Reality RV, based on an idea by Tabbyking, with help...
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Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 07:58 am     from sia and whoami for starters. we have decided to move our Reality RV posts, which i started on the 'this season's editing' topic, after someone mentioned mark would maybe have to try some new venture/venue/victims soon. (didn't know i spoke latin, didja?! lol) i have no idea how to move the original posts from the other topic! i have ideas, not technology in this brain of mine! |
Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:11 am     sia, i think we don't want this to be exactly like surviiivor with rewards and other challenges, but maybe they could get penalties for cheating--did they try to take money out of an ATM? make a call to the family? go more than 10 miles over the speed limit, not stop for a school bus with the flashing lights and stop sign out?! and when they check in at each town's post office, where they need to mail a pre-addressed postcard to the production company, they will find out if they have a penalty and have to spend so many hours in the town before they can head out again. they can sleep in walmart parking lots! hee hee! or take in a baseball game or something if they end up with a 6 hour time-out! another possibility is they really DO all have the same route after the first (different) cities they have to check into. but they all think they are on totally different routes for the entire trip! will they see each other on the trip at all? think, 'it can't be them', or 'it's just this city that's the same'? no talking with each other, though!! plus, if they only see each other for the 60 seconds that they are herded into their RV's for the start, they might not even recognize the others as being part of the race if they do see each other! they could have different brands of RV's, too, with no "race" identifying marks. |
Sia | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 11:28 am     Posts regarding "Reality RV" taken from "This Season's Editing" thread, posted at Tabby's request: Tabbyking Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 02:59 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i think he should take 5 couples and give them each a motorhome with one tank of gas, a half dozen bananas and a gallon jug of water and no money. they have to make it to predetermined destinations (not the same one, so they can't just follow each other) earning the money to continue as they travel. field work or lemonade stands or pumping gas or washing dishes for an afternoon or two--only legal activities, which leaves nevada pretty much open!! lol--and see who gets to their destination first. they would each have to travel about 10,000 miles and hit certain check points to make sure they did the entire trip. there would be cameramen with each duo. they would have to traverse the nation north and south and east and west. let's say one couple had to get to gainesville, florida, but had to hit seattle, dallas, cleveland, bangor maine, etc, before arriving there. another couple might have to end up in NYC, but hit los angeles, idaho falls, oklahoma city, yellowstone national park, kansas city, etc, before they got there. all the teams would be heading all over the place, and they have to hit the cities in order! so one town might be in the south and the next one more northwest, so it's like 2 steps forward, half a step back... just an idea. and i love traveling in our motorhome! lol ================================================= Mamaanja Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 07:36 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabby, I LOVE your idea! ================================================= Tabbyking Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 07:55 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wouldn't it be funny?! people making cheap beaded jewelry to sell, or pawning their wedding rings, or stopping at flea markets to sell some jeans or something!! they would have to pay all gas or repair bills (they would be fairly new motorhomes, not expecting any trouble, but a flat tire or new fan belt or anything would have to come out of money you earned!) i think it would be a riot. i would live on pasta and a large jar of tomato sauce. something cheap!! it would be sort of like the old movie "lost in america" where julie hagerty spends their entire nest egg the first night in vegas and she and her husband have to work in some small hick town... ================================================ Tabbyking Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 08:00 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- oh yeah, and the prize would have to be at least 500k and the motorhome ;>) and the trip you get would be picked at random when you are all lined up to go! so you can't have planned ahead to ask relatives to wire money to a general delivery box in kalamazoo, if you don't know if you will be there or not!! no phones or calls except to tow companies or to answer 'help wanted' signs. plenty of maps, though!! so you could take your chances on a shortcut or stick to the main highways...too bad p$ckerhead doesn't have someone read these boards! ================================================= Tabbyking Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 08:12 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wouldn't let me edit, so i had to come on again to tell you the perfect name for this show: "REALITY RV" lol ================================================= Sia Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 11:21 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbyking, I like your "Reality RV" show idea and would only tweak one thing regarding the itinerary: I would require that all teams travel to exactly the same cities and in exactly the same order, but would just have a staggered-start like at a golf scramble. If the teams didn't have to go to the same cities, someone would be sure to complain that another team's route was easier. Hmm, how about for winning a reward challenge a team would get to spend the night in a five-star hotel instead of in their motorhome? Room service, massage, fully-stocked bar, swimming pool, sauna/steam room, and a huge jacuzzi tub!! Guess immunity challenges would be almost impossible unless all the teams ran each leg of the race simultaneously, like in "The Amazing Race." It would