The Best Reality TV Show Ever
Who Wants To Be A Superhero?: “Week 1″ – July 27, 2006
And I’m not kidding either. This new reality show from the Sci-Fi channel made me laugh so hard last night I thought I was going to piss myself. Not an easy feat considering I am one of the most sullen people on the planet and seriously despise almost all forms of comedy. Yes, even “Laverne & Shirleyâ€.
Called “Who Wants To Be A Superhero?â€, the show follows twelve wannabe superheroes – all with names and costumes of their own creation – as they compete in a series of tasks to determine who will win the grandest prize of them all. Namely, a comic book and original Sci-Fi movie based on their own delusions.
Monitored closely by comic book legend Stan Lee, each task is specifically constructed to test both the courage and compassion of each contestant, and not just their superpowers since they really don’t have any. Take the first task, for example.
Dropped off in the middle of what I assumed to be downtown Los Angeles, each contestant had to find a place to secretly change into their costume before racing to the finish line. However, unbeknownst to them, the real task was to help a lost little girl strategically placed near that same finish line. While most of the contestants failed to stop, the few who actually did made for some pretty entertaining television, particularly Major Victory who shouted out “Who is this child’s mother?†like a drunk Val Kilmer to a park full of stunned onlookers. You can see that scene above.
Now it was pretty obvious from the get go that some of these people were more aspiring actors than aspiring superheroes, but since the group is nicely leveled out to include both escapees obviously off their meds and fetishists currently vacationing from their bedrooms, I didn’t find myself the least bit distracted by it. In fact, my favorite superhero – Major Victory – is actually an actor [Chris Watters] with his very own website and MySpace. And while I usually hate media whores and camera fuckers like that, this guy just cracks me up and I’m definitely pulling for him to win the whole thing.
So I urge you all to tune in to Sci-Fi every Thursday night at 9 PM est. The show is so blissfully absurd, it’s almost impossible not to like. I just hope that when it’s on next week, I’m still in my manic stage because if I’m not, I’m probably just going to delete this post and pretend it never existed. And if that happens, just go with it. It’s safer that way.









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