I have a feeling this is not exactly “reality TV.” the girls have admitted they were playing up their Lisa Douglas personas, and I’m sure they were told by the producers to layer on the makeup and wear inappropriate clothes, as that makes the show. Remember, too, we are seeing, what, 23 minutes edited out of 24 hours.
By the way, I would have turned on my heels and gone back inside, too, when that boob said, “Huh, is your last name Motel 6?” Like she hadn’t been hearing that lame remark every day of her life since kindergarten.
Yeah, I think everybody needs to come off their big high horse trashing Paris. This show is far from reality and is obviously staged. But to have fooled so many people is a testament to Paris’s acting ability and all the naysayers should just go ahead and admit they’ve been whooshed.
Paris, if you’re reading this my email address is in my profile. Thanks. :smooch:
I liked when he sent Tink down the slide. It was also funny when the Mom brought him in and put his coat on him because he was cold. She said he was shivering, but someone should tell her that those damn dogs just shake like that all the time.
She (the mom) is trying sooo hard to like Paris and Nicole. She must have the patience of a saint.
I think the drinking game should be a shot every time the Mom looks at them and rolls her eyes in disgust.
I think there seems to be a lot of culture shock occuring both ways. Paris and Nichole having no idea about the “life of the common man” and their hosts having no idea that not everyone grew up on a farm. I doubt most people from LA or New York would have done much better at the dairy farm. The dad even made the comment that he would have thought they could have handled the work at a dairy farm.
I think the person most hurt over the whole deal will be Tinkerbelle. Poor little dog.
I would have to agree with the dad. Really, what were they asked to do that was oh-so strenuous? Walk around with a cow bell? Anyone can do that. Shout at cows? Ditto. Hose down the barn? Not much skill required there. Shovel feed into a trough? Requires marginal physical activity. Fill a bunch of bottles from a hose? Not exactly labor or thought intensive work. Probably the biggest issue would have been in dealing with the cows directly, which I agree many folks might have difficulty with, especially if the only animals they’ve really been exposed to were neurotic chihuahuas.
Exactly. Actually, Paris seemed quite good at the shouting bit. Ain’t a thing wrong with that girl’s lungs, nosirree. Was anyone else amused by their calculations of their hourly pay? They were figuring in the hours they’d spent sunning, tubbing, and napping into their pay, rather than the time they’d actually been working.
It’s dirty hot work. Each task was may have been simple but they were all strung together and they dealt with the cows directly for several hours. I think it took us a couple hours and the herd was smaller then the one they worked with. It also looked like there were problems with the hose, there wasn’t always milk coming out of it when they had the spigot opened.
Have you ever seen a cup stacking competition? Even the simplest task requires practice and know-how to do with speed and accuracy. I bet that if anyone of us had to do that with the truck coming early, we would be alarmed to see how quickly our six-bit mistakes add up on the first day.
BTW, I think it was Nichole who yelled at the cows. That was funny.
Of course it’s staged; this is Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray producing the show. They’ve provided me with hours of ego-boosting entertainment via The Real World and Road Rules. The Simple Life is the same kind of crack to me. I’ll keep watching, especially for the cow rectum and hopefully more shots of that kid whacking the crap out of the bugs in the girls’ bedroom. I love that a four-year-old is more capable than Paris and Nicole.
Yes. Hopefully, the American viewing public will come to the collective conclusion that Reality TV is an oxymoron. Of course, that requires thought, so I’m not holding my breath.
At first I smirked at how stupid they were for slathering on makeup for a day of work on a dairy farm, then I remembered the cameras, realized they’re doing it for the cameras, and nobody will ever know if they would have wasted half an hour putting on makeup at 0600 to hose down a milk barn if they hadn’t been participating in a “reality” show.
And exactly how rich can they possibly be if Fox was able to come up with enough money to make this project worthwhile to them?
(The parade theme will be 'A Simple Christmas. Really.)
The online edition doesn’t have pics, though.
Granma and Grampy get to ride high.
I imagine Mom and Dad have had enough.
Besides, respect for elders, ya know.
I subscribe to the paper because I mentioned(?) thinking about moving there.
If you can’t hang out every day in the local cafe or bar, and get the gossip, it’s the next best thing.
I am so sorry. I went to college with a few people who did, and it seemed to me that their going to U of A was pretty much decided before they even got to high school.
I missed last weekend’s game. How did they do?
Does that mean you’re going to mount me on your wall?
But it’s so much fun! And easy! And, according to Fox, profitable.
Actually, if you have to live in Arkansas in high school, Fayetteville’s the place to be (or was 20-25 years ago). I’d walk from FHS over to either Dickson Street Book Store or the Record Exchange and hang out until my mom got off work from her job at UofA, then ride home with her. There was a sort of punk/new wave club with no liquor license in the old UARK theatre for a while in my days there, and a certain set of kids who were worth hanging out with. Most of us went elsewhere to college however. The ones who stayed in Fayetteville seemed to kind of get sucked into the vortex of indolence (if I may be indulged in such an oxymoron) and comfort of being in your home town.
So badly that if I really cared at all I’d be livid at being reminded. Apparently the only thing that stopped LSU from scoring at will was the clock.**
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So if “jumping the shark” means that a show has just gotten old, will “fisting the cow” be the new way of saying that a show has just gotten interesting?
