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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Reality Cat TV



Friday, June 09, 2006  

Reality Cat TV


This article about an upcoming reality show featuring cats in a Survivor-type contest had me... right until the final line.
The fur really could fly on TV's latest reality entry: It stars cats. Ten felines, picked from animal shelters nationwide, will live in a New York house to vie — a la "Big Brother" or "Survivor" — for a grand prize, in this instance an executive-level job with Meow Mix cat food.

...The project will be shown in three-minute segments in the 9 p.m. EDT hour Friday on the Animal Planet channel for 10 consecutive weeks, starting June 16.

...The Meow Mix House cats, from shelters or rescue groups such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York, Touched by an Animal in Chicago and Kitten Rescue in Los Angeles, will themselves be gaining new homes.

As the cats are put through their weekly paces in contests including best purr and top post-climber, a panel of judges will decide who stays and who goes. When a cat is voted out, it will move to a permanent home and get a year's supply of Meow Mix as a consolation prize.
Okay, cute concept, good cause, homes for all the kitties on the show, etc. What's the catch?
In voiceovers accompanying the kitty action, the cats will be given personalities as crafted by advertising copywriters. Some may be shy, but the Los Angeles and New York cats could turn out to be real glamour pusses, Cohen said.
NO!! Dear God no! In one line it went from this brilliant marketing scheme with the potential for lots of funny video and cat antics, to a debacle. I would have taped shows to see these commercials, and now? All I can imagine is Bob Sagat doing his, "I'm a cute little animal." squeaky voice that ruined so many other potentially-funny clips on America's Funniest Home Videos.

Tragically, this show might be even worse that that, with the promise of nauseating regional stereotypes. So we've already got LA and NY cats confirmed as attention whore. Gee, wonder if they'll have a dumb and clumsy cat with a Southern accent, a tough cat with a Brooklyn accent, a spaced out cat with a hippy voice, etc? It's like a live action version of every non-Pixar CGI film.

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wow a whole show like a garfield movie, but then again he's not a real cat. what animal planet will do to fill up time. watch a show with tons of meow mix product placement then watch the meow mix commercials in between.


 

Next time could you include some sort of a content warning or something? It had take me years to forget about Bob Sagat!

*sigh*

Back to the hypnotherapy sessions...


 

Donnie, you could always watch Bob Sagat in the extras of "Aristocrats" telling just about the lewdest and longest version of that joke as possible Though that might also send you to extra therapy.


 

True, but even though Bob Sagat's horrible, family-friendly jokes on Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos were generally cringeworthy, it was actually one of his quotes from the movie Half Baked that really pushed me towards therapy:

Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?

And now that I have that image stuck in my head again, I also just found out that they are releasing a sequel to the Garfield movie next week. It is almost enough to make me want to go provoke a lion just to see if God will save me.


 

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