[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'240432\' date=\'May 6 2010, 12:13 AM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'240325\' date=\'May 4 2010, 09:09 AM\']No knowledge is required, but all knowledge is good. As they say in quiz bowl, there is no shame, only points. It is certainly possible to know who Chris Harrison is without ever having watched his show.[/quote]One of my game night friends was a teammate on our High School quizzing team. My fondness for it is well known, and for some reason last Saturday I opined that "That guy who says There Is No Shame, Only Points never had to win a game by answering 'The Spice Girls.'"
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'240331\' date=\'May 4 2010, 10:04 AM\']I guess the question is one of what tier of the reality oeuvre you'd place The Bachelor(rette) on.[/quote]I've seen just enough to know that I'm not keen on it. But I also know that the show was the forebearer for Average Joe, For Love or Money, and most of VH1 and MTV's programming block. To the degree that a television show can be important, The Bachelor made it so that an entire new generation could watch The Dating Game, if on Fast Forward.
Even if I haven't watched a show, I like to know a little about it, so that I don't come off as a snob when it comes up in water cooler conversation.
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And it's one of the more long lasting shows too- it debuted three months BEFORE American Idol did (March 2002 vs June 2002). Chris Harrison isn't one of the reality hosts who are a major part of the show- he's there mainly for the eliminations- so he tends to fade into the background, unlike hosts who do a lot of things during the show, such as Probst, Seacrest, or Bergeron. If you're a fan of the show, you'd know him, but if you're not, you'd have to look it up-for example if you asked a bunch of people if they heard of the show The Amazing Race, I'd bet more than half of those who have heard of the show wouldn't be able to tell you the host is Phil Keoghan.
