:: Closing Time ::

:: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 ::

So the best new shit on television is MTV's Taildaters.

Let's explain the scenario: as on most dating shows, a couple goes on a blind date, but since you can't fill a half hour with one edited blind date (they get dull) you do two. Taildaters chooses to cut between both dates as they go on their standard bits: the meeting, the day part, and the dinner.

Here's the schtick though: while Blind Date, the former king of trashy dating shows, pops up thought bubbles and details about the daters on screen revealing tidbits about them that they may reveal before or after the show (And their true thoughts on the situation), Taildaters brings in two of each daters' friends to comment on it as it's going on. They bring them up in little windows and they have conversations. Like, on one date one of the guy's friends commented that the girl's breasts couldn't be real, and one her "friends" immediately said that she knew for a fact they weren't. *boggle*

The best part: the daters have text pagers, which the observers use to send them pages of what they're doing wrong, or what the four of them think they should do next. Things like "shut up and let her talk" are as common as "make a bet - loser gets naked."

Finally, the daters don't know who their observers are until the end of the date when they reveal themselves. I'm not sure what the point of that schtick is... but it's there.

Either way, it's GREAT trashy TV. Watch it.
:: Peter 5:21 PM [+] ::
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