trapped inside of every white girl is a
strong black woman ready to bust out
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 20
dumbest reality tv show ideas what's
wrong with you guys
my diamond earring came off in the ocean
and it's gone
there's people that are dying for this
list we'll be looking at the worst
concepts behind supposedly unscripted
series however we're excluding game
shows because that's a different list
entirely which reality tv show made you
facepalm let us know in the comments
number 20 my big fat obnoxious fiancee
in the early 2000s the fox network was
quite the innovator when it came to
crappy ideas for reality shows in this
one arizona school teacher randy coy had
to successfully convince her family that
she was engaged only moments from now a
woman named randy coy a first grade
school teacher from arizona will walk
through these doors having no idea what
she's in for if she did she would
receive a prize of five hundred thousand
dollars to split with them however
unbeknownst to randy the man who was
pretending to be her fiance wasn't on
her side his job was to be as outrageous
as possible and offend her family to
make everyone uncomfortable for the
show's run i'm going blank i'm freaking
out
the kid can't control himself steve
cannot control himself i mean i'm in the
middle of an interview right now and
he's running around the house screaming
so basically the audience is asked to
watch a guy be annoying that's just
great
number 19 whisker wars airing on the ifc
whisker wars followed a bunch of men who
were obsessed with beard growing
competitions
the olympic team has people who ski jump
for america or throw shot puts for
america beard team usa
grows beards for america their ultimate
goal was to test their facial hair in an
international competition set in norway
where their main rivals were the germans
as if we needed one more thing that
glorifies hipsters these men took
themselves so seriously we don't know if
it was sad or just silly jack is the
tiger woods of competitive bearding i've
gotten the notoriety from my beard i'm
now turning that into profit we
understand that beards are cool but it's
important to remember that you can't
define yourself by something as trivial
as having a lot of facial hair
number 18. flock stars this british
reality competition series proved that
producers across the pond can come up
with some dumb ideas too flock stars
took a group of eight celebrities and
had them engage in cheap herding the dog
then over excites the sheep
oh now what's happened hoggy we've lost
it and it all turns to chaos the stars
which included actresses a rapper and a
paralympic athlete were mentored by
sheep herding experts and they later
participated in challenges with one of
them getting eliminated each week many
critics and viewers felt the show was
more desperate than anything else as the
weeks passed midge and amanda's working
relationship steadily improved
some agreed that its one saving grace
was how attractive the shepherds who
mentored the celebrities were that's fun
but doesn't make this concept any good
number 17 date my mom in this dating
show a guy or girl had to pick one
person to go on a date with but to make
their choice this contestant first had
to go on dates with those people's
mothers i'm about to go on three dates
with three moms to decide whose son i
want to date i can't even see these guys
until i've made my decision how wrong is
that during each taita tite the pair got
to know each other and the contestant
got a feel for their potential future
date keep in mind this was their only
window into the men or women they were
maybe going to get romantically involved
with then they had to decide which
mother's child they wanted to date i
brought everyone to the beach today
because i'm ready to give one lesbian
the gift that keeps on giving me the
horrible premise pretty much speaks for
itself so we'll just say that this mtv
show's approach to dating just feels
plain wrong
number 16. the pickup artist
sadly mystery has made a name for itself
through this method of picking up women
and in this vh1 reality competition he
advised a group of young men who had no
luck with the ladies on how to score
with them it's pretty horrible when
people ask you have you kissed a girl
before i'm like yeah on the forehead but
i don't really say oh it's my mom
because it's pretty embarrassing the men
took the skills they got from mystery
and participated in various challenges
the show basically encouraged guys to be
pestering creeps and mysteries loud
choice of fashion made him look outright
ridiculous he came off as such a
womanizing tool there was even a
saturday night live sketch where daryl
hammond's bill clinton dressed up like
him for halloween bill i thought we
agreed to dress like bride and groom oh
man everyone knows we're married
who are you even supposed to be
a mystery
from that show the pickup
number 15. temptation island multiple
couples go on an island and test their
fidelity by splitting off and spending
time with attractive members of the
opposite sex so i'm looking for what i
like
about
catherine and i'm comparing it to other
girls maybe that's not fair but there's
not just one beautiful woman you know
there's many as you can imagine this
show generated a lot of controversy when
it first came on air for promoting
infidelity however after the initial
shock went away there wasn't much left
and the ratings reflected that thus
temptation island ended two years after
it premiered but just when we thought we
were free of this atrocity the show was
brought back by the usa network in 2019.
