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Those in the know will have figured out that my title has to do with the recently completed "reality show" Joe Schmoe 2. In this show, two "schmoes" are put into a reality show where everyone else is acting, and they are the joke. Whether you've watched the show or not, you may find my observations relevant to life in general.

The whole show seemed to build up to the moment that the joke was revealed, and fittingly, I find that moment the most deserving of comment.
1. Tim was obviously upset, but masked it well, and then seemed to get over it pretty quickly. Combining the realization that everyone around you for two weeks has been lying to you with the embarrassment of looking like an idiot and then try to smooth it over with $100,000 and it won't all fit. He got over it soon, and soon reverted to the guy that finds he has to talk his way through things to look in control.
2. Amanda's reaction was tougher to gauge, but here is my opinion. She didn't like Austin, and quickly became a contestant rather than a suitor. She began acting like she cared about him, both to improve her odds of winning and to not look shallow on TV. I think her thought process went something like this, "What? I've been lied to this whole time? Wait a second, playing the fool is easier to take than the gold-digger I've become over the last few days after realizing that I didn't like Austin."
3. Bryce made the show, so to bring him back to close the deal was a great idea.

4. The apologies at the end seemed either contradictory or unnecessary, I'm not sure which. Lying should be either justifiable and thus requiring no apologies, or inexcusable no matter how profitable.
5. The classic English poet John Donne penned the words, "think not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." A while ago, I swore off "reality TV", in fact I never liked it. Walking away from this last episode, having watched all of them, I felt a little cheated. I could hear Donne saying to me, "Don't think that Tim and Amanda are the Schmoes, they have $100,000 and newfound celebrity status, you've just wasted all that time with nothing to show for it, you're the schmoe."

   [ posted by William @ 11:46 PM ]