i love COPS.
This “COPS: Las Vegas” is spectacular. Most times, people shown on COPS don’t go into such sordid detail as this woman… she proceeds to list out the groceries bought by her son. “He bought some bologna, bread, yogurt and cheese. Well, he comes home to find that the yogurt is gone. And let me tell you, officer, my daughter and I don’t like yogurt, nosiree. So he gets upset because the yogurt is gone!”
is it wrong that i like COPS? and yet, i hate american idol, survivor and big brother. i guess i’m just in it for actual reality and not manufactured reality. i’ve said it before, but “goat house” would rule. “what is ‘goat house’?” you say? well, it’s my idea that is somewhat of a cross between big brother and running man (moreso schwarzenegger than king). essentially, we take death row inmates — lets say 8 of them — and put them in a large house with a large central area. well, each week we drop in a goat. live, televised. you are probably wondering what the fun in that is — well here’s your answer: necessity is the mother of entertaining TV. the more resourceful and crazed murderers and rapists will kill the goat, and use its various and sundry entrails and skeleton to fashion crude weapons and armor. spears, daggers — possibly even strung weapons. each week, more goat, more material. woo. last one alive gets to go free.
Oh sure, that goes against my liberal ideologies, but hey — this is TELEVISION. you don’t have to have morals or substance to be on TV. i can subjugate my ideals for a fat sack of cash and DVD boxed set of “goat house”.
No, really. criminal have rights, hell even goats have rights. reality tv viewers have no rights.
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This is one of the greatest ideas I’ve ever heard. Right now, I have a love for you that most people would frown upon. I could get very physical with you right now. That’s what I’m feeling.
…that i never mentioned my idea for “goat house” before! it’s this great blend between reality tv and anthropological study in a closed environment. yeah, basic human rights are stepped on, but hey — this is TV!
I think George Foreman’s Lean Mean Grilling Machine would be a good one.
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and you let the winner “go free” like they did in running man, then society would be none the worse for it.
i think it’s an insanely brilliant idea. it’s only a matter of time, anyway.
…we should start thinking towards season 2. a cow? ooh, maybe mix it up a bit and give them puppies. will they devour the puppies, or train them as snarling attack dogs! you’ll have to wait until season 3….
I think one week they would keep the goat alive so they could ride it around the yard. (I envision a large prison type yard in the back). Then perhaps the opposing “tribe” would save a goat next week, and there would be jousting.
oh yeah. tribes! that would certainly happen, i think. eventually they could breed the goats. but what of food? Oh, i don’t know…
if they properly rationed the first few goats they got, and prepared the meat so it wouldn’t go bad, then they could maybe afford to keep a couple of the goats “on hand” for other purposes.
honestly though, i hesitate to think what inmates would do with a live goat. something tells me it wouldn’t be “rides” or “jousting.”
… there would be some jousting of some sort!