It's amazing the sheer level of bullshit available on television. Is it even possible for people to stomach all this bullshit and continue watching? The two examples I will put forth today are "The Weakest Link" and "Fear Factor", both of which hold the basic premise: "How much abuse will people take for ludicrous amounts of money?" And the premise of the show doesn't bother me THAT much, since we live in a voyeuristic fucked up orwellian nightmare society anyway, but it's the HYPE that bothers me. "THE NEWEST PHENOMENON THAT'S SWEEPING AMERICA!" Can people listen to that line and swallow it? Seriously? Why do these "reality" shows have well-synched emotionally shattering epic scores? It's cheap and tawdry! Look how cheap it is! It made me use the word TAWDRY!