Just where do they get this many overly-melodramatic sluts, and what carrot/stick did they use to get them on TV?

"OK Zack, would you now choose between Amanda and Kristin. Which of these lovely ladies would you like to share your room with at Paradise Hotel?"

Everyone's crying, sighing real loud like it's the most important decision of their lives. They go through all these different sets of 3 people, each having to choose 1 of 2 people to spend the next week with.

OK, where do I sign up?

I remember reading about it here, but felt like slamming it a bit more in the current media forum I was flipping through the channels and noticed these attractive people crying about something heart-wrenchingly tough to decide about... then I noticed they were choosing roomates for the next week

My last sentence up there was at least partly in jest...

Oh yeah, well to you too! I just saw it the one time, I guess the first night, or maybe the second and the one girl was crying then too. What I don't get, well there's a lot I don't get but about the show, is from what I did see, it seems some of them have been partnered for quite a while. Or, if I have that wrong at least however long the show has been on. The level of immaturity is frightening, regardless of how long they've been together. Scary tot hink these are the people who will be our care givers someday and that they are the parents of the future. It's the lack of anything but partying that's so scary. I mean, young people have always been interested in having as much fun as possible but nowadays, it seems to be a vocation not a reward for hard work. Present company excluded.

Yeah, I know, I've become my parents. LOL Speaking of which, has anyone seen the Meet My Folks show? IMHO it's as bad as Paradise Holtel except it's in the parents home. This show proves how important and how necessary good parenting is not only for the good of the kids but of the community. Parenting is probably the most important job on the planet.

I've seen parts of Meet My Folks a couple of times - I lost 3 IQ points both times The parents overact and the kids are dorks for still living at home

As bad as these shows are, we gotta remember the 'sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll' era of the 60's and 70's - these people on TV today are the children of the kids of that era, prolly not worse, just more exposed on TV

Well then, maybe it's the loss of IQ points that affects me. Guess I'll have to stop watching. Watched it the last two nights because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The parents were the dorky ones along with the kids in my opinion. The son was 19. All of the girls vying for his affections and the trip were proved to time and time again be of little or no character and to me worst of all liars, according to the lie detector machine. It was as if the parents just didn't get it or that lying in some things was okay. The girl that won the boy and the trip, was amazed every single time she made the cut. Even she knew she should be gone but mom and dad rewarded her because " she had grown the most". In the final analysis, she lied one less time than the other girl. What's the message that's being sent to these young people and other parents here. Since I'm not married or a parent I can't address the parents of the 60's and 70's thing personally. However my brother (2 1/2)years older than me was and has three kids. Many of my friends do too. Their children who would be the parents age in this show, aren't even similar in their parenting. To begin with no child of theirs would be in this thing to begin with.

It also makes me wonder if I'm also on the same planet. Apparently all parents are young and attractive and seem to have unlimited funds for all sorts of frivilous purposes and all children are so priveliged on that planet that everything is possible with minimal effort. Sheesh, getting off the soap box once again but no wonder so much of the world doesn't like Americans with portrayals like these.

I would think the networks give them any needed money/funds, the 'look and attitude' is probably more what's chosen. Apparently maturity or even sanity is not highly prized

I think every generation has its own freaks and slackers... but within the majority of the people is the kind of maturity and responsibility that makes us proud in wartime like we're going through now... record numbers are attending college, going into missions, etc. Our media plays up the freaks and losers, as long as you're good-looking and will to strip for the camera

PT Barnum had a really poignant quote about the freaks, but it escapes me right now. It is, as Allen mentioned about the "spectacle." Whatever is taboo in society always will draw a crowd.

I think it was Thom that touched on the point that these are somebody's daughters and sons!!! What kind of society are we participating in that a father and mother would invite someone into their home (or condone their 20 year old to do a shack-up-hotel show) let them have sex with their child on camera-tastefully-edited-for-tv and CRY when they had to make a decision about whether or not to kick them to the curb??????? I watched one show of that dating thing and I heard "it was a tough decision... but" HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I would have knocked the &*(^&^$% out of that boy and that would have been the end of it. And about the kids!!!!!!! When did it become OK to have sex on TV??? or in the hot tub... ON TV... AT HOME... WITH YOUR PARENTS WATCHING????

What message are our children getting??

That it's ok to contract an STD cuz the rest of the world is at an increasing rate? Aids isn't the only bug that's forever, and it's not the only one that's incurable... there's several (or more) of each out there.

The parents on there are just as sick, if not more... no kinda example to set for any kids. The lie detector wouldn't have worked on any boy trying to sleep with my daughter, cuz I'd have ripped his heart out through the recent gaping hole where his head used to be attached

oh yeah, I'm not signing up