Schwartz and Wylie on Bar Rescue
 

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That bitch ain't "a little" anything.ROFL

I wonder how reality TV works. I get a majority of this shit is scripted, but you're still "acting" as yourself, and not a character. Do people really really reeeeally want to look like total butt****ing morons just to get on TV?

What bar is that?

ROFL

I love how they are doing recon and no one questions the cameras everywhere.

I think the answer is a resounding yes.

My wife watches the goddamned bachelor shitfest, and at any given time, at least early on, she can tell me what's going to happen.

"So and so is going to freak out and get sent home, so and so will get emotional and get sent home, and they're going to play up drama between some **** and this other ****."

It's astounding.

Sugar Creek's finest. Seriously folks, this is why the meth jokes persist. What a f**king trainwreck.

Reality TV is worse than the AIDS epidemic of the 80s.

My wife has stopped watching them around me. She knows I despise that garbage.

I used to enjoy Bar Rescue until it became so obviously staged.

Do you remember 'Fear Factor'?

People will do pretty much anything to get on TV.

My wife loves it when I walk through when that noise is on because I can't help myself and make jokes about how awful it is.

That lasts about a minute then I'm out.

Okay. Fellas. This thread has got me thinking now. Why do married women have such shitty tastes in entertainment? My wife is smarter than I am, yet new episodes of Big Bang Theory have to take precedence over everything else in life. She watches all the shitty reality TV shows, too. Bachelor, Big Brother... dunno, probably this scripted bar show too.

If I try to compromise with her and ask, "Hey, if we're watching TV together and it has to be reality-centric, can we at least do something like Chopped so I can at least watch people with some kind of talent to offer the world compete in a scripted environment?" I get a lot of, "well.... I don't know...."

Dude. You're doing life all wrong if the wife makes you watch that noise too.

Closest thing we get to reality TV while we're both watching is American Ninja Warrior. Many moon ago we watched a Top Chef Marathon, but you have to put your foot down on the bachelor shit.

Find some Marvel Movie or something that's tolerable.

Or, FFS, you're SNR. Just go into some profanity laced diatribe about it until it is also unbearable for her to watch it. I mean, you should be practiced up from CP :D

Razzo is kinda hot.

I'm not a fan of reality TV either. Some are worse than others and most I have not watched more and a few minutes of.

Alaska, the last Frontier is about as bad as any of them. They play it off as the poor, lucky to be alive starving Kilcher family has a tough time just finding enough food. Why they are on the verge of starving to death, if things go wrong on just one hunt!

The way the series is presented, it seems like the Kilcher Family Homestead is about as far from civilization as any human can get. That's simply not the case, they are much closer to civilization than many realize. It turns out they are just a few miles from several grocery stores in Homer, AK. They can even grab a McDonalds combo meal on the fly while in town, if they so choose.

Not gonna lie. I kind of liked that midget show on TLC.

The first one. Not the 6 others that came after it.

I’m sorry, but I can’t imagine anyone watching that crap. What could possibly be the draw?

Soap opera's have been around forever.

Razzo is kinda hot.

Hard to tell, but a lot of women are really into it. As far as I can tell (just a guess) it's the romantic escape aspect of it, but who the hell knows? Whenever my wife would tune into that crap, I would come into my office and jump on-line. Talk about garbage TV. :shake:

Sticks and Stones, Sugar Creek, MO

Serialized storytelling, the defining characteristic of soap operas, has completely taken over dramatic TV. Pretty much everything is a soap opera or a reality TV show.

I know, I know... you're talking about those low budget nonsense daytime shows, but still.

What they do is contact a bunch of bars and have them install camera's in there and tell them, one of them might be visited sometime. I think i read something on how that works. They obviously know that someone might be coming, but they dont know when exactly.

Some of those camera shots arent coming from stationary cameras. It would be more believable if they werent getting recon shots from guys in the kitchen or at the bar with a camera on their shoulder.

