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Premise Beach: Blind Date has a very simple set-up: two singles are set up, and the camera crews follow them to see if they click or clash. Which, of course, provides the perfect backdrop for madcap mishaps! And what's even dorkier is that the producers of the show provide fake word balloons and cheesy graphics over the video of the date. So the guy will say something to the girl, and an word-balloon will pop up reading "WHAT-EVA!". It's amazingly dorky, but cracked us up! This is from the same people who bring you The Fifth Wheel and features The Daily Show's Vance Degeneras as a producer!
Sleaze Factor: Pretty high. There were a couple of episodes where the couples got a little freaky and body parts had to be blocked out graphically. One couple had some toe and finger sucking. Ew, what happened to the days of not kissing on the first date?
Squirmability: Definitely high on this one. And to make it more painful, at the end of the show, they do a "Blind Date Hall of Shame" where they show highlights from a particular date gone wrong! One of the dates we saw was awful: this "princess" type bimbo who thinks she deserves the world was fixed up with the manager of a grocery store. Towards the end of the date, he expressed how unimpressed he was with her saying "You're really not all that..." to which she replied, "You're the manager of a grocery store!" He got up and stormed away, and she shouted after him, "Hey, make sure you have a clean uniform for tomorrow!!!" OUCH!
Watchability: Highly watchable!
the fifth wheel
Premise Beach: So, on The Fifth Wheel, two girls and two guys are brought together. They do a group introduction thing on the Fifth Wheel Party Bus, and then there are paired off and separated so people can get to know each other a bit more...intimately. And then they swap so they can get to know the other person more...intimately. And then the "Fifth Wheel" is brought in, usually in the form of some rock-hard-abs-exotic-dancer guy or some fake-boobs-sluttily-dressed girl. This person shakes up all the previous pairing-off. At the end of the show, the participants all write down who they wanna go home with, and then they reveal their choices. And the guy and girl who both equally choose each other get together, and everyone else goes home alone.
Sleaze Factor: Varies. Sometimes, the contestants are pretty decent folks, like the girl in one episode who didn't believe in kissing on the first date (let alone toe sucking, ahem). But when the Slutty Fifth Wheel takes the bus, things usually get a little raunchy, with some light strip-teasing. But for the most part, the participants are pretty wary of each other.
Squirmability: High, but usually not because of the interaction. What made me squirm the most was the lameness of certain participants who truly think they are all that, and you just laugh your ass off at how dorky they are. And I just love how when the contestants introduce themselves, they all say something stupid like, "I'm a very sexual person..." or "I love having sex..." or "Sex is really fun..." blah blah blah.
Watchability: Pretty darn watchable, if a little dull sometimes on the part of the lame participants.
mtv's dismissed
Oh, alright, I watched this one at home, I confess...
Premise Beach: On this MTV show, one individual is paired up with two possible love interests. (Yes, the cool thing about this show is that they are open to homosexual or bisexual hook-ups!) They all go out on a date together, with the two people openly competing for the main person's attention, usually dissing the other in the process. The two competitors are given "Time Out" cards which they can use to send the other person out of the room so they can have some alone time to woo the main person. In the end, the main person chooses which person they liked the best, and the other player is, well, "dismissed."
Sleaze Factor: Surprisingly for MTV, not that high! You'd think with these scantily-clad young 20-yr-olds, there'd be more raunch, but surprisingly, I've never seen them have to graphically blank anything out ever.
Squirmability: High, usually 'cause these kids are sooo lame and soo full of themselves. And sometimes when the bickering between the two competitors gets out of hand.
Watchability: Watchable, in small doses. I definitely couldn't do a marathon of these episodes!
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