ideas: 1. A show where the viewer can watch a bunch of people sitting around watching a reality show where people are sitting around watching TV… 2. Every week, have someone engage police and highway patrol officers in a high speed car chase around various parts of the city, trying to elude them. huh? oh. never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/6 "2000-08-25T16:04:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by inoci \* > \*\*There’s a great short story called “The Most Dangerous Game” (the author escapes me). I think this kind of thing would make great reality TV. > I’ve got dibs on being the hunter! \*\* Not only was it a great story, it was made into a great movie. Only runs about 1 hr 10 mins, and well worth it. I wouldn’t expect to see it in shits like blockbuster tho. ---
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/7 "2000-08-25T16:09:22Z")
Film me in my natural habitat. Sitting on my ass, in my apartment, doing nothing. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/8 "2000-08-25T16:11:18Z")
Get 10 child molesters in a small wooden house. Nail all theirs dicks to the floor. Throw one rusty butterknife in the middle of the group. Set the house on fire. The one who gets out first goes free. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/9 "2000-08-26T02:33:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michi \* > \*\*Film me in my natural habitat. Sitting on my ass, in my apartment, doing nothing. \*\* **Would SOMEBODY please do SOMETHING about getting this done?!** and fer crissakes, get me some Nielsen families on the phone! …especially if “natural habitat” means what I hope it does. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TaleraRis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@TaleraRis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaleraRis)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/10 "2000-08-26T10:38:01Z")
The Most Dangerous Game - definitely a great story and a great movie. And sadly it seems television will have to take it to that sort of level just to keep getting the same WOW value it gets from stuff like Survivor, things that are new and different and dangerous. But it would be kind of neat to put the people I hate the most in that madman’s hands. I guess I’m just sadistic 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-reality-tv-show/30700/11 "2000-08-26T10:58:18Z")
Me, and a bunch of hot babes on an island. Lesbian activity disallowed (unless I approve, and can watch). They will come to love me.