# FOX is running out of show ideas
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 1, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422 "2009-01-01T00:27:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/1 "2009-01-01T00:27:26Z")
…and we get to make up more!
_World’s Most Dangerous Intersections!_ Authentic footage of nothing happening at a place where, recently, something happened.
_When Brides Go Bad_. A compilation of viewer-submitted video of tantrum-throwing brides whose big days don’t go exactly right.
_Survivor: ISS_. Each week an astronaut is voted off the International Space Station.
_Dieting With the Stars._ To follow up the successful _Dancing With the Stars, Doing Taxes With the Stars,_ and _Shoplifting With the Stars_.
_American Idle._ The last person to tune in wins. Tune in to see if you’ve won!
_Who Wants to Bury a Millionaire?_ Six gravediggers compete in a series of events to determine who gets to embalm a famous dead celebrity.
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/2 "2009-01-01T00:36:05Z")
_The Sex Show_. Random clips of people having sex with no attempt at a coherent plot or narrative.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/3 "2009-01-01T01:22:42Z")
No need to invent wacked out reality shows. There’s a new one – I think it’s called _Parking Wars_ – encounters with people pissed off at meter maids.
Ever catch an episode of _Operacion Repo_? Those people make _Dog the Bounty Hunter_ look respectable.
Have you seen the C-list celebs snarking on _The World’s Dumbest Criminals_? When Tonya Harding and Danny Bonaduce criticize your burglary skills, you **know** it’s time to straighten up.
Yeah, my husband has charge of the remote. Why do you ask? 😛
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/4 "2009-01-01T01:51:22Z")
“Ouch! My Balls!”🆒
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/5 "2009-01-01T03:25:58Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> _The Sex Show_. Random clips of people having sex with no attempt at a coherent plot or narrative.
How about _Fucking With The Stars_ : Z-list and washed out celebs are having sex with porn star in front of an audience while being judged by porn directors ?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/6 "2009-01-01T03:36:10Z")
_Pedofollies_: tune in each week for the comic misadventures of a gang of pervs trying to score at the local jungle gym.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/7 "2009-01-01T13:09:11Z")
_Who Wants To Be A Somalian Pirate?_
A cross between _Millionaire_, and _Survivor_ and taking freelance mercenary work.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/8 "2009-01-01T13:41:18Z")
_Paparazzi Camp_: Become the least you can be without winning an election! An intense reality show look at what it takes to seriously piss off the real celebrities.
_Soul Train_: Join a group of fundamentalist anti-gay crusaders as they take a chartered train across America to fight the Homo-Fascist Agenda. The series ends with a flaming confrontation in San Francisco, the queer capital of the world! (Possible guest appearance by Fred Phelps.)
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### Author:  [@Gordon\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Freeman)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/9 "2009-01-02T01:11:01Z")
> [@Fish](#):
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> …and we get to make up more!
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> _Who Wants to Bury a Millionaire?_ Six gravediggers compete in a series of events to determine who gets to embalm a famous dead celebrity.
This sounds interesting except they don’t let us gravediggers embalm people. We
only get to put them in the ground. Funeral Directors/ Morticians do the embalming.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/10 "2009-01-02T01:41:21Z")
_The Big Score_
Average ordinary contestants are dropped into a bad neighborhood where they try to execute a simple drug buy without being robbed/arrested/shot.
\*Are You Smarter Than a Redneck?
- Jeff Foxworthy (naturally) hosts as upper middle-class suburbanites compete against illiterate country folk in categories including: auto repair at home, septic tanks, shopping at Wal-Mart, tailoring hand-me-down clothes and teenage marriage counseling.
_World’s Most Dangerous Sidewalks_
Videos of pedestrians slipping, tripping and stumbling on uneven or slick pavements.
_Sideshow_
Little people, morbidly obese people, amputees, wheelchair-bound people and grossly disfigured people try to live normal lioves with a measure of dignity. Being a Fox show, they don’t.
_Bachelor Party_
Handsome young men about to be married are subjected to a series of ever-increasing temptations including alcohol, hookers and gambling.
_Dark Horse_
Complete unknowns are drafted to run for elective office against popular, well-funded incumbents.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/11 "2009-01-02T02:12:04Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> _The Sex Show_. Random clips of people having sex with no attempt at a coherent plot or narrative.
“Fox turned into a soft core porn channel so gradually I didn’t even notice” 🙂
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-is-running-out-of-show-ideas/479422/12 "2009-01-02T02:23:32Z")
_True Vacuum Cleaner Stories._