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Old 02-02-2013, 12:48 PM
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What Reality TV shows do you watch?

What Reality TV shows do you watch?

Here are a few that I watch. Some for entertainment sake, some for information sake, and some as a guilty pleasure.

Pawn Stars
Cajun Pawn Stars
American Pickers
American Restoration
Counting Cars
Hardcore Pawn
Storage Wars
Undercover Boss
Survivor
Comic Book Men

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The only two I've seen are Pawn Stars and American Pickers. Some of the things the "old man" says on Pawn Stars cracks me up sometimes...."I never did understand horror movies. If you want horror in your life, have kids."
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Pawn Stars
Cajun Pawn Stars
American Pickers
American Restoration
Storage Wars
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Old 02-02-2013, 01:14 PM
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When do you find time to practice bass?

That's alot of shows...
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Old 02-02-2013, 01:18 PM
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When do you find time to practice bass?

That's alot of shows...
Practice? What's that? LOL

I don't watch them all the time. Just occasionally.
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Old 02-02-2013, 01:20 PM
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Seriously, though, I don't watch reality TV.
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Old 02-02-2013, 01:25 PM
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Seriously, though, I don't watch reality TV.
That tv-show makes me laugh the whole time they broadcast it. So when it ends, I have no freaking idea what they said and were it was all about xD
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When I had cable, I liked the very beginning of seasons of America's Got Talent - you know, when all the weirdos, crackpots, and Dunning-Kruger affected people make fools of themselves. As the season moves along, though, they weed out all the good ones and the show spirals into a clone of American Idol and sucks.

I'll sort-of watch the gold-mining and logging shows out of the corner of my eye when I'm at work, but I'm getting tired of the History Channel in general. I think Pawn Stars is badly scripted. Yes, it's scripted.
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Old 02-02-2013, 01:32 PM
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I have a friend that believes some of the stuff on that show. I told him that when someone brings an antimatter gun or a piece of a stargate to the Pawn Stars guys for an appraisal, I'll believe in ancient aliens.
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I love watching Gold Rush.

My favorite show in ages.
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Old 02-02-2013, 01:38 PM
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Hoarders and Intervention are the only ones I always watch.

If there is nothing better on I'll watch Pawn Stars, Sons of Guns, and when it was on...Mountain Men.
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History Channel, A&E, MTV, VH1, TLC, etc. all have horrible degenerative reality shows for the most part.

I have watched a season of Ice Road Truckers; I liked it, but it gets redundant. Pawn Stars is over-saturated. American Pickers is cool but they make ridiculous plot lines these days. I tried to watch Storage Wars once - no comment. I do watch the aforementioned 3 on a very occasional basis.

The best "reality" show I watch is the local news.
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I have a friend that believes some of the stuff on that show. I told him that when someone brings an antimatter gun or a piece of a stargate to the Pawn Stars guys for an appraisal, I'll believe in ancient aliens.
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Old 02-02-2013, 02:00 PM
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+1 Also have close friends who believe in aliens. Those conversations are weird. I have found the quickest way to end those things are to nod your head and agree with them as much as possible. Arguing takes time.

Now for my stupid TV shows:

Small Town Security
Intervention
Addicted (It's like a low-budget Intervention and I know the host!)

I've also been sucked into an episode or two of Jersey Shore or American Idol... but only a couple, I promise.

Oh, and Mankind: The Story of All of Us is reality TV? What?
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That tv-show makes me laugh the whole time they broadcast it. So when it ends, I have no freaking idea what they said and were it was all about xD
It's okay, every single episode goes down the exact same way. "Is it possible that extraterrestrials were in contact with ancient humans and gave them the necessary information to do...? Ancient astronaut theorists believe so."
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I can't stand those BS "reality" shows like The Simple Idiot Life, or Keeping Up With The Idiot Kardashians, or Big Idiot Brother or Idiot Survivor... hate 'em.
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Bondi Rescue. It's about the beach in Australia. It provides a nice escape.
An actual quote: "The water at Bondi is a bone-chilling 20 degrees."
It would beat a documentary about Skegness.
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Top Gear (American version)
I wouldn't necessarily call either version of Top Gear a reality TV show....
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It's okay, every single episode goes down the exact same way. "Is it possible that extraterrestrials were in contact with ancient humans and gave them the necessary information to do...? Ancient astronaut theorists believe so."
Well, some things might seem logical, but that's only 5 % of that show. The other 95 % is just rediclious.
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