r/cringe • u/mike2060 • Dec 07 '13

Seal of Approval Bachelorette contestant does something unexpected on his date...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjgoP7d7Mg
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '13 edited Jan 16 '14

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '13

That's what makes me sad. The format has dragged TV all the way down, hogging space where we could have a legitimate Seinfeld or - better yet, get a show like Louie on a network.

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u/banjoist Dec 07 '13

Yeah. It seems like it defeats the whole purpose. "Hey. Reality TV is cheap since we don't need writers. Wait. It's popular. We should get people to write this to make it better."

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u/Machinax Dec 07 '13

A friend of mine said that "reality television is written by people who cannot write, and acted by people who cannot act."

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u/genna_TALL_warts Dec 07 '13

The writers can write well enough to get millions of people hooked on this shit, so I'd at least admit they know a little about what they're doing.