Reality Bites

Has anyone else noticed America's growing obsession with Reality Shows? It seems like just a few years ago all there was in the way of reality TV was MTV's classic "The Real World." It became a big success as viewers everywhere became enthralled with the latest storylines. Who's mad at who, who slept with who, and of course the bitch slap heard round the world. Then everyone else caught on and now there's an endless supply of reality shows. Most of which are actually game shows, but whatever they want to classify them as is fine by me.
 
At first, I refused to be taken in by this new craze. I was bucking the system, I had a mind of my own and would not allow them to lull me into a sense of false security and embroil me in their cheap form of entertainment. So I didn't watch the first Survivor, or Big Brother 1, or The Amazing Race, or any of them. Then I cracked, around the time their second seasons started rolling around. Then I watched half of the second Survivor, just because it was on. I also watched all but the first couple episodes of Big Brother 2.
 
For some reason Survivor never hooked me in the way Big Brother did though. I never cared if I missed an episode of Survivor, big deal, they argued, hung out in the water, ate bugs, whined, argued more, and then voted someone out. Woohoo. However I did watch Big Brother religiously, and still do. It's such a perfectly challenging show, it's genius. I wanted, for the past two years, to be on it, but I couldn't til I was 21. So next year will be my year. I think I can do it. I will too, unless I have a job I really love, I will do it.
 
It would seem my love of Big Brother, and the one season of The Real World that I did watch (Hawaii), has spawned another love for me. That my friends would be The WB's The Surreal Life. It truely is surreal to watch all these B-List stars and hasbeens co-habitate! Nothing quite beats watching a star go nuts, or drive each other nuts, or try to see each others nuts. Where else could you see four celebrities trash a house and piss off their housemates by having a cake fight? No where!
 
Reality TV has become a guilty pleasure the country can share. A lot of people despise reality TV and it's popularity, but hey, I say anything that brings us together in a mutual feeling of love and hate has to be doing something right, right?