by Maureen Keller

Created on: July 21, 2010

If ever there was a summer reality TV guilty pleasure, it has to "Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch."  Football fans will back me up here, the very first show was sacrilegious to all sports fans. He has 85 women come through the tunnel at the Rose Bowl.  These women were made to perform football drills and end-zone dances on this hollowed ground. As they are engaging in these activities, Chad Ochocinco Johnson walks around and sends those home that aren't performing to his standards.  The wide receiver eventually narrows the field down to sixteen women who will live in a Los Angeles mansion until one by one they are sent home and rejected as Ochocinco's one true love. 

After these sixteen fortunate ladies, who are only looking for love (yea right), move into the house, they are ranked by number 85 himself from 1-16.  He has an NCAA type bracket that he uses to match the ladies up.  He then goes on a date with the two ladies and picks one to advance to the next round.  

Ochocinco employs the help of some of his friends, including Terell Owens, who incidentally tries to convince one of the girls that there are no cameras around so she will give him her phone number. This show is like a car accident from the very start.  It is terrible, but you can not look away.

Another summer reality show guilty pleasure is "Intervention". I don't know what it is about this show.  Maybe it's the fact that as I am watching it, I feel so much better about my life. The people on this show are addicted to numerous drugs; Oxycontin, heroin, alcohol, meth, cocaine, inhalants...you name it they have had an Intervention for it. But they also have episodes dedicated to exercise addictions, eating disorders, and OCD. This show has definitely shown me that if it exists in this world, someone is addicted to it.

So as you are turning off the light switch, just once now that someone out there is turning their switch off and on, and off, and on, and off again. As you are washing your hands, remember the person who goes through four bars of soap a day washing theirs. What I don't understand though is how a homeless heroin addict affords $1000 a day for drugs, but can't feed themselves.  Remember as you go through your day, that someone always has it worse than you do, like maybe the girls from "Ochocinco,: The Ultimate Catch"!

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