Shark Bytes

It's a great show imo
there are so many ex celebreties with big egos around the shoul make more seasons not spinoffs

i hate reality shows for 2 reasons. 1. They are stupid and there is always something dumb goin' on. 2. It's simple... THEY ARE NOT REAL!!!!! And I'm just sick of this show anyway. I want to stop seeing this show on the tv guide channel. I don't know when this show jumped because I dont watch it but i say television jumped the shark when reality shows took over. Shut them down. NOW.

This is the type of show that I believe to be exempt from shark-jumping. It has this kind of Zombie mentality: it's dead on arrival, but in it's schlock and it's cheesiness, it works. It's a funny social experiment.

The first season was alright because it was something different. The second season, because Ron Jeremy, Tammy Faye Messner, and Erik Estrada were surprisingly likeable, and casting the **** king and the former PTL lady on the same show was ingenious. After that it became formulaic and tiresome, and watching Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen cavorting in a swimming pool made me want to take a vow of celibacy.

Honestly, I dont think this show JTS. I do think it declined in quality over it's run, but I think it was pulled before it could really JTS.

What really bothers me, though, is the fact that it started off this whole line of "Celebreality" spinoffs that just wont die.

VH1 has a horrible habit of not letting things die. Im expecting Charm School 2, because, as a spinoff that actually entertains me, Im sure VH1 will beat it to death.

I think that this show jumped the shark when Janice Dickinson joined the show... then it just became like Jerry Springer. However, I think the show has redeemed itself this season with the new Fame Games format. It's more interesting because instead of just sitting around the house like in other seasons, it is now a competition. It is also interesting because they are segregated into A List and B List teams.

Y'know, there are a lot more interesting has-beens out there than meets the eye. Jimmie Walker, Alison Arngrim, Beck, Mink Stole, Joe Dellasandro, Peter Murphy, Moon Zappa, Don Vito, Stephen Furst, Exene Cervenka, I could go on but my obvious point is that The Surreal Life could go on with a really cool 7th season if it wanted to, and yet instead there's a whole fixation on spinoffs from the show; My Fair Brady?!? Flava of Love Charm School?!? Surreal Life Fame Games?!? I mean, granted the last two seasons of the Surreal Life proper were far less interesting than season 4, but considering how many interesting has beens there are out there in the world, the show wouldn't have to go too far to redeem itself, really. Just accept the fact that one Brady -- Chris Knight -- is enough, lay of da flav, get your head outta vegass, and give some of the rest of the more interesting has beens a shot on the show, y'know.

When Omarosa admitted to just acting so she can write a book or some crap. What a bith. She puts on this whole act thinking people want to actually look at her or hear what comes out of her big ass mouth. She is also a damn liar saying that she did not ask Janice to accept her apology.

oh yeah when Da Brat called Jane Weilden "washed up".
A textbook case of the pot calling the kettle black

The Surreal Life jumped when it went from 1 hour to a half an hour. Basically we now see with recaps and teasers - about 5 hours of the entire week the has beens and strippers spend together.

Ah, the new season! The featured players: First, we have Andrea Lowell of Playboy fame, who is almost a caricature, she tries to appear so trampy. Next, C.C. Deville, fresh out of rehab and surrounded by alcohol. Alexis Arquette, the transvestite brother of David Arquette and the rest of the Arquette bunch. Tawny Over-the-Hill Kitaen, whose face, I'm afraid, shows the results of collagen and Botox. Sherman Helmsley of George Jefferson fame, who spends most of the time looking confused as to why he is even there. And, finally, Steve Harwell of Smashmouth, the only normal person in the bunch besides Sherman. Now, the shark didn't jump because of this cast, oh no. Instead, we have a surprise: Florence Henderson is added! Whee! She is supposed to be some kind of psychotherapist to the group. Maven Huffman is added through an inane beefcake contest! Wheeeee! The former pro-wrestler is also semi-normal, but apparently he has been placed in the house so that Andrea, Tawny, and Alexis can drool incessantly. Come on, VH1, if the cast wasn't strong enough to stand on its own, necessitating the additions of Florence and Maven, then doesn't that tell you something?

The episode where outtakes from interviews with Omarosa, where she admits to acting onset may have provided a jump the shark moment for the whole reality genre. Someone finally admitted to acting and the producers finally spoke on camera. The fraud of realism was exposed. The only immediate comparison is to the WWF's decision to include a corrupt referee in its plot lines during a late-80s decline.

I think the Surreal Life jumped the shark Season 5. The previous seasons it was really a bunch of has beens- most who didn't even consider themselves has beens but had absolutely nothing going on. This season was all people who had something to promote- it is like they wanted to be there. Also the fact that Omarosa was cast and went on the show "acting" like a witch just ruined the whole vibe. They should stop giving a spin off show because Omaraosa and Janice were competing for it.

When they decided to cast Janice Dickinson on the current season. The woman is always trying to run off, always trying to offend someone and it's fairly obvious that later she's going to tell the media that she was "doing what the producers told me to do."

Is it me, but is VH1 milking the dead cow with all these friggin spinoffs? First you had Strange Love (Brigette and Flav) from their Surreal Life cast. Then the season after you had VH1 making the cast pitch show ideas with the prize their show getting on. My question is WHY???? and how did Adrianne Brody and Peter from Brady Bunch get My Fair Brady on before the real winner Da Brat's show!!!!!!! But yes you have My Fair Brady on now. Next season Janice Dickinson will have her own show on. Give me a friggin break.