For his Extra Credit, Trip invited us to invent challenges for the reality shows of our choice.
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I’m thinking the only reasonable choice for this is the ultimate reality game show cross over challenge. Here me out, I imagine it something like this.
Top Chef contestants are kept up until late at night and required to make an early breakfast out of some kind of gross foods for Fear Factor contestants, who are currently having their hair styled by Shear Genius stylists, in a who can make the best hair style that will hold up after a dive in the pool contest, so the Fear Factor contestants can rescue the Americas Next Top Model contestants currently modeling Project Runway outfits for The Shot contestants while trapped in a cage of…idk bees are some other awful shit.
After the gross/delicious Fear Factor breakfast, the contestants are subjected too a fake murder of a beautiful girl (staged by Scare Tactics, beautiful girl provided by Ru Paul’s drag race ((whose contestants will be judged based on how long it takes the Fear Factor competitors to figure out they’re a man(((with makeup done by Face-Off contestants)))))). Last Comic Standing contestants are dragged in, whoever can make the recently emotionally scarred Fear Factor contestant laugh first will win their challenge.
The episode will be directed simultaneously by the current On the Lot contestants. Celebrity Apprentice contestants will do the promotional work for screenings of this reality TV show event, and in the board room we’ll find out that Donald Trump has actually been a decades long ruse performed in advance by a Celebracadbra contestant. The workers on set for all of these things can be Real World contestants and Flava Flav can pick one to bring home after it’s all over based on her singing talents.
*Hear me out. Damn my incredible lack of typing prowess.
Can I create a challenge for a reality show that doesn’t normally feature challenges? Excellent.
I want the kids on “Toddlers and Tiaras” to be forced to compete with no makeup, spray tans, “flippers”, wigs, or costumes. I want all of the kids to be given a standard uniform (say, white shirt, black skirt, and FLAT shoes) and have to perform the entire competition this way. I would also put the mothers in a sound-proof booth behind one-way glass so that they can’t coach the girls from the audience.
This is my dream. I will make this happen. Somehow. Some day.
You could totally make the Fear Factor challenge work: You just need to slip a clause into the waiver that everybody has to sign as part of the application. Paragraph 35 subparagraph (b) “APPLICANT understands that SHOW may surprise APPLICANT at any time after the application is received and before the APPLICANT is removed from the PROGRAM. Said surprise may take any form, including but not limited to unexpected appearance at APPLICANT’s home or place of work, at any time of day, under any disguise, and introduce any degree of fear.”
Hired.
Does it have to be a reality show competition? Because I want to see a Kardashian Hunger Games.
My guess is all of that non-Kardashian blood flowing through Khloe will give her the edge!
I would just like to see Pumpkin spit on any (and preferably multiples) of the Real Housewives. Maybe Punk’d could sponsor Pumpkin to pose as a production assistant on each city’s version and then “hawwwwrch!”