be fun to see teams overtake one another on the road as they vie to reach a fast-forward. . .sort of like on "TAR," but at a much slower pace!! LOL ================================================= Whoami Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 01:33 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love the RV Race! How 'bout going ahead and having different routs, with the producers making sure each one has the same exact amount of miles to travel, and the same type of towns to pass through. I think it would be neat to start at different points of the US, and have them all meet at the same final checkpoint. That would be cool to see who ends up pulling in first! Maybe we should start a new thread (so this one doesn't go OT). We can call it the TVCH Reality Race (or something). We all contribute ideas, and pitch it to a network. Imagine all our names scrolling through the credits as the creators/producers/etc of the show! ================================================= Tabbyking Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 07:53 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- okay, but i get my name at the top!! lol and i think we need to call it reality Rv because it's so close to reality Tv. they could all end up at the same place, but different routes that are all the same distance. remember, i mentioned they could try short cuts rather than the major highways. would they find more ways to make money on the big routes or the small farm areas? our theme song could be "where am i? where where?" to the tune of "who am i?" for whoami ;>) so i could get the 'based on an idea by' credit and whoami can get the song credits, and sia could work out some of the details!! i want david groh to play the host--wasn't he in the 'lost in america' movie with julie hagerty?! ================================================= Tabbyking Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:07 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sia, i think we don't want this to be exactly like surviiivor with rewards and other challenges, but maybe they could get penalties for cheating--did they try to take money out of an ATM? make a call to the family? go over the speed limit, other than for passing slower vehicles? and when they check in at each town's post office where they need to mail a pre-addressed postcard to the production company, they will find out if they have a penalty and have to spend so many hours in the town before they can head out again. they can sleep in walmart parking lots! hee hee! or take in a baseball game or something if they end up with a 6 hour time-out! ================================================= Car54 Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:36 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This sounds like that show Lost...that wasn't on very long...they didn't have RV's tho. No lap dancing for cash, you guys... that was nasty! ================================================= Tabbyking Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:52 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- future races will include "Reality RV, Spain", "Reality RV, Canada", "Reality RV, Alaska", etc. Not that Alaska isn't a state, but it's far enough away and big enough to be a show all by itself. i never heard of "lost". and no 'nasties' or there are big penalties on this game!! one idea of making money is to take a polaroid camera and have your picture taken with strangers, then autographed for 5 bucks a pop. and the stranger gets the pic of themselves with a real-live team from a tv race!! can you tell that i not only want to make the show, but be in it!!? |
Lilliegirl | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 06:36 pm     LMAO you wrote the script you might as well be in it. |
Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 06:56 pm     maybe i could cast myself as the 'voice over' for the commercials and 'next week on Reality RV'... "be here to watch team A try to get coins out of a coin-op laundry owner by claiming they lost quarters in the machines; as team B realizes there are 2 Kansas Cities and they are in the wrong state; and team C decides if they ever hear the theme from 'deliverance' again, it will be too soon. watch as team D dumpster dives; and will team E ever get out of downtown Biloxi's afternoon traffic? don't miss next week's exciting coverage of 5 teams competing for half a million bucks and the RV they are riding in--minus the cute camera guys, of course..." |
Whoami | Monday, November 11, 2002 - 12:17 am     OOH OOH! Idea coming in.... How 'bout we don't hire any camera guys. Our teams are given their own cameras, and told to film themselves. They will undoubtedly film what they think is good TV, and probably turn off the camera during the times they want privacy (arguments, bending the rules, etc). Unbeknownst to them of course, we install hidden cameras all over the RV to get their every move....heheheh. I think their arguments and such would be much more candid that way. Of course, we can only do that during season one. All subsequent seasons the contestants would be too suspicious. So, THEN we hire the cute camera guys (you don't think I'd leave them out entirely, do you?). |
Tabbyking | Monday, November 11, 2002 - 11:51 am     but we need the camera guys to make sure the teams don't cheat on how they earn the money (such as taking money out of their own accounts.) we need someone to film both of them shampooing cats or doing a carwash for money! well, i guess we'd let the network work out some of the kinks! |
Tabbyking | Monday, November 11, 2002 - 02:02 pm     maybe they could wear microphone packs a la BB houseguests? the camera guys could be in a different motorhome--you know, one outfitted with surveillance cameras, starbucks lattes, omaha steaks and a kegger?! |
Sia | Monday, November 11, 2002 - 08:49 pm     You guys are on a roll. I especially love your idea of hidden cameras, Whoami, while the participants think THEY'RE in control of when cameras are to roll or not roll!! |
Goddessatlaw | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 08:10 am     Here'a a little suggestion from Liz Smith, gossip columnist for the NY Post: Survivor - Texas Style!! (2nd to last item) |
Tabbyking | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 07:25 pm     a friend from fort worth sent me that several months ago. funny,isn't it?! |
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