Presidential Survivor:
Since reality shows are hugely popular while election turnouts are dismal, the solution seems obvious. Please help me design the ultimate Presidential Selection Reality Series.
I:
All candidates are shipped to a deserted island. Teams are formed with liberals on one side, conservatives on another, and Third Party on yet another. Each week host Gary Hart monitors certain tests, such as:
—Given 3 yards of rope, some plywood, $2,000 in gold and a month’s supply of rice, topple the government of a Third World country
—The week’s captains of each team awake to find a dead underage hooker in their bed and must do their best to dispose of the body while press and paparazzi are outside their tent
—The island is hit with a special effects bonanza hurricane: explain why the other side is ultimately responsible and how you would have avoided it
—Each team is given extremely incriminating information on other team captains and must use it to maximum advantage while controlling their own info leak. (They won’t be allowed to know what info the other teams have on them.)
—Slug and raw entrails eating (you can’t have an island reality show without it)
—Each week one player from each team is “assassinated” in a meeting at Ford’s Theater. The final two from each team will be Pres and VP candidates, but must work it out for themselves who is who in a tug-of war 400 feet above an interstate.
II: Take the candidates to a deserted island and leave them there. Elect Oprah queen for life and start over.
Please add more or different suggestions.