Reality TV may not be real ?!!?

[slodave]

Actually, if you watch Fact or Faked, you can see how Ghost Hunters is not real. GH does not spend enough time looking at the footage. Just enough to make it look, um, interesting. I only watch FoF for Jael de Pardo, I swear! They do offer up some plausible explanations...

[onewhippedpuppy]

I am shocked. SHOCKED! Reality tv isn't real, is there nothing sacred in this world?! So much to reevaluate now in my life......

[Aggie93]

I know the brother of one of the Housewives. It's more scripted than I thought and I get paid to be a cynic.

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by slodave

Jersey Shore isn't real...

You shut your lying mouth, Dave!!



Regarding my original post, A&E got into some trouble over the second season of Flip This House.


Sam Leccima is an Atlanta businessman who served as one of the show's second season stars. His "Leccima Real Estate Company" was one of two real estate firms that the show's second season followed.

According to a two-part television news report, Leccima did not own the houses he claimed to have sold on Flip This House and also staged some of the renovations depicted on the show (ceiling panels were later seen falling, which was blamed on the inferior work of a sub-contractor in the TV series). In fact, he didn't even possess a real estate license when Flip This House was filming.

According to WAGA, he even staged at least one fake open house in which some of his friends posed as buyers for the home.

[GH85Carrera]

I just know the show "Finding Bigfoot" has to be real.

Once they find bigfoot they will find a unicorn, then the loch ness monster, extraterrestrials and finish it up with Noah's Arc.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by mikesride

Ever try to watch Gene Simons Family Jewels?

Nope.

[afterburn 549]

I hardly watch TV, BUT I was at my nephews the other night week what ever and he had a dumb show on.. Lizard Towing? YUK Really?
That Much drama?
I know it was fake when someone pulled guns.LOL
In real life there would have been cops
Begging
Pleading
AFAIAC they can have most of whats on the gummy tube

[stealthn]

So what about Auction Hunters, I like that one better than Storage Wars.......

Always wondered why someone would leave a 5-10k item in a storage locker and not pay the bill, just sell it.

[GH85Carrera]

My old office was surrounded by a storage facility. We had to use their gate to get to our parking lot in the back of our building. On occasion we would go back there as they were opening a unit to put their own padlock on because of non payment. Every unit I saw was full of JUNK!. It blew my mind anyone would have bothered to haul it to a storage unit and even pay one month of rent.

I see the same thing driving through a neighborhood. A $50,000 car sitting outside and the garage is full of $100 worth of crap. I don't understand it.

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by stealthn

So what about Auction Hunters, I like that one better than Storage Wars.......

That's one of the ones I'm talking about. Auction Hunters, Lizard Lick Towing, South Beach Tow, Hardcore Pawn, Operation Repo, All Worked Up, Bear Swamp Recovery, Bait Car, Combat Pawn, Southern Fried Stings....

All fake, of course. I just think it's funny that one channel has 4 tow truck shows.

People love to watch other people fail. Even if it's fake!

[Damian in NJ]

Hester says the producers paid for a female cast member to get a boob job to gin up the sex factor. Was it Brandi, the auctioneers blonde wife 'don't forget to pay the lady', or the Persian chick who showed up last year? They all have big racks.

And I give the over/under for Brandi to pose for Playboy is two years.

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It blew my mind anyone would have bothered to haul it to a storage unit and even pay one month of rent.

I think you just stumbled onto a cheap solution for junk disposal.
Just rent a storage room under a false name, fill it up, and only pay for the first month. 1600 cubic feet of junk, gone for just $50.
It's probably cheaper than paying for disposal "by the pound" at the landfill.

I wonder how many barrels of hazmat I can fit into a storage room.....

[BlueSkyJaunte]

And THIS is why I have rabbit ears on our TV.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I just know the show "Finding Bigfoot" has to be real.

Once they find bigfoot they will find a unicorn, then the loch ness monster, extraterrestrials and finish it up with Noah's Arc.

North Korea already found the unicorn. Geez, get with the times......

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by WolfeMacleod

So, so, so badly I want someone to prove or admit that all the Ghost Hunter shows are fake, digitally manipulated fakery.
I know they are. Funny thing, is that I do believe.

I want my GF to come to terms with it too. I'm tired of watching them.

Ghost Hunters did a 2 hour special on Linda Vista Hospital, an old shut down hospital across from Hollenbeck Park.

It has recently been rumored to be haunted, mostly articles in the LA Times and Daily News of course quoting various people involved with the Ghost Hunters production

I have spent many hours (over 500) filming there on many productions, sometimes till 2-3 o'clock in the morning. I have NEVER seen anything out of the ordinary, doors slamming, wailing cries, cold wind brushing by, etc.

A whole lotta hooey if you ask me.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Next thing you know you'll be claiming professional wrestling is staged. Geez, some people.

[Eric 951]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Ghost Hunters did a 2 hour special on Linda Vista Hospital, an old shut down hospital across from Hollenbeck Park.

It has recently been rumored to be haunted, mostly articles in the LA Times and Daily News of course quoting various people involved with the Ghost Hunters production

I have spent many hours (over 500) filming there on many productions, sometimes till 2-3 o'clock in the morning. I have NEVER seen anything out of the ordinary, doors slamming, wailing cries, cold wind brushing by, etc.

A whole lotta hooey if you ask me.

You're obviously not doing it correctly. Follow these steps
1. get 1 or 2 buddies as your "crew"
2. get a douche haricut and designer jeans
3. break out some newly developed "ghost detecting equipment" like a magnetized speaker or ionizing gererator
4. antagonize the ghosts--challenge them to fights, tell them you are the "new boss" tell them their choice of fashion is not douchey enough
5. look startled...turn head to crew and ask"did you hear that?"
6. Crew will nod
7. Have voice-over announce "we just heard a ghost picked up on our light-jumbolizer"
8. Re-play random noise with subtitles "Hey, I am a ghost, yeah I am hanging around here, I am that guy that you are looking for that they said was murdered here in 19-dickety six by having my head blown off with a cannonball...I am a ghost"
9. Replay that part 5-6 times
10. confirm that you and your crew really, really found a ghost.
11. Buy new douche-gear and run a promo for the next show.

[Rednine11]

What about Moonshiners.....anybody watch Tim and Tickle.
That dam Tickle is drunk every episode.

[UconnTim97]

If any of you guys try to tell me that Santa isn't real, I am out of here...

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by Rednine11

That dam Tickle is drunk every episode.

See? Now THAT is reality.


I shouldn't say this publicly because Hugh or somebody will steal the idea for Disney.
I told my wife that I want to pitch a new show. It will be called, "Lets go somewhere and get drunk."

Producers will pay me and a film crew to travel places and ... wait for it ... get drunk. I plan on doing all of my own stunts.

It will be a blockbuster hit with the Wal-Mart crowd. And that is perfect, because that is where we will be selling our show swag.



Smart people will know to expect a spin-off show called, "Hold my beer and watch this."