VH1's dubious duo, Real and Chance (of
Real Chance of Love) have embarked upon a new enterprise wherein the pair track down legends throughout the country. It's mostly a vehicle for putting this flamboyant urban team among regular folk à la mode de
The Simple Life while cashing in on the current paranormal/legend zeitgeist ruling so many cable networks these days.
For one episode, the men venture to Stillwater, Oklahoma to investigate legends of giant catfish and proceed to provide comic relief for all who watch this fish-out-of water tale. Suffice it to say, girlish screams abound and the locals doubtlessly have a good laugh.
Check out
Cryptomundo.com for a more thorough analysis of the program. As for VH1 viewers, they're already chiming in with comments on the network's website. It isn't pretty.
moneeman wrote this impassioned plea:
"Dear God, can we PLEASE implore VH1 to not run ANY episodes of this Minstrel Show?! It's 2010, people!! It's bad enough that we have the cooning that goes on in "Meet the Browns" or the Mammy-ing of the Aunt Jemima character who sells Popeye's chicken...but those at least aren't marketed as "reality television." I realize that these two fools are just looking for a paycheck and they can't comprehend that such profound statements as "Why ain't any of these little men's wearing clothes, brah?" will only add to the stereotypical "Ignorant Black Man" image. I would doubt that the show lasts more than four episodes due to the fact that they can only appear to be "scared" of the animals, etc, for so long before the audience loses interest, but that's not the point. Flav started this travesty with his shucking and jiving on "Flavor of Love," and these two are only following his lead of playing the part of the Clown. I hope the money they get from this joke of a show will be worth the cost of their dignity."
And Jacqueline wrote this intelligent critique:
DEY AINT NUDDIN BUT SUM REJECTS PPL STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP WE DNT CARE TO C DIZ **** UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF GAVE DEES 2 NOBODIES ANOTHA DAMN SHO SMH DEES 2 FOOLS SUQ ASZ LMFAO WER DHA HELL DEY DO THAT AT??? CHANCE LUK SLO N REAL NEED 2 CUT THAT **** OFF HIS HEAD HE A GROWN ASS ****** MAN!!!!!!!! WOWWWWWWWWWWWW
A profound statement mitigated only by a faulty caps lock button, certainly.
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