Doesn't it seem like we will watch celebrities do anything? We've seen them on established reality shows (Celebrity Mole), we've even created some just for them (The Osbournes). We've had them play game shows (celebrity Jeopardy!) and we've even had them play children's games (celebrity spelling bee). If there nothing so degrading that down-on-their-luck celebrities won't participate? The answer is no, there's not.
Now this unending social experiment of having pampered celebrities engage with ordinary people in ordinary situations has endangered the good citizens of Muncie, Ind.
Here's the premise of "Armed & Famous": Take five celebrities, give them three weeks of training, issue them guns and badges and swear them in as official officers in the Muncie Police Department. The five celebs: Erik Estrada (everyone's favorite CHiPie), La Toya Jackson (who either went to the same plastic surgeon as her brother or used a pencil sharpener on her nose), Jason "Wee-man" Acuna (of "Jackass" fame), Jack Osbourne (Ozzy's drug-crazed son) and Trish Stratus (a former professional wrestler who has guaranteed Stratusfaction).
Three weeks?! Is that the normal training time for the Muncie PD? I could see that being the appropriate time for San Francisco or Los Angeles, where officers are expendable, but there can't be much of a turnover in Muncie, can there?
Here's a few things I learned from the premiere of this show. 1) Tirsh Stratus is tougher than most men I know. (She was the only one of the five that volunteered to be shot with a taser. The others had it "applied" with aligator clips.). 2) I would not want to be shot at by Jack Osbourne (He dirlled a hole, center-mass, in the target with no problem. However, it wasn't shooting back, so that's a different story). And 3) La Toya Jackson makes us all feel smart, if for no other reason than we actually know how to use a Laudromat.
The best line in the show was also the title of the debut show: "I never thought I'd get handcuffed by a Jackson." It was delivered by Wee-man during training.
The bottomline:
Isn't it ironic that the only reality celebrities ever get to experience is on TV?