question of the day: How could reality TV sink any lower than Fox’s new ‘I Married a Stranger’?

Date my Children!

Children (brother-sister pairs of 6-10 years old, naturally) of broken homes hang out with a single woman. Every episode they have challenges and eliminate a pair of kids (Except when they surprise-eliminate two pairs at once a little less than halfway through the season), until one brother-sister pair remains. Their daddy marries the woman!

In summary, I believe Fox can target children a little more. The whole octuplet thing is great and all (exploit 8 kids at once!), but they can do more, with more tears, and even more exploitation!

Good god, I'm worried by the fact that this could actually happen.

Let's not be too ethno-centric here, arranged marriages are probably more common than "marriage for love" if you look at the global community. While I'm not saying Fox is doing this crap because of their sensitivity to South Asian culture, you may end up with a better match if you let people who care for you make the decisions. Most young adults are not renowned for their wisdom and forbearance in sexual decision making.
That said, I'd like to see:
Is this Reality Show a hit?

In this one, a behind-the-scenes look at reality shows, America votes on 4 different reality shows each week - the winning producers gets ONE MILLION DOLLARS, the losers have to work at MacDonald's for the rest of their lives.

Well, you could go with groups of both men and women, with viewers deciding who will pair off with whom.

Alternately, it could be contractual that any contestant who doesn't win the contest of the reality show they're on has to appear on a different reality show, where they face odd against similar losers in demeaning tasks until they win. (Carlin was on to something with this idea for the Ms. America pageant.)

How about a show called "The Virgin", where instead of marriage, the winner gets to deflower a barely 18 virgin on national TV?

Or a show called "Puppy Fight Club"?

"Too Many Kids" is a show where a family with 6 or more kids has the audience vote which one to send to the adoption agency because the economy is forcing them to sell their house and move into a 3 bedroom apartment.

This is fun.

From what little I've seen of The Hills, I just don't think reality TV can get any lower than Speidi.

This is the sanctity of marriage that all the Prop 8 Haters are defending?

No, it's not.

It will validate their argument that the sanctity of marriage is going down the drain.

One of the underground crisises of the GOP is that some conservative to moderate Christians are waking up to how their true enemies aren't liberals, but conservative capitalists. This is an excellent example of their incompatiability.

As for being on topic, my suggestion would be: who wants to raise my kid? A wealthy couple puts a series of nannies through tests to see who can raise their children. To steal a quote from "Frasier" (actually Niles): We'll care so you won't have to.

Let's not be too ethno-centric here, arranged marriages are probably more common than "marriage for love" if you look at the global community. While I'm not saying Fox is doing this crap because of their sensitivity to South Asian culture, you may end up with a better match if you let people who care for you make the decisions.

Well, for what it's worth, it's not just South Asians who practice it. But hey, it's not like there's a popular musical that alludes to the practice, so I can understand why one might come to that conclusion. ;-)