Archive > New & Upcoming Reality Shows

"Joe Schmo 2"

<< < (2/6) > >>

puddin:
There's also a sweepstake ..you could tickets to a sporting event ..check it out ;D

10 Things Contest
 
The adrenaline rush of a last second bomb... driving at speeds of over 140 miles per hour... being chased by bulls down the streets of Spain... Spike TV presents 10 Things Every Guy Should Experience -- a new show that gives you and a buddy the chance to experience one of the ten biggest sporting events of the year. Think you have what it takes to compete for tickets to Super Bowl XXVIII, the NBA finals or the Indy 500? Grab a buddy and you're halfway there. Take a minute to read the rules and regulations, then... ENTER

puddin:
Reality TV's a gold mime

'Schmo 2' copies and dupes
 
 
Ralph Garman makes no bones about it: As Derek Newcastle, host of "Joe Schmo 2," he's mimicking and parodying guys like "Survivor's" Jeff Probst and the hosts of other reality shows.
That should come as no surprise, since "Joe Schmo," to start with, is the ultimate reality show parody.

"In the first 'Joe Schmo' [the inspiration] was definitely Jeff Probst," Garman told the Daily News. "It was definitely those eviction ceremonies, the counting of the votes, the way he pauses and drags it out. It's just great theater."

This time, Garman has jumped into the Newcastle character, which has required a blond dye job, false teeth and a British accent.

"There seems to be a glut of shows with British hosts," he said, noting programs like "The Swan."

"We thought that would be funny."

The first "Joe Schmo" took a regular guy and, without his knowledge, put him on a fake reality show, where he was the only real player and the rest were actors.

In "Joe Schmo 2," which starts airing Tuesday at 10 p.m. on Spike TV, there are two real players - a man and a woman - with the rest being actors working with a predetermined storyline.

"It's the same basic setup," said Garman, a Los Angeles radio host. "The shows we're parroting are very different. This time it's much more the 'Bachelor,' 'The Bachelorette.'"

But in this show, the concept of game changed throughout the run, so at times it seemed like a dating show, and others more like "Temptation Island."

"All of these shows have new twists, the most shocking twist," Garman said. "The game is constantly shifting from one game to the next, so you don't know what it is. Initially it looks like 'The Bachelor' or 'The Bachelorette,' then, 'Are they playing for money or is this about true love or not?'"

The appeal of "Joe Schmo" is that the viewers are in on the joke and the real players are not.

Likewise, there's also the built-in drama of watching the producers react when the real players seem to catch on to the joke.

While it may seem that the concept is built on humiliating the real people, Garman said it's just the opposite.

"Joe Schmo" is "well-intentioned and fun," Garman said, while shows such as "The WB's Superstar USA" or Fox's "The Swan" are hitting people in sensitive areas.

"We go to these people, we say, 'We're going to put you on a reality show,' and it is," Garman said. "And at the reveal, at the end, we hope they're going to have a good show, and you come out of the ride feeling strong."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/201047p-173513c.html

 

puddin:
Recap For anyone that missed Schmo~  :)


Joe Schmo 2: Episode Summaries
Next Show Time: Sunday June 20, 8:00 PM (ET/PT) 

Episode 1

If you're reading this now, you're either a huge fan of 'Joe Schmo' or you missed episode one of 'Joe Schmo 2.' If it's the latter…how could you?! You guys wanted Schmo 2, so we give you Schmo 2 and you go and miss the first episode?! I demand satisfaction! (Or at least your faithful viewing of the remaining episodes…and your purchase of the season one DVD where you can catch yours truly buck naked atop the back of Matt Kennedy Gould.)

As for episode one…this year we decided that the world needed just a little more love. Picture this: the bachelor and the bachelorette under one roof. Five women pursuing a comically hunky bachelor named Austin. Five men pursuing a ridiculously lovely bachelorette named Piper. Among these five suitors are one Joe Schmo…and one Jane Schmo. That's right…two Schmos. We got cocky. And without giving anything away, let me ask the guys one question: Ever tried pulling one over on a woman? Not as easy as it looks.

