They're all basically branches of the same group of people.

There is a race going on to see who can be the most despicable group of people society has to offer between bad cops, bad frats and bad athletes. I have a feeling that this will end in a photo finish.

My co-worker was chosen with her spouse to do their 1st couples series. All American college sweethearts, he a former NFL linebacker, she a beautiful mom who owns a Dairy Queen. They figured it would be fun, they'd get paid to get in shape and what's the worst that could happen?

I'm a fat person. I watched exactly ONE episode of this show.

Please remember that the fat hysteria of people like Michelle Obama contributes to this. This kind of fat shaming is despicable and feeds into (pun intended) a superficial notion of what's important in life, that everyone ought to look the same and that you are nothing if you aren't society's idea of attractive. …

she looks exactly like maria menounos except everyone id ok with maria being emaciated

The thing about the show I always hated the most was when the trainers...Jillian in particular...would sit on the contestants as they worked out.

The one episode of ANTM that confused me was the one where they had two models doing the shoot in the freezing pool. The girl, who I think eventually won, literally had chattering teeth! Tyra kept pushing her — "Swimsuit shoots are always done in the winter!" — but then I think the girl had to go to the hospital? …

Hey you just described why I hate Dr. Phil so fucking much!

Healthy weight loss is far too slow for a tv show.

And they also had humiliating and dangerous tasks. All for what? To mock these girls on TV? I remember a task in which girls had to walk in this ridiculous high and weird heels. All of them fell down, and one of them (the winner Danielle) seriously twisted her ankles, badly. She needed to go to the ER and the panel…

The trainers embody what people with eating disorders hear in their heads.

This is disgusting and horrible. Is it okay that, in addition to judging the show, I am judging the contestant who didn't visit his kid in the ICU because he didn't want to get kicked off the show? Because, ew.

It's an American show about losing weight, not a show about getting healthy. Of course, it takes things to wretched excess, because that's what the mob demands on the idiot box.

once told by a trainer not to drink electroylyte-balancing liquids prescribed by the show's doctor because it would "ruin her one last chance to save her life.

I believe all of this. I knew there was now way you could healthily lose 50-100 lbs in a few months.

And here's my dad, everyone.

Ummm I'm gonna say he was able to get over it real fast when he saw the other 100 sexy teen girls running around his house drunk in lingerie.

Most dads would not consent to a "sexy lingerie" party for their daughters because most dads cannot fathom the idea of their daughters as sexual beings. The idea of your daughter doing anything "sexy" strikes fear in their hearts. My father still averts his eyes if he happens to see my mother or sisters taking the…