OK, I don't really know how much time people spend to collect their "proof", but in another thread on this board someone said:
"But the one thing that really sucked was that 8 minutes and 43 seconds into "Who can stay naked the longest, it's clear that Spenny isn't naked, and their filming as though he is."
and I just assume it is a matter of hours to find stuff like that. I didn't mean to insult anyone by this, and if I did I apologize.
I've been thinking a bit about this discussion though (and start to feel that I might be spending too much time with that, too), and the problem in my eyes is that we don't know each other's definition of "reality" or of what makes a show "scripted". When you say that certain events are planned you are 100% right, Spenny already said that in an interview:
"The reality is that we go to great lengths to keep the show real. After doing 64 episodes and more to come, we have a system in place to make it work. For example, we each separate, I develop my strategy and he writes his. Then we submit those separately to the producers. The crew is in on it, but they’re not allowed to tell me, and that’s written into the contract."
So if having an outline of what the two plan to do in each episode to you means it is scripted, then you are right, it is. But that's not my definition of scripted. For me that only means they have a certain time to prepare for each episode and are not just told about the competition the day they start filming (which nobody can honestly believe). Holding that against them somehow seems to me like telling a student he cheated on an exam because he learned for it at home.
In my eyes it would take a lot more than that. If they both wrote the outline together, knew each other's plans and reactions to them, and if they chose the winner beforehand, I'd say the show was scripted.
Anyway, scripted or not, I'll watch this show as long as it's funny.
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abcdefghijklmno_987
16 years ago
Remember when Spenny quit the show and went to live in a van by the river? That was probably scripted. A real production probably would have halted and they wouldn't have continued to fund a show that no longer had a premise.
Kenny and Spenny are playing exaggerated versions of themselves, they also play these characters offscreen to keep the illusion alive. It doesn't make it bad, it can still be hilarious and not real.
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