Big Brother is Watching . . . Are
You?
Coug Sez:
This crap should have ended with the first
installment of Survivor. Ever since then, reality TV has
taken a turn for the worse. Luckily for us, I don't think
it can get much worse than Big Brother 2.
At least with the first Big Brother, none of the
houseguests had any idea about how to play the game, or
for that matter that they were even playing a game. They
mostly just sat around in silence waiting for Julie Chen
to kick one of them out. Of course the first one DID have
Jamie Kern, at the time the reigning Miss Washington, and
celebrated alumni of Washington State University. What's
their mascot again? Oh, yeah.....the Cougar!!! {s
fightsong}
Big Brother 2 contestants hit the ground running with
alliances and double secret alliances and nekkid whipped
cream hot tub alliances. Why? Because everyone in this
group got to watch Richard Hatch work his little magic on
the island, so they all boned up (no pun intended) on
their nude motivational speaking techniques, figuring
that was the only way to go. All except Bunky, who would
have fit right in on Big Brother 1.
CBS didn't even have the decency to mix things up this
time. There's not a houseguest on Big Brother 2 that
isn't a stem cell clone of someone from the first show.
Will Mega? Meet Will the doctor. Cassandra? Meet Monica.
Chicken George? Hmmmmm.....Kent, maybe? Josh? Hardy's
long lost brother. And if Jordan and Shannon didn't share
a dysfunctional bedroom growing up, may all of Mocha's
fur fall out!
By switching the format and making the houseguests vote
each other out of the house, a la Survivor's Tribal
Council, the show has become nothing more than "who
gets stabbed in the back tonight"? The next thing
you know, O.J. Simpson will be replacing Julie Chen.
If I wanted to see a bunch of people huddled in a corner
talking sh*t about the people around them, I'd organize
another P* Bash. <g>
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