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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this the stupidest show on TV?
not to mention the most dangerous. quasi famous people diving from the high dive platform.
"Splash," the celebrity diving competition on ABC, appears to have claimed another injury. Nicole Eggert, the former "Baywatch" actress, was injured after a bad landing from a dive during a taping of the show on Thursday.
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According to the report, Eggert was pulled from the water after her dive, which involved multiple backflips, and rushed to a nearby hospital. ABC confirmed that Eggert was consulting with a doctor.
Though the 41-year-old actress appears not to have broken any bones, there is concern she may have internal injuries. Her kidneys in particular, are being monitored. And she's still on the show.
Eggert isn't the only star to be injured on the high-diving reality show. "Chelsea Lately" sidekick Chuy Bravo had to drop out of the program before it ever began airing because of a fractured heel he sustained during practice. And Miss Alabama Katherine Webb was advised to drop out by her doctor because of a back injury.
Kendra Wilkinson also quit the show because of her fear of heights. And extreme skier Rory Bushfield ruptured an eardrum during a dive but didn't quit the show.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-nicole-eggert-hospitalized-after-splash-mishap-20130419,0,6437103.story
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)BainsBane
(53,001 posts)I hate that stuff, and there is so much of it.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)I had a call to our internet/tv provider for a problem a while back and was just yapping with him while we were waiting for some data and talking about useless shows. He agreed. Lots of useless shows. I was surprised at that and hope he wasn't monitored and fired.
and big yah about those housewives phoney shows. So degrading to everyone.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)it might have been interesting, but as a series, no way. The novelty wore off about halfway through the first episode.
cali
(114,904 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)relationship issues as fodder and hinted at abuse from him -while they were still together, and the cameras rolled on.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)surgery on her face
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)something her and friends do a few times a year, no?
Not to minimize her problems, but she is a hot mess herself. Was she ever sober long enough to be credible?
The few episodes I saw led me to believe she was a serious head case herself. Sad that this is called entertaining these days.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)that no one knows what the truth is. she was so tanked all the time, I'm not sure she knows what happened. Sad.
Perhaps if she had called the police or gone to a real doctor instead of someone she has on retainer? She made very serious accusations- on TV instead of the police. WTF way is that way to handle things- turn your abuse into a PR opportunity? Dragging out hints of it all season to make yourself more poplular? She is someone to be pitied for sure, but not for the reasons she wants to be.
Tree-Hugger
(3,364 posts)He was in a lot of legal and financial trouble and I'm sure that played a part in his suicide.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)choose people who are already on edge and exploit them like that. he and his wife were a fucking mess and needed help.
Tree-Hugger
(3,364 posts)The shows thrive on the drama and encourage it. It's so easy for the cast members to spiral downward.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Mopar151
(9,965 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,809 posts)Mad Men, but I don't wanna get run out of here on a rail while ducking rotten tomatoes and bruised fruit, lol!
MattBaggins
(7,894 posts)Gonna have to ask you to please leave the premises.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)You REALLY do not like The Walking Dead? Oh wow, I did not know that was possible.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)One of my faves. Ty Burrell is pitch perfect every moment he's on screen.
KatyMan
(4,146 posts)I think it's a classic, right up there with any comedy one could name.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,081 posts)That's actually one of the funnier shows on network TV right now.
Now if you said Two Broke Girls, I'd be in agreement with you 100%.
bamacrat
(3,867 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)bamacrat
(3,867 posts)It's his shtick, to be mean and offensive. His delivery makes it great...to me.
unrepentant progress
(611 posts)Prole baiting is so much fun.
reflection
(6,286 posts)he has never failed to make me laugh. But then again I like irreverent comics and edgy humor. Carlin, Bruce, et al. Tosh strikes me as a guy who skewers everyone (including himself) and is just brutal in his takedowns.
To each his/her own though, and opinions are just that.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)and it looked completely stupid and uninteresting. Now people are being injured. What a complete waste of resources and time.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)Sounds like a great way to clean up the gene pool to me.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Lots of people see skaters and don't realize how hard it is.. This show at least chronicled the progress the non-skaters had, and some of them were amazing from start to end..
Initech
(99,912 posts)Really just watching the clips on Jon Stewart I feel my IQ drop a few points.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,081 posts)I actually find myself freeze framing the "corrections" scroll at the end of the skit:
At no time did our military fight a war against Cobra.
The T in BLT does not stand for terrorism.
Meteors are not coming to take your guns.
Zero Dark Thirty is not a diet soda.
The Vatican is not accessible through a wardrobe.
Food stamps are not used to mail food.
Armadillo is not Spanish for arms dealer.
Navy Seals are not actual seals with laser beams on their heads.
Thats not a knife, this is a knife is not the Australian National Anthem.
At no time did the passengers on the Carnival Cruise ship become zombies.
Beyonce cannot hypnotize animals.
