By: Billy Beerslugger
So uh…. yea. There’s a dating show where the object of affection is a cougar. 20 or so dudes are going to vie for some 1 on 1 time with a cougar. That’s where we’re at people. We have a dating show where a 40 year old woman is being chased around by 20 something guys, looking for LOVE. How many conversations is this going to spawn at the Cougar bar? “Did you see the last episode? Joey is totally hot”. And how many lonely nights will these women sit on a couch watching the show, drinking a bottle of wine thinking, “I could do this. I could be the cougar.”
Now I’m all for Cougar Hunting, it’s a god given right and something I personally do when there are either no good looking women my age or younger in the bar or I’ve already struck out with all those women. However, it’s not exactly something you’re proud of. You’re not trying to fall in love with a Cougar. You don’t bring a cougar home to your Mom because well, she’s only about 5-10 years younger than your Mom and your Mom will slap the shit out of you. It essentially goes against nature.
You have to be either insane or a complete fame whore to be on one of these dating shows like the bachelor/bachelorette, Rock of Love etc. You really can’t take yourself seriously. And if you watch these shows you’re a little bit different as well.
Yea, I get it, some of these shows are supposed to be funny, like Flava Flav of Love or Rock of Love where women just want to be on TV, but do you really want to watch people fake falling in love? Not this guy I have way more important things to do like watch the Phillies pitching staff get rocked for 4 runs every first inning or write blogs about shows that I’m not going to watch.
I did watch one of these type shows back in the great year of our lord 2001. It was called Temptation Island. In this dating scenario, a bunch of couples were put on an island, separated and made to go on dates with single people of the opposite sex. In the culmination of this series, the couples picked whether they still wanted to be with one another (usually after making out with two or three other people). The concept was to break people up not get people together.
So this concept got me in 2001. I may have been suckered into a couple of episodes of Joe Millionaire in 2003 but that’s my dating show repertoire. I can’t sit there and watch the same recycled bullshit. Someone gets voted off every week and everyone is interviewed Real World style to get their feelings on what just went on or whats about to happen, in between there may be some sort of physical challenge and or one on one dates, I get it. Then the final 3 people meet each others family (which is really fucking weird to get your actual family involved in a fake courtship) and finally one person is chosen and the couple go on a happy vacation where they then breakup after they are no longer in the media cycle.
Enough already. Why won’t reality TV just die? I predicted in 2005 that it was on it’s last legs but this shit doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. There’s enough mindless losers in America to keep any crap running for two or more seasons provided you’re voting people off 1 week at a time.