Top 20 Dumbest Reality TV Show Ideas

trapped inside of every white girl is a strong black woman ready to bust out welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 dumbest reality tv show ideas what's wrong with you guys my diamond earring came off in the ocean and it's gone there's people that are dying for this list we'll be looking at the worst concepts behind supposedly unscripted series however we're excluding game shows because that's a different list entirely which reality tv show made you facepalm let us know in the comments number 20 my big fat obnoxious fiancee in the early 2000s the fox network was quite the innovator when it came to crappy ideas for reality shows in this one arizona school teacher randy coy had to successfully convince her family that she was engaged only moments from now a woman named randy coy a first grade school teacher from arizona will walk through these doors having no idea what she's in for if she did she would receive a prize of five hundred thousand dollars to split with them however unbeknownst to randy the man who was pretending to be her fiance wasn't on her side his job was to be as outrageous as possible and offend her family to make everyone uncomfortable for the show's run i'm going blank i'm freaking out the kid can't control himself steve cannot control himself i mean i'm in the middle of an interview right now and he's running around the house screaming so basically the audience is asked to watch a guy be annoying that's just great number 19 whisker wars airing on the ifc whisker wars followed a bunch of men who were obsessed with beard growing competitions the olympic team has people who ski jump for america or throw shot puts for america beard team usa grows beards for america their ultimate goal was to test their facial hair in an international competition set in norway where their main rivals were the germans as if we needed one more thing that glorifies hipsters these men took themselves so seriously we don't know if it was sad or just silly jack is the tiger woods of competitive bearding i've gotten the notoriety from my beard i'm now turning that into profit we understand that beards are cool but it's important to remember that you can't define yourself by something as trivial as having a lot of facial hair number 18. flock stars this british reality competition series proved that producers across the pond can come up with some dumb ideas too flock stars took a group of eight celebrities and had them engage in cheap herding the dog then over excites the sheep oh now what's happened hoggy we've lost it and it all turns to chaos the stars which included actresses a rapper and a paralympic athlete were mentored by sheep herding experts and they later participated in challenges with one of them getting eliminated each week many critics and viewers felt the show was more desperate than anything else as the weeks passed midge and amanda's working relationship steadily improved some agreed that its one saving grace was how attractive the shepherds who mentored the celebrities were that's fun but doesn't make this concept any good number 17 date my mom in this dating show a guy or girl had to pick one person to go on a date with but to make their choice this contestant first had to go on dates with those people's mothers i'm about to go on three dates with three moms to decide whose son i want to date i can't even see these guys until i've made my decision how wrong is that during each taita tite the pair got to know each other and the contestant got a feel for their potential future date keep in mind this was their only window into the men or women they were maybe going to get romantically involved with then they had to decide which mother's child they wanted to date i brought everyone to the beach today because i'm ready to give one lesbian the gift that keeps on giving me the horrible premise pretty much speaks for itself so we'll just say that this mtv show's approach to dating just feels plain wrong number 16. the pickup artist sadly mystery has made a name for itself through this method of picking up women and in this vh1 reality competition he advised a group of young men who had no luck with the ladies on how to score with them it's pretty horrible when people ask you have you kissed a girl before i'm like yeah on the forehead but i don't really say oh it's my mom because it's pretty embarrassing the men took the skills they got from mystery and participated in various challenges the show basically encouraged guys to be pestering creeps and mysteries loud choice of fashion made him look outright ridiculous he came off as such a womanizing tool there was even a saturday night live sketch where daryl hammond's bill clinton dressed up like him for halloween bill i thought we agreed to dress like bride and groom oh man everyone knows we're married who are you even supposed to be a mystery from that show the pickup number 15. temptation island multiple couples go on an island and test their fidelity by splitting off and spending time with attractive members of the opposite sex so i'm looking for what i like about catherine and i'm comparing it to other girls maybe that's not fair but there's not just one beautiful woman you know there's many as you can imagine this show generated a lot of controversy when it first came on air for promoting infidelity however after the initial shock went away there wasn't much left and the ratings reflected that thus temptation island ended two years after it premiered but just when we thought we were free of this atrocity the show was brought back by the usa network in 2019. yeah that went exactly as i expected how does it feel watching that again did you ever expect to see anything like that when you're at the bonfire and mark l wahlberg even returned as the host who says television's running out of ideas number 14 farmer