Baggage is the best show on TV. It even beats out Grey’s Anatomy, which doesn’t say much. Although it appears the nice lesbian couple are breaking up so one can leave the show and go work in Africa or in real life do other gigs or — more likely — remain unemployed. I wonder if actors who lose their role qualify for unemployment, or is their job considered contract labor and would not qualify?
Oh yeah, Baggage is a game show created from the sick mind of Jerry Springer. It’s a dating show where a beautiful woman or handsome male gets to choose from among three potential dates. Before selecting, the dates reveal three pieces of baggage about themselves: small, medium and large. The baggage range from things like: I eat my skin, I don’t have any testicles, I slept with my girlfriend’s mother, I only bathe once a week, I’m a porn star, I’ve slept with over 300 people, I go both ways, I pick my nose, I gambled away my house…you name it, people have all kinds of baggage. What’s more these people are revealing some pretty big baggage on national television, well the Game Show Network.
I sit there and try and think which of my baggage I would be willing to reveal to an entire nation of game show viewers. Hmm, I’m not even willing to reveal my baggage through the anonymity of my blog that nobody actually reads.
It’s fun to try and predict who the picker will select. This show has a twist, the medium baggage is used to eliminate one of the potential dates. The picker must select from three pieces of baggage without knowing to whom it belongs. At this point, the picker may inadvertently kick out somebody they may have been interested in. Now it’s down to two and the biggest baggage is revealed.
I’ve noticed something interesting. When a man is the picker, he always selects the woman who was introduced first (unless he inadvertently kicked her out during the anonymous baggage round). Quite frankly, I haven’t watched the show enough to determine if this is always the case without exception, which seems impossible. But ever since I noticed this phenomena, I have only seen one exception and her baggage was so big only an idiot would have picked her. Women, on the other hand, will select a date regardless of the order he was introduced.
Then comes yet another twist to the story. Once the date has been selected, s/he gets to hear a nasty piece of baggage about the one who picked them, and then can choose whether or not to continue with the date.
It’s a great show if you like psychology and trying to figure out how people will react to things. You can see who is insecure and who isn’t. You can see who has boundaries and who is desperate. Fascinating stuff.
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