Talk:Parental Control

message: oh yeah: THE BAD "ACTING",the lame come backs of the parents(lame for that reason),horrible reactions, the excessive name calling(which would normally start a fight) -- oh yeah its fake, no doubt. They need to add a section saying so. Go ahead make one Im down - thats the reason i even looked up the show: to see if it was real.
Like so much current TV, each programme is made to an an extremely tight and highly-predictable formula, with just the "stars" changing for each episode. However, remarks made by parents and children seem suspiciously similar from programme to programme. This could be due to the limited vocabulary of the average American, but I suspect it's all set-up and scripted. Does anyone know how much the participants are paid to submit themselves to what can be considerable humiliation, to be repeated endlessly on MTV? But I do like this programme :0) EdX20 21:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The show IS scripted; my friend R.S., a former B-movie director who ocasionally rents out his home for movie and TV locations, had this show filming at his home on March 1, 2007.  He confirmed that the show is scripted; in fact they went over the time limit stated in his contract because the "girlfriend" couldn't get her lines right.  So, while they DO use real people, the show is scripted. Kaihoku 05:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  scripted? 

message: Unless you can find a credible source (blogs do not count), please don't include speculation. I've watched the show and it does seem scripted, but if it is, it definitely isn't rehearsed well. Find a reference before adding it or it'll keep getting removed. --68.77.147.111 (talk) 20:29, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's dumb. It's obviously scripted. It's not kept secret. We can just say it's scripted. It doesn't need a citation in the same way the WWF article doesn't need one. Punk. 71.68.15.63 (talk) 16:35, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does need a citation. Please see Wikipedia's policy on Verifiability: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth..." It's been months now and sources have yet to be added. I did a quick Google search, but the results were limited to forums and the like. (See Reliable source.) I'm going to remove the section. Jomasecu talk contribs 23:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Would this article be sufficient? http://www.daily49er.com/2.297/reality-tv-shows-not-really-founded-on-reality-1.91355 Reubot (talk) 10:39, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not for this article. This article is about one show, presented as reality television by MTV. Accusing a reality show of being scripted is like accusing the Pope of being Catholic. There's simply no need. A reader who wants to read about the scripted nature of reality shows can read the reality television article. Krychek (talk) 21:44, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scripted Or Not 

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