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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

St. Clown said:
The Good Place’s trolly tracks episode is simply amazing. I’m nearly done with it and I’m thinking about rewatching it when it’s done. It may be the perfect sitcom episode.
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Also nailed the finale
 
TIL the rarest bear in the world is the gobi bear, which lives in gobi desert in mongolia.

Enjoying Apples new wildlife show “the wild ones”
 
Handyman said:
Im watching The Biggest Loser Doc on Netflix...everyone involved with that show should be drowned in a tub on live tv. (The people who watched it are no better)
Totally makes sense why Jillian Michaels is now a RW racist twat.
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The Maintenance Phase episode left me aghast.
 
Kepler said:
How lame is it that I have no idea who either of them are?
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Piece of nostalgia from my middle school days! Brenda and Brandon walsh, who moved from Minnesota to a lil place called Beverly Hills 90210
 
Handyman said:
It was pretty hot when Emily wore Brandon's Kirby Puckett Jersey!

I mean...I NEVER WATCHED THAT SHOW!!! Stupid teen soap opera!

(Brandon and Kelly 4ever)
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I need to get this shirt, right? I mean…my birthday is coming up….
 
Slap Shot said:
Did I see right that Please Don't Destroy has been axed? :mad::mad:
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As a group, yes. Ben is one of the new cast, Martin is a writer and John is off to do other projects.

I liked them a lot, their videos were usually good, but I liked their stuff before they hit SNL better. On SNL they had some hits, but they fell way too quickly into the “zoom and yell” reactions in their skits.
 
Kepler said:
I didn't watch but Dr. Mrs. said the whole thing was highly traumatic to watch and you just want to strafe the entire show personnel from host to show runner to the girl who gets the coffee.
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Maybe I'm too cynical, or looking back with the hindsight that all reality TV sucks and is edited to create drama out of thin air and am imputing that knowledge to everyone else who should've known as much, but I don't agree that you want to strangle everyone.

The producers come across as 100% complete douches, but that's par for the course for tv producers. (side note, I had no idea JD Roth became a producer. I just remember him hosting Fun House as a kid, which was Fox's knock-off version of Double Dare.)
Jillian similarly comes across poorly, especially on the caffeine pills thing.
Bob was a mixed bag; I honestly don't think the big "gotcha" moment trying to make him look like an asshat was all that powerful. I remember watching that episode when it aired and he didn't do anything your average boot camp drill sergeant wouldn't have done. You can argue that a reality TV show with obese people is different than military training, but by that point in time the Biggest Loser was a known quantity and you knew or should've known what you were getting into, especially in the gym. Having said that, there were other instances that made me cringe.
The blonde hosts came across fine.
The doctor actually came across better than almost anyone. I'm sure there was some willful ignorance there, especially given his past as team doctor for the Raiders, but I also fully believe him when he says the trainers and producers sidestepped him when they wanted to push things they knew he'd say no to.
The contestants...mixed thoughts on the ones they interviewed. I have no sympathy for the two that went to the NY Post. I mean, come on, it's the NY Post; you're really shocked that a paper only one step up from the national enquirer is going to sensationalize you? Some of the others, yeah, I get their disappointment at what happened afterwards and the lack of any ongoing support from a 9- or 10-figure franchise.
And the one woman (can't remember if she was a contestant or someone else) who tried to use Bob's heart attack to show that "see, skinny people can almost die, too, so the show's premise that being morbidly obese is bad for your health is wrong" can go join RFK Jr. in the land of absurdly bad medical hot takes.

Were it to be made today, you'd probably see a version that more closely matches the attitude of Great British Bakeoff with collaboration among the contestants, but it was also a product of its time. American Idol and the early seasons of "[Country]'s Got Talent" were still full on mocking the bad acts for ratings at that time.
 
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