Coming up on TLC: My Strange Diction: [sobbing shamefully] “My name is Jester, and nobody understands me!”
Anything you’d not be surprised to see in Reality TV land?
inspired by my daughter slipping into a My Strange Addiction character and going on about being addicted to eating drywall, replete with assorted sheetrock-related puns
New on the Discovery Channel: Naked and Afraid to Date. “They’re nerds, they’re geeks, they’re baring it all. Watch four introverted gamers search for online love live from their basements. Co-sponsored by *I’m OK, You’re Ok Cupid *and Pizza Hutch.
These people live so far out in the wild bush that they have to drive a whole half mile down the road they live on the get to the nearest pizza shop. (true fact).
“Junk Hoarders”-you watch as crazy people fill their houses up with junk. The episode ends when the local Board of Health condemns the place, and the junk is hauled off to another home.
Grandma’s Kitchen - Your intrepid host goes all over the country visiting the kitchens of a variety of grandmothers while they’re preparing supper or baking a pie or canning jam. Granny chats about all sorts of things, whether related to cooking or not, going off in tangents about Cousin Mikey’s neighbor’s cat who used to dig up Mikey’s wife’s begonias. Intrepid host occasionally gets whacked with a wooden spoon for trying to taste without permission. It’s a sentimental journey for those whose Grammas have long passed. Keep a tissue handy…
Someone’s got to make a crazy cat lady show. I can’t think of a good title, but imagine the potential drama! Boots and Pickles fight over the catnip banana; who will prevail this time? The saga of Tiger and his endless quest for food. Clay, corn, pine or clumping? The day the dry food ran low. Season-ending cliffhanger: The Vet’s.
Isn’t that the plot of Mo Rocca’a * My Grandmothers Ravoili’ * show? (cooking channel). I don’t know cause I’ve only seen it once. We don’t usually get cooking channel.
I never heard of My Grandmother’s Ravioli so if I stole someone’s idea, it’s merely a case of a monkey pounding on the keyboard till Shakespeare falls out.
Well, we’ve already had people picking through abandoned storage spaces and going through other people’s garbage, so why not just take it right to the landfill? Give everyone a rake, make it into some kind of treasure hunt game, throw in some fake drama and there’s your show. The title? Massive Dump.