The Bitter Broads Of Cranky County

What’s the reality behind reality TV? I was wondering why in the world they have shows like “The Real Housewives” portraying a whole bunch of histrionic, narcissistic, paranoid, obsessive compulsive, and physically enhanced rich bimbos. What’s real about that? Seriously!!! This conversation actually came up in a wine session with a good friend of mine the other day while flipping through channels and stumbling on this ridiculous show. We thought to ourselves, “what a load of crap!” Don’t get me wrong, I suppose it’s great to be rich, spend money like a frivolous “biatch,” and pump up your breasts now and then so it looks like a balloon ready to pop (news flash – it looks fake as fake can be), but let’s face it, most of us do not live in a 3 million dollar home, spend 2 thousand dollars on a dress or two, act completely unstable, and worry about the stupidest things. I feel a lot more represented watching Susan Mayer from Desperate Housewives.

Here’s an idea for the network producing this show, or any other network. Why not follow the REAL housewives around. Find a group of women in every major city, living in the average rental home, or struggling to avoid foreclosure. Show them juggling money from cash advances, banks, and loans from family members and friends so they can put gas in the car to go to work, feed their children, or buy school supplies. Roll those cameras around when they are running through garage sales and thrift stores to try to get that bargain deal on clothes and shoes, or when they are clipping those coupons that will save the extra few dollars that her child needs for that field trip. Now this is real, and in fact very educational. Of course you can’t miss the real friendships, the love within the family, the real laughs, and also the real cries when it’s unknown if the electricity will still be connected tomorrow. And the list goes on, and on… Now that is reality!

Now, that same network should sign in a short term contract with the “really” real housewives so they can actually better themselves and enlighten the viewers with the great deal of creativity it takes to be a real SAHM, or WAHM. In turn, the network would actually have a shot of reality TV, rather than promoting and making the rich even richer, and showing a complete moronic and unrealistic life of the "really" real housewives out there... Problem is, a show like that would be too much reality, and not enough ratings. Oh, well! Bummer! There’s not enough wine in the world to put up with that show. Garbage! We changed the channel!

Cheers,
Cranky Blogger

PS: Is there anything making you cranky today? Speak up! The floor is yours!