I have been wondering to what degree Top Gear is scripted.
Obviously SOME of the things are scripted, and I think the guys sort of play along with it, and some times things are quite clearly not scripted. There are quite a few moments though where I'm just not sure...
Swamp People. The cast members are real but some of the scenarios and catching of the alligators are so fake.
Someone mentioned Shark Tank: I had a conference call a few weeks ago with one of the producers of Shark Tank about my "startup" being on their show. I had never seen it before, so I didnt really know what it was. But I found out that the negotiations you see are real, but nothing is binding, and the actual deals are worked out off air. You're not obligated to take their deal even if you've accepted it on-camera. ABC gets either a percentage of equity, or a percentage of the licensing in the company, once you have signed papers. The actual pitches last about an hour, and that's obviously trimmed down for the show.
Oh my God, so much this. "Did you see her reaction? I mean, I know she was suddenly in a different place, wearing a different top, and no longer holding her bag, but she looked real pissed! This show is so intense!"Every single time they cut to a reaction shot of someone's face accompanied by a dramatic BOOM sound effect, I think how stupidly contrived that edit is and wonder when in the shoot that close-up shot was really pulled from.
Who cares if Pawn Stars is scripted, I just like seeing the awesome shit people bring in and the stories the experts give. It entertains me even if its partially made up.
Who cares if Pawn Stars is scripted, I just like seeing the awesome shit people bring in and the stories the experts give. It entertains me even if its partially made up.
And that kickass theme song too!Just watch Antiques Roadshow, it's for a better class of human.
The moment you see 5 separate camera angles catching a "real" and "spontaneous" moment. And yet people lap this shit up.
Is there a Shark Tank OT? If not, we need one, some pretty humorous stuff on that show. My wife and I usually watch it every Friday night. I've read criticisms that it's obviously set up to favor the Sharks but I don't get the idea that it's totally scripted. People really look nervous and the number one reason that they don't get any money is because the sharks don't have any experience in that particular field. Nothing exciting like "You're an idiot for thinking of this!!"
I have been wondering to what degree Top Gear is scripted.
Obviously SOME of the things are scripted, and I think the guys sort of play along with it, and some times things are quite clearly not scripted. There are quite a few moments though where I'm just not sure...
Every time a car breaks down, it isn't scripted and they chose the cars themselves. The bickering between them isn't scripted either. The weird stuff is scripted and most big statements are scripted. But the trio also do the writing so it will always feel natural.
lol, that pretty much sums it up all reality shows. After all who'd watch it if never anything note worthy happened."Let's see what's in this storage locker. Lesse... one shoe... some old Burger King.... a broken dresser... OH MAN THE FROZEN HEAD OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN THIS IS WHY I DO THIS THAT'S A 5000 DOLLAR BILL ALL DAY LONG!"
I have been wondering to what degree Top Gear is scripted.
Obviously SOME of the things are scripted, and I think the guys sort of play along with it, and some times things are quite clearly not scripted. There are quite a few moments though where I'm just not sure...
Oh man, undercover boss might be the worst I've seen.
Secret Boss: "hello, nice to meet you."
Employee: "hey man, I'm gonna show you how to clean a toilet today."
"ok sounds good!"
"ok, just use the brush and scrub clockwise like this..."
"ok, got it."
"so my wife has cancer and my son is autistic."
Which of course sets up the nice Cancer/Autism treatments the boss will give the employee at the end of the show. Seriously, who spills their life's story to a stranger surrounded by cameras like that.
I hate it when any show cuts from what we're seeing to a "talking head" that isn't describing something that happened, but is acting like it's happening. "Oh man Lisa totally is getting on my nerves...I hope she can cook that dish properly or else!" But if that part was shot already, then we know she knows what's already gonna happen. Unless they shot the talking heads during the timeline of the show, which seems nuts.
My head hurts.
That Love it or List it show on HGTV is the worst.
Here's the couple
Here's their house
Here's their renno budget
Here's their house budget
Wife: I want to move
Husband: I want to stay
Act 1
Hillary draws hilarious sketches of owners impossible demands
Dave finds first house: EWWW YUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING JESUS NO
Hillary finds something wrong with the plumbing and the fake contractor says 'Well dere's a prablem.'
Hillary has to remove one part of the renno
Owners get a little mad.
No one is happy.
Act 2
Dave finds another house: Ok, hey you know this kinda works, but wow let's maybe just stay in our home because Hilary is going to be juuust fine
Hillary finds the studs in the walls are made from bones and the electric cabling is made from water
Fake contractor: 'Dats gonna cost a latta money'
Hillary: Sorry no toilet
Couple fakes getting mad, flips over tables, camera films them from far away
Hillary gets fake upset and frustrated 'How was I to know a house would have problems, I'm only a designer/contractor!'
No one is happy.
Act 3
Dave finds Heaven on Earth for twenty bucks
Hillary pulls off a miracle
The couple decides the opposite what you would expect
I'm not happy.
To my wife, this routine is Shakespearean.