wants a wife this has often been called the bachelor set on a farm so brace yourself matt neustadt who's been a farmer his whole life had to choose a wife among 10 women who live in big cities because the work ethic of a farmer's wife has to be relied on as much as the farmer's work ethic during their stay at his farm the prospective spouses participated in a bunch of nature related activities that were essentially designed to make them look stupid so basically a bunch of women from cities like dallas and los angeles competed to see who got to live in rural missouri having to make the decision to send a gal home and not knowing if i'm doing the right thing i was so nervous i don't know that i've ever been that nervous we're sure it's a nice place to live but it kind of seems like the top prize in the show was basically a life of boredom number 13. born in the wild lifetime aired this show about women who decided to give birth in the great outdoors for a more natural labor i'm excited to have my baby outside in alaska we're surrounded by the lake and the trees and the clouds and the mountains is absolutely breathtaking each episode documented a different woman's experience and showed the unique challenges she and those who assisted her faced in their unconventional setting places that were chosen for giving birth included the woods and the alaskan wilderness the show was accused of encouraging expectant mothers to endanger both their lives and the ones of their unborn children jeff is in a rush to get set up but amy wants to make sure that the birth matches the vision in her head born in the wild only has six episodes which is really the only highlight here number 12 splash this reality competition show had celebrities compete against each other doing olympic-style dives the stars included kareem abdul-jabbar drake bell and louis anderson [Music] plus olympic gold medalist greg louganis acted as a coach helping them with their routines unfortunately the diving techniques the contestants were asked to perform were pretty high level and complicated this led to many of them getting injured while some even had to withdraw from the show in hindsight however this sounds like an obvious drawback it's safe to say the risks far outweighed the benefits with this series number 11. sex box how do you get couples who need professional help to improve their relationships to be as prepared to accept advice as possible i don't know if this is kinky or crazy i'm serious well if you ask this show the answer is putting a love making session smack dab in the middle of a so-called therapy session don't worry though they do that part in the privacy of the title box the thinking was that the couples would be more emotionally receptive to counseling after making love role-playing can be very very fun it can be very exciting it can make a marriage hot you know add spice like you never thought of does that sound like a bad idea that's because it was the show got a lot of attention around the time it aired for its unorthodox form of therapy but it also received a lot of criticism for being well stupid number 10 i want a famous face this mtv reality show found people who wanted plastic surgery to look like a certain celebrity and documented their journey through the process i want a rhinoplasty she has the more plump cheeks so i'd like to get that grass on my cheeks some of the stars people wanted to emulate included jennifer aniston pamela anderson and brad pitt it's definitely a time capsule of which celebrities were in at the time but it was sad watching people give up their unique identity because they idolized a famous person or were insecure about their own appearance i want to look like pamela anderson because i think she is gorgeous i love her sense of style and her body she was really sexy every time i saw her i was just like oh my god also it seems short-sighted to want to look like a celebrity just because they're popular at the moment what happens if their star fades in hollywood or a scandal makes them a black sheep number nine girlfriend intervention this is yet another poor reality television offering from lifetime a group of four black women help a white woman find a more acceptable sense of style you know in my culture women are encouraged to try new things but sometimes with my caucasian sisters i honestly feel like they just don't have the same type of freedom and they do all this while making catty remarks putting her down it was often seen as another version of queer eye but with outspoken black women except the show missed the mark completely and was called out by critics for playing on racial stereotypes no self-respect and black woman would ever hide herself from this if she wants to keep her black card thankfully girlfriend intervention only lasted for one season with an eight-episode run that was painful to sit through number eight are you hot the search for america's sexiest people good evening and welcome i'm jd roberto and this is are you hot the search for america's sexiest people this abc show was a nationwide competition that was only concerned with judging contestants by their looks instead of rewarding a well-rounded personality or unique talent what's it gonna be contestants stood scantily clad in front of a panel of three judges who gave their frank if not creepy opinions on the person's looks pointing out the tiniest flaws i give your face a nine nine you've got a beautiful face beautiful hair but body i give you a um seven five as if that didn't sound bad enough judge lorenzo lamas would aim a laser pointer at contestants to highlight areas he wanted to focus on the show was considered shallow even by reality tv standards number seven playing it straight but not all of the guys are here for romance some of them are gay what this show was a high-stakes test of gaydar one woman was given the task of dating 14 