Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser catches my eye as a current popular culture topic. I don't like the show at all but I'll discuss it.

What tees me off about the show is that it is passed off as an 'overcome adversity heart breaker ', when in reality it is a make fun of the pigs' festival. It portrays the pigs as stupid until they are enlightened by the shows geniuses, once enlightened however the pigs are able to overcome their obesity problem by allowing themselves to be videoed then played back in slow motion as they run, jump, eat, walk. The slow motion is provided so the audience can see how disgusting and laughable the pigs are as they go about their daily lives.

In Biggest Loser, the producers play up their soft spoken "I care" acts so they don't offend the pigs but every once in a while they make them cry (for their own good) so the audience can see how shameful it is to be a pig. Run Piggy Run comes to mind as the pigs are stressed to work harder at losing weight or they get kicked to the curb to be scoffed at for failing yet again.

The "trainers" are made to be the sympathetic tough love gods who are able to enlighten even lowly pigs into seeing the ignorant ways. Trainers have answers to all problems pigs may encounter on their way to weight nirvana. Long Live the trainer.

So what does all this have to do with popular culture? Biggest Loser is a reflection of the feelings of the nation, hence it's popularity. It's fun and fashionable once again to make fun of people, whether they be fat or short/little. Fat people need help, your help, they are too stupid to do anything on their own and without the help of good caring people like TV producers and trainers we would have fat people stacking up along the roads.

Oh by the way, my wife loves Biggest Loser.