I spent a good few years in my childhood thinking that wrestling was real.
Yea, I wasn't trying to say it wasn't a genuine phrase, just weird that I've never heard it playing guitar for so long. I guess I've never dealt much with used/vintage guitars to hear it come up.Not saying the show isn't fake, since it obviously is. But, my friends and I use the term all the time when looking at guitars and I've seen plenty of eBay listings use it as well.
Thats the thing with me. I get that some people realize these shows are fake and still watch them anyway, but I really just cant do it because I feel intellectually insulted by these shows and I refuse to support them in any way, shape or form. They are a plague to modern televesion programming and have ruined a hell of a lot of channels that used to be really good.The moment you see 5 separate camera angles catching a "real" and "spontaneous" moment. And yet people lap this shit up.
Biggest Loser has to be real. You can't script weight loss.
COPS? I always thought that was likely real. Last I saw an episode they busted a party with like 200 people at it. That's quite a scene to pull off just to fake ticket a few college kids. Lots of junky houses too, etc.
- Hey you were on Undercover Boss! What you didn't notice the cameras!?
It's no secret that pro-wrestling is fake, but I was always under the impression that it was simply a packed house of crazy fans watching a typical match. When I attended a TNA show a couple years ago, I was surprised when they started handing us signs, and getting shots of crowd reactions between matches.
I kid you not, one episode had an undercover boss put on an earring and trucker cap. That was it. That was his disguise. It was like friggin Clark Kent.Undercover Boss is a joke for the reason you and others have pointed out, but they explain this part away by saying they told the employees they were filming a documentary or reality show. Of course that excuse holds up about as well as the fake mustache and toupee they put on the boss
I think so, he was having a conversation with the judges, so they had to make it match by having the 'real' judges read the dialogue again.
Some of hoarders definitely looks fake, especially recently. They just seem to have random stuff everywhere rather than stuff that is important to them.Hoarders is the only real reality show.
All of the other reality shows are elaborate ruses used to make Americans think the crap they own could be worth lots of money, all so Hoarders will have more people to film.
Every single moment. 100% of reality shows are scripted.
I don't believe the storage wars show is scripted but the ones on Spike & TruTV are. The one on TruTV is so bad they actually have villians. There's no way they can be marketing that as real.
I have been wondering to what degree Top Gear is scripted.
Obviously SOME of the things are scripted, and I think the guys sort of play along with it, and some times things are quite clearly not scripted. There are quite a few moments though where I'm just not sure...
So Worlds Worst Tenants comes on after the awesome World's Wildest Police Videos on Spike, so I decided to watch it. It's a show where the group above works for landlords to serve property tenants with warnings or eviction notices, and are usually bizarre situations. Liked the first episode enough to keep watching. Then the third episode completely shattered any illusion of reality they were trying to convey.
-They need to find out who's been dumping medical waste in the trash bin before the city fines the landlord. So they set up a hidden camera and come back "24 hours later"...wearing the same clothes as the day before.
-The tenants or bystanders on the show act angrily/hostile towards the guys, which is common. They also make it a point not to stare at the camera, which is important for actors but not so much when you're on reality tv and you're supposedly not an actor. The first thing someone would ask is, who the hell are you and what are these cameras doing? (the camera crew make no point of hiding either; they're getting shots where they would be plainly visible.)
-They spot a group of redneck guys using illegal automatic rifles on a makeshift firing range, which is what the landlord got complaints about, so they need to put a stop to it. Instead of calling the cops, they get right into the backyard and get into a confrontation with them. Then they call the cops. Who are on the scene in this remote location within seconds.
-In fact, every time they call the cops, which they do frequently, they'll respond within seconds, probably standing steps beyond the camera shot.
So yeah, kind of a bummer because I like the people the show is based on, as they seem pretty genuine. But geez, there's no way I can watch anymore of this show.
edit: I know all reality shows are fake in one way or another, duh. I'm talking about moments where it's immediately obvious.
I don't think so. They do have a guys that outbid them and there is one guy that they dedicated a show to that outbidded them, but it wasn't Dave's brother. They hated him because he was inflating the prices of the units and costing them money or wins.It is. Didn't they have an episode where the 'yuup' guys evil brother showed up to try and out bid him? And the back and forth with the couple who can't act worth a shit...
I get sucked into like everybody else, but it's fake as shit. The lockers are relatively cheap, if it wasn't fake, at this point you would have had at least one rich ass hole start showing up and buying everything just to get on TV. And yet, it's always the main cast bidding against each other.
I spent a good few years in my childhood thinking that wrestling was real.
Oh God, I remember watching that. Going live was probably one of the worst things that show could have done. Isn't that when the infamous Grant "jacket pull" happened?It usually hits when the star in the show visits someone, and the person answering the door acts like they're surprised that they showed up, and yet the camera angle is inside the damn house. How did the camera man get inside and you not expect _____ to show up?
Plus Ghost Hunters died for me when I say the YouTube video of the live episode. I at least held on to a sliver of hope that SOMETHING was real (shut up, I was young), but that killed any doubts