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''The Joe Schmo Show'' was at once a [[Reality Show]] and a spoof of reality shows. The first season centered around Matt Kennedy Gould, a regular guy who is selected as a contestant on the reality game show ''Lap of Luxury''. What he didn't realize, however, is that everybody else around him was an actor, specifically selected to play a reality-show archetype such as "The [[Rich Bitch]]", "The [[Camp Gay|Gay Guy]]", "The [[Jerkass|Asshole]]", and "The [[Smarmy Host]]". The scenes in the house were cut with standard reality-show style interviews, both from Matt and from the actors, who would describe how they felt about keeping the charade going on this guy. (Once they got to know Gould, and realized how much a truly nice and upright a guy he was, fooling him became emotionally harder and harder for the actors involved.) Despite several close calls, Matt didn't find out the truth until [[The Reveal]] in the season finale. After this, the series was rerun under the title ''Mo' Schmo'', with Matt giving a running commentary over it now that he knew the whole thing was fake. (Though this only lasted for four episodes before Spike pulled these repeats due to sagging ratings.)

 

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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Gerald.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Kip only wants to see pictures of positivity in his photo album. He doesn't want to see anything negative, like, say, photos of someone else's buttcheeks.