Okay, so did you get the premise? The girls are vying for the bachelor. The guys are vying for the bachelorette and each week, in a tearful ceremony (mostly from us laughing), someone gets sent home. As usual the characters were taken right out of reality…shows that is. For the guys: Bryce: the stalker. T.J.: the playa. Ernie: the heir. Gerald: the gotta be gay guy. And Tim: Joe Schmo. For the ladies: Ambrosia: the bitch. Eleanor: the weeper. Rita: the drunk. Cammy: the moron. And Ingrid: Jane Schmo. Welcome, my friends, to 'Joe Schmo 2'…or as far as Joe and Jane were concerned: 'Last Chance For Love.'

Episode one opens with your typical arrivals. First a nervous Tim and Ingrid followed by the rest of the cast. One by one they line up in front of the palatial estate eagerly awaiting the arrival of their bachelor and bachelorette.

If you saw the show you noticed that, along with the cast, we had six 'extras' show up as well: Three guys and three girls. You see, we thought it would be funny if, before they got into the house, we had an eviction ceremony where only minorities got evicted. If you've seen any dating shows you're likely laughing right now…and possibly saying that's f*%ked up! Hey, we're just poking fun at what's out there. And the fact is, minorities have not fared well on televised dating shows in the twentieth century.

However, before we can get to our little stunt, Ingrid, who despite being told to shut up six-thousand times in eleven minutes, continues to ask everyone how they got on the show. Unfortunately one of those extras answered, and I quote: 'through my agent. I just got the call yesterday.' Oops. We're not even in the house and Ingrid, who's already suspicious, now has a real reason to be suspicious, like she's standing next to an admitted actress. Ouch.

The other actors did a great job of diverting Ingrid's attention, but the seed was planted. And it's a seed what took root. Stay tuned for more on this growing drama.

Meanwhile, it's time for the momentous arrival of our host, Derek Newcastle. Picture Ralph Garman, our smarmy host from last season, with blonde hair, blonde goatee, fake teeth that resemble dangling Chicklets, corrective lenses, and an accent that would have made Charles Dickens proud. He's our stuffy English host, Derek Newcastle…(from Philadelphia, PA.)

Derek arrives aboard the sidecar of a World War Two era motorcycle. In a word: jaunty. He then introduces the bachelor and bachelorette, Austin and Piper respectively, who arrive aboard Cleopatra-style carriages carried by four scantily clad Adonis'…for the ladies. Once they're introduced, they proceed with the most shocking eviction ceremony yet! It also happens to be the first eviction ceremony. You know, the one I mentioned above where Austin and Piper remove three minorities each. That's why we had the extras, so we could send them straight home like the other dating shows do. Well our little joke bit us right on the ass!

See what you missed?! And we're just now at the first commercial break. It was a lot to explain in the first act, but we're gonna move a bit quicker now lest I chew up the entire internet with this synopsis.

As any dating show worth it's salt would we started off ours with a mixer, supposedly in a luau theme. If by luau you mean a bar with some straw around it and drinks sporting little umbrellas. No hula dancers. No pigs with apples in their mouths. No poi, but a luau mixer nonetheless.

At the 'luau' mixer, Rita got drunk, Ernie the heir corrected Derek's Shakespeare quote setting up some future hard feelings between the two of them, Rita got drunk, the guys and girls got some alone time with Austin and Piper where Gerald acted really gay and Bryce acted really creepy both to Tim's dismay, and Rita got drunk. Did I mention Rita was falling down drunk? Even Tim, who had a few (dozen) drinks himself, noticed that Rita's equilibrium was about as stable as Aileen Wuornos. (Google if necessary).

The mixer wound down with the cast giving Austin and Piper some gifts from the heart. Tim, Ingrid, and the rest of the gang were told to bring a heartfelt gift for Austin and Piper. Tim gave Piper a picture of his nieces and nephews. What is it, by the way, with Joe Schmos bringing mementos related to their siblings' children? Remember last season, Matt brought a football his nephew had urinated on. Coincidence? You be the judge.

Ingrid gave Austin a signed book by Madeleine Albright…pretty sexy. Some other highlights include: freak-show Bryce giving Piper his pet frog Everett. (Keep your eye on Everett as he becomes a central player in our house of love and deceit.) And Ernie, who revealed during the mixer that he was the heir to the Ernest and Julio Gallo wine fortune, adopted an orphan child for each person in the cast.

The gifts of the heart ended with Piper giving each of the guys a lock of her hair and Austin giving the girls a heart-shaped locket. One half of the locket contained a picture of him, the other half was empty, thus earning the name: half-hearted locket. We thought it was funny.

