Attention-Deficit Roleplaying

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At least among men, who were glad that they no longer had to suffer through Oprah. Women however, found a strange sensation. Liberation. No longer were they tied to the chain of Empress Oprah, but they could now think for themselves. They consulted their own doctors on health needs, picked out their own clothes, and their book clubs had to decide for themselves which books to read.
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The epidemic of good sense continued spreading. Eventually, pop-culture trend-setters were dismayed to find that they NO LONGER COULD simply dictate to young people: "You all MUST now admire this no-talent plastic celebrity because we say so!"
 
Meanwhile the producers of the reality show Survivor realized they were fresh out of ideas for tropical locations for their show. In order to remedy this, they launched Survivor: Frozen Tundra.
 
Unfortunately for them, their last challenge was to build a raft to escape across the ocean where a cruise ship would pick them up, awarding the winner with $1 million, but there weren't any trees with which to make a raft from.
 
And they were all eaten by sharks.

Mewnaheil the rpdocuer wized up and realized that isntead of the Tundra their latest Survivor show should be inspired by the classic computer game/real life event "Oregon Trail".
 
As preparation, they dug up and watched an old, old Walt Disney movie titled "Westward Ho," which was about early pioneers travelling to Oregon by wagon train.
 
Unfortunately, the writers could think up no interesting ideas. So they stuck with the tropical theme, but that took a turn for the worst. There were various poisonous species on the island, and most of the camera crew died. The reason they all died was because the doctor was bitten and no one could help him.
In the end, everybody died, and the show Survivor died with them.
 
This led to the eventual demis of reality TV, and led networks nad studios to ahveing to reluctantly agree to hire writers, directors and actors to star in TV shows instead of reality TV.
 
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There was so much rejoicing among the people of the world that they made it into an international holiday. Children were free from the hardships of school for one day, and no adult had to work on this holiday. Instead, everybody stayed home and watched the television, marveling at how people could actually act in shows and how they didn't have to get some random people from towns nobody knows about to be on TV.
 
This rejoicing did not last long, because producers and directors could not find enough actors willing to star in these reality-dramas. It ended up that this genre went out of fashion very early into it's inception, and people went back to doing stupid things for their 15 minutes of fame.
 
Studio executives kept on trying to find a new angle. At last, someone had an inspiration, saying to his colleagues: "Listen, I know this is risky... but maybe, just MAYBE... we could try producing a cop series which DOES NOT feature a woman who is bulletproof and all-knowing and infallible and able to kill elephants with her baby finger?"
 
That cop show didn't last very long, because all the main characters were no longer immune to anything, and the writers had to slowly kill them off one by one to keep the show realistic. On a completely unrelated note, a giant sea serpent, the same one that tried to crush the Dawn Treader, was spotted in Pearl Harbor, trying to eat some of the tourists.
 
However there was so much meat on the Sea Serepnt that it was enough to end world hunger. Chuck Norris then received the Noble Peace Prize.
 
This, however, caused another prize winner to resent Mr. Norris, and to whine, "But he actually DID something! That makes ME look bad!"
 
Dora the Explorer cried out, "Swiper! Don't swipe!" Swiper knocked her down and stole everything valuable in her house, because thieves DON'T CARE if people say they shouldn't steal.
 
Devestated by this she changed her name to Carmen Sandiego, and her cousin Deigo changed his name to Waldo and satrted wearing red and white striped sweaters. When they grew up they got lost... and no one could find them.
 
Cousin Diego, alias Waldo, was especially distressed to realize that none of the animals he had rescued were trying to find him. "Ay caramba," he told his cousin, "maybe dumb animals AREN'T the mental and spiritual equals of human beings after all!"
 
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