yeah that went exactly as i expected
how does it feel watching that again did
you ever expect to see anything like
that when you're at the bonfire and mark
l wahlberg even returned as the host who
says television's running out of ideas
number 14 farmer wants a wife this has
often been called the bachelor set on a
farm so brace yourself matt neustadt
who's been a farmer his whole life had
to choose a wife among 10 women who live
in big cities because the work ethic of
a farmer's wife has to be relied on as
much as the farmer's work ethic during
their stay at his farm the prospective
spouses participated in a bunch of
nature related activities that were
essentially designed to make them look
stupid so basically a bunch of women
from cities like dallas and los angeles
competed to see who got to live in rural
missouri having to make the decision to
send a gal home and not knowing if i'm
doing the right thing
i was so
nervous i don't know that i've ever been
that nervous we're sure it's a nice
place to live but it kind of seems like
the top prize in the show was basically
a life of boredom
number 13. born in the wild lifetime
aired this show about women who decided
to give birth in the great outdoors for
a more natural labor
i'm excited to have my baby outside in
alaska
we're surrounded by the lake and the
trees and the clouds and the mountains
is absolutely breathtaking each episode
documented a different woman's
experience and showed the unique
challenges she and those who assisted
her faced in their unconventional
setting places that were chosen for
giving birth included the woods and the
alaskan wilderness the show was accused
of encouraging expectant mothers to
endanger both their lives and the ones
of their unborn children
jeff is in a rush to get set up but amy
wants to make sure that the birth
matches the vision in her head born in
the wild only has six episodes which is
really the only highlight here
number 12 splash this reality
competition show had celebrities compete
against each other doing olympic-style
dives the stars included kareem
abdul-jabbar drake bell and louis
anderson
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plus olympic gold medalist greg louganis
acted as a coach helping them with their
routines unfortunately the diving
techniques the contestants were asked to
perform were pretty high level and
complicated this led to many of them
getting injured while some even had to
withdraw from the show
in hindsight however this sounds like an
obvious drawback
it's safe to say the risks far
outweighed the benefits with this series
number 11. sex box how do you get
couples who need professional help to
improve their relationships to be as
prepared to accept advice as possible i
don't know if this is kinky or crazy
i'm serious well if you ask this show
the answer is putting a love making
session smack dab in the middle of a
so-called therapy session don't worry
though they do that part in the privacy
of the title box the thinking was that
the couples would be more emotionally
receptive to counseling after making
love role-playing can be very very fun
it can be very exciting it can make a
marriage hot
you know add spice like you never
thought of does that sound like a bad
idea that's because it was the show got
a lot of attention around the time it
aired for its unorthodox form of therapy
but it also received a lot of criticism
for being well stupid
number 10 i want a famous face this mtv
reality show found people who wanted
plastic surgery to look like a certain
celebrity and documented their journey
through the process i want a rhinoplasty
she has the more plump cheeks so i'd
like to get that grass on my cheeks
some of the stars people wanted to
emulate included jennifer aniston pamela
anderson and brad pitt it's definitely a
time capsule of which celebrities were
in at the time but it was sad watching
people give up their unique identity
because they idolized a famous person or
were insecure about their own appearance
i want to look like pamela anderson
because i think she is gorgeous i love
her sense of style and her body she was
really sexy every time i saw her i was
just like oh my god also it seems
short-sighted to want to look like a
celebrity just because they're popular
at the moment what happens if their star
fades in hollywood or a scandal makes
them a black sheep
number nine girlfriend intervention this
is yet another poor reality television
offering from lifetime a group of four
black women help a white woman find a
more acceptable sense of style you know
in my culture women are encouraged to
try new things but sometimes with my
caucasian sisters i honestly feel like
they just don't have the same type of
freedom and they do all this while
making catty remarks putting her down it
was often seen as another version of
queer eye but with outspoken black women
except the show missed the mark
completely and was called out by critics
for playing on racial stereotypes no
self-respect and black woman would ever
hide herself from this if she wants to
keep her black card
thankfully girlfriend intervention only
lasted for one season with an
eight-episode run that was painful to
sit through
number eight are you hot the search for
america's sexiest people good evening
and welcome i'm jd roberto and this is
are you hot the search for america's
sexiest people
this abc show was a nationwide
competition that was only concerned with
judging contestants by their looks
instead of rewarding a well-rounded
personality or unique talent what's it
gonna be
contestants stood scantily clad in front
of a panel of three judges who gave
their frank if not creepy opinions on
the person's looks pointing out the
tiniest flaws i give your face a nine
nine you've got a beautiful face
beautiful hair
but body i give you a um seven five as
if that didn't sound bad enough judge
lorenzo lamas would aim a laser pointer
at contestants to highlight areas he
