Because video game movies weren't bad enough...

We've moved onto board games. Check it out. (and for the record, The Guardian is far and away the best paper in the world, this is not debatable.)

The stupidity of this hits home for me. When I went to community college, the first time anyway, I took Intro to TV Production, and how the group of people that took that class were ever piled into one room I have no idea. Hardly the finest Mercer County had to offer, myself included as that was the only class I didn't abruptly stop going to in early September of that year.

But we had all kinds of projects where we had to develop and shoot ideas and group discussions where we would rail against the inanity of Laguna Beach, which was in its final season at the time. You know, the season with the fat girl.

And I have to go off topic a little to discuss that. If you still believe that The Hills is real, you're an idiot. Please take any TV class and learn something about camera positioning. I was watching an episode last night where 3 cameras were on Heidi hanging up clothes in her bedroom. Three cameras. Why? Just in the faint hope that Spencer might walk in the room to make some incendiary comment at that given time? If this were the real, organic show people claim it to be, this would never happen.

Consider that on yet another re-run I shouldn't have been watching, Rock of Love: Charm School, Lacey throws a drink on Dallas and there is ONE CAMERA IN THE ROOM. An event that could spark a bloodbath and there's one camera guy, but Heidi Montag does laundry and gets three. No, that's perfectly reasonable that MTV would pay three camera guys to stand there all day.

Oh, lets also remember that Audrina's own website admits that she was cast for the show. I'm hardly breaking new ground here, but some people still don't understand. But I digress.

In TV Production we were given a project to make a pitch for a show and deliver it to the class. As this was the peak of MTV dating shows, I believe Date My Mom had just started around that time, my group thought of what was tentatively called The Battle. The idea was that two guys, presumably wearing polo shirts and making dick jokes, would fight in a pit and the winner would win a date with the girl who hated her dad enough to appear on this show. Super creative title, I know. We had a half hour for this.

It appeals to people on the most basic level possible, and you know that you'd watch it out of mere morbid curiosity. You know the guys on the Next bus wanted to fight each other, why not let them? You get to watch the lower end of the gene pool settle their difference in a storm of fists and damaged egos, for free at 4 in the afternoon. This is gold.

I pitched this idea to my class, and do you know whose group won?

The group that pitched live action Monopoly.

Now, credit where credits due, they were clearly ahead of the curve here. However, its still the worst idea possible.

Hows that feel Hollywood? Some below average community college students beat you to the punch on this one two years ago. But I'm sure you aren't worried, because sadly, things like Not Another Not Another Movie will probably find its audience. So then who looks stupid?

Me.

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Today Michael would like to mention a low point in his life. "Yesterday I hit bottom culturally when I recognized the host of Scream Queens, Shawnee Smith, not by here role in all five Saw movies, but as the wacky girl Linda on the pretty awful Ted Danson vehicle, Becker.