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Archive through October 31, 2003

The TVClubHouse: Other Reality Shows: Archives for 2004-1: Average Joe- NBC: starts Nov 3rd.: Archive through October 31, 2003 users admin

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Wilsonatmd

Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
FYI:
NBC finally announced a premiere date for this show, as it was supposed to air in the summer. If you haven't heard of it, it might be interesting to some of you. First off, Kathy Griffin is the host, and she's so into reality TV, and even won a reality show (Celeb Mole), she might make a good host.

The premise is, A NFL cheerleader/former beauty queen is taken to an estate to where she thinks she's going to meet 16 hunks. Instead, she meets 16 "Average Joes"-people who aren't the handsomest guys around (some of them even call themselves "nerds" and "geeks"), but who are nice guys. They hope to win the heart of the beauty.

The show will air for six weeks at 10PM Eastern- so it's up against tough competition (CSI:Miami and Monday Night Football), but they seem to be after the female audience, because neither one of those shows is neccessarily female-oriented, and this is, plus NBC has done OK with these type of shows in that timeslot before, so it could be interesting.

Info can be found here
They say there's a twist midseries.....I'll bet it is they'll introduce a "hunk" midway thru, and it's then a chance to see if an average guy's heart can beat the looks of another....

Puttergirl

Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's some more about it (from http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=1874:

"What she doesn’t know is that the men she will meet are not handsome princes, but are actually “Average Joes”—guys with great hearts, but admittedly average looks, ranging from 5-foot-2 to 6-foot-8 and weighing up to 360 pounds"

The girl is "former Miss Missouri 2002, former MIss Teen Missouri 1995, a Kansas City Chiefs cheerleader from 1996 (when she was 18) to 2002 ... and one of the contestants on NBC's Meet My Folks reality-dating show in February 2003. Apparently NBC has a hard time finding fresh contestants for its reality programs; Eric Ferch, whom Melana's parents surprisngly chose as her date on that show (to Melana's obvious disappointment, as she seemed to favor Eric Apple), was also been brought back by NBC, as one of Erin Brodie's potential suitors on For Love Or Money 2.

Three of the contestants vying for Melana's affection were also featured, and they lived down to their advance billing. Griifith, however, seemed annoyed that they were merely normal (or, perhaps, a little subnormal): "They actually weren't hideous enough for me. I wanted to see maybe a eunuch, maybe somebody without an eye, someone with uncontrollable diarrhea... " We are unsure whether Kathy thought that Melana's suitors should have been more like that description, or whether Kathy was merely expressing her own preferences in men. Perhaps she should get in contact with the people casting Fox's "copycat" show Love Spell, which is also searching for unattractive men to pursue a beautiful woman. "

To see pics of her in beauty contests, go to
http://www.missmissouriusa.com/formers/scantlin01.html

Puttergirl

Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a pic of her from http://www.murrayinthemorning.com/sweetest16/gallery/scantlin_swim.html.

I remember that "Meet my Folks". Her parents picked someone she didn't like.

scantlin

I can't wait to see pics of the guys!

Scorpiomoon

Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The one and only time I watched the Sharon Obsourne show, K.G was on promoting Average Joe. They showed a clip of the guys. As expected, many of them are overweight, extremely hairy or have a facial structure one might think of as unattractive.

The whole thing seems tasteless and tacky to me.

Ketchuplover

Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A reality show that's tasteless and tacky? <faints from shock>...NOT :)

Ladytex

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm almost ashamed to say that I'll watch the first episode of this show ... almost, lol. I remember her from MMF's. It was the one with Hawk from WWE Tough Enough on it. This ought to be really interesting, or funny, or both.

Hippyt

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think it has potential too. I just saw the preview and she is shown seeing the guys for the first time. She looks less than thrilled.

Puttergirl

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll do a POLL if there's enough interest. This is the kind that interests me the most for POLLs- very little spoiling and hard to pick!

Hippyt

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cool,I hope other people watch!

Rslover

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think this will be too funny. The commercial plays every 5 minutes! Anyone notice the guy on the right (Indian maybe?) who is actually kind of cute? IMHO anyway.

Lori

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just saw the commercial last night. I am going to watch! Tasteless, perhaps, entertaining...I hope so! :)

Puttergirl

Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 8:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Its too late to start the poll for tomorrow night, but I'm going to post the pics of the guys and a link where you can read about them. Then we'll start the POLL next week. So be watching closely and deciding who you think will move on.

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Average_Joe/the_guys.shtml

guys

Pamy

Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROTF!

Rslover

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, my gosh. The typical blind tape prototypes!
Lets's hope that maybe they are just not photogenic - NOT! LOL.

Kady

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actually this doesn't start till November 3. So there is time to do a poll if you want. I don't know how many gets eliminated the first round though.

Therlin

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actually I see a couple cuties there.

I was going to skip this one, but I saw that Kathy Griffin is hosting it. So now it's a "must watch."

Realfan

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 1:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am SO totally watching this. There's nothing good on Monday nights anyway! I saw the preview for the first time yesterday. It looks pretty entertaining. I half feel sorry for the girl, and half think she's a snob. We'll see which side wins out!

And now I learn Kathy Griffin is hosting!! That's wonderful. I loved her on Celebrity Mole (and Suddenly Susan back in the day). She's made for this.

This reminds me of Mr. Personality, but those guys weren't "ugly" enough to test the theory about looks vs. personality. Maybe this will be... And maybe not!

Mack

Monday, October 27, 2003 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG! I wasn't really interested but this actually might be really funny but, on the other hand, there's also a side of this that is really cruel. It certainly might be interesting to see how these fellows view themselves and the others around them. This could be a bomb or really good....it's going to be a thin line. Surely my DW looked more than skin deep because she's a beauty and me...well...

Apriljo

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
im going to watch the first eposide of this show too..from watching the previews looks like it will be kinda funny when she realizes its just average looking guys...

Enbwife

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll watch for sure (first episode anyway). I like KG.

Hippyt

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Holy Cow! Average is a nice term for some of them,LOL. (I'm so rude!)

Hippyt

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 7:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The profile questions are pretty lame. But,the photo booth photos are great! It makes me think she isn't the witch she looks like in the above pic. She looks like she has a good sense of humor!

Fruitbat

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I will definately watch this. Kathy should be a good host.

The only clues could be in their profession. I assume she will keep those in the entertainment industry for the first cut anyway. She must be headed there so what the heck, could be a connection.

So the end result is fall in love, maybe?

Watching2

Friday, October 31, 2003 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On a promo last night they showed her kissing the guys and saying how people are so much more than how they look on the outside. She might surprise us afterall!!

And geeeze.... I wouldn't call quite a few of these guys "average", more like LESS than average. MY BAD!!!! I do think a few of them are kind of cute tho. :)

Mack

Friday, October 31, 2003 - 11:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The more I look at this group of guys the more they remind me of my frat...OK...it wasn't one of the really popular frats...kind of like "Animal House". I get this image of these guys sitting around drinking beer, eating pickle eggs and having "gas passing" contests. Like I said...I didn't belong to one of the more classy frats. :-)