Smile, You're Under Arrest

I normally don't succumb to the idea of watching reality TV (which includes American Idol, Fear Factor and Amazing Race) for a simple fact that I believe most of these reality shows broadly encompass the following categories:

• Clearly scripted, as no sane mortal would possibly do such a thing.
  Case Study: See American Idol auditions, and the idiots who come in dressed as aliens or clown. Seriously dude, wtf.





• Plain lame
  Case Study: See America's Got Talent. See the Hoffman and the Hoffetts.





• Nothing more than an attempt to revive someones ailing career
  Case Study: See above. Or see American Idol's Paula Abdul


• Pre-determined winners
  Case Study: Ever realise how they never fully announce the voting numbers in Idol?

Yea, so basically, I consider reality TV to be at the bottom of the cess pool when it comes to anything on TV (although, the scum at feed at the bottom has to be that annoying tranny that hosts the various shows on Astros Malay channels)

But this on the other hand, sounds like it has some potential. And I quote:

Smile, You're Under Arrest is a show that features law officers in Phoenix setting up grandiose sting operations to lure criminals with warrants into their waiting hands, and cameras.

Fox President of Alternative Entertainment Mike Darnell. “Instead of the worst day of your life and then a joke at the end, this is the reverse. This is the best day of your life, and then we arrest you.”

One of three set-ups just shot in Arizona features the cops luring a criminal to a movie set with the promise of making him an extra and paying him a couple hundred dollars. An elaborate film set is staged and filming begins on a faux movie. The set-up continues as the director then gets mad at the lead actor, fires him and replaces him with the law-breaking extra.

The scene escalates with the fake director introducing the mark to a supposed studio mogul and continuing to create this dream-comes-true sequence. Finally, all the participants are revealed as officers of the law, and the criminal is apprehended (before signing waivers to let the footage be used in the show).

Other scenarios include a fake fashion shoot where the subject thinks he is about to become a supermodel and another in which the mark becomes an auto racer, a set-up which ends when a police car comes up behind him on a race track to pull him over.

I love the premise of the show. Me being the sadistic person I am, nothing thrills me more than seeing someone floating so high in the sky, and come screaming down with a big bad SPLAT. This show exploits your dreams, showing you how things could have been, and then brings out the grim reality of how things is. Oh how gleeful.