# If TV could show ANYthing... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632 "2011-02-25T21:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/61 "2011-03-01T03:11:26Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > That actually does sound interesting. The exact same show televised on CBN (whatever they call it now) will be called anti-choice as the show when on MTV will be called pro-abortion. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/62 "2011-03-01T03:34:49Z")
While we’re on the subject of disgusting reality shows, may I suggest **Celebrity Autopsy** , complete uncensored footage of Hollywood stars being autopsied intercut with reenactments of how they died. And if that’s not perveted enough how about a companion show, **Celebrity Funeral** detailing the funerals, including _all_ aspects of how the body was prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/63 "2011-03-01T03:38:28Z")
HBO had an autopsy show (no celebrities that I am aware of). The episode I remember clearly was of a younger adult male who had choked to death on his own vomit while drunk. Watching the stomach contents being ladled out and weighed just about did it for me . . . (SDMB REALLY has to get a good ‘barf’ smilie!) ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/64 "2011-03-01T03:58:01Z")
I’ve had an idea for a trashy VH1 reality show where they track down musicians who quit bands just before the bands became famous. They’d find out what sort of lives and careers they led, and interview them to see if they regretted their decisions. They would offer them enough money that they couldn’t refuse to appear on the show. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/65 "2011-03-01T04:02:57Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I KNOW! It fascinates me how many seem so interested in seeing people die, often horrifically! I have no desire to ever see people die. I’m not so much judging as not understanding the desire. It’s not the dying that interests me. It’s the killin’. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/66 "2011-03-01T04:44:02Z")
Well, most of these ‘killin’ shows would be populated by people who would be there voluntarily. They would sign off, and then join in the fun. Well, 'cept the autopsy thing, I don’t suppose too many folks would sign up for that . . . ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632/67 "2011-03-01T05:16:13Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I’ve had an idea for a trashy VH1 reality show where they track down musicians who quit bands just before the bands became famous. They’d find out what sort of lives and careers they led, and interview them to see if they regretted their decisions. They would offer them enough money that they couldn’t refuse to appear on the show. That’s actually one VH1 show I’d watch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-tv-could-show-anything/572632.md?page=3)