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Applicants Say the Craziest Things

kids_darnedest.jpg Do you remember the show Kids Say the Darndest Things? It was a television show, hosted by Bill Cosby, that aired during the end of the 90s (a previous incarnation was hosted by Art Linkletter). In the show, Cosby would ask adorable children simple questions to provoke a cute response. The novel show didn’t last long, because eventually audience members started to throw up due to the hyperbolic levels of cuteness the kids exuded. The Surgeon General came in, shut the show down, forced Cosby into exile and made Art Linkletter (co-host) eat pudding pops for a year. Of course that isn’t true, but the show did run out of gas, because cute kids really aren’t that entertaining.

If I had a chance to develop a show that would eventually run itself into the ground after one season, it would be "Applicants Say the Craziest Shit." I would set up hidden video cameras in my office and I would edit all the footage so that America could see the insane behavior some of my applicants possess.

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