{"id":33638,"date":"2012-07-17T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33638"},"modified":"2020-07-01T22:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:59:38","slug":"monetary-prizes-on-television-have-sure-taken-a-hit-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33638","title":{"rendered":"Monetary prizes on television have sure taken a hit these days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lately, I\u2019ve caught a few episodes of various reality contest shows, such as Sweet Genius<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Craft Wars<\/em>. Yeah, I know how gay that sounds, but if they\u2019re on television, often times I stay on the channels and watch.\u00a0 Sweet Genius is interesting, because I do find amusement in cooking shows, and being a glutton there is appeal in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Craft Wars, I think the show is putrid, Tori Spelling is still a talentless slug, and I find it ironic that not only was she terrible at acting, she\u2019s apparently found a way to be terrible at portraying reality, too.\u00a0 And the show\u2019s judges completely miss the point of the show entirely and judge based on the criteria polished, finalized projects for shit thrown together in 1-4 hours, when they\u2019re not making catty gay remarks towards each other.\u00a0 Needless to say, my relationship with Craft Wars is one of those \u201cit\u2019s such a shitty show and makes me irritated, that I tune in to grill it while acknowledging that I\u2019m giving them the attention I shouldn\u2019t be.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the point though, both of these shows have a prize at the end of the show for the winning competitor, of \u201cjust\u201d $10,000.\u00a0 Now I say \u201cjust,\u201d because when I watch these shows, I can\u2019t help but think about classic game shows, where contestants vied for at least $25,000,\u00a0every single day<\/em>.\u00a0 Not only was the prize money a whole lot greater in shows like\u00a0Wheel of Fortune<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Family Feud<\/em>, it sure as shit was easier to get.\u00a0 In these reality shows, contestants have to genuinely earn their chance for the piddly-in-comparison $10,000 pot, and there\u2019s a whole lot more factors standing in the way other than luck and minor trivial knowledge.\u00a0 Seriously, guess a few letters, know a trivia question, or guess how in the gutter 100 surveyed people are, and there\u2019s usually $25,000+ waiting for you.\u00a0 Reality contestants have to build shit or cook shit, and ultimately stress over shit, before being judged, harshly and inadequately critiqued, before one person is deemed a winner of $10,000 based on subjective criteria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t really seem quite worth it these days.\u00a0 Especially when the IRS gets their teeth into these people, and take 60% of that $10,000; winning $4k and the scrutiny of the IRS doesn\u2019t really seem like that great of a prize in the end.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like Captain Hadley from\u00a0The Shawshank Redemption<\/em>\u00a0being angry and pissed that he inherited $30,000, because he knew the IRS was going to be crawling up his ass hole, before Andy DuFresne imparted his banking knowledge and loopholes on him.\u00a0 At least when you win $25,000+, you\u2019re left with a little bit of a more gratifying number that might make the IRS scrutiny not quite so annoying.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately, I\u2019ve caught a few episodes of various reality contest shows, such as Sweet Genius\u00a0and\u00a0Craft Wars. Yeah, I know how gay that sounds, but if they\u2019re on television, often times I stay on the channels and watch.\u00a0 Sweet Genius is interesting, because I do find amusement in cooking shows, and being a glutton there is … Continue reading Monetary prizes on television have sure taken a hit these days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,15,69],"class_list":["post-33638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33640,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33638\/revisions\/33640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}