Ah, summer. Time for barbecues and flip-flops and beaches. But it's also time for summer throwaway shows and trashy reality programming on the major networks. So you also know what that means: time for yet another show where pretty women get to whine about how they can't find a guy.The latest example is a new ABC show called How to Get the Guy, debuting June 12, that follows around four women as they do anything they can to find the man of their dreams. According to this New York Daily News article, the women will go around the country applying the super-aggressive man-catching lessons imparted by a couple of dating coaches. Yeesh. Sounds scary, if you ask me.
What I want to know is: how is this different than the show ABC had last year that followed a bunch of pretty women around on online dates? Or Lisa Loeb's show #1 Single? Or any other friggin' show that shows lovesick women eating dinner with piggishly-portrayed men? And why is there an audience for any of this? One of these days, I want to see a show where average-looking people try to date. Oh yeah, there's the creepy-but-engrossing VH1 show Can't Get a Date. But it seems like I'm the only one watching that one.
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6-05-2006 @ 9:08PM
Erica said...
No fascination here.
At all.
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6-05-2006 @ 9:39PM
AmStarr said...
My interest in these shows is zilch, zero, nil, nought, nada, nein, zed, a big fat NONE!
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6-05-2006 @ 10:09PM
Jamie said...
What do you mean "we"?
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6-05-2006 @ 10:49PM
Jake said...
Yeah... who is actually watching these shows? I bet their ratings suck. There is a reason this is a summer show. Nobody watches them.
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6-06-2006 @ 4:05AM
Preston said...
I don't know why these dating shows are on. I don't like these kinds of shows. I don't understand why Blind Date is still on! That show should have been cancelled 5 years ago! Sounds like married people trying so desperately to hook their single friend up with a date. Any reason why people LOOOVE watching reruns every summer like CSI instead of new fangled shows? To avoid throwaway junk like this mess! I don't know why networks would waste millions of dollars to promote this lousy dating pap!
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6-06-2006 @ 7:34AM
Bill Peterson said...
For guys, it's just another show to check out hot women and watching it with the sound off.
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6-09-2006 @ 2:31PM
Eric Franco said...
I will probably watch this show because the chicks are hot, and I would gladly bend each one over a table and BONE them hard and fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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