File under "I thought I’d heard it all…": The producers of Wife Swap are in the process of creating an American version of French Kiss, in which men compete to kiss as many women as possible over the course of a few days. The French series, 5 Frenchies a Miami, sent, you guessed it, five brosephs to Miami, without money, possessions, or a place to stay. According to TV Week, "the men struggle to stay ‘kissable,’ taking showers at the beach and begging for money." And presumably kisses.
My first reaction: This is going to inspire an excellent episode of Law & Order. If those "high school clique/frat boys run a contest to sleep with the most girls" stories can generate this many episodes of cop shows, I think "reality show gone round the bend" is really promising. Next reaction: Groooooan. "Smooch me, I’m in a kissing contest" is a pretty standard adolescent scheme to just get smooched. It’s like planning out what’s going to happen in a game of truth or dare.* Which…great, that’s so going to be the next reality show. After that, it’ll be Seven Minutes in Heaven: Cancun, and Spin the Bottle: Celebrity Edition, and then nine intolerable seasons of You Look Tense; Let Me Give You a Back Rub.
Okay, PopWatchers, what’s your gut reaction to a kissing contest reality show? Are you puckering up, or is smooch landing squarely on your cheek?
*Best episode of Undeclared, hands down.
*bangs head repeatedly against desk* Reality show died the day it was created and it’s been going downhill ever since.
When I said Hollywood and the TV Networks had lost all semblance of originality, I should have added they had lost every bit of common sense and dignity.
That said, I’m sure they’ll get plenty of people to watch this crap,there are always sheep.
ugh…alert the Miami health department of a probable herpes outbreak!!
My gut reaction? Hurling in to the nearest trash can. This is barely even MTV-worthy.
Um, gross!
I’ll have fun watching it being mocked on The Soup!
When MTV shows start to look reputable…
BTW Spin the Bottle: Celebrity Edition title = hilarity
that was an amazing episode of undeclared. the scripts and the surprise maneuvering, brilliant! i think i’ll just watch it over and over again whenever an episode this type of reality show airs.
When I was in high school, I went on a trip to Europe and half the kids in our group got mouth herpes from making out with each other. Not me though
I think a kissing contest is a great idea if the participants want to spread communicable diseases.
Some treatments with these genital herpes drugs were to be taken during an outbreak, and some of them to be taken before outbreaks, even through a whole year.http://www.herpesmedicationsdrugs.com/