Baggage

For some reason, a very good reason, I've been watching the GSN channel quite a bit, which you may know is aka the Game Show Network.

Where I lived before we didn't even get this channel (we did years ago). But now that I've moved, we not only have it but it's on a few hours a day. That doesn't mean that I personally am watching it all that time, because I'm not. It's sort of hard to watch really, because it gets tedious.

Anyway, they have lots of old shows, like with Dick Clark and other old hosts. "The Match Game" is on sometime, which I watched in the '70s. And it seems like, among the new ones, "Deal or No Deal" is on several times a day. It's an interesting show ... the first time. If you've seen one episode, you've seen 'em all. Still, it's fairly compelling to see someone turn numbers at random and suffer the odds. There's absolutely no skill involved in turning the numbers. It's just guessing.

One of the other shows is a lascivious piece of crap, that also is fun to watch a few times, "Baggage," hosted by Jerry Springer. Today I saw part of it, where an individual looking for a date discovers the baggage of three suitors. Today there was someone who 'has 2 tigers and 10 pit bulls at home,' someone who 'needs his nipples bitten during sex,' and someone who 'wants to get married and have children now.' Out of these three, the woman was most offended by the guy who wants to get married! Wow, how times have changed!

Her own baggage was that she 'wears adult diapers,' which the man in advance said was most offensive to him. Then she revealed that's what it was and he changed his tune, allowing that if she only urinated in them it wouldn't be so bad. This is the state of game shows in 2010.

I would've liked to have heard them pitching this show to Jerry Springer. "Listen, you're associated with human scum and crap anyway, who'd be a better host for it than you?"