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TV ClubHouse: Archive: Miscellaneous Shows - 2003 April: Faking It (TLC): Archive through March 16, 2003

Ryn

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not sure if it should go here....

This show was on for the 1st time tonight. On TLC - 60 minutes long.

A person is given 4 weeks to learn a new 'job' and then fool the experts.

Tonights show was a carpenter learning to "fake" being an interior designer.

At the end he had to design a room along with 3 other REAL interior designers and then the judges guessed who had only been doing it for 4 weeks.

One of the Designers from Trading Spaces was a judge (last 5 minutes).

The person has to fool 2 out of 3 judges to "win" (win what - i dunno - lol).

I liked this show :)

Next time it will be a person who wants to be a pro cheerleader. (thus why I don't think it goes in the "trading spaces" area).

Ryn

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It kind of reminds me of MTV's "Made" - especially with the cheerleader episode next week.

MTV did a cheerleader episode the difference is that with MTV there is no contest, you just see the person achieve (or not) their goal.

Seamonkey

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think it goes because all The Learning Channel and related shows seem to go here as well as HGTV shows go here and similar BBC shows too..

Ryn

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Psst Sea - this is the Other Reality Shows area - lol

so are you saying I should move it?

I figgured its not all about design (fasion) or remodeling so this or the regular TV Show area would be better suited.

But heck, no one else started a thread on it - so maybe I was the only one watching it :)

Myjohnhenry

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched and liked it. :)

Twiggyish

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I liked it, too. Surprisingly, it had depth. It also had Gen there, too!

Seamonkey

Friday, March 07, 2003 - 10:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Psst Ryn.. I haven't known when or where I was all week.. on Thursday I thought it was Wednesday (not a big deal except I missed the Piranha Pool deadline for Survivor) and earlier today I was sure What Not to Wear was on Friday and it is on Saturday.. so it just figures that I thought I was in the TS area..

So, don't listen to me :)

I'm watching it...

Mak1

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 08:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought it was fun. The guy really did a good job for his final test.

Texannie

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought he did good too, but didn't the show seem a little intense? For some reason I thought it would be more fun.

Mak1

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 03:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, Texannie, it did seem intense. You could tell he was feeling a lot of stress in some situations, especially when he felt he was in over his head. The advisors seemed to place great importance on the big win, as if their careers or reputations were on the line. He seemed to have a sense of humor, and you would expect some joking around once in a while. The fun, to me, was to see him growing in knowledge and confidence. Maybe all their fun was edited out, lol.

Texannie

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 03:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's like there was money on the line! LOL I thought this would be a great adventure, sort of tongue in cheek show..not so serious.

Car54

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 04:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How are the fakers selected...did I miss that part? I didn't know if the show decided what you are going to pretend to be or if you get to pick.

I loved that he did it. I wish they had interviewed the real young designer at the end that everyone thought was a fake. He must not have felt too great.

Tess

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I really was glad that he pulled it off also. It was hard watching his struggles throughout the show.

Do the "fakers" get anything out of this other than a month away from home and a crash course on a new career?

Texannie

Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That had to been so demoralizing Car! LOL would have LOVED to seen it!

Seamonkey

Friday, March 14, 2003 - 11:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Loved the second episode.. brainy Harvard graduate geek girl who escaped Texas and hated all that girly stuff in HS, training for a short time with the Atlanta Falcons cheerleading squad and then competing with three others in a tryout.. she came into it with a fairly negative attitude, roomed with two of the cheerleaders, and worked with the head cheerleader and a woman who was like an Image coach? They put her through some grueling workouts, she got a hairstyle, makeup, then extensions, which she hated and ended up rejecting, and fooled two of the three judges, and even the judge who chose her as the faker wasn't at all sure.

I still don't know how they decide who to set up as the faker or how they choose the activity..

Neko

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 09:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I really don't think that Leslie even really tried...

I mean, that whole hour, I just got the feeling that she didn't want to be there...

I'm thinking that they apply, then the producers choose what activity would be hardest for them to fake...

Which, if that's the case, I think it was very mean to make/ask Leslie to do something she HATES..
Or at least, dislikes sincece she had the bad expierence with Junior High Cheerleaders..
Ugh, when she said tyhat I was like, "Are you're HOW old now?? GET OVER IT!"

Seamonkey

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 03:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Perhaps, Neko, but you may be on the other side of that someday and I hope you are allowed to work through it in your own way. Get over it is almost never helpful.

I thought she worked hard and I think it gave her a broader view of people she had seen in mostly one-dimension and I think for some of the cheerleaders the same thing may have happened.

It is good to work outside your comfort area; sometimes you find that area is now larger..

Neko

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 03:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was, and have been.
Probably more so than she was..
And I got over it.

I don't hold grudges..

I was happy though at the end, she seemed happier than before...
And I'm also happy that her stereotype of cheerleaders was broken.

Twiggyish

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 04:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought it was a good show.

Spygirl

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 05:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought it was a good show and I also thought it a bit strange that Leslie had carried those issues that far forward into her life - and for it to have carried over to a group of people like professional cheerleaders.

But, on the flip side, when the trainer started crying in the middle of the prayer, my eyes almost rolled out of my head - and I mean no disrespect about the prayer part. It just seemed a bit ridiculous and melodramatic. Oh well. :)

Seamonkey

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 06:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
:) Spy.. Eyerolls here too.. not to mention that she said the same thing twice ..

Spygirl

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
True! It just sounded so...fake and forced, IMO.

Mak1

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 05:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ditto on the trainer's tears! It looked like Leslie really was having fun at the final audition. I was proud of her for going against their wishes and removing the hair extensions. They would feel creepy and gross to me, too.

Twiggyish

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 08:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They couldn't completely mold her into being one of them. She kept her own look and still won.

Marymc

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 08:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i had a hard time believing that they couldn't tell she was the faker. nothing against leslie, but no professional cheerleader would have that much jiggle in their abs. it would be a dead giveaway, so i tend to think this is somewhat fixed. will be interesting to see in the coming weeks if ANY of the fakers DON'T pass the test.