I’ve asked the wife that very thing. She doesn’t know TBH. She says she just likes to shut her mind off and wind down.

I’m guilty of that some too. Nothing near as terrible as the bachelor but I’ve turned stuff on that didn’t ask too much of me as a viewer.

I think another aspect is how outrageously reeruned it is. Much like how otherwise reasonable individuals watch political shit.

I’ll be honest. I’ll judge a politics watcher before a bachelor watcher.

Yup. Reality TV is the new soap opera.

But it was kind of fun to watch 2 of our OL walk into a dive bar.

Tittymeat and yourself would get along fantastically, stop being a bitch and put your foot down.

Ya but assuming for a second it was real, when Taffer walked in they were both eating food so they let them eat food served by a guy who handled raw chicken and didnt wash his hands.

Seriously. Good for them. Hopefully they got a little cheddar and avoided the food Bourne illnesses

My wife loves Rupaul's Drag Race, which in turn was a major contributing factor to me cutting cable.

ROFL

My wife watches this reality shit. Drives me nuts while I’m in the other room trying to break down tape of men playing a kids game.

Man I'm lucky, my wife hates reality tv.

Not to mention that the main couples daughter is the singer, Jewel... a millionaire many times over, yeah they’re in no danger of starving

"reality"

Jim and Sam from Sirus did recon for the show earlier this year and they said that the cameras go in for like 72 hours and the bar owners are told they may or may not be selected to be on the show. The ones used on the show are the bars that go back to being shit after the first night or two.

I hate most reality shows, but am pretty sold on Bar Rescue

When you repeatedly see these owners brought to tears by the positive impact Taffer has on, not only their business, but their personal lives... it sells it for me

The average Joe or Jane can’t cry on cue like some super experienced actor

It bears noting that while I haven't seen her lately, she used to be damned hot.

Oh yeah, I’d put it on the line with her for sure

FYP

I have a hard time believing that half of the stuff on that show is real and not scripted. Like the bartender lighting up a cig behind the bar while serving drinks? get outta here

its that bad?

People who work in the industry have told me that shows like this are 100% fake at this point. Everyone knows what is coming from seeing the show, so there's no chance of actual surprise anymore. You can tell because all the shows follow the exact same script.

If they don't have employees misbehaving at the beginning, there's no show. You think they're gong to go to all that trouble placing hidden cameras everywhere, setting up the show, and then go "Well everyone here is solid, bar looks fine. I guess there's no show."

As an aside - I used to live in the valley - every single bar I used to like has been ruined by this show. They've been turned into "mixology" bars with mostly the same shit but 3x the price and a new interior. (Pat's Bar on Riverside if you're a fan of the show.)

They even ruined the only decent BBQ place in the valley - opened by an ex-gates employee. The turned it from a bar on one side and a BBQ restaurant (which wasn't bad - think Zarda - which is mega-elite BBQ for LA) on the other side - into one giant bar with shitty BBQ.

I was burping liquid smoke for hours after eating there. Ugh. (Kansas City BBQ - turned into "The BBQ Bar" - even the name is stupid.)

Yes, they do.

"Hey we know you guys drink on the job and slobber on the glasses because your boss told us. It's fine but we want you to recreate that on camera for $5000. Cool?"

A buddy of mine in Echo Park got a knock on his door one day. A TV show wanted to rent out his place for a couple weeks - $20k. He was like "I'll be packed and ready to go in 5 minutes, place is all yours."

That show rules. Probably the most talented cast of contestants of any of the professional competition shows.

Oh god, and I thought Sex and the City was bad.

Every show pushes an extreme narrative, and everyone knows what the producers want, so they play along.

as a 12 year old kid it was fun watching people ****ing each other on MTV's The Real World then came the Osbournes

MTV ultimately ****ed us over with their programming.

I had actually spent part of an evening in a bar in Austin that he tried to rescue. There was nothing on the show that was contrary to my experience there.