Joe Schmo show--the ultimate RL RPG

[MEG Hal]

Spike channel--brilliant
Here is the deal:

Here's a reality show with a difference. Only one of the contestants is actually real.

Meet Matt Gould (a.k.a. Joe Schmo). Among the freaks and crazies competing in Joe Schmo’s staged reality show Lap of Luxury, Matt is the only, genuine player. The rest are fakes! A $100,000 grand prize is up for grabs. But can Matt win the swag without it costing him his mind?

We all know the stereotypes. Now see if one very ordinary guy can survive the reality TV's toughest test, Tuesdays at 9 PM ET/PT.

MATT KENNEDY GOULD
a.k.a. JOE SCHMO

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA.

Lives: Next door.

Family: Middle Class.

Education: Dropped out of law school.

Occupation: In transition.
Currently pizza delivery guy.

THE LINK

I would love to be on this show--the actors are playing on the ultimate RPG.

And it is funny!

 

[dave_o]

I was looking forward to this.

When does it come on? (EST)

 

[MEG Hal]

I was looking forward to this.

When does it come on? (EST)

Tuesday's at 9pm--but a special run with all of the episodes is on as we speak!

 

[Demmero]

Spike channel--brilliant
Here is the deal:

Here's a reality show with a difference. Only one of the contestants is actually real.

I really didn't want to start watching this show but I had nothing better to do one night and now I'm hooked! It's hilarious! Everything's so over-the-top: the challenges, the rewards, the other stereotypical actor/contestants...that it seems almost surreal.

I'm starting to think that maybe the whole thing's even more staged than we're being led to believe. My sister was the first one to sniff this conspiracy, but the more I watch, the more I think she's on to something....

Possible Spoiler Alert??!!
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We're starting to think that the regular Joe Schmo guy is actually an actor too! All of the other actors on the show are feeling so bad about tricking him and saying what a great guy/great sport he's being throughout the whole thing....

Well, what if he's in on the joke too? What happens if this "nice guy" suddenly turns vicious and heartless as he gets closer to winning the $100,000 he's supposed to be competing for? Or what happens if when the show gets down to the last three contestants, and Joe Schmo is the guy prematurely voted out? Then the show would take a hell of a twist--it would no longer be about an unsuspecting Schmo competing for a fake $100,000 prize...it'd suddenly become a battle between a couple of unsuspecting aspiring actors who are suddenly no longer "in on the joke" but now the butt of it competing for what may be a real, actual $100,000 prize!

This would turn the game on its head, but it'd still be a load of fun to watch! Especially if the lovable Joe Schmo the actors have come to love suddenly turns evil (as if someone were to have put a Helm of Alignment Changing on his head, as it were

Conspiracy theories aside, though, the show's a load of fun to watch and I'm thoroughly hooked. My favorite prop is the Immunity Robe (functions the same as the immunity idol on Survivor), which looks like something that the wrestlers Ric Flair or Jesse "The Body" Ventura might've worn out to the ring early in their careers

 

[MEG Hal]

My favorite prop is the Immunity Robe (functions the same as the immunity idol on Survivor), which looks like something that the wrestlers Ric Flair or Jesse "The Body" Ventura might've worn out to the ring early in their careers

I like when someone gets kicked off the host states:
"You are dead to me now"

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LightPhoenix]

This should be in TV/Movies/Books.

I caught the first episode, and was laughing my ass off. I can definitely see the Joe Shmoe being an actor too... just like everything else, it seems really over the top.

 

[MEG Hal]

This should be in TV/Movies/Books.

I caught the first episode, and was laughing my ass off. I can definitely see the Joe Shmoe being an actor too... just like everything else, it seems really over the top.

It could be but I was thinking of this as a cool larp for the actors...so I put this here to discuss possible RPG modern concepts--


ok that is my excuse to talk to people about a funny fresh reality show.

 

[ES2]

If Joe Schmo is not in on it then he's really a clueless soul. I've seen a few episodes, and I've seen a few other reality shows, and this one just blows them all away in goofiness and just stupidity of contests and ideas. I mean, JS should realize, just looking at other reality shows, that the prizes for all of the others are a minimum $500K (unless I've missed other that are lower), and the usual is $1,000M, so this $100K prize is way below normal, and the stunts are just rediculous (having a pretend gay guy's butt photocopied into a photo album and he wants everybody to take down their pants so he can compare butt shots)...I mean, just by common sense alone he should grasp that this is just way out there in left field and none of it makes any sense at all.

Which is why the entire show is so hilarious.

 

[jmucchiello]

Spoilers!!!!

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I've felt he's been in on it since before the "hooker" incident. Why are there cameras in the control room catching the reaction of the production staff as he releases his hand from her breast? (sorry grandma) The thing that annoys me about the show is sometimes you are watching Joe Schmoe and sometimes (esp. during the Riches to Rags ceremony) you are watch Lap of Luxury: The "contestants" are waiting for the host. Ominous music swells. Why? If it's a put on, why did someone in post production add the music?

No, a big swerve is coming at the end. Schmoe knows.

 

[Fast Learner]

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I often wonder whether he's in on it or not, too. It would indeed be fun to discover that all of the actors are in effect in a big reality show that they're not aware of. That's a little suspect, though, as the "Buddy" (Kevin, I think) is one of the writers. But then that would make it even cooler.