What's YOUR price?

Today's Daily Shirt is another hero of daytime television, though I remember being a little kid and this cat was actually on somewhere around prime time.

I was just thinking that game shows on prime time is such a relic of the past - and then I realised that the biggest television hits of the last decade or so have been 'reality' shows. Two points about this. One, that these shows have little-to-no basis in reality, hence the label of 'reality' is exposed as the shameless marketing that it is.

And two, reality shows are prime-time game shows. Just replace 'Plinko' with eating worms while throwing water balloons at the letters which spell your name while hanging upside down from the skids of a helicopter! That's all. As you can see, there really is little difference.

Here, you have nobody people showing up on TV trying to win stuff. Sounds like a game show to me. Just rebranded, and with more bikini-clad women. Ahhh, evolution...

And I guess that in the end, that's the appeal. Ordinary people + winning stuff = hope for the chance for good things in ones own life. That, and women in bikini's...