Keys To The VIP

Here is a clip from the Canadian TV show "Keys to the VIP":



Laura K., who sent the link to us, says:


I recently came home from work to find my boyfriend watching "Keys to the
VIP" and was fairly disgusted. It is a Canadian TV show wherein two men "battle"
to seduce women. The men are sent to a bar and compete in various games to try
to secure a woman's phone number within a set time limit. There is sports-style
commentary by four "pick up experts". The men lie, flatter, do anything to get
these girls' phone numbers. I thought it would tie in with the Hunting for Bambi post because women are depicted as challenges and conquests.

Thanks, Laura!

2 comments:

  Anonymous

April 23, 2008 at 1:41 PM

If Mitch tried to pick me up at a bar, I would think he was a sleeze-ball.

  metafactory

April 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM

I'd definitely think he was a sleezeball! But there are obviously different people out there in the world.

As usual marketers are miles ahead of sociologists in their understanding of what 'people' want and are interested in. The kind of microsociology deployed by the 'experts' is brilliant. Goffman would be proud.

I'm definitely going to be watching this show, it looks awesome.