So, wait, you don't "get" Chuck Barris or Weakest Link, but a guy gorges on a fritter plate or goes Cookie Monster on a prop, and you dig it.
Ponderous, man. Really, ponderous.
I "get" Barris' work; I just don't find it watchable for the most part. And going back to what the late David Zinkin told me in 2008 re: TWL:
If you really believe that Anne Robinson and George Gray went on stage thinking to themselves "How can I make these guys feel like s**t for losing" rather than "How can I give them a laugh as they walk off stage," then you're seriously misreading things.
So things like this...
*"The personal trainer who alas, worked on his BODY and not on his BRAIN..."
*"...whose MIND is TOO SMALL to be let out on its own..."
*"You've managed to bank a PATHETIC... MISERABLE... $5,000."
*"Is there a village that needs its IDIOT back?"
...are supposed to be "giv[ing] them a laugh as they walk offstage"?!? Sure doesn't sound like it to me. I mean, the walk is called the "Walk of Shame" and afterwards, you get the clips where the weakest link bitches about how the other guy should've been voted off instead, because he's dumber than a sack of hammers for not knowing the capital of Texas and he's too smug to boot. And you're supposed to LAUGH as you're told you're the weakest link?!?