Perhaps Reality TV isn’t the lowest TV can go
A while ago I wrote about Reality TV and how it could be interpreted as a sign of America’s rapidly decreasing cultural vitality. Now, with the studios running out of scripts due the writer’s strike, they are digging up any script they have and producing it. I guess they figure that we, the consumers, will watch anything if it’s on TV.
In addition to what’s likely to be more mind-numbing, IQ-lowering plots, they aren’t even trying hard to name these shows. Two shows coming out show have had huge advertising blitzes. They are knock-offs of Sex and the City, named “Lipstick Jungle” and “Cashmere Mafia“. I can just see the creative types in a room discussing the names: “Let’s take a word that has something to do with women and attach something tough sounding to it.”
Sheesh.
So the formula for “Lipstick Jungle” is “women’s toiletry” plus “some sort of climate”. May I humbly propose a show called, “Nose hair trimmer temperate rainforest”?
And the formula for “Cashmere Mafia” is “fabric” plus ” organization”. My alternative, “Linen Union Workers”.
You know that you’d watch shows called “Nose hair trimmer temperate rainforest” or “Linen Union Workers”. After all, they would be on TV; what else would you do, read a book? :-P
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