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TLC "MILF Manor"

Lutherf

Lutherf

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https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?

Milf Manor just dropped a bombshell no one saw coming!

During Sunday's episode of TLC's new reality dating show, which follows eight women who are searching for love, the MILFs were shocked to learn that the pool of men they would be dating from includes each other's sons
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Lutherf said:
https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

And it will only last as long as it brings that.
 
Lutherf said:
https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?
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I agree wholeheartedly!

I judge the US electorate by what is shown on prime time television on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. The picture isn’t pretty!

Dancing With the Stars has been on what 20 years?

When ” The Simpsons “ made it to network tv and succeeded, I knew we were lost!
 
Rexedgar said:
I agree wholeheartedly!

I judge the US electorate by what is shown on prime time television on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. The picture isn’t pretty!

Dancing With the Stars has been on what 20 years?

When ” The Simpsons “ made it to network tv and succeeded, I knew we were lost!
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The Simpson's formula has been around TV for a LONG time. I mean, the Honeymooners used that formula 60+ years ago and even that show was based on a radio program with the same general premise. Devoted, rational wives played against cartoonish husbands is simply a formula that has always worked and part of the reason it works is because there is a moral base to all the shenanigans. The idiot husband pretty much always comes around by the end of the show and recognizes the error of his ways.

Jerry Springer pushed "reality" to new extremes and, along with MTV's reality show (something about a bunch of kids living in the same house), started the roller coaster to hell with this kind of programming. I guess it sells but that damned sure doesn't mean it's got any redeeming qualities to it.
 
Lutherf said:
The Simpson's formula has been around TV for a LONG time. I mean, the Honeymooners used that formula 60+ years ago and even that show was based on a radio program with the same general premise. Devoted, rational wives played against cartoonish husbands is simply a formula that has always worked and part of the reason it works is because there is a moral base to all the shenanigans. The idiot husband pretty much always comes around by the end of the show and recognizes the error of his ways.

Jerry Springer pushed "reality" to new extremes and, along with MTV's reality show (something about a bunch of kids living in the same house), started the roller coaster to hell with this kind of programming. I guess it sells but that damned sure doesn't mean it's got any redeeming qualities to it.
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IT WAS A ****ING CARTOON!
 
Lutherf said:
https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?
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When humans stop watching it, they'll stop making it.


Unless something fairly fundamental changes I don't see that happening anytime soon.
 
I don't watch any reality TV.. It's mind numbing bad.. But TLC, The Learning Channel??? The FCC needs to make them change their name... Lol

MILF? 1000 LBS sisters? Little people? The whole channel is a joke.. Nothing to be learned there..
 
Lutherf said:
So was the Flintstones well before Homer and Marge.
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So were the Jetsons, what’s your point, who watched Flintstones and Jetsons, Topcat and the like?


Edit: initially the Flintstones were marketed to adults and switched their target in season three. Sponsors went from Winston to Welch’s Juice.
 
Rexedgar said:
So were the Jetsons, what’s your point, who watched Flintstones and Jetsons, Topcat and the like?


Edit: initially the Flintstones were marketed to adults and switched their target in season three. Sponsors went from Winston to Welch’s Juice.
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I did not know that about the Flintstones' sponsors. With regard to the Jetsons, Judy is still the hottest cartoon chick ever created.
 
I really detest daytime soapers like Young and Restless, so guess what? I don't watch them. I certainly don't write threads whining about them.

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Lutherf said:
https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?
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Fallen?? WTF was reality TV EVER been good???
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
I don't watch any reality TV.. It's mind numbing bad.. But TLC, The Learning Channel??? The FCC needs to make them change their name... Lol

MILF? 1000 LBS sisters? Little people? The whole channel is a joke.. Nothing to be learned there..
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Same with the history channel, at one time they had actual history programs, but I guess in dumbed down America, the money is in titillating the audience, not educating them. Like you, I gave up on TV programming years ago, with a few exceptions.
 
Lutherf said:
https://people.com/tv/tlc-milf-manor-kelle-and-son-joey-talk-shocking-twist/

This is how far Reality TV has fallen. No longer is it enough to have a bunch of cougars chasing men half their age but now they will also be chasing each other's sons.

I get it. Most people have a little voyeuristic streak in them and the appeal of "reality TV" is that it feeds that vice but why do we have to go that far down the rabbit hole? At what point does "edgy" become "pornography"?

Yeah, nobody is forcing anyone else to watch this crap but still, who figures this is a good idea for commercial TV? Worse yet, what comes next?
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I think perhaps that TV air time has become so easily available and so cheap that it has cheapened the so called entertainment being offered.

Hopefully this programming ratings will collapse as badly as MSNBC's and CNN's for much the same reasons.
 
The top dog in the reality game right now appears to be the "90 Day Franchise".
The 90 Day Fiance roster of shows seem to push a decidedly right wing worldview....not a single couple practices birth control, for instance.
They seem surprised when the girl is suddenly preggers, how on earth did that happen!!

And the couples are becoming increasingly religious, either Islam or some offshoot of fundamentalist Christianity, maybe one Jewish pair, which happens to be very pro-Bibi.
Very low key, but I picked up on it because I don't know a single young couple in real life who is as ignorant about sex and birth control as these clowns.
The script is always the same, man or woman in America is eager to meet foreign exotic, acts surprised when the object of their adoration is nothing like an American and there are suddenly cultural issues.
 
eohrnberger said:
I think perhaps that TV air time has become so easily available and so cheap that it has cheapened the so called entertainment being offered.

Hopefully this programming ratings will collapse as badly as MSNBC's and CNN's for much the same reasons.
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Yeah as long as the cult keeps watching the BS on Fox, all is good... Lol
 
Lutherf said:
I did not know that about the Flintstones' sponsors. With regard to the Jetsons, Judy is still the hottest cartoon chick ever created.
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Josie and the *****cats??

(lol. the word censor apparently doesn't like *****cat)
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Fallen?? WTF was reality TV EVER been good???
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I think there was a lot of good TV. Dozens of westerns and sitcoms were good quality entertainment and a break from daily life. Shows like Wild Kingdom and Leonard Nimoy's "In Search Of" were entertaining and educational. Even the reality shows that actually do something (Pawn Stars, Street Outlaws, most of the custom car builders, etc.) are good entertainment.

When it comes to shows like this MILFs thing, it's just pushing bad behavior for the sake of bad behavior. It's like that Jackass show from a while back.
 
Lutherf said:
When it comes to shows like this MILFs thing, it's just pushing bad behavior for the sake of bad behavior. It's like that Jackass show from a while back.
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Yeah. Before TikTok/Instagram/Twitter internet "Challenges", there was Jackass.
 
Lutherf said:
I think there was a lot of good TV. Dozens of westerns and sitcoms were good quality entertainment and a break from daily life. Shows like Wild Kingdom and Leonard Nimoy's "In Search Of" were entertaining and educational. Even the reality shows that actually do something (Pawn Stars, Street Outlaws, most of the custom car builders, etc.) are good entertainment.

When it comes to shows like this MILFs thing, it's just pushing bad behavior for the sake of bad behavior. It's like that Jackass show from a while back.
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I'm not talking about westerns, or sitcoms, etc... When has any reality TV show been good? And No pawn stars too is/was crap..

Imo.. Never.. Right from day 1..never..
 
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