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March 10, 2010 - 1:45pmFrink Panel
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What kind of reality TV show would you be on?
Recently, Kansas City natives have been getting a lot of air time. KC resident Ari Fish competed on “Project Runway,” Independence resident Mary Apple took her heart-shaped potato to “The Late Show with David Letterman,” Olathe-based singer JC Fisher and his group, The Texas Tenors, placed fourth recently in “America’s Got Talent” and two brothers from Liberty, Daniel and Samuel McMillen, are on the new season of “The Amazing Race.”
Question: What kind of reality TV show would you be on?
Documentary style. (Think “Deadliest Catch” or “Hoarders”) 34.5%
Guilty pleasure. (“Real Housewives of Atlanta,” or almost any show on VH1) 27.6%
Competitive. (Battling it out on a show such as “American Idol” or “The Ultimate Fighter”) 17.2%
I hate all kinds of reality TV. 6 %
What kind of reality TV show would you be on?
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Christopher OConnor
Documentary style.
The show is called “Be With OC” (on VH1 naturally) and involves some of the most beautiful women from trailer parks and strip clubs throughout the country. We go on dates and they all have real feelings for me after the first 13 minutes of air time. They fight because some of the girls there are fake and don't really love me for me, but in the end, only one can be with the OC. It comes down to Ample Sample (a genetically blessed stripper from Texas) and Lite Brite, who has freaky bad dyed hair and who I have “a real connection” with. Of course I have to get my parents involved at the end because my mom will want to know that the winner is a nice Irish Catholic girl. The show comes down to the final ceremony, which we hold on the McCoys patio just because I like it there. Instead of getting a rose at the ceremony, the winner gets a gold-plated whiskey bottle and we share a toast to love. Because we share a glass, I immediately come down with a wicked infection. Sadly, our love does not last, but I join the Stallionaires on our new show “OC’s Real Chance at Love.” And my wife is cool with the whole thing.
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Johnna Lowther
Documentary style.
I really don't care for all the reality hoopla but I could enjoy being a part of a documentary for sure. Some follow-us-on-foot thing (hiking, backpacking) would be awesome. So many people miss out on some hidden natural gems because it is hard work to walk to them. So I think it would be cool to share them in a very realistic way, like a reality TV show. But then, being followed by TV cameras and crew would kind of interfere with the high I get from the simplistic beauty of secluded nature. So maybe I'll let someone else take that on.
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Angie Smith
Guilty pleasure.
I watch almost every reality show on VH1, with any “of Love” shows being my favorites I could care less about getting the guy in the end , but why would I pass up a chance to travel and meet new people? Of course, rather than being a contestant I would much rather be the creative mindset who creates these shows. My friend Noel and I are constantly thinking of shows we could market to VH1, some even starring our friends. The real reason I watch these shows? It’s not because I really care about the outcome, it's that I found them entertaining. At the end of the day, once I've read about the horrors of parents killing their children, rape, workplace violence, religious hypocrisy, and bloodshed for no reason, it’s a relief to hear Real and Chance fighting over who to give their last chain to.
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Shane Leftridge
Documentary style.
As a matter of fact, I'm starring in a reality travel show in production now! From blacking out over Polish vodka in Krakow, to the golden-domed cathedrals and an angry monk in Ukraine, down to the beaches of Croatia to a sauna with 100 naked guys in Finland. Follow me country to country as I couch-surf with the locals for free. That's right, I only stay with total strangers and I wouldn't have it any other way! Find out why and how you too can join in on the phenomenon! Travel has changed.
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Tony Sapad
Guilty pleasure.
Like I'm really going to act my normal self on reality TV. I would be the most obnoxious, most ridiculous, most annoying, meanest, scariest, loudest, person I could be, so I can get the most air time, and to prolong my 15 minutes of undeserved fame I can get. Why else would I want to be on TV? Oh, yeah … the chance to win one million dollars!
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Stephen Capps
Documentary style.
I'm not sure it qualifies, but I would love to have a travel show. My dad and I used to talk about how great it would be to get to travel the world, from five-star hotels to five day hikes and everything in between. I've done some traveling, and will do more, but so far no one seems all that excited about paying me to do it. Still, a guy can dream right?
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Chrissy Wunderlich
Competitive.
And I only say competitive because there wasn't an option stating “I'm a reality TV show junkie who would never appear on a reality TV show.” Though I do love “Top Design” on Bravo, my school girl crush with Joel McHale (and therefore also “The Soup”) is reason enough not to become an ingredient in his Chat Stew.
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Josh Thomas
Documentary style.
Although I'm not a big fan of reality TV, I don't hate it either. I like some of the tattoo shows, “Cops” is funny, “Daisy (of Love)” was a guilty pleasure and there are a few other good ones out there. I think there are reality shows for everyone out there no matter what you're into. Just because I don't like “American Idol,” it doesn't mean it can't give millions of other people pleasure. Not all reality programs are for everyone, but sometimes they are a lot better than the mindless drone of some sitcoms. I would choose something like documentary style for myself.
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Joanna Griffin
Competitive. I would do some type of baking or cooking competitive show. If I had a chance to be on a TV show, I hope it's something that I love and feel comfortable doing in front of a camera.
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Aaron Lerner
Documentary style.
I have long thought — and am still working on — how to arm myself with a hidden camera, which would allow me to create the greatest, most hilarious documentary of all time. As a fitness professional, I have spent the last eight years watching and observing the behavior patterns of people in a gym or health-club setting. What my eyes have seen are nothing short of incredible! I'm not sure where people get their ideas to do the things they do, but I do know that people (especially guys) do things that they would never do anywhere else, with the exception of maybe the privacy of their own bedroom. Between the dude who falls asleep every morning on the leg-extension machine, or the guy who wears shorts that are so tiny it would be impossible that he is not letting his balls hang out a little on purpose, I could not make this stuff up. Nevertheless, since I am yet to figure out how to strap myself with a mini-camera, and because I eventually felt that it was my duty to somehow share these behavior-patterns with the public, I decided to do my best to provide people with a verbal description of this amazing style of comic-relief at www.BonerInSweatPants.wordpress.com. And with that shameless plug, maybe someday someone will help me turn this sheer awesomeness into a reality show of its own.
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Michael Travis ...
Guilty pleasure (Examples: “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” or almost any show on VH1.)
I would find “Ghost Hunters” interesting, and “American Idol” would be great if I had the voice for it. Most of all, I would want to play sidekick to Tiffany on a new season of “I Love New York.” I love that girl. She is crazy. (I also would enjoy — ahem — “meeting" PC of “NYC Prep.”)
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Hassan Al-Rubaie
Documentary style.
There is a show that just wrapped on the Discovery Channel called “The Colony” and that is one that I was definitely interested in. I would have maybe said competitive, but I don’t have any interest in having my face bashed in, nor am I artistic enough for most of the others. All of the guilty pleasure shows would be way too invasive into my personal life, so those are definitely out.
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