Did the RR crew really manage to make bad cable TV a little better? Perhaps if you are able to admit that the first episode was an F- and this one merely an F.
Advertisers: There are none! The commercials that air during RR are merely impression ad fillers that are under contract with Spike and not RR. eHarmony.com, Penzoil, and others agree to pay Spike $x per million “impressions”, and Spike simply places the adds wherever they can between shows. The cost per million varies with prime time and non prime time. That’s the way it works folks. The advertisers you see are NOT requesting to be on Reality Gocarts, nor are they revenue streams for RR. Advertisers can request NOT to be run during this show and have their impressions delivered elsewhere when they feel that their marketing objectives are not being met.
Demographics: Tying right in to the advertisers above is the issue of Spike hitting the demographic for their impression advertisement delivery. There are few sane adults even in this forum who believe that the low budget “get dressed in a square” format of this show has much hope. There are several who have stated that their children, ages 5 to 12 really like it. I am certain that eHarmony loves to hear the fact that children are the highest satisfied viewer segment. The tell tale sign that advertisers are pulling out is when you don’t see them the following week. Compare the first week to the second and look at the ones who opted out – and that is why you saw eHarmony being dumped in by Spike – they were a filler (for now).
Show 2:
A) The “challenges” of putting on a jumpsuit for the gentlemen with the disability made for very bad TV. The guy placed his articles of clothing under his shirt resembling a pregnant woman and was then given a free pass at the end to win the challenge. I can sympathize with his dissability, but I cannot sympathize with the lame attempt of RR to come off as a compassionate show.
B) Did you guys know that Pat Schaefer sitting on the panel was “A Racing Legend”? On what planet? Is Glenn Allen a racing “Legend”?
C) The interviews once again were pathetic. Nothing like hearing the same boring rhetoric in the Burke interview and then again in front of the “Racing Legends” panel. How many times did the goofy female contestant relay the message that she was the Alpha Dog?
D) Unlike many of you here, my favorite part of the show is actually when Jabba-The-Hutt comes out of his office in a pimp suit and mutters some worthless statement that contradicts what the prior rules were. Oh my God! Did someone really wreck Jabba’s go carts? I think the contestants were in fear of being eaten alive! Jabba once again looked very hungry as he watched a potential meal “hit the road”.
E) $2,000 down and $748,000 still to go in cash and prizes! Before I would accept $1,000 and national humiliation as a part of this show, I would crash in to Jay Middleton as he tried to lap me. That would make Jabba really mad. The joke is that when the real cars finally come out to play, the drivers are given warnings not to hurt the cars just as if my 16 yr old grand-daughter were driving the family mini van to the mall.
F) Besides seeing Jabba, my other favorite part of this show is the monotone porn music score that is constantly looped the entire time with the only variation being that it is taken up and down in volume. Very Suspensful!
There is no way that there are 60 people working on this production. Absolutely No Way. Filming lame challengers and go-cart racing on some old run down demolition derby track is as low budget of a production as you can get, even when you account for the rented high school theatre where the interviews take place. Not even the Pumpers here can honestly state that they are proud of what they have seen this far given that there has been millions of dollars raised and cashed in by the insiders of RRGI and this script is the best they can do after two years in the making. Al (alcab11) has stated that RRGI has done what they said they would – anyone else holding substantial amounts of RRGI feel that way?
If Spike is pulling the Powerblock because their advertisers want viewers, I cannot believe that RR will be long of this world. I believe that you will see another sell off this week with PPS of RRGI back to the four cent range. And, if Spike pulls it (which they certainly should), it will go to a penny in one day.
One final thought… Has anyone seen that expensive “pace car” that is on the RRGI financials? What kind of $60,000 pace car is needed for go-cart racing?
Stan
