growing up i remember sitting with my grandpa as he either watched or listened to the cincinnati reds play baseball or the cincinnati bengals play football. for years he would shake his head in disgust...he would always moan and groan at their missed plays and losing games. i would always ask myself "if he hates them so much why does he always watch/listen!?!" obviously, i'm a lot more like my grandpa than i ever realized....
if you've read this blog for longer than a week you most likely know my love for reality tv. (here, here & here..are just a few examples) until recently i had no idea about anything related to truTV. as i was clicking through the guide i noticed storage hunters. hmm... well i do love storage wars so it must stand to reason that i would also love storage hunters. right?
wrong.
what a crappy show! and what the freak is up with that chic's hair?! one episode it's almost normal and the next episode it's a full on mullet. weird.
and don't get me started on such shows as lizard lick towing, hardcore pawn, & operation repo. although, at least the episodes of lizard lick towing, that i've watched, have left me laughing hysterically as they get whooped up on as they attempt to repo the vehicles. i mean, who drives their own car into a lake to avoid a tow!!?? i've seen it twice already on that stupid show.
don't get me wrong...i'm sure most all of reality tv is fake and/or staged. really, i get it. but c'mon. every single show that i've seen on truTV - a station that claims "Not Reality. Actuality." - seems completely and totally staged. staged with people that have bottomless pockets of money to bid on storage units (yet seem to just make up prices that these items are really worth), people that go completely ape when approached by a tow truck, and psychotic person after person trying to pawn fake jewelry for obscene prices.
i can't be the only one that hates all things truTV can i?!
more importantly - why can't i bring myself to turn OFF these stupid shows?!!?
the first step to defeating an addiction is to admit one, right? well... it's obvious. i'm 100% addicted to awful reality television.
now..on to step 2?
That's it! It is the end of our friendship! Lizard Lick, Operation Repo and Hard Core Pawn are my favorite shows and I'm not lying. They are all so damn fake it's not funny...but that's just it, it is HILARIOUS! Well, hard core pawn is just annoying with the brother and sister fighting, but I still love it. In fact, on our way to the U.P., I begged JOhn to get off at 8 mile to take me past there for a picture. He wouldn't. :( Party pooper! John did a roofing job for a friend of mine and she sent me a pm that her teenage daughter and her friends thought JOhn was hot and looked like Froy on Op Repo. Now I call him Froy. ROFL.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you don't like those shows! You suck. Haaahaahaa!!!! Next time you see John, ask him how many times we have stayed up until almost 3 watching those stupid things, even after he works all day and all night.
LOL!! The problem I have is that I *DO* watch these freakin' shows! I do bust out laughing during lizard lick.. like straight up Maury Povich groaning "OHHHHHHHHHHH SNAP!!! He just got OWNED!!!" I haven't been able to stomach an entire episode of Operation Repo though. As far as Hardcore Pawn (and I can't tell you the times that I've typo'd with "porn") it's like a trainwreck. I can't look away at the absolute chaos that walks into that place. LOL
DeleteA very good friend of mine DID take her vacation to head to American Jewelry and Loan and got a family picture with Les!
Oh man, I'm jealous! I'd love a picture like that! I do watch every episode, all the way through of Operation Repo. I like it better than LL. Ron and his wife were on Conan talking about the show. Originally, TLC was following around the wife because she is/was a UFC fighter but they decided they couldn't make a show out of it, then came up with the idea of a repo show. Ron said he had never done a single repo in his life until they threw the idea out there. He basically told all about the show being fake and staged and saying they pay the "actors" to do the crazy fights and stuff. After hearing all that, it just took away from the show, even though you know it's fake.
ReplyDeleteWhaaaat?! That is crazy!!
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