Dismissed

I'm just wondering, could there be a worse show than MTV's Dismissed? I remember watching it a couple times last semester at school before I realized it was a terrible waste of time. Then yesterday, I was flipping channels around 11 or 12 at night before going to sleep, and for some reason I ended up watching like 2/3 of an episode. I don't know why, because on any normal night I would be watching Baseball Tonight. Maybe I was a little spaced out and got careless with the remote. It's kind of like when I'm driving in my car and I don't pay attention to what's playing on the radio. Before I know it, I'm singing along to En-freak-ay Iglesias, subconsciously of course. That usually leads to a strong feeling of regret afterwards, when I finally realize what I just did. See, normally I am a vigilant radio station changer, otherwise I'll put in a CD or play something off my Rio rather than put up with a crappy song. But accidents do happen now and then.

So was the case with how I ended up watching Dismissed last night. Come to think of it, anything would have been better. Conan and Kilborn were on too. I'm such an idiot! Anyways, once in a while something entertaining might happen on the show, if only by pure chance, but the rest of the show is 100% garbage. If you watch one episode, you've seen them all. Two girls compete for a guy (or the other way around), they go out on a date, and after a couple hours, the guy picks the girl that is hotter (or if they are similar in hotness, he picks the one that is freakier). Seriously, I could tell you within the first 2 minutes of the show which one is gonna win. After the guy "Dismisses" someone, the winner gloats and they interview the loser, who always says "I don't care, I didn't like him to begin with" even though 5 minutes ago they just showed her all drooling over him. That's pretty much it.

Oh yeah, there's the Timeout card, how could I forget. Each contestant gets a card that they can use to spend like 20 minutes alone with the guy. This part is always pretty funny actually. Three people are all just sittin there, and one of them pulls out a special card, forcing the other girl to leave. I've always wondered what would happen if someone disobeyed the card. Maybe the MTV Dismissed Enforcers would come on and carry the rulebreakers off and set them in lockdown. But yeah, sometimes I seriously wish life was like a TV show. Like if a cop pulls me over, and I don't feel like talking so I would flash him a "Get out of my face" card. Or I'm at Dominick's and every line is long. I really don't want to wait this time, so I dig into my pocket for that "Move to the front of the line" pass that I've been saving for occasions like these. Ahh... that would be sweet. Anyways, when they have their Timeouts in Dismissed, it's basically just a matter of one girl trying her best to impress the guy by throwing herself on him, and they show the other one sitting around waiting patiently for her turn, while they interview her and she's insisting that she's not worried one bit.

Ugh... I really can't believe I watched that show for over 20 minutes. See, before when I watched it at school, it was a relatively new show so I might have tuned in once in a while for the novelty factor. Now, there is absolutely no excuse. Still... it might be one of those things like heroin, like Chris Rock says. You know somebody is doin it, but nobody will admit to it. Not me, I hereby refuse to watch another minute of that God-forsaken show from this moment on.