With a short run of only two episodes, The Littlest Groom was more aptly a miniseries. Would the marrying man in question decide that “good things come in small packages,” as Fox’s groan-worthy promotional materials wondered, or that opposites attract? Predictable sizeist puns aside, the premise of this reality show was similar to that of most other dating shows, but with one twist: the eligible bachelor, salesman Glen Foster, was only 4 ft. 5 in. The show initially included a group of women of equal size, but then Fox shook up the game by adding 12 “average” size contestants to the mix. Foster ended up picking 4-ft. 3-in. Mina Winkler in the final episode, but low ratings and inevitable controversy ensured that this show wouldn’t be back shortly.
MTV knew it before the first season of the show even wrapped: A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila was the epitome of trash. It named the weekly recap episode “One Shot Too Many” — as in, “you might as well be trashed if you’re watching this” or “the entire cast and crew was trashed throughout the duration of the show.” But Tila didn’t care, so why should MTV? A 27-year-old Vietnamese woman made famous by her mass e-mail plea for friends on MySpace — to promote her Playboy pinups and singing career — Tila professed her bisexuality to 16 heterosexual men and 16 lesbians at the outset of the show’s first episode, which aired in 2007.
From there she whittled her options down to one man and one woman. In the end, she chose the man — but not before a lesbian slapping spree and some illicit groping in the giant communal bed shared by the contestants. Unsurprisingly, her pairing with New Yorker Bobby Banhart fizzled quickly. She recovered with a second season, and MTV got two spin-offs out of the deal.
Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud” has died. He was 79.
As we prepare for the Game of Thrones finale, we recognize Joffrey and nine other baddies who showed us that terrible, horrible things can come in small packages
