thrukike: tonight at 9 on abc!

[mweinstone]

can a reality show be succesfull useing the trail as its stage? how could it be fun? obviously the contestants must have no hiking exsperience. that is givin. and obviously the rules will be purist hiking. miss a blaze and you must go back. the only other rule i can see would be if you leave a trace you go back and if you get to katadin first, one million dollars would be the prize. how could this work?

[Lone Wolf]

can a reality show be succesfull useing the trail as its stage?

no. the AT is too easy. not challenging enuf.

[mweinstone]

your challenging.


its hard if you have to get there first amugst a bunch of money grubbing weirdos stumbeling north at a rate of one broken bone per show. i wanna see em drop.

[icemanat95]

can a reality show be succesfull useing the trail as its stage? how could it be fun? obviously the contestants must have no hiking exsperience. that is givin. and obviously the rules will be purist hiking. miss a blaze and you must go back. the only other rule i can see would be if you leave a trace you go back and if you get to katadin first, one million dollars would be the prize. how could this work?

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[camojack]

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Ummm...yeah. Unless he wants to limit it to those of the Hebrew persuasion, who also don't mind being identified by an insult.

Methinks 'twas just a typo, tho'...

[mweinstone]

yes ... it was a typo. now the anti-defamation league will be after me ... i changed the post, but now the header still says what it did before ... help!

[Nightwalker]

Ummm...yeah. Unless he wants to limit it to those of the Hebrew persuasion, who also don't mind being identified by an insult.

Methinks 'twas just a typo, tho'...

Mattie don't make mistakes.

But it's kinda like "if you'se one you can say it." I'm allowed to say that I'm f'ing crazy, but y'all ain't. Or something like that.

[Johnny Thunder]

can a reality show be succesfull useing the trail as its stage? how could it be fun? obviously the contestants must have no hiking exsperience. that is givin. and obviously the rules will be purist hiking. miss a blaze and you must go back. the only other rule i can see would be if you leave a trace you go back and if you get to katadin first, one million dollars would be the prize. how could this work?

So how do you see this working? I see two options:

Option 1: Sedate an entire classroom full of middle-amerikan college freshman and set them loose with North-Face-Product-Placement gear at the foot of Springer. Contestants are given one directional item (ie. one map, one guidebook, one compass, etc) a la "Battle Royale". You ever see that? It's that one in the bleak appocalyptic future where the kids take over and in an effort to keep them in line adults kidnap a class at random and make them kill each other on TV until the last one stands. WWE Films just made this into a Stone Cold Steve Austin Movie It could be like that.

Option 1(b): Or contestants could be released from Springer at intervals and tracked down by a crack thru-hiking team of Lone Wolf, Balt. Jack, and The Dude. When they're caught they do battle in each "Stalker's" Bonus Level. Bryson'd be there saying "Don't Touch That Dial."

Option 2: Beautiful MTV-generation contestants arrive at geographically convenient transit locations and start pairing/coupling-up wondering drivel like, "I wonder who else will be here/how hard this will be/how I'll do my nails." Don't forget the mass-market gear tie ins! Then they'll start hiking North in a big pack making a whole heap of noise. After the first week Amerika will get to vote to keep their favorite beautiful one on the trail with the losers being sent home. The schedule is set as rigid so if you fall behind you get no camera time and no votes. I think R Lee Emery should be the host...I'm seein' a great scene where he get's right in their Shelter-loving faces and says, "God has a hard-on for hikers because we eat everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours!" Crap, all of our best writers work in reality TV. That's the trooffe.

I, for one, nominate myself as Whiteblaze's sleaper reality TV gameshow contestant. I'm quick and agile. Have no problems spending days on end without a shirt (watch MTV for a second and you'll know).

Johnny

[Frosty]

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Could you explain why, or at least say what is wrong?

[Lone Wolf]

Could you explain why, or at least say what is wrong?

thruKIKE.......

[LostInSpace]

Is this a "Lord of the Flies" rerun?

[Mother's Finest]

the man is a freakin' genius......it is Survivor spun off. that is how networks do it. find something successful and copy it.

whether or not this would ever happen on the AT, I bet that within five years we see this program (or a variation of it) on TV....


Weinstone also invented a low dose form of food poisoning for the diet crowd.

peace
mf

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

I'd like to see a 'road rules' clone with a couple of past-primetime he-men, a couple of past-primetime divas and a couple of past-primetime heart-throbs hiking together. Think about it: Charo, Celine Dion, Chuck Norris, Mr T, Erik Estrada and David Cassidy all meandering down the trail and trying not to kill each other.

[Ender]

Think about it: Charo, Celine Dion, Chuck Norris, Mr T, Erik Estrada and David Cassidy all meandering down the trail and trying not to kill each other.

Well, I think the real challenge would be not getting killed by Chuck Norris.

[RadioFreq]

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

[aaroniguana]

Very Freudian. It's that Jewish self-loathing thing. I get it every payday when I start writing out bills. And sometimes if I hike or play golf on Saturday. And occasionally in the Spring if I can't find a whip, 40 Roman centurions and a false prophet...

[josiblue]

man, they just don't make false prophets like they used to
~josiah

[mweinstone]

(in voice of comicbook store guy on simpsons)


my worst spelling mistake ever.....

[tekiechick]

I'd like to see a 'road rules' clone with a couple of past-primetime he-men, a couple of past-primetime divas and a couple of past-primetime heart-throbs hiking together. Think about it: Charo, Celine Dion, Chuck Norris, Mr T, Erik Estrada and David Cassidy all meandering down the trail and trying not to kill each other.

... can't forget Shatner and Hasselhoff.

[tekiechick]

... can't forget Shatner and Hasselhoff.

Hiking. The AT. From. Georgia to Maine...