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Fruitbat

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 04:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I flipped to it during commercials on Celeb Out of Here and did not find it compelling at all. I will skip this one.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 04:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I only saw it through the piercing parts on "Fear Factor" and the gross food thing on same... I was ticked that they pre-empted Boston Public for this shameful program! Bring back Boston Public!!!!

Weenerlobo

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 06:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This was really boring - I don't care if it's on again. We didn't watch the whole show either. It'sa dud.

Ladytex

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 06:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This was one that didn't grab me. I watched (sort of) during commercials of Celebrity, but ended up not turning to it and watched the end of Fear Factor (and I never watch that show). This may be a good thing ... a reality show that I don't watch!

Bandit

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 08:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought this show was soooooo horrible! And incredibly boring! I'm so glad that I am not the minority on this- I switched it halfway through and watched a movie instead.

Ginger1218

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 09:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kady, I also am embarassed that I watched this. It was horrible. What are these people thinking. And the family members? This is a disgrace.

Realfan

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 10:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am a reality TV fanatic, relatively (as per my handle.) Could this show have been any duller?? Much more of this, and I'll go racing back to the cop and lawyer dramas I had grown sick of! I worked on my trading card collection (Buffy cards--this was Welcome to the Hellmouth, wasn't it?) and my jigsaw puzzle while I waited for the hubster to come home, so I was only half paying attention, and THAT half was bored silly.

I thought WE were going to get to pick these people. All the real work was done by other people. When it came down to two to choose from, I couldn't care less. I have no idea who any of these dorks are, except I know they're media w*ores for doing this. Could the family members have come off as anymore shallow, the participants anymore stupid?

Realbiz

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 10:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'd rather watch The Bachelor/ette(new March 26):)
At least they don't set in a "cheap" dating game background. This show reminds me "who wants to marry a multi-millionaire?" I guess it's the same minds behind these meet-market shows.

Rslover

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 12:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This was indeed unexciting, but did you vote anyway?

Neko

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I only watched the first hour, then went to bed.
Will we find out tonight who's going with whom??

Wilsonatmd

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
next Monday they reveal the results Neko.....Wednesday they have two more sets to do...

Neko

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 02:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ACK!!!
Well, I won't be watching...

Meme9

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I taped it and started watching it. I lasted about 10 minutes....yuck.

I taped over it with "The Family" tonight and I'm glad I did, because now I can watch it over again!

Seamonkey

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 09:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That sounds like a great outcome, Meme!!

Enbwife

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 08:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought this show was hillarious! I can't believe people would actually subject themselves to this. What a joke! I'm going to keep watching, just out of boredom really... and to see how they react when they meet each other. :)

Crazydog

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's sucking it up in the ratings, bigtime. Joe Millionaire averaged 22 million viewers, this one only managed around 8 or 9. Can't say I'm feeling too sorry for it.

Meme9

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Sherbabe

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 08:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, of course, already a scandal from this show. One of the female contestants seems to have forgotten one little fact. She is still married. Mod> saw it on a commercial, so can't get a link.

Bastable

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Going on the ratings and the verdict of the TVCH, I have rechristened this show "Buried By America."

Kady

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't watch tonight but have it on tape. I will probably FF through it just to see who was picked for whom tonight.

Wilsonatmd

Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
sherbabe, here's that link:

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,429664~10~0~marriedbyamericacontestant,00.html

Cliotheleo

Monday, March 10, 2003 - 07:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I'll be the odd-ball who'll admit to actually LIKING the show. It's like watching Joe Millionare or the Bachelor/ette AFTER final person is picked.

Each week a couple is asked to leave the ranch where they are all staying when they are deemed to be the least compatable (deemed by whom I'm not sure.) Then at the end, we get to vote on whether or not the final couple gets married.

So far the only part I have NOT liked about the show was the way they called out the one contestant who had already been married. They brought each of the remaining hopefulls out to let them know who America had chosen. For each one not chosen, the announcer would say something like "I guess American didn't think you and so and so were compatable, thank you." But with the contestant who was married (she said it was something done during a drunken night in Vegas, she doesn't seem to believe her vows were actually legally binding, although I'm sure they must be) the announcer said, "maybe America didn't choose you because you had posed NUDE for Playboy!" (big cheer from the audience) "But it turns out their instincts were correct because you are ALREADY MARRIED!!!!" The girl didn't say anything, just looked shocked, shook her head no and started to cry. "You mean you have no comment?"

I can understand that the producers might have been peeved that she had lied to them, but there was no reason to try to belittle her like they did.

Tabbyking

Monday, March 10, 2003 - 10:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i caught the last of it just to see the girl who was married. i had read she was married (on one of the boards) so wanted to see if she was even on the show tonight or had been replaced.
she shook her head and actually said, 'no' when they said she was already married. when they said she was in fact, still married, she didn't say anything. later, in the off-stage interview she said she drove to las vegas with a boy and woke up married "you know", but the marriage didn't "have the white picket fence or anything"...whatever that means! she may have been embarrassed, but married is married whether you had a good one or not! and even a vegas wedding has to be legally ended. you can't just decide it doesn't really count! the rules for the show stated 'never married', plain and simple. just because she didn't feel married doesn't mean the rules didn't apply to her.
HOWEVER:
as for airing it on the show, i'm sure they loved having something with such a dramatic twist for the show, but i squirmed for her some and she was definitely caught unaware. she made her own bed, but she was totally blindsided and humiliated.

it makes me somewhat pleasantly surprised that simon didn't tell frenchie on live t.v. that she was being DQ'd for internet porn, the way producers are...and what passes for exciting and dramatic t.v.

as for denise of 'married by america', maybe she will take care of that little ol' divorce now!

Opie

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 05:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hope no one in the Raleigh/Durham area got too attached to this show. Our local affiliate dropped it as of last night. I haven't been watching, but it seems like it would have been better to drop it from the start instead of showing a few episodes.

I was surprised that they were showing it to start with. This channel was one of the few that didn't air "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire". I'm not sure what their guidelines are, however. They showed Joe Millionaire, Temptation Island, that one with the women in Alaska, etc. I guess they don't have a problem with engagements, just marriages. But these couples aren't obligated to get married, right? I know it was advertised differently, but I didn't think they had to.

Opie

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 05:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here is a link to their press release:

http://www.fox50.com/marriedpressrelease.html