Scare Tactics

[FS]

What is wrong with people? Candid Camera knockoffs are never very funny, but this show doesn't seem to even try. In the episode I just watched, they pulled a 'prank' on a guy who worked for a repo service. He was sent into a house to pick up, among other things, a freezer, and found a -fairly convincing- bloody corpse wrapped in plastic inside it. After he got over the initial shock and looked again, he vomited. HA HA HA I'm sorry, but to me that's pretty much the equivalent of telling someone their parents died in a horrible accident. It kinda reminds me of how MTV's Dirty Sanchez tries to be Jackass by having a bunch of guys just smash, stab and slash at each other, without any of the weird stunts or humor Jackass at least offers.

I suppose it's all part of the mindnumbing Reality TV hype, where everyone wants nothing more but to see other people cry and get humiliated. And sometimes, as with all such shows, it's fairly obvious that it's staged. Still, it's kind of like we're all slowly devolving back to Roman gladiator stature. Only the gladiators aren't armed, and they volunteered for the job, and they have to stand around while they're shown footage of their girlfriends cheating on them and someone hits them with a bat.

I Hate Brenda.