WHEN ANIMALS ATTRACT - What The Hell?

[Pumpkinhead]

I meant to post this thread about a week back, when I noticed an advertisement on FOX that at first, I assumed was surely a joke of some sort.

I'm sitting there, watching TV, and all of a sudden, I see a montage of animals making sweet, sweet love, all to the tune of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. The advertisement finishes, and I am shocked to discover that what I just witnessed was a promo for FOX's newest reality special...When Animals Attract.

That's right folks, When Animals Attract. A full hour of scenes of various animals proclaiming their love for each other, or as FOX bills it, "The real rumble in the jungle." That's it - there's nothing more to it. A bunch of animals having sex.

Now, I'm not a fan of reality TV by any stretch of the imagination. The only reality show that has ever caught my attention is Survivor. All that other stuff - American Idol, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, The Bachelor, Average Joe, Joe Millionaire - doesn't interest me in the slightest, but I can at least understand its popularity. This, I just don't get. Have the networks really dug that far into the bottom of the barrel that they must resort to producing an hour long program of clips of animals having sex? Furthermore, what is the appeal? I just don't get it. I'm really not trying to knock anyone's taste here; I just can't understand what enjoyment anyone could possibly get out of watching this show. For that reason, I can't understand how this show was given the go-ahead at all.

Basically, my question is: does anyone else find it strange that this show even made it onto the air? Because I'm reeling here, people. If anyone watched it, and could shed some light on the issue, that'd be just great.

It's scary to think what's next for Reality TV...

[Pumpkinhead]

Whoops, I just realized that I posted this in the TV Games forum. If a moderator could move it, that would be great. Sorry about that.

[adamjohnson]

Well, thats not nearly as bad as "When Cars Attack!" And, I know what youre thinking, and no, its not about people being hit by cars. Its about cars COMING ALIVE.

Picture this - aerial (security camera) shot of parking lot, from VERY far. Two cars back out of their spaces and switch spots! GASP! Then they cut, and they switch back again! Holy fuck! Unbelievably badly set up. And to top it off they let us in on the fact that its... A FULL MOON! So the cars must be alive!

Try This - Whats REALLY happening is that the car slipped out of park and started to spin in circles in a parking lot. But on this wonderful FOX special, the height of all TV programming, this car was... ATTACKING PEOPLE. And I think weve all seen this on Max-X before - the car is spinning around and the cop is trying to break the window as its doing so with his nightstick so he cna climb inside and stop it. Well when they interviewed him at the bottom it said "Joe Schmoe, so-n-so Precinct...DRIVERLESS CARS DIVISION!!! WTF!?!?!? Do they expect us to really fuckin believe ANY precinct in the world actually has an entire division for this shit?

I swear to god, it was worse than Maximum Overdrive, and it was only made worse by the fact tha the Fox VO guy took it so f-ing seriously, when all I wanted to do was piss on my TV for showing it to me.