PHX787 From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4946 posts, RR: 15 Posted (7 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1214 times:
Well I really enjoy watching Lizard Lick, Southern Fried Stings, Bait Car, and other similar shows on TruTV. I know Op Repo is actually a dramatization, but the other ones seem too realistic to make all of this stuff up, especially with a lot of the operations which involve the injuries/police intervention/stuff being destroyed.
So what's the jury saying about these shows? They call it "Actuality" as their tagline but I'm not sure if it is or not.
I hope so. I like watching real stuff happen on TV
Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 4744 posts, RR: 6 Reply 1, posted (7 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1184 times:
fridgmus From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 1383 posts, RR: 11 Reply 2, posted (7 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1164 times:
Maverick's correct, you can tell that they're blatantly acting, and very poorly at that. I just can't believe the amount of these so called "Reality Shows"! They're everywhere!
Pawn Wars, Storage Wars etc. I don't see how anyone can get excited over the contents of an abandoned storage unit!
Not to mention "Here comes Honey Boo Boo" about an overweight redneck six year old competing in beauty pageants.
The dumbing down of America is alive and well.
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Revelation From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 10445 posts, RR: 20 Reply 4, posted (7 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1051 times:
garnetpalmetto From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5244 posts, RR: 55 Reply 6, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 1028 times:
Since I'm live in RDU, I have caught a few episodes of Lizard Lick and they've had some local media exposure, of course.
Then there's the issue of suspension of disbelief, which in theory shouldn't even be a problem with a reality show. Take, for instance, the parolee in Episode 1, a tattoo artist who beat Bobby's ass on camera with the help of some biker buddies with no apparent fear of going back to prison. Folks, if you believe this stuff is "real," then you're about dumber'n a possum playing in traffic on Fourth of July weekend (or something like that).
But Ron and Amy insist the violence, at least, is real—they had a cameraman who was hospitalized with a concussion in Louisburg two years ago to prove it.
And Ron says there's a reason some people sign that release paper to appear on the show, even though they're risking prosecution for some of the criminal things they do on camera.
It starts with Ron agreeing to not have them arrested on the spot.
"I would never get the guy on TV" if that happened, he says. "I use the police as leverage."
and
Bobby talks a bit more candidly than Ron or Amy about whether some of the stuff on the show "really happens."
"Some does, and some they stage," he says. "I'm not gonna tell you any stories. Sometimes we have to egg 'em on a little bit: 'What you got? What you got? What you gonna come get me with?' We might have to ... poke 'em a little bit, to get them riled up."
And yes, some of their antagonists really are just excited to be on TV, he admits.
"Some people are like,'Oh, yeah! You need me to do something else?'"
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PHLBOS From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 7251 posts, RR: 25 Reply 7, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1011 times:
Quoting bohica (Reply 3): About the only thing real on TruTV are the videos on Most Shocking and World Dumbest. Even then I'm only about 75% sure they're real.
One clip from World's Dumbest (Partiers) showing a drunken partier climbing up a traffic signal mast-arm and then falling in South Philadelphia was indeed real. The incident took place just after Phillies won the 2008 World Series.
I remember the local news stations showing that video clip that following morning.
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Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 4744 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 973 times:
Quoting bohica (Reply 3): About the only thing real on TruTV are the videos on Most Shocking and World Dumbest. Even then I'm only about 75% sure they're real.
All the clips on those shows are real. A guy I work with had a video of him shown on a World's Dumbest episode. Took a skateboard to the face.
flymia From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 6284 posts, RR: 6 Reply 9, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 964 times:
Isn't bait car with police? I think that one might be real. Police departments do have bait cars.
As for the rest of those shows they are fake. I saw someone I know who ran a very unsuccessful campaign for Miami Beach mayor acting on Sout Beach towing. Those shows could not be anymore fake.
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CPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5745 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 918 times:
Quoting fridgmus (Reply 2): Pawn Wars, Storage Wars etc. I don't see how anyone can get excited over the contents of an abandoned storage unit!
To be fair, it is mildly amusing to watch them pull dollar values out of their ass for some of the crap they find.
And don't forget "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura". That one managed to royally piss off a number of congressmen, by portraying FEMA emergency camps as 'death camps', forcing TruTV to handwave that the show is 'an entertainment program on an entertainment network'.
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