Distraction

Life can be one big distraction. That guy Joe at the gym – when he wears that great Under Armour getup – now that’s distracting. The kids playing and laughing outside on a nice day – with the windows open in the house – takes my mind from the task at hand every time. The email alert “ding” distracts me from the project I’m concentrating so hard to finish.

So we learn to concentrate. To focus our attention. Think you’re pretty good, right? Most of the time anyway. But, check out Distraction – the television show on Comedy Central. It’s a game show. A really warped game show, at that.

It’s a trivia game really. With fairly easy questions. But the problem is, they try to distract the contestants enough to make them miss the answers. The most humiliating round I’ve seen (and mind you, I’ve only watched 1 episode!) had each of the 4 contestants in a “booth” sitting on a toilet. Pants down and all. Instead of hitting a buzzer to answer a question, the buzzer was activated by taking a leak. But save enough for the next question! And the TV audience could see them from the shoulders up and the knees down. Yikes.

The round of questions with the sexy (and not so sexy) lap dancers seemed tame in comparison. All in all, the show is another great example of television as a vast wasteland.