Vh1 Reality: Merely Sleazy Dating Shows?

It all started with The Flavor of Love, talk about strange! Flav and Brigitte Nielsen didn’t have anything on this dating show. He couldn’t be serious and neither could any of these beautiful women that actually signed up to live in a mansion with him and tongue him down. Did I care about Flavor Flav finding true love? No, absolutely not.

I just wanted to watch the nonsense, the drama, the fights, etc. It was like a fixation. I had to know who was going to win, who was unfortunate enough to wear those gold teeth at the very end. After the Flavor of Love phenomenon, Vh1 kept it going, knowing that when it comes to 20 strangers fighting over one D-List celebrity, “if you film it, they will watch”.

At this point, anyone can get their own reality dating show. Take Real & Chance for instance. They aren’t even celebrities! Real & Chance started out competing for New York, on I Love New York, who started out on the first season of The Flavor of Love. The torch is just being passed down from one reality show to the next. Watching the second season of Real Chance of Love, I think I’m over the whole Vh1 reality dating monstrosity. I haven’t been able to stomach much of the sleazy summer line up. Besides Real Chance of Love, which I watch only sporadically, I have never viewed even one full episode of Megan Wants a Millionaire (or should I say Megan Wants a Murderer?) And My Antonio.

Besides dating shows and spin-offs of dating shows (i.e. New York Goes to Work and Charm School), there isn’t much left to choose from. With season one of The T.O. Show over with (sad face); we have Tool Academy 2 to look forward to this fall. Wowwwwwwww (in my best Flavor Flav impression). Don’t worry my fellow sleazy dating show lovers, For the Love of Ray J is filming at this very moment and I’m sure Rock of Love isn’t over with yet.

How about a reality spin-off about Vh1 dating show contestants and the venereal diseases they’ve acquired during these sleaze fests!