Well, they all came to the right place.

I would love to see a show called "America' Top Best Friend" where all the contestants had to be nice to each other and make the most friends to win a million dollars.
Then I would like to see the contestants in their confessional camera moment have to stop mid-sentence "I don't care that Jane doesn't like me, I'm not here to----oh wait."

That entire video -

Granted, it was edited for that phrase, but man - there are a ton of people who are just tanks/sharks/rifle scopes out there.

I don't watch those shows, don't own a television, and that definitely reinforced why.

The whole thing made me sick to my stomach. I came away thinking that either the people fronting these shows are coaching the contestants to use that phrase on-camera, or that it's just such a meme phrase out there that the people who would naturally appear on these shows use it like others use the phrase, "I'm hungry."

Or both. Or...or....Jaysus Aitch Chee-rist.

Despite the obvious stupidity and shallowness of the people depicted in this video, I still feel grossed out and derailed from watching it.

I would like to make friends.

I will be your friend, Meatbomb. I will now also make you some cookies. And tell you at-length of my trauma.

No, I can't watch these shows either, and that pretty well encapsulated why.

Heh...rmless. That would be awesome.

I'm actually more irritated by the contestants on these shows who get all huffy about being "betrayed" by fellow contestants. Nobody on these shows is there to make friends. They're there to win a million dollars or a modeling contract or whatever. Yet every show is guaranteed to have at least one sore loser give a big speech about "integrity" and how awful it is to "backstab" and "lie" when what they're really mad about is that someone else was a better backstabbing liar than they were.

And speaking of reality TV, Project Runway starts tomorrow!! Bravo's all salty because the show is moving to Lifetime next season, so they haven't really been promoting it like they usually do.

TOMORROW?
I have to get home and start up the DVR machine! Thanks for the heads-up.
That is good news, there hasn't been anything on that I want to watch recently (other than Weeds).

Why can't we be friends?

That was good. I think they all want friends.

LT, I think it is a stock phrase (after all we've all heard it in real life here and there). But the basic issue is the casting of people who will create artificial conflict or be easily prodded into it. I don't think they would ever actually put someone on one of these shows who was all Jeff Lebowski about it.

"I'm not here to ... fuck it, let's go bowling."

I'm here to make friends!