Wednesday, June 23, 2004

A reality snack featuring "Outback Jack"

Well since I was trying to find anything to do that didn't involve me packing for my trip tomorrow, I stumbled across the debut of the new show "Outback Jack". I have to say, as dumb as some of these shows are, and as stupid as the plots can be, this show actually held my attention. I'm sure you all have seen the commercials for it....12 high maintenance girls get unknowingly dropped in the middle of the Australian Outback and vie for the love of "Outback Jack". First of all, this Outback Jack character seems too sweet for reality tv. I swear he was crying when he had to eliminate his first 4 girls...and he had only known them for like a day. I guess what held my interest was how awful of a time all the girls were having. Is it wrong that I found humor and joy in their complaints of bugs, showers, lack of outlets, and pretty much anything "non-mall"?

Sometimes I wonder if what these girls say is scripted or not, because some of them are just so nuts. Like this one girl they kept focusing on...I forget her name, but first of all she wasn't even pretty. If we were playing that pychology game where you hold up and picture and I tell you what I see, it would go like this:
-You hold up picture of said girl
-I respond "girl gremlin from gremlins 2!"

She kept saying the stupidest things, which of course is why they focused on her, but what made me laugh the most is when they got to have some one-on-one time with Jack. She was wearing this mini dress which just looked ridiculous to be wearing at a campsite. She sat down in front of Jack and just made this "Im really sexy, but Im a good girl" stupid face that was so transparent. Then she cuts Jack off mid-sentence to say "wait, can I do something?". He obliges, and she begins singing some song she made up with difficult lyrics such as "I flew across the world to meet you", barf. She concludes this little performance by saying "As you can see, I am a singer".

One girl actually asked where the electrical outlets were. Another said in her interview "when guys see me, they always think Im a porn star or a model". Who says these things? These couldn't possibly be the same girls we knew from gradeschool with acne and braces could they? What happened to humility?

I missed the very end of the show, so Im not sure if the gremlin was cut or not, but Im going to tune in next week with the hopes that one of them gets eaten by a gator. G'day!

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