I also wonder why the 'sanctity of marriage' crowd isn't attacking shows like 'The Bachelor' and the spin offs. They just seem to make a desperate mockery of marriage.

But the most successful amount of marriages have come from Big Brother. And a few from Survivor. It can be done.

Apparently they are still going strong. The only other couple I remembered was Ethan and Jenna (I think that was her name). That lasted for a while - through his cancer fight - but now he's married to someone else. I stopped watching the show years ago but LOVED the first 5 or 6 seasons. Africa and Pearl Island - great shows. Ethan and Rupert were my favorites. Then it started to get just too predictable. AND it reminded me of what I was going through at my workplace. Unfortunately, I was never given the option to vote the villain 'off of the island'.

The characters change clothes, eat, and don’t strategize. A lot of whining and wanting to be liked. It’s gotten weird.

He's a big Trump supporter.

They met on The Bachelor or Bachelorette and went on to do Survivor together. Ryan's been battling a bad case of Lyme disease.

in which to meet a true partner? (than a reality TV show?)

As if marriage is a game show prize or something. Admittedly, I've never watched any of the Bachelor type shows, but that's my understanding, and it seems really weird and artificial to me.

There are other types of reality shows where I can imagine two people bonding over a shared experience and a relationship growing from that, but competing against a bunch of other contestants to be chosen by someone in an artificially cotrived set of circumstances seems loony to me.

and then you have to have some questions involving the personality that chooses to be a 'contestant' on a hokie reality show ...

...but from the ads I could only say the Golden Bachelor looked peculiar.