{"id":22921,"date":"2013-11-14T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=22921"},"modified":"2013-11-14T17:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:19:33","slug":"reality-tv-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/11\/14\/reality-tv-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV Shows That Will Never Be Produced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/style-invitational-week-1047-bank-shots-and-the-most-novel-of-celebrity-reality-shows\/2013\/11\/14\/877851e0-4af3-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html\">Washington Post Style Invitational contest (Week 1043)<\/a>, we were challenged to invent fake celebrity reality shows. I enjoyed many of the winning entries, especially several of the Honorable Mentions. So be sure to click that link and read about those  never-to-be shows.<\/p>\n<p>Alas,  no ink for me this week.  But here are my three non-winning entries: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dancing Behind Bars.&#8221; Former &#8220;Dancing with the Stars&#8221; judge Bruno Tonioli launches his quest for &#8220;fast on their feet felons,&#8221; after running out of minimally talented dancers in the general population. &#8220;Inmates have so much talent, it&#8217;s criminal,&#8221; raves Bruno. &#8220;The cat burglars have stolen my heart! And those death row moves are killer!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Sex Factor.&#8221; After losing control of the Miss USA and Miss Universe franchises in yet another bankruptcy, Donald Trump makes a comeback with a weekly beauty contest that, according to Trump, will be &#8220;really big&#8221; with &#8220;lots of bikinis and no interviews.&#8221; Says Trump, &#8220;girls should be seen and not heard &#8230; unless they went to Wharton.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Dancing Up In Mars&#8221; marks a &#8220;new frontier in reality TV, taking dance competitions to the next step.&#8221; Says host Newt Gingrich, &#8220;the gravity difference presents a grave challenge. But on the upside, Mars doesn&#8217;t enforce alimony laws. So no more checks to my six (or is it seven?) exes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Washington Post Style Invitational contest (Week 1043), we were challenged to invent fake celebrity reality shows. I enjoyed many of the winning entries, especially several of the Honorable Mentions. So be sure to click that link and read about those never-to-be shows. Alas, no ink for me this week. But here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,42,108,71],"tags":[3918,3914,4945,3913,1264,4967,3917,3916,3915,1471,3919,1455,304,303,3902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22921"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23347,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions\/23347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}