No episode would be complete without the obligatory game leading to some trumped up prize package. The first game of Joe Schmo 2 was the token Joe-Schmo-first-episode- let's-get-the- cast-dancing-naked, portion of the show. You guessed it. We dressed the cast members up in costumes resembling minor league baseball team mascots, had them strip down to their bikinis and/or swimming trunks, and do a lap dance atop Austin and Piper. The highlights include: Rita falling down drunk, Ingrid having a jaw-dropping body (just ask Tim), and Rita falling down drunk.

The result of this little shindig was Ernie and Ingrid winning a private Jacuzzi date with Austin and Piper. Now, here's the part where I tell you some behind the scenes stuff. As you watch one of the 62 reruns of episode one Spike will doubtless be showing this week, see if you notice anyone in that Jacuzzi shivering. The house had not one, but two Jacuzzis…two Jacuzzis with faulty heaters. We had to use a garden hose to pump lukewarm water into what amounted to be a virtual ice bath for our 'winners.' It was a veritable human-Gazpacho of fun. It wasn't actually freezing, but it wasn't actually warm. Two cold women in water…all right guys you had your fun, now stop staring!

During this Jacuzzi date, the guys were up in Gerald's room, affectionately named 'club Gerald,' talking about what else…how to score with women. T.J., the playa, waxed philosophical on the subject with a hilarious set of tips he likes to call: 'T.J.'s f*%k tips.' Meanwhile, resident psychopath Bryce was on the balcony spying on Piper in the frigid 'love-tub' with Ernie. This drove Tim nuts, inspiring him to christen Bryce with the nickname, 'Cruiser.'

If there's one element of reality shows that begs to be ridiculed it's all the twists. You can scarcely get through an episode of one of these things without the rules being changed with some overly dramatic revelation about the game. Well, our twists were announced with the arrival of a falcon. Derek Newcastle, donning a falconer's glove, gathers the cast in the backyard for some big news. As he raises his arm, in swoops a giant hawk…uh, I mean falcon, appropriately named Montecore, for the first Falcon Twist of the show. If you don't get the Montecore reference, please allow me to once again direct you to Google. You'll figure it out and when you do, you'll see there's some shading of things to come in that there name.

Derek, reading from a piece of parchment he's acquired from the falcon's talon, announces two twists: number one, a woman will be going home that night and number two, at the end of their journey in the house, if Austin and Piper choose to pursue a relationship with one of the suitors, that suitor wins one hundred thousand dollars. That's over one-third of a quarter of a million dollars! Austin and Piper don't know money is in it for the suitors. A dastardly twist indeed!

Finally, we reach the end of the episode where a woman is to be sent home. Now, last year we had a 'you're-dead-to-us, plate-smashing, side-splitting-eviction-ceremony 'that is admittedly hard to top. Yet, believe or not, I think we did. Ladies and Gentleman I welcome you to the first Pearl-Necklace eviction ceremony. That's right, the women of the Last Chance for Love house aren't hoping to receive a rose. No, they are hoping, praying, and practically begging for Austin to give them a pearl necklace. If you think that's funny, you should see how hard Tim was laughing every time Derek repeated pearl necklace in his lofty British accent.

Austin could only manage to deliver four pearl necklaces, but there were five women. Unfortunately, our inebriated friend Rita didn't make the cut and was sent home on the Last Chance for Love trail of tears.

During the ceremony each of the women was given a chance to deliver a final plea to Austin as to why he should give them a pearl necklace. And the speeches were delivered brilliantly…too brilliantly. In fact, suspicious Ingrid thought the girls' speeches sounded rehearsed…maybe because they were. You see, we didn't mention to Ingrid that the women would be given the opportunity to make a final plea to Austin at the ceremony.

So, when the other girls had a speech ready to go, but Ingrid didn't…she smelled a rat…again.

Ingrid was kind enough to share her suspicions with everyone, including Tim. She even went so far as to mention 'The Truman Show.' Cut to:the production staff in the control room, collectively shi**ing bricks.

See ya' next week.

Your buddy,

brian keith etheridge 

Texan:
Did any of you watch this?  I missed it due to season finally of the sheild.

puddin:
Hey Texan you could catch it again @
 Next Show Time: Sunday June 20, 8:00 PM (ET/PT) 
(We watched it twice..it was funny)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page