Battle Of The "Intervention" Stars

"Intervention."

The undisputed best show on television.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it is documentary show where in each episode, one or two people are profiled. They are followed around for a documentary about whatever addiction they have (or so they think). However, their close family and friends are secretly planning an interventiont. After following them around so you can see their habits, the intervention happens...catching them completely off guard. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. This is powerful and quality reality TV worth watching. Anyway, I lifted some show descriptions from the official website www.aetv.com/intervention so you can get a better idea....

-Friends and family gather to save two addicts -- Rachel, once a beautiful child in an upper-middle class family who has turned to heroin and prostitution, and Tommy, who quit his executive job and sold his Lexus, retirement plan, and million-dollar condo to sustain his cocaine habit.

-Family and friends stage interventions to halt the self-destructive behavior of Cristine and Kelly. Cristine is a wife and mother who drinks at least 18 beers a day. Kelly is an anorexic who weighs 93 pounds and whose 6-year-old daughter is following in her footsteps, often picking at her food or refusing to eat altogether. Her friends are seeking help not just to save Kelly, but her daughter as well.

-Alyson, a three-time White House intern and an award-winning student, met a boy in college who initiated her into a lifestyle of heavy drug use. She is addicted to morphine and crack and has returned to live with her parents. Alyson now steals painkillers from her dying father and works at alienating her mother and sister.

-Parents and friends intervene to save Alissa, a compulsive gambler who has lost more than $30,000 on 25-cent slots. Meanwhile her boyfriend juggles three jobs just to make ends meet for them. Then we meet Brian, whose crystal meth habit feeds his sex addiction and sends him trolling the streets for new partners every day.

...Interesting stuff huh? If nothing else, it will make you feel better about yourself. I found out about the show after I read online that it would be profiling former Days of The New singer Travis Meeks who, now a meth addict, is broke and lives with his mom. Now, with that background out of the way, on to my million dollar idea...

"Battle of the Intervention Stars"

After noticing the success of the many "Real World/Road Rules" challenges and the new Bravo show,"Battle Of the Network Reality Stars", I figure millions can be made off doing a similar version with people who have been profiled on "Intervention." It would be the best new show to come along since "Nick Cannon Presents Wild N Out." (side note: the "Wild N Out girls" are really hot... and seeing Nick Cannon and Keenan Thompson "wild out" was one of the greatest moments of my life. Fat Albert a.ka Russ Tyler (the ghetto knucklepuck dude from D2 and 3) and Devon from Drumline together on the same stage. Words cannot describe the glory...) Anyway, back to the topic at hand.

"Battle of The Intervention Stars" would be set up in a typical two-team format. To make things even, the teams would each have players with corresponding addictions. Kind of like how on MTV splits its teams so the each have opposing meatsticks, gays, and angry black and latino women. This way, the drama is heightened. Each team would be co-ed and consist of an alcoholic, a meth addict, a gambling addict, a painkiller addict, and a crack/coke addict. Each team will also get one unique player, such as the "cutter" or the video game addict.

However, unlike these other "battle" type shows, the drama would not come from contestants being voted off. Instead, it would come from not knowing which players on each team that the intervention actually worked for. Some may be clean, others may not. And of course, the ones who are clean would be facing off against those still in the clutches of addiction. The drama would come from seeing the recovered meth addict try to stay on the wagon while watching their counterpart shoot up after the tug-of-war.

The competitions would be typical company picnic fair. There would be the sack race, in which the stumbling drunk and the sleepy vicodin addict would each have a foot in the sack and have to hop in unison to the finish line. This would be made even harder by the taunts and jeers of their fellow addicts as well as those of their parole officers; on hand not to arrest anyone, but just for the hell of it.

The bobbing for apples would also be a fun event. However, besides apples there would be some contraband floating in the water. Tommy, who spent $200,000 on coke in under two years would stick his face in the water barrel, and have to pick out the apples with his mouth while holding back from the grabbing the tempting bags of booger sugar floating alongside them.

Like "Real World/Road Rules" challenges, the TV viewer would also be drawn in by the potential hooks ups. The crack addict whose front teeth were punched out during the drug-deal-gone bad would most certainly fall for the prostitue selling herself her next hit of meth.

The possibilities for this show are endless.

Another added bonus is that the show would be hosted by former coke addict Jean-Claude Van Damn and sex addict/personal trainer Danny Bonnoduce. Although Jean-Claude won't be aloud near the bobbing for apples event and Breaking Bonnoduce won't be aloud near the prostitue.

(sidenote: drug addiction is a serious problem. I don't condone it or think it is funny. "Intervention" is an education and serious show that should be praised for shining the light on such a controverisal topic.)