Jericho: Rich Girls

I must have dosed off, but I awoke to a new and odd trend. As if reality teevee wasn't bad enough, there is suddenly a crop of reality (ha!) shows about young women with too much money. MTV is running Rich Girls and FOX is airing The Simple Life.

As far as I can tell, both of these shows feature young women who have gobs of money but missed the waiter with the tray of brains. Both shows are allowing already rich people to get even richer, I mean, I hope they were smart enough to get paid for this crap. On top of that, neither show looks all that interesting. I watched about five minutes of Rich Girls, Steph was watching it and seemed hooked, but all I could see were spoiled, brainless, self absorbed, drunk people doing nothing. When one of them put down her martini long enough to say something about Ben Franklin "the guy who invented the light bulb" - I left the room.

The other show at least has a "fish out of water" aspect, but, come on, there's a reason why most people in this country do not work on farms: hard, boring work. A sweaty, dirty Paris Hilton does nothing for me, no matter how much spam I get about her porno tape. The fact that the previews show Nicole Richie (who looks about as much like a daughter of Lionel Richie as I do) with her arm elbow-deep in a cow's ass, doesn't entice me to watch, either.

So, having seen this, I have decided to pitch a reality teevee show to all of our readers in the entertainment industry. The show will be called "Poor Schmucks" - it will star Max and myself. We will follow through our amazing lives, filled with bus rides and bad traffic, boring jobs and low pay, as well as the constant battle to maintain our bodies and minds as society and age rob us of both. Max plays bass! Jericho plays video games! They both read books!!!

Doesn't that sound better than some bleached toothpick cleaning up road-kill?