Lots of reality shows today involve deception. what would be the most evil idea for a reality show? I’ll start this one off:
A “home makeover” show where different hosts each week show up to a house and tell them that they are getting their home redesigned. A limo is there to pick them up and take them on a week long vacation. the limo takes them to the airport. they are told they are going to hawaii but are put on a plane to a third world country in a cheap motel.
a crew of five people, armed with just a hammer and a crowbar destroy everything in the house, put holes in walls, etc. the family is dropped off in front of their house and the limo speeds away. hidden cameras capture their reactions to their destroyed house. muahahhaha
People are randomly kidnapped on the street, told they are suspected terrorists and sent blindfolded to a remote location where they are told they are now in Guantanamo… until the US government decides otherwise…
See them cry! See them beg for mercy! See them tortured!
•In a small-ish community, the local media and the producers of the show jam all outside TV and radio broadcasts, cut phone communications, and broadcast fake “emergency alert” and “breaking news” stories—featuring cameos by several major TV anchors—about a massive nuclear attack being launched on the US. Hidden cameras record the hillarity.
•Let me just say…remember the first ten minutes of that movie Red Dawn? Work in some actors wearing squibs and bloodpacks, add the hidden cameras…voila.
Now, where to stage it? A city like, say, Berkeley, CA would be safer for the cast and crew. But a city like, say, Houston would be a lot more fun to watch later.
Your performers get hold of some average mook, cut his hair with garden shears, shave off his eyebrows, dress him in all-black stonewashed denim, redecorate his house with Udai-Hussein-style pornographic art, teach him how to cook but mix up the ingredients (cup of salt in the cake etc) and reintroduce him to his girlfriend.
Call it “Hapless Boob” or something. It’d be a hit.
A reverse-Queer-Eye would be quite fun.
There is a reverse “queer eye…” called “straight plan for the gay man”…anyway there is a show on that is the opposite of American Idol, I think it is called American Superstar and what they do is they kick off all the good singers and keep the sucky ones and at the end of the show they will tell the one that sucked the most that he was being tricked and he never was a good singer and he was only chosen because he sucked…at least Simon tells you before you go any farther making a fool of yourself on TV.
Parents of newborn twins are separated and each one gets a twin for a week. They swap twins for week two. After the second week, without consultation, each parent decides which twin will be killed. If they agree on which one to kill, both twins live. If they disagree, both twins die.
10 people are locked in an inescapable room for 10 weeks with enough food for 3 weeks, with the tempreture variating between 20 degrees F and and 100 degrees F on a daily basis. There is no toliet in the room, no windows and it’s alternativly pitch black and painfully bright, at random intervals. Screen ahead of time to make sure the 10 people are the most annoying people on earth and incompatiable with each other.
Geez, you all are evil! And I thought my idea for a reality show in which contestants are dropped in the Sierra Nevadas in November and the one who wins is the one found alive in April because he ate all the other contestants–well, I thought that one was sort of mean.
My vote goes to “The Truman Show” concept. A guy thinks he’s living his real life, when it’s all fake. For over 30 years. That has got to be the cruelest idea ever.
How about the contestants are locked up in a house a forced to watch endless reruns of all the prior “reality shows”. Last one not to have their head cave in wins.
I’ve mentioned this before, but apparently some television producers actually pitched a reality show where a group of orphans would be competing to be the one child adopted by a couple.
Spend 2 weeks handcuffed to an alcoholic. Survive it, and win a cash prize. They did this on the radio a while back, the contestand was a gorgous young blonde woman and she had to be handcuffed to this nasty drunk hobo for DAYS…at one point in the middle of the night she had to go to the bathroom, but the drunk guy was passed out and she couldn’t move him so she had to pee the bed. It took her five days to finally build up the courage to poop because she was so embarassed the guy was always around. Oh yeah, and the guy would throw up on her a lot :eek:
Put it on pay-per-view and we’d never have to worry about national debt again!
Here’s my idea. You wanted evil right? OK, Let’s take Liza Minelli and have her marry, oh I don’t know, let’s say David Gest! Then tape the home interacti…huh? What do you mean it’s been done? It has? Damn. I guess that would only leave locking members of Nation of Islam and the KKK together in a gay brothel. Not really evil, but man would that be entertaining or what?
Win a chance to be launched aboard a spacecraft that’ll make a trip by Earth’s closest planetary neighbor!
Unfortunately, the winner will find out, much too late, that he’ll be traveling in this. (By the way, for reasons of structural integrity and power conservation, the spacecraft will have no windows or radio equipment. 'Hope you like powdered spam. See you next year. Probably.)
I always kinda liked the idea of putting a bunch of contestants on a remote island, and giving each a Uzi and one 50-shot loaded magazine. For every contestant, there are also 49 chimpanzees left on the island, trained to use machetes and to attack humans. 24-36 hours, however long. Have little “player-cams” and “monkey-cams” on their heads. The carnage would be spectacular.
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