In our first article, we took a look at social networking sites, MMA and the rise and fall of poker. In article #2, we will take a look at tabloid entertainment programs, reality television programs featuring judges and homegrown celebrities.

Tabloid Entertainment Programs

– We used to be big fans of Entertainment Tonight. The program used to feature previews of upcoming movies, interviews with celebrities and behind the scenes footage at award shows. This was the standard until Access Hollywood launched in the mid 90s. Now, there were two programs that featured the same type of features on the entertainment industry and its stars. As if two wasn’t enough… let’s throw in shows like ‘Extra’ in for good measure to make it a threesome. The overcrowding came to its peak when the E! Entertainment channel launched and featured extended versions of these programs 24 hrs. a day for anyone eager enough to watch this stuff all day long.

The problem came when each program tried to diversify their content from each other in order to stand out amongst the bunch. The rise of the paparazzi also created an atmosphere where anybody who could get the latest gossip or fetch the latest photo would get the ratings boost needed to beat out their competition. Ratings mattered more than ever and friendly celebrity chats and movie previews wasn’t what was going to be bringing viewers in anymore. Viewers wanted the dish on their favorite celebrities and would move to whichever channel had the goods on their favorite celebrity pals.Entertainment news was thrown out of the door and replaced by entertainment gossip programming. The rise in celebrity gossip and tragic ratings news events would bring about entertainment gossip clones like ‘The Insider’ or ‘TMZ.com’ who cared more about trashing celebrities rather than honoring them. We’d love to find out about an upcoming movie or find out what a certain celebrity thinks about their upcoming flick but unfortunately shows like Entertainment Tonight now feature stories on former celebs losing 50 pounds through liposuction or what celebrities are now in rehab and we must switch over to hardcore geek websites devoted to this type of stuff.
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Summer time is just about wrapping up and for many people that means swimming time is just about over. We’ve been trying to write an article about swimming pools for sometime now but we never really had a clue what we would discuss in relation to swimming pools. We don’t consider ourselves swimming pool experts and some of us can barely swim. Heck,most of the time we just lie down on a floaty and suck down some refreshments while catching some sun. We decided to look up on google any facts or data that we could find to help our readers better understand the (insert big word here) of swimming pools and here’s some of the evidence that we’ve compiled for those of you that want to buy or are thinking of buying swimming pools:

1. Swimming pools contain water

-You would have thought that this would be a no brainer but lots of the pools that we took a look at had no water in them which led us to say “what’s up with that?”

2. Swimming pools must be maintained with chlorine or salt

-Most people use chlorine to make sure their water doesn’t turn green and nasty. Apparently, you can now use salt too. We don’t know which is worse. Chlorine was used by the Nazis. Nazis=bad. Salt makes french fries taste good; but have you ever put salt into water and tasted it? Yucko.

3. Pools can include above-ground and in-ground pools

-We took a look at both types of pools and thought that in-ground pools looked way cooler than above ground pools. That was until we took a look at the price for each type of pool. There can be as much as a 10 000$ difference in price between each type of pool. Suddenly, the bathroom tub is looking sweeter by the day.

4. You can buy a product that will change the color of the water when someone pees in your pool

-If this isn’t a good reason to buy a pool then I don’t know what is. You could just invite your friends over for a pool party then once everybody’s in the pool scream “Hey! Someone just pissed in the pool!” and watch as your friends stare at each other nervously the rest of the party trying to figure out who was the one that did it. Also, if you had your own pool, you wouldn’t have to worry about some 2 year old pissing or taking a dump in your pool. We’ve all been to public pools before and trust me there isn’t a day that goes by without some little kid taking a number 2 in the shallow end.

5. Pools are good for lazy people who want exercise

-We don’t care what kind of a pool it is you own but if you throw a 500 pound man into a swimming pool and let him enjoy himself-30 minutes later he’ll think he’s an Olympic gold metal-winning triathlete. The water is great for fat people because the water helps you to move around and also takes the tension away from sore muscles or for people with arthritis. It’s for this reason that god created belly flopping contests.

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The dictionary defines an asshole as being someone who is stupid or irritating or ridiculous. We’d like to add to this definition by mentioning an asshole as someone who’d you just like to hit across the face when you see them in public. The entertainment industry has tried to find the right combinations in order to create characters that the audience would just love to hate. We’ve rounded up a list of characters we’ve came across in television ads, music, skits and much more in order for us to come up with strong examples of assholes just for you.

Andy Bernard from ‘The Office’.

