Big Man on Campus
You mock, we mock the BMOC
Originally published in a December edition of The MidWeek, as written by Hank Brockett
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in the cleanest frat-row bungalow in modern academia, dealing with one girl “accidentally” stabbing another girl with a kitchen knife and, finally, choosing one young man as the ideal UCF man.
     Evidently, the MAC football powerhouse may lack quarterbacks, but it doesn’t lack washboard abs. The young ladies run conveniently run into ripped bods on the sidewalk, outside the ROTC office and in the student government offices. The producers obviously knew when to quit, though. They didn’t extend the search to the student newspaper office.
     From there, the warped
Real World brand of psychology/sociology begins. Everyone likes the lone black guy, but not enough to keep him around. And a smile, two-minute conversations and the man’s choice in shirts suddenly become picture windows into a man’s personality. The ladies settled on Matt, who thus far makes vanilla seem a little extravagant. Now, Matt must choose from the 15 ladies who chose him and somehow avoid any trademark infringements upon the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise.
     After one episode, this feels like the second time through a failed class. The syllabus and homework assignments seem very familiar, and the professor just went over what familiarity breeds.
I thought winners received a prize.
Big Man on Campus  - C-minus
    Never mind that the completely oblivious, mid-90s movie incarnation of the Brady Bunch rendered the title phrase an antiquated joke. Just know that the creators of Big Man on Campus must have pulled an all-nighter in compiling everything old, ragged and lame in the reality-dating genre.
BMOC (Wednesdays, WB) exists as a reality dating show featuring people who have watched reality shows during their formative years.
     Fifteen young women from the University of Central Florida (see kids, even schools that can’t win a football game can make it on television) spent the first episode seeking out guys on campus, having a party with said guys