PopWatch is on a quest to determine the Greatest Guilty Pleasure Reality TV Show of All Time. We have 32 seeded contestants in four categories (see full bracket here), and we’re getting started with the sexytimes of the Relationships category. Which makes you swoon more, Flavor Flav’s big clock or the former soap star showing off those abs? Come back at 4 pm ET to vote for the next match-up.
Quarterfinals, Relationships: Flavor of Love vs. My Antonio
Flavor of Love
The ur-text of VH1’s love-contest shows, Flavor of Love spawned an entire genre of programming not to mention a “family” of former contestants whose spinoffs continue to populate the station. Flavor Flav’s debauched series featured cat fights, awkward (phonetically spelled) nicknames, and a woman actually soiling herself. For the record, no, that’s not what got her eliminated. Yeah, the show will give you STDs of the mind, but there’s a reason it was VH1’s most popular show ever. – Margaret Lyons
My Antonio
My, my, my indeed. My Antonio tried to distinguish itself by having an unusually handsome former star at its center, but it was the involvement of his mother (the constant, almost creepy over-involvement) and his ex-wife (as a contestant trying to win him back) that really planted this show’s flag. Well…that and the fact that a contestant slapped a producer. – Margaret Lyons
Photo Credit: Flavor of Love: VH1; My Antonio: Piotr Sikora/VH1
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Flavor of Love was more entertaining than My Antonio, so it gets my vote. The sad part of Antonio’s show was that a dude that fine (who probably has no problem getting chicks) resorted to embarrasing himself on national TV (on a reality show, no less). Dude! You could always go back to General Hospital if you are hurting for work!
This one is no contest. Flavor of love hands down.
Flavor of Love! It’s hilarious b/c instead of the usual literate hunk, you have Flavor Flav….
Are you kidding me? The whole bracket is a racket!
No guilty pleasure contest is complete without “I Love New York”! That was the absolute best/most embarassing show to admit to loving.
totally agree. i know that it was spawned by flavor of love and thats why it probably didnt get its own spot, but i love new york took this genre to a whole new level. i mean one of the funniest things ive ever seen on any of these shows is when new york is sitting on the boat and her fake eyelashes are flying off of her face
Who else is waiting for her to show up in porn?
The sad thing about Flavor of Love and I Love New York is that they are latter-day minstrel shows, depicting black folks in the most unflattering and ridiculous light. Ditch ‘em both!
are you joking my antonio all the way hands down with sabatos smoking hotttt body that wont quit all the way i cant wait for my antonio season 2 start date
Neither. UGH.
‘Flavor of Love’ had it all: novelty clocks, ex-strippers, completely (un)necessary spitting, the letter ‘Z’ replacing the letter ‘S’ for no reason whatsoever, and of course, the easy to love and/or hate New York. vH1 struck gold with thiz show!
And people pooping on the floor. It had that, too.
how come real world isnt on the bracket?
Sigh, Antonio, while I enjoyed watching YOU more, not your show, Flava Flav was da bomb diggity and fits this award to a T!
I’d have to say that My Antonio was more of a “guilty pleasure.” Only because who could possibly feel guilty about watching that hot mezz of a show Flavor of Love?
flavor of love was hilarious..hands down, more entertainment more so from the women than flava flav himself.he had some live ones
Please stop watching this shit so that it will go away.
Flava Flav – that show was so awful, but I loved every hour I spent watching it. Kellen summed up the show so well.
Flavor of Love FTW! The show introduced the world to “New York” and gave us a flying spit bomb for the ages!