men on a ranch to suss out which ones were gay i'm doing great i'm late hi lee nice to meet you nice to meet you they said you're beautiful if she could pick the one that was straight then the two would win a million dollar prize but if she picked someone that was gay she would lose out on the prize and the gay guy got to keep the money so the gay men tried to pass off as straight so they could trick the woman and take the jackpot for themselves i really think the guys that kiss me tonight i think they're straight way to portray members of the lgbtq plus community as devious frauds given how shameless reality tv shows can be of course this was a premise for a show in the mid 2000s ryan and gus definitely bill definitely gust and definitely chris number six who's your daddy why why did you guys give me up for an option it was a very turbulent time how controversial was this show it was pulled after one episode a woman was reunited with her biological father after having been given up for adoption but not before having to identify him out of a group of strangers if she can pick her real father out of eight men in three rounds then she gets one hundred thousand dollars but if she guesses wrong then the man she incorrectly identified walks away with the money which gives each man the incentive to convince the woman that he's the real father so she wanted to keep me too honestly this show needlessly opens up emotional wounds number five keeping up with the kardashians for 14 long years the kardashians and jenners plagued the airwaves with a reality show about the drama that came out of their lives rather than read a book or learn a new skill we sat and watched kim courtney chloe and the rest of the family she's like no pay attention what do you want me to do sit here and stare we didn't do it because it was particularly stimulating but rather because it was a guilty pleasure sure it was a ratings hit for e and a pop culture phenomenon that built up the profile of everyone involved is that too much why is my shirt on right why would your shirt not be all right just one of those days but it also came at the cost of millions of our collective brain cells and now there's the family's new hulu show so the worst is likely yet to come number four bridalplasty every bride wants to look perfect on her wedding day but some may need some extra help in this e-reality show which resembles the swan 12 women who are about to get married live together in a house separated from their fiances and compete against each other in challenges where the prize is a plastic surgery they've requested hi ladies i'm shayna mookler and welcome to bridalpassy each week the women vote each other out of the house and whoever wins the show gets the wedding of their dreams and a whole bunch of plastic surgery to make them look good for their big day while the show got a lot of attention for its controversial premise it did not do well in the ratings showing that there are some things even reality show viewers will not stand for i actually met my fiance on the biggest loser really oh so anyone who saw that in december my fiance proposed me on tv at our finale number three i wanna marry harry underneath all the trappings he's not a prince at all just an ordinary boy who looks a lot like prince harry fourth in line to the throne a couple of years before prince harry tied the knot with meghan markle this 2014 show brought a group of american women to england to compete for the affections of someone they're led to believe as prince harry in reality it's just some red-haired guy who kind of looks like the prince i have to convince them i'm prince harry but the goal is for them to like me for who i am somehow the contestants are not allowed to meet any of harry's other family members just harry doesn't sound fishy at all plenty of reality shows like joe millionaire trick contestants into believing something to be true but none have been so obviously fake my greatest fear is the girls fall entirely for the whole scenario and then when it's revealed i'm not from wealth or status they'll just turn around and have no interest number two kid nation this controversial show from cbs had an insane premise from the get-go 40 kids whose ages ranged from 8 to 15 were put in a town in the middle of nowhere so how are you guys feeling well say goodbye to that school bus and say hello to the middle of nowhere and they got to run things without any grown-ups telling them what to do the children made all of the rules from setting up their own businesses to forming their own local government when i saw those four kids i was like oh no this is all gonna fall apart they also did their own chores this reality show idea sounds like child endangerment maybe there's a reason kids have parents and guardians before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you'll have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one married at first sight the decision i make will forever affect my life and it's just scary that i have to make decisions so soon based on a danish reality show six strangers at a time are arranged into three couples by a group of professionals based on who they believe will be compatible with one another so now the time has come for your decision do you want to stay married or do you want to get a divorce after a matter of weeks spending time as husband and wife each couple then has to decide whether or not they want to continue their marriage astonishingly this show has gone on and on and is somehow still finding people who are willing to ruin their lives for cheap reality programming when will the madness end we weren't very awkward we really weren't i think that's what i liked about us do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos

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Length: 19min 6sec (1146 seconds)

Published: Thu May 19 2022