Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 307! We’re sorry, but this week’s episode is very late, so we’re going to use bullet points for our show summary: pipes; cans; sewage; life; old-age; grandpas; mandelas; dicks; gloom; wetness; lethargy; chickens; perfection; dementia; rainwater; techlers; wrassling; remorse; monsters; weirdo; reality; bad reality; queens; goats; horses on ice; dirty cops; crime panic; justice; contents; confessions; guess who; dye job; slugs; cancon; recognition; glasses; surprise; and, finally, homeostatic functions.
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Oh you guys… you are sooooooo funny! “Decking Around” with Dave and Ian, whose 30 year friendship is on the line, in your reality show riff, is hilarious! I’ve listened to it several times already and likely will again this morning en route to work. (I’m cracking up just thinking about it!) It’s spot on! 🙂
Me (At work, yelling at my iPod): “HORSE PUCKY CALL IT HORSE PUCKY DAMMIT!”
Ian, “The Swan”‘s premise is different (and worse) than you remember. All the women on the show get cosmetic surgery, and the contest is a beauty pageant.
Every episode featured two women who think they’re ugly, and both were given head-to-toe cosmetic surgeries and a fitness regime. Then they were dolled up pageant-style and saw their new self for the first time on the show (they’d be sequestered from their families and not allowed to look in a mirror until they stand on stage for the dramatic reveal). Then the judges picked the “best” of the two women. The last episode was a full-on pageant. Pretty crazy how they were given cosmetic surgery to help their confidence, only to crush all but one of them by saying they’re still not pretty enough. (Source: me, who watched the whole first season.)
Gah!!!! How is this not the plot to a horror film?
Um, you know how you said no surgeon would cut off a healthy limb? Scotland leads the way once again…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/625680.stm
I came here to say this! Apotemnophilia is a real thing, which really sucks!
Ooh! *raises hand furiously*
Wait, only five bands? Well…
Said the Whale
Joel Plaskett
The New Pornographers (and member solo projects, yes this is cheating)
The Besnard Lakes
Mounties
There are dozens of listworthy mentions, but those are probably obscure or semi-obscure to most non-Canadians but some broad appeal. I think.
For the best reality TV show ever, check out the Great British Bake Off! Genuinely nice people just baking things. If a baker finishes early, they help the other bakers. The only prize is a trophy and a bouquet of flowers.