I prefer naughty TV characters
I love watching people be bad. Let?s face it, seeing people be bad is a great way to pass the time. Not all shows are meant to be educational, but entertaining. I want to see people being bad and the worse they are the better. Because of this, I have three favorite shows. Each one shows a person or people being bad.
When it comes to ?American Idol? and related shows, I don?t want to see the best singer/dancer in the group, but the worst. If they are all good, I just get bored. I watch the tryouts religiously but tend to taper off towards the end, because it?s boring.
If I needed a doctor, I hope there is one like Dr. House on Fox?s show ?House? played by Hugh Laurie. He has this crude wit about him which is hilarious. He is not PC by anyone?s standards. He turns being bad into an art form.
I admit when the show first aired, I wasn?t too thrilled about it. I don?t watch many hospital-based shows because I just don?t find them interesting. I know most hospital shows are filled with heart-stopping drama, pardon the pun, but that tires quickly. I need something more than just a figure-out-what?s-wrong-with-the-patient drama that usually follows most shows of that nature.
Dr. House makes the whole show worth watching. I can?t wait to see what he says or does next. I was hooked after the first episode. I hope he stays in his same grouchy, irresistible self. If he changes, I?ll stop watching.
Which brings me to my last, but not least, favorite show. ?Unanimous? has it going on when it comes to bad.
If you are not familiar with the show, you are really missing out. The show isolates a group of people in a building. The object is they must unanimously vote for one of them to win $1.5 million.
The problem is they can?t, and haven?t, voted unanimously for one person to get the money. The longer they can?t decide, the lower the money goes. Currently they are down $1 million and counting.
Everyone in that house wants that money for one reason or another. Some reasons are better than others. Some members of the group have even lied. Jonathan, right from the beginning, told everyone he had testicular cancer. He was lying.
Every time it looks like they will all vote the same way, it doesn?t happen. Someone always lies and votes another way. They didn?t vote unanimously last Wednesday night either.
When the show was advertised, I stated no one would get anything and I?ll tell you why. It?s not in a person?s nature to be that overly generous. Don?t get me wrong, I?m not saying people can?t be generous. We are all generous to different degrees, but we won?t go past the point of where generosity hurts. In this case generosity does hurt. If someone else gets the money, you get nothing.
We are talking about a lot of money that would probably go a long way toward changing someone?s life. Could you give up that chance? No, and neither can the people on the show. As long as they think they have a chance to win, they won?t give it up. Even the people, who apparently have no chance at all to win the money, can?t or won?t let it go to someone else.
This Wednesday is the last night the show will air, so if you haven?t been watching, it?s pretty much too late now. Apparently, they are going to give the group one more chance to decide. If they are not unanimous, no one gets anything.
I?m standing by my original guess that no one will get anything.
Lisa Hobbs is a reporter for the Standard. She can be reached at 473-2191 or by e-mail at [email protected].