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Post by Phil Maurice on Jan 31, 2020 18:48:57 GMT -5
It's by no means the best, but the "Lonely Man" ending theme from The Incredible Hulk still gets me (sniff).
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 5, 2020 2:06:03 GMT -5
For a country which has English and French as its official languages, Canada has done a piss-poor job enabling its citizens to be fluent in both.
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Post by berkley on Feb 5, 2020 8:07:47 GMT -5
There are exceptions but I generally don't like theme songs that are actual songs - i.e. with sung lyrics - especially of the more sappy variety. The Enterprise theme song, for example, Welcome Back Kotter, a lot of those would be at the bottom of my list of tv themes.
Back to the ones I did like a lot, Hill Street Blues would be up there. And Twin Peaks.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 8:06:20 GMT -5
I've been watching Undercover Boss USA. I'm sure you know the premise: CEO puts on a disguise and goes undercover in his business to discover what is and isn't working. He reveals his identity at the end. The pretence involves the CEO claiming to be, for instance, a "graduate working entry-level jobs as part of a documentary". The show has been running since 2010.
You know, it's a mainstream show (I presume). After nearly a decade on the air, wouldn't American workers be wise to it all by now? When someone shows up claiming to be a graduate filming a documentary about entry-level jobs, it would make sense if more workers said, "Hang on, where have I heard that before? Are you the CEO? Is this Undercover Boss?"
Wouldn't American workers be wise to it by now?
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2020 10:07:24 GMT -5
I've been watching Undercover Boss USA. I'm sure you know the premise: CEO puts on a disguise and goes undercover in his business to discover what is and isn't working. He reveals his identity at the end. The pretence involves the CEO claiming to be, for instance, a "graduate working entry-level jobs as part of a documentary". The show has been running since 2010. You know, it's a mainstream show (I presume). After nearly a decade on the air, wouldn't American workers be wise to it all by now? When someone shows up claiming to be a graduate filming a documentary about entry-level jobs, it would make sense if more workers said, "Hang on, where have I heard that before? Are you the CEO? Is this Undercover Boss?" Wouldn't American workers be wise to it by now? TV lied to you. It's not real. None of those sort of programs are. Everyone in those shows is in on it and simply playing a part.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 13:12:22 GMT -5
I'm sure you're right. It's about as "real" as Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men. Okay, those are probably a little more "real".
I mean, the Undercover Boss USA CEOs always appear to work in a place where an employee has a poignant anecdote to share, whether it be about a sick relative, being behind on car payments, struggling with tuition fees, etc. Of all the places they could have gone to, these bosses seem to find the stores with the employees facing difficulties.
And then there are the disguises. Come on! Obviously fake wigs and moustaches. Could the show not have afforded a quality wig/moustache? On some episodes, some of the employees have commented about that, e.g., "John seems like a good worker, but that hairstyle is from the 70s. As are the glasses. I like him, but he could dress a little more modern."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 6, 2020 13:27:47 GMT -5
I'm sure you're right. It's about as "real" as Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men. Okay, those are probably a little more "real". Narrator: "They're not."
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 6, 2020 13:38:47 GMT -5
I've been watching Undercover Boss USA. I'm sure you know the premise: CEO puts on a disguise and goes undercover in his business to discover what is and isn't working. He reveals his identity at the end. The pretence involves the CEO claiming to be, for instance, a "graduate working entry-level jobs as part of a documentary". The show has been running since 2010. You know, it's a mainstream show (I presume). After nearly a decade on the air, wouldn't American workers be wise to it all by now? When someone shows up claiming to be a graduate filming a documentary about entry-level jobs, it would make sense if more workers said, "Hang on, where have I heard that before? Are you the CEO? Is this Undercover Boss?" Wouldn't American workers be wise to it by now? TV lied to you. It's not real. None of those sort of programs are. Everyone in those shows is in on it and simply playing a part. I'd suggest calling these shows "surreality television", but I have far too much respect for Surrealism as an artform and a movement to make that association.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2020 13:39:11 GMT -5
I'm sure you're right. It's about as "real" as Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men. Okay, those are probably a little more "real". Narrator: "They're not." Ha ha...somewhere, @taxidriver1980 is weeping into his keyboard. His worldview in tatters.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 13:44:05 GMT -5
Well, let me try and explain: obviously there are truckers driving in Canada and Alaska. I am sure they are real truckers. And some of it may be real. But the danger is hyped and semi-real. I am sure there is some "artistic licence" in episodes where, say, a bridge or very thin ice is about to break/crack. On a "real" rating of 1 to 10, with 1 being fake and 10 being real, Undercover Boss USA is a 1 while Ice Road Truckers is a 4.
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 6, 2020 14:18:02 GMT -5
I don't know, I've had some kind of allergy to shows like that, so many I've never watched even one minute of. I can tell you one 'reality' program I watched because it was made in an Oregon town I know first-hand was just a couple dumb guys stumbling around for an hour in the dark under a butcher's shop I've been in a few times. The 'supernaturally sensitive' woman employee presented as calling these ghost hunters in was not real at all either; didn't work at the butcher's shop. Another with people surviving in the 'middle of nowhere' on the north end of my home island in Canada were very close to a town called Port Hardy and pretty close to Port Alice and Port McNeil. Massive put-on I could only take a couple of minutes of. I assume the genius businessmen and flipping real estate tycoons of other 'reality' shows to be massively inflated if not outright frauds. Sorry.
Crab fishing 'wars' was sort of real captains and fishermen, though some retired, and a lot of going out to film in the off season from Seattle and Bellingham, not Alaska. There were cameras attached to some boats to get real footage, but figures and people you were seeing there were sometimes 'recreated' with the cast actors after the fact having them dress like the real workers. The show led to some good changes in the rules they operated under and cut deaths and stuff down quite a bit, so one reality show did some good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 14:53:52 GMT -5
Well, I live in hope that Finding Bigfoot will actually, you know, find Bigfoot by the season finale (assuming it hasn't ended already).
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 6, 2020 15:19:45 GMT -5
The only reality TV shows I've been able to stomach in recent years all had Gordon Ramsay in them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 15:19:47 GMT -5
Well, I live in hope that Finding Bigfoot will actually, you know, find Bigfoot by the season finale (assuming it hasn't ended already). He's been the executive producer on the show all along don't ya know... -M
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Post by brutalis on Feb 6, 2020 15:19:56 GMT -5
Only "reality" show I ever enjoyed: Swamp People. It's big Cajun bayou fun in da' swamps hunting gators! I guarontee satisfaction! Aye Ya Yi Yi Ya!!!
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