What is going ON?!

Oh dear lord, they’ve made a Joe Schmo 2! How is it that I didn’t know about this until I saw the commercials on Spike TV? For those who aren’t familiar, the first Joe Schmo was a twisted version of a reality show where every contestant but one was an actor portraying a certain reality show stereotype. It was brilliant, rivetting and hilarious stuff as every week they’d push the envelope a little more and we’d wonder when Matt (the mark) would realize the ruse. Fortunately, Matt proved to be about as naive as Crocodile Dundee and thus didn’t figure things out until the last episode, when they finally just up and told him.

This second installment seems pretty interesting! It’s a take off on dating reality shows this time, so there are TWO people — a young couple — who think this is a real show, while the rest of the cast remains actors. A cool thing is the return of Ralph Garman, the host from the first edition, playing a blonde-haired British guy this time around. An unbelievably awesome thing is the casting of Mr. JONOVISION himself Jonathan Torrens as the “Gotta-Be-Gay Guy!” Dear lord, he’s going to make all of Canada so very proud!

I see that my disdain for Ace the Batdog has led to some angry readers! It also has led to some links to some awesome websites devoted to the Saturday morning cartoon “Dog City”, which was really a great show. Man, they were breaking the fourth wall left and right on that show! That’s like heady theatrical stuff! There’s nothing I love better than fourth wall breaking. Maybe later I’ll write some Dog City fanfiction in which the artist’s creation convinces the artist that he too is merely a fictional character because, dude, dogs can’t talk.

Regardless, in response to some people’s claims that Ace the Batdog had any relative merit, I’d like to post the following i