Adele is a singer. A Dell is a computer.
February is a month.
Marco Rubio did not bring pasta back from China.
The Staten Island Ferry will not give you money for teeth.
The real Abraham Lincoln lived longer than 3 hours.
More people died from gun violence last year than from walking into elevator shafts.
The Constitution did not write itself.
Bruno Mars is from Earth.
There are no Americans in the Bible.
The tie goes to the runner.
Not all amputees kill their girlfriends.
Zumba is not a secret form of Santeria.
North Korea is not a Cloud City.
A pin code and a pine cone are two different things.
The kid on Modern Family did not start out in porn.
Joe Bidens teeth are real and do not pick up radio waves.
Polar bears are rarely asking for it.
Kobe beef is not meat from the flesh of Kobe Bryant.
A period piece is not a movie that only plays during one week of the month.
Plants are alive, but they cannot watch TV.
A transgender is not a car that can be driven by men and women.
Kate Upton is not dating a glacier.
God does not sneeze electricity.
The similar names of the North Dakota and South Dakota are not a coincidence.
Even black people love Raymond.
Mumfords daughters are not in foster care.
octothorpe
(962 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)But I have no interest in the sport.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Sad, really. These reality shows cast using post-fame performers. It's pretty humiliating to begin with, and this one adds real physical torment and risk of serious injury. "Say, you're a former actor/actress / model approaching middle age. Why don't you jump off this high platform, try a few backflips while you're up there?"
What happened to good ole Celebrity Olympics where they just ran relays? Circus of the Stars was probably dangerous though, looking back. They did have a net, at least.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Initech
(99,912 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)If only we could choose who had to jump...
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)koiwoman53
(22 posts)Yes, it is ridiculous but I think the winner is "Chasing Tail" where deer are killed by bow and arrow on camera in new housing developments. Just what I want to see after dinner, dead animals being dragged across the screen. Its pretty gruesome but please don't start labeling me as anti-hunter, I see the problem of deer population but I just don't want to see bloody carcasses being stuck in my face.
calimary
(80,693 posts)Glad you're here. Man, I HATE that show. I will NOT watch those beautiful animals being killed and dragged around across the yard or anywhere else.
I was gonna say "Teen Mom," though. Oh my, what dazzling role models for our youth.
And ANYTHING with Larry the Cable Guy. YECCCHHH!!!!! The minute he opens his mouth, I want to run screaming into the night.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I feel the same way. I'm glad you mentioned that show, because I hadn't heard of it yet. Now, I will know to avoid it. I can't stand watching that kind of stuff. If people are hunting if it is for food, fine, but I don't want to see it.
Our homecoming parades every year involved the theme of defeating the rival team, the Bucks. I quit going to those parades after the year they had an actual dead deer head on one of the floats with dried blood still visible where they cut it off. You could see it clear as day. Our fall weather is usually still 80+ degrees. I won't go into detail about the smell, but you can imagine I am sure. It was awful.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)I tend to pre-program my Dish network thing to auto-tune in roughly 12-hour blocks (it gives me something to do). So I scroll past all the alien shows, all the zombie shows, all the "Real Housewives of..." shows, all the "Lizard Lick Towing" shows, all the "reality" shows, and I usually wind up saying to myself "Screw it. 'SpongeBob SquarePants' it is..."
liberalhistorian
(20,809 posts)night and spot on!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)They did it in Britain too.
Logical
(22,457 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)and most all the others tied in a very close race for second place.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I've been out of the loop for so long, it's hard to tell what is real and what isn't with regard to US television programs
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)Watch for a carachter or 2 based on Uncle Si in the next wave of sitcoms. And I don't watch it much - I know plenty of homefolks just like 'em.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)I couldn't stand to watch any more than a few minutes.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,081 posts)I refuse to believe it, in fact, no matter how true it is.
That's just taking Andy Warhol's maxim to the extreme.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Everything I could ever want to watch is available from one of the following sources:
1. Over the air, especially PBS. It comes in in crystal-clear HD in my neighborhood.
2. Streaming over the Roku for Netflix, Hulu Plus, Acorn TV, and couple of other channels.
3. DVDs, especially the ones I have ordered from overseas branches of Amazon for use on my multi-region player.
4. For more recent cable fare that gets good word-of-mouth, I download from iTunes and watch on my iPad.
Raine
(30,540 posts)by not having cable or satillite.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)and I'm not paying for it.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)It's pretty easy to avoid the crap if one truly wants to.
I'll never pay for cable or satellite. That's a monstrous waste of money.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)I have rabbit ears on my t.v. and I pick up several channels, more than enough for me considering how much t.v. I watch. I don't live in a big city, either. People who pay for t.v. are suckers, in my opinion.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Boomerproud
(7,889 posts)If they are the most vapid "celebrities" in the country...
olddots
(10,237 posts)Celebrity Circumcisions followed by Spring Break Beer Barf Rape Fest
it's gonna happen .
