My whole family (except me) has been addicted to the TV reality show, “So you think you can dance“ since it first aired earlier this year and I’ve got to tell you it’s mildly amusing. It’s amusing not for its good dancers, of which there are plenty, but rather for its bad dancers. Overweight, uncoordinated men (in that respect men just like me) shaking their laffy taffy on a stage in front of crabby, maladjusted judges makes for great ratings it seems. I’m obviously in the wrong line of work.
So this got me thinking, what if I started my own TV reality show and called it, “So you think you can preach?” Yeah, I could take a bunch of preachers from across denominational lines and challenge them to preach in styles very different from their normal ones. I’d get the crazy Pentecostal preachers to deliver their sermons like a crusty Southern Baptist preacher and vice versa. Only, they would have to do it in front of their home church congregation on a Sunday morning! Ha!
I could even pull in a few ideas from other reality shows like Survivor and Big Brother. The preachers would have to live together in an apartment while doing an immunity challenge each day without their shirts on. Of course, the Methodist women preachers would have to wear skimpy bathing suits. What kind of immunity challenges could I have them do? Meh, I don’t know, I’ll leave that up to the marketing department (i.e. my wife.) She’s great at that kind of crazy game stuff.
I’ll tell ya folks, I think I’ve got a winner on my hands here. Who’s with me on producing “So you think you can preach?” It’s a completely untapped viewership! We could air it on Sunday mornings during the “Holy hour” of 11am-12pm. I’ll bet we’d get better ratings than those over-starched television evangelists; and hey, why couldn’t we ask for a “offering to the Lord” at the end of each airing? Double the money baby! Who’s with me?
