I'm not sure why I thought checking out The Marriage Ref, a new reality show created by Jerry Seinfeld was a good idea. That was a half hour I'll never get back. For some reason, I thought the concept was about helping couples solve actually marital difficulties with the help of a professional coach (which I would have found intriguing). It is not.
It is about making married "ordinary" people seem real trifling and making celebrity panelists appear witty and hip. Only the trifling part worked. On Sunday night's show, one couple fought over whether or not to allow the husband to keep his stuffed dead dog in a constructed altar in their home. The other couple fought because bruh-man (yes, they were of color) wanted to install a stripper pole in the house. Are these difficult questions to answer; are these deep and probing marital issues? And are Jerry Seinfeld, Kelly Ripa and Alec Baldwin (!!!) people you want offering their opinions on your relationship? No, no and hell to the no.
In case you missed it, here we go:
Wait, wait, wait…there's more. Here's the panel's response:
I will watch a home renovation reality show (Yard Crashers is my current favorite) and I kinda like Undercover Boss but ur- um… this one? Not to mention, I scanned the upcoming shows… with the exception of Eva Longoria, no people of color panelists? And Madonna is an upcoming panelist? For real tho?
Okay, I'm turning this one over to you… who watched, what did you think? Am I being too hard on the show? For those of you who didn't see it, will you check it out? And again, any reality shows worthy of a glance? Please share.
19 comments:
Celebrities watching snippets of my marriage and then weighing in on it?
I'll pay for my own second Honeymoon, thanks.
I like the premise of the show and it was funny but the "problems" of the couples were not serious at all more like annoyances, so I guest they didn't feel the need to get an expert on the panel. I really liked the show Wedlocked or Deadlocked( http://www.wedlockordeadlock.com/) , where Dr. Michelle quick counseled couples who wanted to get married. Of course the show was canceled but I thought it was a great show!!
Okay, color me crass, but Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld's comments did get a laugh out of me (LOL)! If the concept of the show is to make light of the silly, simple issues that married couples have, I get it. But very often the silly, simple issues are residual to the real or larger issues in a marriage. If they dug deeper with this stripper pole problem between this couple, the laughs would turn into tears faster than you say drop it like it's hot.
I did laugh, it was hilarious. But I was expecting something else, I guess. And YES! There was something else going in BOTH of those marriages. The dead dog and stripper pole were the symptoms, not the problem.
I hadn't heard about this show, but my tweeter feed and google reader were ablaze this morning, so I watched the clip you have posted. I honestly just thought it was an attempt to be funny (and to me, it was) and didn't take it that seriously. Based on the clip, however, I don't think I will be adding it to my must see television list.
Agreed. Worth a laugh or two but not DVR worthy at all. BTW, I see NBC is moving it to Thursday nights... we see you NBC, we see you.
Who was the host/comedian dude - he was trying WAY too hard.
I think I had the same issue Chele did. I thought the show was about something else (less superficial). It was funny but kinda trivialized underlying issues. I mean something else is going on when a man wants to keep his stuffed dead dog in the living room. Just... no. And was the stripper pole a euphemism for some crazy kinky sex thing he wanted to try? Oh well, on to the next.
PS - WTH with Madonna on the show? C'mon now.
Now you knew Seinfield wasn't going ot turn all "diversity conscious" on us.
Watch it, laughed my ass off. I had NO expectations of intelligence or greatness and that's exactly what I got. That being said... I will not be watching again.
The real question is - why can't the brother put a stripper pole up if he wants to? If she won't get on it, he can find somebody who will.
LOL! Point taken.
You consistently crack me up. You would seriously break up a 12 year marriage over a stripper pole? Ninja stop. If a women is into it cool, if not.. why press the point. I'm sure she can come up with sumthin' to make him forget about the pole.
I have to say...
I always tell my friends they need a camera following them. These are the convos had behind closed doors that are HILARIOUS and I'm down for the funny. I'm also stealing "NEVER, with capital letters..." because she said that plain and clean. Delivery game proper.
Meanwhile, I probably won't watch. There oughta be a point to the madness, even if it's madness. I'll stick to the random youtube clips that I KNOW will be passed around, moving forward.
She was hilarity, also came with the classic "People in hell want icewater... but they ain't gonna get it."
I watched it, chuckled and said - never again.
Ok, it was kinda funny, but not really. I can't stand Kelly Ripa and Alec Baldwin is always funny to me but should stick to his day job. Jerry Seinfeld, hmm, yes I have seen every Seinfeld episode but I don't think I'll tune in again unless Elaine, George and Kramer are coming onto the show, then that would be funny.
Tiffany
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I just TiVo'd "Model City" because I heard "black", "male" and "models". Sold! Anybody seen this show?
I will go ahead and admit it, I'm a TV snob. If I sit down and watch 30/60 minutes of TV, I want writers to sit down and put in some time and effort on the script. I want to see some actors -- acting. The only exception is watching the History Channel or any of its 3 or 4 spinoff channels. Now that's reality TV! Reality TV makes me reach for my Pepto-Bismol. I don't care how the survivors are trying to get off the island. but then again, nobody asked me.
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