Okay, I'm serious this time: the Apocalypse IS coming. Monday of FOX

The Littlest Groom
Read it and weep.

Hey, I’ll watch it, if the conclusion of the series has the wedding ceremony, and instead of throwing rice… :smiley:

Then they can move into their very own Little House on the Prairie, a fine place to raise Little Women. Of course, they’ll have to name their son John.

Where’s the outrage? This country is so fucked up - everyone outraged over a long-distance, barely visible baring of a natural body part, right-wingers screaming over the “sanctity of marriage”, and yet Fox (that bastion of conservative thinking) puts shit like this on, over and over and over. (Of course, they’re not the only ones).

Jesus, where the hell did the common sense in this country go?

Whatever happened to The Waltons? Where is John Boy? Oh, getting laid on Elimiskank, Datearound, or Surreal Torture. Those are the good shows.

I brought this up in another thread, but here goes again: Read Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death. The link in that other thread was to Amazon.com, where there are reviews of the book. This link is to an extended excerpt from the book. It was published in 1985, but it’s still right on target.

19th century freak shows meet the 21st century media.

I´m not saying that the man is a freak, I´m talking about the attitude of putting people up for exhibition because of their abnormal appearance… ehhh… you know what I mean. :o

What could possibly be next?

Hermaphrodite Bachelor(ette)?

They run this kind of shit, and yet they cancel Futurama? What the hell is wrong with the Fox executives?!

Instead of a marriage show, they could do a Survivor style ripoff, and call it Mighty Hermaphrodite.

I can see it now:

In the denouement of this socially significant Fox offering our midg… little, er, short, um, diminutive hero selects a six-footer. We see the happy couple boarding a plane, hand in hand. He is her carry on.

After the honeymoon the dejected groom gives an interview in a Fox follow-up.

Interviewer: “Why the long face?”

Groom: “It didn’t go as well as I had hoped.”

Int: “What do you mean?”

Gr: “Well, when we were nose to nose, my toes were in it. When we were toes to toes, my nose was in it. And when I was in it, there was no one to talk to.”

By the way, I’m pretty short myself.

I’d really like to know what LPA has to say about this one.

Ignore my first post - I don’t know why I didn’t just turn to Google in the first place.

Apparently, LPA is “withholding judgement.” Meanwhile, Fox executives are promising that everyone on the show “is treated with dignity and respect.” If so, that’s a first for them.
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What’s with people being offended by shows they have not seen nor have any idea what they will contain? Perhaps the show will enable the average American to get a glimpse into the life of someone they normally would not know anything about. Maybe there is a chance that due to this show, some people’s attitudes toward another group of their fellow human beings will be changed for the better.

So let’s see, bitching about Janet Jackson showing her boob on national TV = stupid moronic fundamentalist trailer trash uptight conservative hypocrite asshole. Bitching about a show you have never seen and know almost nothing about = righteous politically correct lover of all humanity and protector of all unjustly defiled and defamed persons. This country is truely and utterly fucked. I’m going to start building my bomb shelter.

All I have to say, is that my hubby and I decided to cancel our cable about 2 months ago. Since we live in an apartment building, this means we really can’t even get our local channels without it. We get virtually ZERO TV reception without cable or Dish.

We haven’t missed it a bit.

Ok, I lie…we really miss the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But, there’s still quite a few of his bits on the Comedy Central website, and as much I love Jon (not to mention Lewis Black), it’s really not worth paying 50+ bucks a month just for his show.

The only problem we have now, is the kids HATE we don’t have TV anymore. Oh well. Luckily, we have 5 6-foot bookshelves FULL of great books they can have at, at will, and a PS2, not to mention all of the Great Outdoors to play in.

Riiight…I’m SURE that’s why they’re doing it…for the edification and education of their fellow men. Hey, as long as it helps you sleep at night…

So that’s where Dani Behr has got to to…

It’s nice to know that UK telly trash does have a place on US schedules. Kind of evens the score. You lucky people have some quality TV to look forward to when Dani’s around!!

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t TV shows voluntary? Or does Fox round these people up and force them to participate?

I wonder if she’s managed to find the arm of a sports star yet?

I was thinking along the same lines. It’s premature to assume anything about the show.
As an example of a show that you might judge incorrectly if you hadn’t seen it, take “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance”. I was just reading a thread where someone who had never seen it thought it was about making of fat people. In reality MBFOF actually shows the fat guy as being very likeable and funny, while the hot girl comes across as being shallow. This show might be the same way, in showing that little people are not any different than anyone else - right down to showing up on stupid dating game shows like taller people do. :slight_smile:

After a bit of thought, I don’t think this is going to be any worse than other tv dating shows. It’d be one thing if it were like Average Joe (hot girl thinks she’s being set up with a group of superstuds, then finds herself surrounded by little men and has to try to not look upset), but as long as they’re going to be more or less upfront about what they’re doing, it’s probably not so bad. It’s certainly not as cruel as Boy Meets Boy.