Lizard Lick Towing is a bad reality show in the bad genre that is reality shows.

I watch a lot of TV. In fact, I watch a very wide spectrum of TV shows. Sometimes I'll be watching CNN and getting my fill of news and political commentary, and then I switch and watch Jersey Shore to laugh at the cast. Reality shows have become more and more popular these days, and on some networks (for example, A&E) the compose almost an entire days lineup. Reality TV is cheap to produce; no actors are needed to pay, no sets need to be constructed, writers don't need to be hired. Since they're so cheap to produce and generally appeal to large, less intelligent crowds because the story lines are simple to follow, many networks are jumping on the bandwagon. One of these networks is truTV. TruTV was originally CourtTV, which broadcasted famous trials like The Mendez Brothers and the O.J Simpson trial. Since its transition, truTV now features mostly semi-law related reality shows.

One of these shows is Lizard Lick Towing, which follows around the employees of the Lizard Lick Towing company as the tow and repossess cars. Its not a great idea for a TV show, so the producers thought maybe they could add a little character to the people whose cars are repossessed. What they ended up doing is scripting them into awful southern stereotypes, often with lines such as "That right there is real as beer and fried squirrel." While sometimes its amusing, the show gives away how fake it is with its obscenely dynamic episodes. I have yet to come across an episode not featuring a gun or a fistfight. It became obviously fake to me when a man having his car towed shot out a the window while it was being driven away. When the window was shot out, the camera switched from the perspective of the cameraman riding in the truck to a cameraman outside the truck who didn't happen to have a shot of the glass breaking.

This show is depressing to watch because of how bad it is.

Why.