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 deep into the quarterfinals of the Competition category. After you vote, please leave comments about why you love the show you chose.
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Quarterfinals, Competition: I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! vs. Paris Hilton’s My New BFF
I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
The tropical, fetid camp for a truly random merry band of losers held a similar strange-bedfellows fascination as that time Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen shared a bathtub on The Surreal Life. You just couldn’t look away. So many questions! If Janice Dickinson finally took a dump, might Sanjaya step in it? Why would Lou Diamond Phillips agree to appear in the same frame as Heidi and Spencer? Wasn’t John Salley in Confessions of a Shopoholic? Okay, eventually you could look away, but it was probably a decent while later than you’d like to admit. One upside to the viewing experience was the reassurance that as guilty as you felt watching it, you were nowhere near as guilty as the crazies who actually starred in it. –Annie Barrett
Paris Hilton’s My New BFF
The opening credits to Paris Hilton’s My New BFF look like a direct-to-video Barbie film for a reason. It’s actually a warning: What you’re about to watch is best suited for audiences ages 3 and up. But that’s the beauty of BFF. It’s not Lost and will by no means deplete your brain power. It will, however, reduce your tolerance for haters and drama, and make you want to use replace the words hello and goodbye with ”love you.” Watching Hilton find a new BFF has become so addicting, that it has gone international, a U.K. version of the show has already aired and production has completed on the Middle East version of the reality show (Is there a way to translate ”TTYN” into Arabic?). But fans stateside shouldn’t worry about getting their helping of the MTV series. The Hilton-ese word ”forever” apparently translates ”until next season.” If the trend continues, the future of the BFFranchise looks (to partially quote season 2 winner Stephen Hampton) ”gorgeous and pink.” –Sandra Gonzalez
Photo Credit: I’m a Celebrity: Craig Sjodin; Paris Hilton: Sam Comen
Yes, a season that was until last week largely predictable finally named its sixth Top Chef. The episode really had me guessing until the last second, but how did you guys feel? Were you happy with the judges’ decision? Who got the short end of the stick? What dishes did you love from tonight?
Just as Jersey Shore settles into my TiVo as Guilty Obsession of the Moment, I’m afraid that a new, um, situation is developing on the horizon: ABC announced today that following the Jan. 4 season premiere of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love (worst title ever), the network will air… Conveyor Belt of Love (best title ever). And although the show really doesn’t need any more explanation, I will not rob you of the joy of reading this description straight from the press release: “In this hilarious and fast-paced one-hour special, one by one the 30 men are presented on the “Conveyor Belt of Love” to the five women and given 60 seconds to impress them. If a woman is interested in someone, that man will step aside and wait as the rest of the men go by. But if another man comes by on the belt who seems better than that woman’s first choice, she can swap out the man waiting off of the belt as many times as she wants until the last man has passed by. If two or more of the women are interested in the same man, the tables turn and the man on the conveyor belt gets to choose which one he would like to wait for. After all 30 men have made it through the Conveyor Belt of Love, each woman is left with her final choice as she embarks on a date in the hope of finding a true connection. Will these five women be happy with their choices?”
Does practice make perfect? We’ll find out tonight as New Directions competes in “Sectionals,” the heavily anticipated episode that will serve as our last hit of Glee until—all together now!—April 13. Let’s review the available information about the big show after issuing this SPOILER ALERT:
