Bachelor Pad Shocker Sinks to New Low

A Bachelor Pad shocker of an episode certainly sank to a horrible new low last night. The television show, which can be viewed and probably is viewed as a guilty pleasure by many during the slow summer months, took reality television way below the gutter last night. What happened on Bachelor Pad? The house guests competed in an event which never should have happened. If you didn't see it, it might be shocking to view what actually transpired on a network television program.

Contestants were asked crude questions like "Who in the house is the most shallow?" That wasn't even the worst question. How about the ever popular "who has the worst boob job?" Really? Surely ABC would try and cut this little piece out before it ever began to sizzle? How did Bachelor Pad staff get away with basically making fun of someone for how they look ? By disguising it as a guessing game based on the reactions of house guests, that's how.

Who was producing the show last night, Howard Stern? Bachelor Pad took judging a fellow human being by their looks to an even lower standard last night. Another question on the Bachelor Pad episode asked "Who will be a bridesmaid and never a bride?" Another question during the brainless competition was "Who is the dumbest house guest?"

Seriously? Did the producers of Bachelor Pad have any idea how much a competition like this would torment young adult women? Sure enough, it ended up in most of the women on the show leaving in tears for the house.
It was awful. And as much as I sometimes like to see pompous reality television stars be put in their place, I think it's safe to say that nobody deserved this kind of treatment. It was brutal. The producers of the show should offer up an apology to the house guests for subjecting them to such high school bullying. It's almost as if the house guests were being hazed. It was horrible judgment and I think the Bachelor Pad contestants, even if they want to be reality television stars disregarding potential conditions, deserve much better.

I found it horribly degrading that these women had to go through with this. I also found it silly that each house guest was put through the actual quiz and forced to answer truthfully to possibly win a competition.
If there was anything redeeming, it seemed as if one of the male contestants threw out his potential answer in regards to the "boob job" because his potential girlfriend on the show was the choice of the rest of the house guests. It was nice to see one little victory in a cloud of bullying sent by the makers of the show.

While it's not completely shocking that Bachelor Pad borders on the trashy subject matter, it was shocking that Bachelor Pad producers didn't put much thought into what would actually happen upon giving the answers to these questions. And if they did much thought into it, they had to know some women on the show would end up in agony. Let's just say the only people who really looked bad were the people behind the scenes of the show.
It was hard not to feel sorry for these women who were ridiculed by their fellow house guests for the sake of ratings and television. And the whole thing was perpetuated by the people behind the show. It was blatantly formed and ill placed drama.

Reality Television just took one giant step backward with that episode of Bachelor Pad.
There will be some school of thought saying these reality television contestants kind of know what they are getting into. My opinion is these people, no matter how publicity hungry they are, should not be coerced by producers into saying horrible things about one another for the benefit of the viewing audience. They can nag, gripe and create drama quite well on their own, right? If they can't, well that's not really reality television is it? It's then scripted and created for the benefit of the TV audience by the producers. In this case, much of the drama surrounding this particular episode was gift wrapped by the producers of Bachelor Pad and delivered to an audience who probably got a little sickened at the stomach. It was just plain and simple bad television.
I wasn't expecting an award winner. We get the drift by now, those of us who have watched Bachelor and Bachelorette. We expect some overplayed drama each week. But not this. It would have been nice if the show figured out a way to salvage any dignity it had left after setting the stage with such explosive and unnecessary material.

I give a giant thumbs down to Bachelor Pad for not being creative enough to come up with questions that didn't get so personal. Wouldn't it have been just as easy for the questions to be centered around something generic like who has the best body? Couldn't the questions all be kept a little more positive instead of portraying the negative and ripping women for having bad boob jobs? That sounds like someone actually had an agenda heading into the origination of the questions.

Who is creating these questions? 10th graders who just don't know any better? No, that can't be right because 10th graders probably know better. Bachelor Pad dropped the ball last night and it's unlikely that show will ever recover in my opinion. It never was an Emmy winner but it seemed like very watchable television until the show completely crossed a line last night. I want to see the finish-but have no way of knowing if the producers of the show will throw more house guests intentionally under the bus. Guess that's what makes reality television so unpredictable. Although another school of thought will say that's what is starting to also make reality television so predictable.