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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
9:10 AM

Outback Jack
For all of you reality TV fans, I insist that you tune in to the new show on TBS. It's called Outback Jack and it is conveniently on right after the Sex and The City reruns on TBS, so you can segue right from one to the other. In any event, if you love reality TV, I can almost guarantee you will love this show.

The premise is pretty much the same as the Bachelor - 1 guy and 12 girls all allegedly looking for true love (or more likely a future career in Hollywood) on national television. But the guy (Jack) is this Australian outback dude (who is not bad to look at by the way). The girls are the usual 12 pampered divas with lots of makeup and, how shall I put this, many after market add-ons. The difference is that instead of putting the girls in some luxury house while they go on fabulous dates and try to convince the guy how perfect they are, all while stabbing each other in the back, the show drops the girls off in the middle of the Australian outback. And by drop off, I mean literally drops off. They had to parachute out of a plane. I also might add that they were all still in the evening gowns that they wore to impress the man of their or someone else's dreams (it was pretty funny watching them try to get their gowns into the skydiving jumpsuits).

These were some really unhappy girls.

When they landed, they were in the middle of nowhere. They then had to hike to a very rustic camp with no running water and no electricity (and I guarantee you that there were at least 3 dozen electric hair styling tools in these ladies' bags). (It was also quite funny watching 12 women dressed in fancy gowns and high heels try to roll their rolly suitcases across the rocky terrain of Australia. Forget about the ad with the monkey's beating up on the suitcases - it doesn't hold a candle to this.) After realizing that there are no electrical outlets, one asked "What about air conditioning?" Jack then explained that the only A/C was the non-existent breeze through camp. Again, really really unhappy women. A few almost cried.

The good news (at least for us) is that the camp did have lots of bugs. Lots and lots. More than I have ever seen in one place. And even better, the bugs were really really big. And we all know how much high maintenance women like big bugs. Especially when there are a gazillion of them.

After one night in the completely not bug free but entirely breeze free tents, and after taking un-heated showers (with the water being pumped by another girl), and trying to do their hair and makeup sans electricity, they packed up the camp. The girls each had to carry a huge backpack to the next location. I think you could probably have fit at least two of the women into each pack (given how skinny they all are) so it was very amusing watching the women try to carry these packs. I certainly couldn't have. Much whining again ensued.

One woman didn't listen to Jack's urgings to drink a lot of water and eat more (one of the particularly thin ones). She ended up with sunstroke and had to be taken to the medical facility (which prompted much whining by the other women that she was just faking it to get Jack's attention. I personally think they were just jealous that she got to take a hot shower). (Don't worry - she was fine and came back the next day looking much cleaner than the others.) Another voluntarily chose to go home when the time came for him to eliminate 4 women. Clearly the smartest of the bunch.

I must admit that some of the women seem like pretty good sports. No complaining, etc. And some were very creative in their non-electric enhanced hair styles. But then there are the ones who expected a 5-star hotel and are already worried about how they are going to get their acrylic nails filled and highlights updated. And yet they all insist that they love love love the outback so far. Yeah right.

All in all, this could be the best reality show yet. If you feel at all high maintenance at times, this will make you feel much better. Check it out.

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