where LOLcats and reality TV meet

[jwgh]

http://acceptable.tv/contest/tv/videos/1547-Operation-Kitten-Calendar-4

I think this is most directly a parody of Donald Trump's 'The Apprentice' show, which I've never seen, but elements of it are certainly recognizable from the one reality show I have watched ('Project Runway'). As for the cats, I will let them speak for themselves.

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[jwgh]

I see there are previous episodes:

http://acceptable.tv/videos/771-Operation-Kitten-Calendar
http://acceptable.tv/contest/tv/videos/1148-Operation-Kitten-Calendar-2
http://acceptable.tv/videos/1370-Operation-Kitten-Calendar-3

I think the last one stands on its own OK though.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Our lawyer friend Ted Frank recommends

http://acceptable.tv/videos/25-Legal-Law

...as a reason why he doesn't watch law shows.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Those are, um, some interesting tags for this post.

[jwgh]

Goddamn iJournal. Thanks.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

In fact, a season (erm, series) 2 episode of The Apprentice UK, in which the teams had to make a calendar and then pitch it to 3 calendar sellers-- whoever had the most orders wins. One team did babies, the other did kittens. I can't recall which team won, but it wasn't the subject as much as the losing time's disasterous attempt to make their calendar stand out by being hypermodern (resulting in a useless calendar that you couldn't record things on, etc.).

Apprentice UK is an official licensed BBC version of the show with a more documentary atmosphere and one that tends to stick with the "Business Skillz" tasks, not the sponsor-of-the-week marketing tasks (which would go against BBC's greeking of shows to avoid product placement). The Trump of the show is Sir Alan Sugar, of Amstrad Computer (which I take was a sort of Tandy of the UK in its time) and some or other football time. He's not quite a billionaire in Pounds, but he probably is in US Dollars. He also comes off as much tougher and more serious than Trump, and it's a great show.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Oh, and this is a pretty recognizable pastiche of "The Apprentice" in general, speaking as someone who has watched it. (I won't any longer-- this last season was an offense compared with the interest gameshow and business elements of the first one and its declining successors.)

[thenightrainbow.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, it is seriously one of my favorite things on TV ever.