# Ridiculous Reality TV Shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722 "2015-08-01T14:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/1 "2015-08-01T14:23:08Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/2 "2015-08-01T14:29:14Z")
“Dating Naked”-Gee, Honey, I meant to dress tonight! ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/3 "2015-08-01T14:34:14Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/4 "2015-08-01T14:40:06Z")
Alaskan Bush People. 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). Discovery channel must think we’re really stupid. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/5 "2015-08-01T14:46:59Z")
_Reality Bytes_-A houseful of people watching reality shows online. No interactions, no conflicts, just occasional trips to the kitchen or bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/6 "2015-08-01T14:55:47Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/7 "2015-08-01T15:02:45Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > “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. It’s been done. Lifetime: [Hoarders:Family Secrets](http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/hoarders) TLC: [Hoarding:Buried Alive](http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/hoarding-buried-alive/) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/8 "2015-08-01T15:23:08Z")
\*\*SDMB! \*\* Watch the flamewars with 1920s style death rays! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/9 "2015-08-01T15:48:28Z")
**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… ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/10 "2015-08-01T15:52:44Z")
**Honey Boo Boo Didn’t Know She Was Pregnant!** ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/11 "2015-08-01T17:23:23Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > 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\*\* I like your kid. 😃 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_. So many possibilities. **Fairychatmom** , I’d probably watch Grandma’s Kitchen. :o ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/12 "2015-08-01T21:08:22Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **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… 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. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/13 "2015-08-01T21:40:01Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/14 "2015-08-04T17:00:19Z")
“Alaskan Gold: Mining Naked”-a bunch of drunk rednecks mine for gold while stark naked. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/15 "2015-08-04T17:06:03Z")
The Race for the White House 2016 😛 ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/16 "2015-08-04T17:09:48Z")
“Trash Men of Beverly Hills”, following trash carriers as they poke and prod through celebrity garbage. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/17 "2015-08-04T17:33:37Z")
I can see some network putting _Trash Men of Beverly Hills_ on the air. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/18 "2015-08-04T18:04:41Z")
All The President’s Men Every guy the current potus knows and what they had for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/19 "2015-08-05T05:07:11Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722/20 "2015-08-05T06:17:25Z")
I’ve sampled so many terrible ones, I’m afraid to get started naming them. Why don’t we switch to the best Reality TV programs. I think the best ever was Candid Camera with Alan Funt. Everything else is #2. Or lower. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous-reality-tv-shows/726722.md?page=2)