How Low can You Go....Cable Crap

[El Presidente]

Travel allows me to watch things that I normally don't get a chance to. 

Mythbusters was followed by:

Naked and Afraid 

Seriously? 

Man and a woman dropped into a jungle to survive for 20 odd days. 

I have lost all respect for animals of the Costa Rican Jungle that they were dropped into.  What is it ....a kids petting zoo?  

Attack oh demons of the dark! .......hardly....... Di's Cockatiels are more dangerous. 

20 minutes in and they are "Tired, hungry and grumpy". Gripping television.  Hunting endeavours provide their biggest danger....to each other. 

A bucket of KFC would be safe from these two. 

 

What is your cringe worthy ....... "cable crap" 

[scap99]

Street Outlaws.

All the fake drama for a staged fake street race.

A five second 1/8 mile race is cut and spliced like an 80's b-movie explosion to last for a minute.

 

If they would shut their yaps and race, the season would be over in one episode.

[gr8eman]

Airplane Repo

Some strange folks "repossess" airplanes by sneaking into small airports and flying off in airplanes that the owners quit paying on. The part they leave out is, that if you actually did that without filing a flight plan w/schedule/clearance, etc. you would be thrown in (U.S) federal prison faster than you can say "Hillary's Server"!

[OZCUBAN]

The Kardasions ?

[scap99]

19 minutes ago, OZCUBAN said:

The Kardasions ?

Sounds like an awful disease.

 

[Fuzz]

Any reality tv show.

[golfgar]

2 hours ago, OZCUBAN said:

The Kardasions ?

Gesundheit!

The only reason to watch Naked and Afraid is see if the girl has a nice bum.  Those shows have two minutes of content per 1/2 hour.  Personally I have gone back to reading books.

 

[aliz388]

Gordon Ramsay's hotel hell.. Some of the stuff he says is hilarious...

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[demer]

Don't remember the name but that show with the fake biker gangs. In the running for the worst show I have ever watched. 

[scap99]

3 hours ago, golfgar said:

Gesundheit!

The only reason to watch Naked and Afraid is see if the girl has a nice bum.  Those shows have two minutes of content per 1/2 hour.  Personally I have gone back to reading books.

https://youtu.be/SQ44aQWnH4I

[topdiesel]

46 minutes ago, scap99 said:

https://youtu.be/SQ44aQWnH4I

Funny. 

[Nrengle]

Crap like that is why I do cord cutting.  Regular over the air tv for local news and alerts at home, and then Netflix, appletv, and kodi running lots of scrappers.  I can watch anything I want and it's stuff I actually like. Wife and I find we watch better quality TV instead of background noise or we read a lot.  Hell this last trip to Europe the only time I even turned on my tv was when the shooting in Orlando happened. And then it was BBC.

[kuma]

How about gents  living off the land.  English guy (ex SAS) drops into area where only Neanderthal Man could live

and eats whatever he can find, from gaint grubs to squeezing animal dug for liquid to drink so he does not

dehidrate.  Man that is hard core or just plain dumb unless he is getting paid decently.  Speaking of money

I think I had seen that if the "Naked / Afraid" contestants finish the 21 days they receive 500,000.000

or 200,000.000 can't remember.

[Ken Gargett]

wouldn't it be simpler and much wiser, to stop watching immediately you realise something is crap - if you can remember its name, you watched too much. if you get 20 minutes in (no names, rob), perhaps that says more about you than the show?

that said, i recently tried to watch something called, i think, 'release the hounds'. basically, if idiots in a forest don't do something or other, they release hounds. it quickly became clear that no one was going to be torn apart so i stopped. immediately. 

[oliverdst]

Some serious sh*t in some "serious" channels. Natgeo and discovery speaccialy.

There is one that some guys "live" on the trees. Well, they live there while the show is being shooted.

Another one where some people bid for abandoned warehouses. Sometimes they find stuff that are rare or expensive. Yeah, right.

I like most is that one about the pawn house. It's educative see people in need of money being cheated out by the bald guy.

[ThePolskiOgorki]

The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. I truly think that show is the most messed up thing on television. I have rage just thinking about it right now. 

[Fuzz]

6 hours ago, oliverdst said:

Some serious sh*t in some "serious" channels. Natgeo and discovery speaccialy.

There is one that some guys "live" on the trees. Well, they live there while the show is being shooted.

Another one where some people bid for abandoned warehouses. Sometimes they find stuff that are rare or expensive. Yeah, right.

I like most is that one about the pawn house. It's educative see people in need of money being cheated out by the bald guy.

The pawn shop show based in Detroit is worse. Exploitation of racial stereotypes at its finest.

[NMJoe]

5 hours ago, ThePolskiOgorki said:

The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. I truly think that show is the most messed up thing on television. I have rage just thinking about it right now. 

I couldn't agree more!

[anacostiakat]

All the Reality TV shows.  I don't watch any of them.

[Scrubber]

that said, i recently tried to watch something called, i think, 'release the hounds'. basically, if idiots in a forest don't do something or other, they release hounds. it quickly became clear that no one was going to be torn apart so i stopped. immediately. 

Watched the same show and turned it off for the same reason. It was painfully bad for the 5 or 10 minutes or so I watched it.

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[Ryan]

Every single scripted reality show out there. It seems to be 90% of the content of channels that once showed actual documentaries.

Motorbike workshops, garages, gun shops, pawn stores, storage auctions, installing f*cking aquariums, hunting imaginary animals.

I'm sick to f*ck of all of them. Every single show has a "cliffhanger" of some idiot either shouting, throwing a chair or crying before every one of their innumerable commercial breaks.

God forbid anyone might switch to one of those channels to actually find out about something new.

It should be a requirement for each of those channels to change their name. Surely there's some sort of anti-trust requirement.

Discovery, "Discover Human Depravity" more like.

The Learning Channel, "Honey Boo-Boo", enough said about that.

Then there was National Geographic, one of the last hold outs. "The Quest for Jesus' Foreskin." I'm not making that up. That was a Christmas special.

It actually worries me, that this is the kind of stuff that gets ratings.

[earthson]

Honey Boo Boo on The Learning Channel was my last, irrevocable moment when I full realized that TV permanently exists to make the population dumber and to push various messages through propaganda.

Television is an impressive technology that most of the human race is not ready for.

[Lotusguy]

You guys do realize that there is an "off" button and nobody is putting a gun to your head to watch anything.

Happy cord cutter here - no satellite, no cable, no over-the-air.

[garbandz]

I don't watch any of it,it is all infantile and a waste of time, and a mind numbing ordeal.

The commercials are particularly disgusting.

Would rather read a book or enjoy music,take a walk,anything  is better..........

 

 

[kaleehb]

I'm not sure.....we chose to cut our cable 4 years ago (by choice) and I honestly haven't missed it sense. Anything I want to watch or catch up on can be found on the Internet. Gives me more cigar funds too! However, when we did have cable, all those bachelor and bachelorette shows were terrible. What a load of crap....?