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Archive through January 28, 2004

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Scorpiomoon

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 10:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tobor7: Not true. Southwest gets a TON of free publicity because of this show. Whether the show is good or not, publicity is publicity.

Tobor7

Friday, January 16, 2004 - 10:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So you think Southwest is "happy" with how they are looking so far?

Hard to believe.


(People like hot dogs... but they would never let a TV crew into the factory to see how they are made. It would KILL the industry. The truth would be VERY bad publicity.)

Nicoleme

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is on tonight...just a reminder

Seamonkey

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll watch.. I like it. I like documentaries anyway.

Deesandy

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you for the reminder Nicoleme! I usually need one!!!

Dahli

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Loved this show, the storyline on the couple with the pants changing problem was pretty intense. I know that this does happen and the SW guy really went above and beyond.

Julieboo

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Southwest has to be very happy with the way they look. Very good publicity. Makes the SW employees look very good.

Lauram

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And I had to laugh at the Man at the baggage claim that was so rude to the agent. "This bag is made of bullet-proof fabric!"

Also, the woman with the VERY EXPENSIVE BAG. AS the show announcer stated "apparently the worlds most expensive luggage was misplaced" "hey we don't wear polyester. We don't wear cheep stuff"

The supervisor who helped the altzheimer patient was wonderful. And I loved his compassion for the wife. (she needs help with their situation)

Laura11103

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
how about that guy who "lost" his ticket but then admitted that he was trying to pull a hoax, the employee was so cool about it but personally I think that guy should've been arrested.

Texannie

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This show just made me feel so good last night! It's nice to watch a "reality" show (yes, I know there is some debate as to whether this is a PR show) that makes people look good for the most part rather than looking badly.
The superivsor was wonderful with the alzheimer patient.
Even in their arguments with the SW people, the passengers showed lots of logic.
I thought that scam artist should of been arrest too.

Bbfanatic

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do they run this show more than once a week?
I have not seen it yet. Sounds like I would like it.

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not sure, Bbfanatic.

RE: Last night's episodes, at first I was sort of upset that they would show such a personal, potentially embarrassing (for them) situation with the Alzheimer's patient. I felt, and maybe still feel, that they didn't really respect the man and his privacy. Yes, I know that they probably signed a consent form (or not, since it's a documentary...), but watching it, I felt very uncomfortable FOR the person. However, that said, the employee was not only sensitive and caring, but articulated his sensitivity clearly enough that perhaps some viewers might have actually learned something about compassion... so maybe that was a good thing. I'm just still not sure that that man and his wife will be happy to have that incident shown on national TV, is all...

Regarding the man with the "bullet proof bag," he was a j-e-r-k. Wow, what issues that dude has.

I agree that the scam artist was lucky that the police weren't called. I can't figure out how he got a boarding pass in the first place without a ticket. Anyone know???

The thing that got me the most, though, was the whole thing about the overbooked flights. I completely agreed with the passengers on this one. I know that every airline does it, but personally I think overbooking should be made illegal. I do think it's consumer fraud, and I completely agreed with the man who said, "I bought my ticket and paid my $400 -- my part of the deal has been met." I think if you buy any goods -- even an airline seat -- you should be guaranteed that item. I think overbooking is horrible ... I don't care how much the airlines say they HAVE to do it.

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's an interesting article in LA Weekly. Don't know if I agree with it, but here's the link:

http://www.laweekly.com/in<SCR04/08/box-bernhard.php

Maris

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with it up to a point. They sought out the most obnoxious customers that they could and then because they need to keep filming more episodes they only filmed the Southwest employees being patient and having to suffer the indignities thrown at them by customers. The poor suffering airline employees!!! This is not reality to me. I have been on plenty of flights where the staff were rude and obnoxious. When you walk up to a desk in an airport they already look at you like you are going to cause them a problem and they are saying no before you can even finish your question. Dont even get me started on TSA employees picking an 82 year old passenger off a line, someone who couldn't bend down and tell him to take off his shoes. His wife had to bend down and do the task for him since he couldnt - true story.

I was even on one of those flights (continental at the time) where the attendants decided to sing christmas carols over the loudspeakers and kept going on about how the customers werent singing loudly enough. By the time I got off that flight I was ready to scream.

This show doesnt seem to be about reality to me and more about a commercial for southwest airlines. I wonder how those glorious employees would have behaved if they didn't have cameras on them.................

Nicoleme

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
for the woman with the very expensive luggage....

WHY?? why would you bring very expensive luggage with you to travel on a plane? just so you can say its very expensive over and over and over again when they loose it? you know they arent going to cover the whole cost to replace it, so bring inexpensive luggage to check and expensive as a carry on (that one looked like the size of a carry on)

and thats another thing (not on the show) ive traveled a few times (my husband does every month) what is with the people that bring FULL sized luggage and try to put it in the overhead?? i get so annoyed with this!! they take up all the room so you can even fit your coat up there!! i would think the flight attendents would say something but they dont. ARGGGHHH

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
nicoleme, and when they found the bag, i was thinking, 'i bet those people wish they had taken the 1,600 dollars!' first off, to me a green bag is a green bag. i would have made sure they knew it was a khaki or pale olive green. i was expecting something in kelly green with rhinestones and a prada label! especially as it was the 'world's most expensive bag'!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oh, our vet's husband is a pilot for southwest. i'll have to ask her if he's in any of these!

Julieboo

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think the customers can see the cameras just as easily as the employees can...

Julieboo

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
$1600, did I miss something? I thought they didn't replace normal wear & tear?

Scorpiomoon

Monday, January 26, 2004 - 8:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Are you guys still watching this show?

Did you see the woman with the curlers? Either she was an actress they planted or the crew lucked out and happened to come across this totally neurotic, off the hook woman. Aye yi yi.

Texannie

Monday, January 26, 2004 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was on tonite?? shoot, forgot!

Dahli
Member

11-25-2002

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Scorpiomoon - that was a bit odd wasit not?? like what's with the changing in the waiting area, they don't have women's washrooms there?!! Come on!

ps you can't write the word wasn't and then follow with the word it... gave me red dots...that's also a bit odd

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-23-2000

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 9:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Last night's show wasn't great, in my opinion. I agree with Scorpiomoon and Dahli -- there was something weird about her. It just screamed "set up for TV." Who wouldn't change in a bathroom?? I think it was fake.

Also, WHO CARED about the two that went to the ball game??? I didn't get that whole storyline. Why did we care? What were they doing? I repeat, why did we care?

Thought it was a sort-of-lame episode.
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(wasn' ... just trying ... weird!)


Lauram
Member

01-03-2003

Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee: ITA -- who cared about the two that went to the ball game. NOT ME!! and I am certain that there must have been better 60's outfits. I thought that must have been set up.

The curler lady... total set up. I was ready for Alan Funt to come out and tell the man halding the mirror that he was on Candid Camera.

Dahli
Member

11-25-2002

Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And I agree with Lauram and Yankee, during those dumb game segments I switched to another show and came back to see if it was done, that whole storyline was useless!!!