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I don't think TV has ever come close to reproducing any entertainment as perfect as "Blind Date." Not only does it epitomize the idiocy of short-attention span television in general (bumper-sticker like slogans pasted on the screen at almost all times, weird animations usually of the lowest-common-denominator-appealing variety), but it also features the nationally televised crushing of souls.

I don't know where they get the competitors for this show, but it seems like a Blind Date representative goes to bars in order to find the most pathetic horny loser in the nation, and then they set that person up with an attractive, appealing "Date." They are then asked to eat sushi off of one another within 15 minutes of meeting each other, cameras right there on them.

I often think about things that are wastes of time to intellectually pursue, but I can't shake the idea of advanced sentient aliens on other planets picking up bits and pieces of a transmission of "Blind Date." I'd bet they'd be setting their phasers to "completely f'ing obliterate in a burning horror show of death."

And also: Do you think anyone that met on Blind Date has later gone on to get married? Do you think they had a Blind Date-themed wedding? Discuss.