wanted to focus on the show was
considered shallow even by reality tv
standards
number seven playing it straight but not
all of the guys are here for romance
some of them
are gay
what this show was a high-stakes test of
gaydar one woman was given the task of
dating 14 men on a ranch to suss out
which ones were gay i'm doing great i'm
late hi lee nice to meet you nice to
meet you
they said you're beautiful if she could
pick the one that was straight then the
two would win a million dollar prize but
if she picked someone that was gay she
would lose out on the prize and the gay
guy got to keep the money so the gay men
tried to pass off as straight so they
could trick the woman and take the
jackpot for themselves i really think
the guys that kiss me tonight i think
they're straight
way to portray members of the lgbtq plus
community as devious frauds given how
shameless reality tv shows can be of
course this was a premise for a show in
the mid 2000s ryan and gus definitely
bill
definitely gust
and
definitely chris number six who's your
daddy why why did you guys give me up
for an option it was a very
turbulent
time how controversial was this show it
was pulled after one episode a woman was
reunited with her biological father
after having been given up for adoption
but not before having to identify him
out of a group of strangers if she can
pick her real father out of eight men in
three rounds then she gets one hundred
thousand dollars but if she guesses
wrong then the man she incorrectly
identified walks away with the money
which gives each man the incentive to
convince the woman that he's the real
father so she wanted to keep me too
honestly
this show needlessly opens up emotional
wounds
number five keeping up with the
kardashians for 14 long years the
kardashians and jenners plagued the
airwaves with a reality show about the
drama that came out of their lives
rather than read a book or learn a new
skill we sat and watched kim courtney
chloe and the rest of the family
she's like no pay attention
what do you want me to do sit here and
stare we didn't do it because it was
particularly stimulating but rather
because it was a guilty pleasure sure it
was a ratings hit for e and a pop
culture phenomenon that built up the
profile of everyone involved is that too
much
why is my shirt on right
why would your shirt not be all right
just one of those days but it also came
at the cost of millions of our
collective brain cells and now there's
the family's new hulu show so the worst
is likely yet to come
number four bridalplasty every bride
wants to look perfect on her wedding day
but some may need some extra help in
this e-reality show which resembles the
swan 12 women who are about to get
married live together in a house
separated from their fiances and compete
against each other in challenges where
the prize is a plastic surgery they've
requested
hi ladies i'm shayna mookler and welcome
to bridalpassy
each week the women vote each other out
of the house and whoever wins the show
gets the wedding of their dreams and a
whole bunch of plastic surgery to make
them look good for their big day while
the show got a lot of attention for its
controversial premise it did not do well
in the ratings showing that there are
some things even reality show viewers
will not stand for i actually met my
fiance on the biggest loser really oh
so anyone who saw that in december my
fiance proposed me on tv at our finale
number three i wanna marry harry
underneath all the trappings he's not a
prince at all
just an ordinary boy who looks a lot
like prince harry
fourth in line to the throne a couple of
years before prince harry tied the knot
with meghan markle this 2014 show
brought a group of american women to
england to compete for the affections of
someone they're led to believe as prince
harry in reality it's just some
red-haired guy who kind of looks like
the prince i have to convince them i'm
prince harry but the goal is for them to
like me for who i am somehow the
contestants are not allowed to meet any
of harry's other family members just
harry doesn't sound fishy at all plenty
of reality shows like joe millionaire
trick contestants into believing
something to be true but none have been
so obviously fake my greatest fear is
the girls fall entirely for the whole
scenario and then when it's revealed i'm
not from wealth or status they'll just
turn around
and have no interest number two kid
nation this controversial show from cbs
had an insane premise from the get-go 40
kids whose ages ranged from 8 to 15 were
put in a town in the middle of nowhere
so how are you guys feeling
well say goodbye to that school bus
and say hello
to the middle of nowhere
and they got to run things without any
grown-ups telling them what to do the
children made all of the rules from
setting up their own businesses to
forming their own local government when
i saw those four kids i was like oh no
this is all gonna fall apart
they also did their own chores this
reality show idea sounds like child
endangerment maybe there's a reason kids
have parents and guardians
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number one married at first sight the
decision i make will forever affect
my life and it's just scary that i have
to make decisions so soon based on a
danish reality show six strangers at a
time are arranged into three couples by
a group of professionals based on who
they believe will be compatible with one
another so now the time has come
for your decision
do you want to stay married
or do you want to get a divorce
after a matter of weeks spending time as
husband and wife each couple then has to
decide whether or not they want to
continue their marriage astonishingly
this show has gone on and on and is
somehow still finding people who are
willing to ruin their lives for cheap
reality programming
when will the madness end we weren't
very awkward we really weren't i think
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