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So, this reality TV idea is that a homeless guy is found and given $1M (after taxes), a house, and staff (staff is only available for the duration of the show and will help with investments maid service, etc.). Then he's taped.
There are so many ways this show could fail miserably or succeed wonderfully
but obviously the homeless person would be selected carefully to maximize the likelihood of high entertainment value. Maybe pick one with an interesting family or one who has aspirations of being a playboy. To a weak extent this type of thing has been done on shows that give random people a new house or whatever, but this goes a step further and rather than focusing purely on all the joy of their sudden windfall, it focuses on the aftermath and follows him around for a while to see it.
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Save money and just follow lottery winners and watch them screw up their lives as their relatives come out of the woodwork. |
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To make the show cleverer, you should get 12 homeless people and ask which ones of them want to be millionaires, and the *last* one to raise their hand gets the money. |
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I think this idea has already been pretty much done to death already with huge coverage in UK tabloid newspapers of any lottery winner with the slightest chav-like qualities. |
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[marked-for-deletion] - WTCTTISITMWIBNIIWR, Trading Places anyone? |
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This reminds me of the movie trading places! lol man I wanna see this lol holy crap dude he would prolly house all his budies u know and have a whole mess of ex bums gettin into trouble prolly seting up serious drug schems... wow be fun to watch |
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//"Illiterate mess in aisle four!"//
Pedants, bring a mop.
Err, make that a shovel...
(And [wuhisn] was correcting some-one elses spelling on another post...) |
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Is "prolly" another word for "umprella"? |
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This idea was done already, but with an order of magnitude less moola. |
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The whole thing was recorded, from the dumpster-diving superstar finding his 100k, to the same guy back in the dumpster after it was all blown on the usual crap... |
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Interesting show nonetheless. |
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I'm a grammar man, and we bleed on the inside. But [wuhisn] wouldn't know that because he's big Barry White-looking mothe ... |
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Did someone mention "Down and Out in
Beverly Hills"? If so forgive me, if not: not
only am I being redundant, but so is this
idea. (I'll look for a link later when I have
time). |
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Nick Nolte is really scary. |
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There's an age old tale of a prankster
King who, for fun, got a beggar to drink
himself into a coma. |
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Once thoroughly inebriated, the King's
servants were instructed to dress the
poor sap in regal garb, seat him on the
throne, and give him the royal treatment,
making him believe he was actually the
King, just for laughs. |
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After a few punch drunk episodes of rags
to riches and back again, the doke wised
up and monopolized his advantage by
treating the royal staff to privileges that
the usual King would never care to grant. |
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No surprise - the King's facecious
abdication turned into permanent reality;
the Kingdom was never better, and the
King was absolutely successful in
proving that stupidity is not a
consequence of status. |
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