Loryn
(941 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)sakabatou
(42,082 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Orrex
(63,084 posts)Mopar151
(9,965 posts)But I like your style!
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Chipped a tooth on the water.
Straight Bourbon from then on.
What is it... 30ft is the maximum?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Even that hasn't convinced me to see it.
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)Between him, and the guests he has on, I can never make it more than about 2 or 3 minutes before I have to change the channel.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)"Pregnant & Dating". I lost brain cells just seeing the commercial for this abomination. While I don't care when, how or with whom someone is dating, but they are portraying that there is an innocent baby involved in this somehow. I'll never watch it; I hope no one else does either and that it will just go away quietly, never to be heard of again.
And yes, many of the other nominees in preceding posts are awful, too.
ecstatic
(32,566 posts)Or at least the first episode. I'm really curious!
sylvi
(813 posts)to the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome.
ecstatic
(32,566 posts)That tends to be my experience with ABC shows. Good shows are immediately canceled while terrible shows keep getting renewed.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)They cancel any show I like and keep shows that I don't like.
Apophis
(1,407 posts)caraher
(6,276 posts)"At times, you sense that what ITV really want to broadcast is celebrity stripping, but Ofcom said no, so they cleaned it with chlorine and put it on Saturday night."
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Those on the other side of the pond sure know how to do snark properly.
caraher
(6,276 posts)I've watched all his various "Wipe" series on YouTube... relentless comic misanthropy!
treestar
(82,383 posts)watch kids' TV and you can find a lot of competitors for the title.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)It completely makes a mockery out of our criminal justice system by using what almost looks like a game show format.
It is appalling.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)so I can be sure to check them out.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Now,If Breaking Bad was 100% a situation comedy, now that would be funny like I think it is, that is one thing.
But as a drama?It's stupid. So far over the top as to render itself obsolete unless actually a full comedy.
As for Splash, it is no different than the long running show decades ago where celebs did some sort of sport each week in competition. Can't think of the name of it.
And people watch hoping someone gets hurt (but isn't that why many who watch NASCAR exists?)
TV in the 50s,60s,70s,80s,90s was better.
Gimme Maude and Sanford and Adam-12, and the original Hawaii-5-O, gimme Harry O and Columbo and Kojak and any of the Bob Newhart shows and Lucy shows and Get Smart and WKRP in Cinn. Gimme Dennis and Leave it to Beaver and the later versions like Cosby and Brady Bunch.Gimme the Honeymooners.
Gimme AntennaTV (or for those lucky enough to get it also, MeTV., which my cable don't have).
But Splash is inconsequential background roll your eyes mindless filler tv.
It don't matter so it's not either stupid or not stupid.
Breaking Bad is consequential and who knows what people might end up doing thinking they are immitating that show. It could rewrite a chapter in history, much like Django, and that I find stupid. It is dangerous and anyone can watch it.(any kid who has cable in their house).
And if it is not 100% dark comedy, they will think it is real and they can do it too.
Maybe the guy who sent letters last week did so watching this show.
Anyone can take a dive off a ledge. Well, George Bailey did so too.
Now, this thread is in GD and not the lounge. So I might be wrong, but as its in GD, I assume it is relevant to political discussion and based my answer as such.
I assume the OP (maybe wrongly) was using an analogy to something else.
If it were in the lounge a different answer might have been.
but since this is GD
The 2 hateperps were stupid.
The law enforcement that saved them was smart (or as the kids might say today Dope).
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I shall remove myself from thine lawn forthwith, my good man.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,481 posts)NuttyFluffers
(6,811 posts)the days never seem to run out of fifteen minutes, or boobs for the glass teat.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)What's next -- Celebrity Car Crash? See who can survive the biggest, baddest head-on collision EVAH??
I was busy doing other things last week and didn't bother the change the channel when this came on. Truly, truly cringe-worthy, especially with Louie Anderson.
People train for years to do this stuff, and they're taking over-the-hill, washed-up celebs and making them "divers" in just weeks.
Crazy.
Separation
(1,975 posts)Oh Sit!
They have a live band and it is a musical chair type game mixed in with wipeout.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)A show about towing repossessed cars.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)pnwest
(3,265 posts)1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)dembotoz
(16,737 posts)have cable with all these fricken channels and I watch it less and less
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)But this one has my vote. Stupid, and dangerous.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)it is really hard to measure the degree of stupidity at that point. Splash looks like another stupid AND dangerous one. Those are the worst. I hate to see people getting hurt even if it is their own stupidity causing it.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)are the cooking challenge shows on Food Network. Chopped is my favorite.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)JVS
(61,935 posts)It still seems better than MTV's Real World or Bait Car
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)stupid are few and far between. and the stupid is so mean-spirited (unlike say, the beverly hillbillies which was stupid was not vicious).