This was absolutely hillarious ("reality" TV related)

I had a customer drop off her PowerBook for service a few minutes ago, we got to talking, and it turns out that she’s a producer of “reality” TV shows (the bachelor, nanny 911 and a couple others), i very diplomatically held my tongue about my feelings of reality tv…

until she said “i hate reality TV, i mean i work in the industry and i hate the shows, i won’t watch them”

it stunned me, so i asked her “why are they so popular then?”

“it’s like a train wreck, you can’t help not watching, but you don’t want to admit to others that you watch them”

here’s where it got funnier, one of my cow-orkers absolutely loves reality drek, survivor, apprentice, all that stuff, so i had to get him talking to the customer…

“John, this is Nicole (names changed to protect the guilty), she’s a producer of reality shows”

they get to talking about the shows…

“John, ask her what she thinks of reality tv then…”

…he does so

“i hate it, it sucks, i only do it because it pays the bills and lets me travel the world, i prefer regular TV”

…he was stunned, after she left he remarked how she had great taste in computers, but horrible taste in TV, i countered that she had excellent taste in computers, yes, and she had excellent taste in TV

oh, forgot to add, she was talking about how some of the really bad stuff on the nanny show never gets aired, scenes where the brats are actually beating up on the cast, she said there were many times that she felt like dope-slapping the little brats…

she called the show “the most effective birth control program i’ve ever seen, i don’t want to have kids…”

What a fun conversation that would have been! I hate reality TV too; good to know that the folks that make it aren’t any more fond of it than me. :smiley: