Have you checked the chicken?
In the ever expanding arena of Reality television farewell phrases we thought we’d heard it all. You have your standard goodbyes, the nice catchy farewells we’ve all grown accustom to over multiple seasons:
- Project Runway’s harsh and insulting “You are out”
- The Bachelor’s most dramatic”Ladies if you did not receive a rose please say your goodbyes”
- Donald Trump’s bossy “You’re fired” from the Apprentice.
- Big Brother’s landlordish “House guest you’ve been evicted”
- Top Chef’s piercingly polite “Please pack your knives”
- Survivor’s familiar “You need to bring me your torch, the tribe has spoken”
- Rock of Love’s crushing “Your tour ends here”
- Blah blah blah leave, go now, don’t look back etc etc.
Well last night reality TV sunk to a new low with Farmer Wants a Wife now airing on the CW Wednesdays at 9. Each week contestants will find out whether or not they made the cut by performing some task deemed sufficiently farme-esque by the show’s producers. This week the ten ladies vying for the heart of tan-tastic washboard ab sporting Farmer Matthew were alerted to their spouse searching status by lifting a chicken from its roost to see if there was an egg underneath. If you get an egg, you get to stay. Yes, that loud cluck was the sound of reality television shedding its last shred of dignity. We kid, we kid, reality television never had any dignity to shed.
We’re so excited for next week where the potential wives find out their status by playing bingo! And there will be pigs! This has us convinced that the producers just dial the See ‘n Say to come up with the challenge of the week. Next week on Farmer Wants a Wife: This is a cow…Mooo.
