TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND premieres on the Cartoon Network today. Originating in Canada it is an animated reality show.Okay, stop and think about that a moment. An ANIMATED reality show?? Talk about an oxymoron. What’s its companion piece, a scripted improv show?
TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND is essentially SURVIVOR with teens. Wasn’t there like a Hanna-Barbera All-Star show where Huckleberry Hound and Quickdraw McGraw and all the other characters from their various shows got together and had their own Olympics or spent a night in a haunted house or some such thing?
What’s next? An animated version of HOUSE? “Patient Wile E. Coyote has numbness in his joints due to Fibromyalgia.” “No, it’s because he fell 12,000 feet from a cliff.”
It’s bad enough reality shows are staged. The contestants are selected by focus groups. Emotional performances are so heightened that there are catfights over dental floss and complete breakdowns because they didn't write the best Flomax jingle.
In TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND a different member is voted off each week. Why not let the viewers decide? I’ll bet you could get 10,000,000 people easily every week to vote. And not one of them would realize “Hey, this is a cartoon. It takes a year to make one of these episodes. Our votes mean nothing. And shit, it cost me fifty-cents to make the call.”
Uh-ba-dee, uh-ba-dee. uh-ba-dee, that’s all folks!
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