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Has anyone else seen this show advertized on FX? It's where they take a white family put make-up on them to look black and same with the black family. It's suppose to help the "racists" see through the eyes of another race.

Good or bad idea?

― mantilla, Friday, 17 February 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

I'll be watching it in my blackface and afro wig, drinking my moolatte.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Sounds very disingenuos - "No, it's not just a shameless ratings grabber, honest, it's a worthwhile sociological experiment!"

― chap who would dare to be drunk on the internet (chap), Friday, 17 February 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, just like putting the insane screamy fundamentalist woman into a house full of pagans! That went well, too (actually I only saw the last ep where she went off her trolly).

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 February 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

The people in the ad look fucking freaky. They show that shit like 10 times during The Shield. More Thief commercials, pls.

― adam (adam), Friday, 17 February 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

It looks impressively AWFUL.

Therefore, odds are that I will watch it at least once.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one amused by the moolatte.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 17 February 2006 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I watched TV during my 3 months in Oz it seemed to be exclusively US shows or reality programes, with shitloads of ads. Is this pretty representative of telly down under?

― chap who would dare to be drunk on the internet (chap), Friday, 17 February 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

well no, but for certain tv channels it pretty much is.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 17 February 2006 03:35 (twenty years ago)

xpost - if you only watch the commercial free-to-air channels, then yes. although you have omitted to mention the australian versions of the crappy US shows. flavour of the month at the moment: australian biggest loser! oh the awfulness. i'm not familiar with what is available on pay-tv though.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 17 February 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

What Adam said - more of Andre Braugher making out w/ Dina Meyer NOW.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 17 February 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

In a Post-K New Orleans no less.

― adam (adam), Friday, 17 February 2006 04:56 (twenty years ago)

To be fair I think that the Big Loser was a British Show first, can't blame everything on America. I can't wait to watch a marathon of this followed by a marathon of Blow Out on Bravo. :)

― svend (svend), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Wait...a black family puts on make-up to make them look black?

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cartelia.net/fotos/b/bamboozled.jpg

― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:50 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/32/100690436_7e74d1900c_o.jpg

― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:52 (twenty years ago)

ah shit.

― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

This was already a plot line on Ozzie and Harriet.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

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