Andy came on to the show as the office employee that you just love to hate. He thought too highly of himself, sucked up to the boss way too often and would try to become best buds with Jim by calling him big tuna more times than was needed. The entire office finally tried to get rid of him by realizing his anger management issues that resulted in him leaving the office temporarily in order to receive counseling. This form of assholery results from over ambition and the need to be the best when in fact the person is a loser who should be sitting in the corner cubicle all by themselves.

The Molson Canadian ‘Oblivious’ Guy.

For all of you Canadian people out there, The Molson Canadian Oblivious Guy is what his title says he is: Oblivious. In the commercial, the man in the suit starts to tell everybody how badly the beer sucks when in fact the entire town is trying to ship him off in a plane to a distant region with him being totally oblivious to what is going on around him. This bit of assholeness results from thinking that you’re the life of the party when in fact nobody wants to talk to you or be near you. The commercials themselves are pretty bad and we hope that Molson Canadian creates a new ad campaign soon. (more…)

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In recent years we have viewed an overcrowding or flooding of aspects of the entertainment industry. It seems that as soon as one idea or method becomes popularized by an individual/company that there are five or more people waiting in the wings to replace the king of the mountain. This is what helps to define capitalism but is also what helps to create a marketplace where users are unsure of where to put their hard earned dollars towards because of the over-exposure of a certain market. Let’s take a look at some of these over saturated industries and take a look at what’s wrong with them.

Poker

There must be something exciting about poker if it can get higher ratings on television than a Stanley Cup Playoff game. ESPN got the ball rolling when their World Series of Poker series became a huge hit and thanks to modern technology; we were able to view the player’s hands in real-time and be able to tell whether a player was just bluffing or actually had a decent set of cards worthy to win it all. Unfortunately, the concept of the World Series of Poker is exactly what was wrong about poker. It was a show where anybody could sit down in front of a table and with a little bit of luck on their side be able to win a million dollar prize. Once somebody had won it all, there was no need for that person to be loyal to ESPN.After all, it was the casinos that ran the poker business and not ESPN. It was then a competition between online and regular casinos to swap up these winners and get them to promote their casinos for exposure. Some players even got wise enough to create their own companies to help promote themselves. Each casino would then try to sway each player with bigger prize money and more lucrative deals if they showed up to their events. We now have a problem where every network now showcases some different type of poker show. Maybe poker people know which ones are better but we have no idea what separates The World Series of Poker from NBC’s Late Night Poker,the World Poker Tour, Ultimate Poker Challenge, Poker Royale and others.

MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)

It was only a few years ago that MMA company UFC declared bankruptcy. Thanks to a cleanup of the sport and strong marketing partnerships; companies like UFC are now one of the leading sports among the popular male 18-49 demographic. We were expecting some strong competition to UFC in this field much like how the wrestling industry’s WWE had to fend off competitors like WCW and ECW. We were a little bit surprised how fast some of the UFC’s competition has been at giving contracts to companies with little or no exposure whatsoever. Cable companies like Showtime were the first to jump at the chance to get MMA on their network after the successful partnership between UFC and the Spike TV network.Sports networks who once bashed the MMA environment and wouldn’t show it on their networks suddenly had a change of heart thanks to advertising dollars and started to showcase MMA on their networks. You had networks like the Fox Sports Network even turning MMA into a league environment with teams competing for MMA championships. How could the UFC prevented this increase in competition from happening? There’s no real definite answer to that question but part of the UFC’s success in marketing has also been its own internal headache. The entertainment aspect of the company has been top-notch but at the end of the day; the UFC is still a sport and loyalists will go to where the highest brand of fighters will be. If fights are over hyped and don’t deliver a big payoff then fans will turn towards a competitor that will offer them a good fight regardless of who is fighting in the ring. UFC now has plenty of competition to battle with them in the form of Elite XC, International Fight League, World Combat League, King of the Cage, Pride Fighting and to a certain extent kick boxing shows like K-1. (more…)

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This site has shown the public many lazy gadgets or electronics in the past. We’ve decided to move in a different direction today and display some web sites that exist that will also help to make your life easier and more lazy one day at a time. Here’s a list of some of our more preferred lazy websites traveling around the world wide web.

www.excuselist.com

-It can get very tiring trying to think up of a clever lie or excuse to tell a friend or co-worker. It can also be tiring trying to repeat your favorite excuse over and over again. That’s why the people over at www.excuselist.com have come up with some clever listings assorted by category just for you.

http://www.biofit.com/ship_now/byoc.html

-The people over at biofit have created a section on their site that allow the consumer to create their very own office chair. I can’t think of anything lazier than being able to sit down in front of your computer and creating a product that will be shipped to you that will allow you to once again- sit down in front of your computer. (more…)

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