Reality TV Shows Weave Their Fabric into Your Life

These days there seem to be more and more reality TV shows weaving the web of their fabric into our everyday lives. I find this to be rather an amazing phenomenon considering the state of our economy, the fact our country is at war. You'd think that the evening news would be enough reality TV for anyone. Actually, it is more than enough reality for me.

What happened to TV shows that were entertaining and comical? Remember the shows that picked us out of our hum drum lives and always were good for a laugh or two. Remember when MASH was on? Weren't you secretly disappointed when they did a serious show for a change and brought back a bit too much reality into our world from which we were trying to escape?

Let's start with Fear Factor? A show in which you can literally be scared to death, I think they misunderstand. Fear factor is commuting of the bridges in this nation's infrastructure and praying they hold beneath you and your car. The Amazing Race, I don't need to see people racing after things they may never catch hold of. I see too many people wasting their lives joining the rat race. Why don't they stop and smell the flowers for once. Rat race...no thank you, I think that that is too much reality for me.

Now onward to the Chopping Block, I think I understand this reality show the best. Isn't this also part of the new Fear Factor? These days you go into work and you wait for your job to fall onto the Chopping Block. If it doesn't you belong on Survivor. To top this off, some of these Survivor's are mothers. They are women that work outside the home and Real Housewives (Housewives work just as hard as those who work outside the home!) who feel they are stuck in Hell's Kitchen. Leaving their family's to ponder the question, "So You Think You Can Dance" as mom tries to make something for dinner. Wondering in the back of her mind when is someone going to kick her off this God forsaken island which is awash in a sea of chaos.

Usually the working mom is the unsung hero. She worries that she may no longer look like Americas Top Model; she may fear that her spouse may nominate her for Wife Swap, but in reality she should be the American Idol. She deserves the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This is the excellent show where people with people with run down houses with needs and compelling life stories have their house revamped in a week. This shoe has value. It has a point and it positive. It allows us to see others in the world have it worse than we do. It encourages us to look around, help our neighbor, not to be so self-absorbed, and to pay-it-forward www.payitforwardmovement.org . As far as I'm concerned this is one reality show that can stay. Throughout the shows five seasons Extreme Makeover:Home Edition has continued to improve each season consistently. It has become a Sunday evening standard in my home for TV viewing.

If I'm lucky maybe ABC will come up with Extreme Makeover: Life Edition. I'd like to be their first contestant. I think I'd qualify.