Pastafarian Families Needed For Major Primetime Show!
Wife Swap, ABC’s hit primetime reality show, is looking for Pastafarian families for an upcoming episode.
Families must consist of two parents and at least one child between 7 and 17.
Families that appear on the show receive a generous honorarium. Anyone who refers a family receives $1,000 if that family is cast in an episode.
Email Greg at your earliest convenience if you or anyone you know have what it takes for this amazing opportunity. Please include names and ages of all family members and a brief description of your family and a photo.
Greg DeLucia
Casting Producer
RDF Media USA
greg.delucia@castingrdf.com
646.747.7954
Yes, this is for real. I think this will be a great opportunity for us to show the world how wonderful and tolerant the Pastafarian religion is.
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Is this for real? If so, awesome. Can we get a link to the official announcement?
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EPIC WIN!
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Holy Wet Pasta Batman!
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Peter Popoff would have been perfect for this. Too bad he’s not around anymore.
RAmen
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Hmmmm. If only my mother, father, and younger siblings shared my faith in the FSM. I hope one day my family shall aswell be touched by his noodly apendage. RAmen
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@Pope: He isn’t?
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=115174
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Hmm, they’ll probably switch with one of the goofballs who posts the hate mail!
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I’d like it if details of the airing time(should it even occur) were posted in the topic. I don’t usually find such shows worth watching, but this is an exception.
I hope they manage to get an authentic Pastafarian family for the part. I’m most worried that they won’t be looking for an authentic family, and will go with a vaguely informed hate-mailer family to goof off in front of the camera, or do something else to offend we pasta-loving people intentionally.
It’s not like there’s a shortage of morons who would love to get $1000 and have idiots represent the almighty one as a bonus.
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I would be up for it, although we are too “normal” aside from the fact that I am a Pastafarian. I live in a WAY Christian area and it just so happens that my car was slightly vandalized on the “lord’s day” (barf) by some zealot trying to rip my fsm emblem off of my car and breaking a noodley appendage! I’m a stay at home mom and I volunteer at my kids school (about 140 hours a month!) My husband has a full time job and my kids have great grades and are in the GT program in school with no discipline problems. I spend my free time going to the gym and taking kickboxing classes and going to farmers markets. In other words, we are boring, average, people who just don’t buy into the BS that most people have been fed and ID makes my monkey sad…. :) I enjoy thinking…
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I’s day this is a bad idea. They are hoping that the family is going to run around in pirate regalia every night and worship some spaghetti. This vehicle that bobby has created could be a great mechanism as religion gets more intertwined in our politics and education. It would be best if the general population understood what this was for and not just have some cheap idea that Pastafarians actually pray to spaghetti.
however if you sign up and choose to show the religious nut case you are destined to be paired with how ridiculous and baseless all religion is, then more power to you. You might make them cry as you take the floor out from under them.
just imho
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Dont forget to dress like a wench!
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No doubt that the show will never see the air. Why? Marketing.
They make people watch by putting hugely different families together, so the uncomfortable situations will fly. The Fundie (who will be the matchup, you know it.) will go off with our loving (and if not Pastafarian, at least smart and tolerant) families, while the Pastafarian will go off to the family to pray.
What they hope is for yelling, lots of yelling. The Pastafarian yelling at the Fundies for saying grace. The Fundie yelling at the Pastafarian family for their godless ways. The CouPots at home, sniggering and munching cheetos. Win all around.
What will happen, though, is the Pastafarian will get along with the Fundie family. The Fundie will get along with the family, and unless they provoke a fight, no sparks will fly.
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WARNING! AVOID AVOID AVOID. We have all unfortunately seen “reality” TV? Do you honestly think a real view of this movement/community is what the producers are after? I thought we were more intelligent than the fundies. They are after one thing only: conflict. To do that, the most trailer trash reps from each side will be picked. What conflict they can’t create for real will be taken care of in editing. This plays into the hands of morons and not one person involved – not a single one – has any interest in a fair representation of FSM. Pirate regalia will abound yet in the end be the least of our PR disasters to emerge from this. Honestly, don’t we know how “reality” TV works by now? AVOID.
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I agree with Techskeptic that this might be a bad idea. I don’t watch the show, so I don’t know if they ever have selected couples based on religious differences. Have they, for example, swapped Baptist and Muslim wives? Or, Jewish and Catholic wives? How about agnostic and believer wives? Our religion deserves to be treated with as much respect as any other and not one bit less.
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StJason is right. Pastafarians, being members of the peace-loving Church of the FSM, are naturally tolerant of other religions (even if they are based on falsified “evidence”) because we know that the FSM does not care if people believe in him or not.
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I suppose I will have to watch, if it ever airs.
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RAmen
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speaking of families, is it possibe to get a pastafarian wedding? that is something that would be awesome
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I think it depends on who you’re swapped with.
I’m not sure I could remain calm and level headed if I had to go to a fundaMENTAList home where Darwin is considered the anti-Christ and where they’re trying to push (un)intelligent design. Not because of FSM-ism but because I’m a scientist.
I think what will happen is that the Pastafarian will get a little hacked off but will mostly get on OK because I’m figuring they’ll be reasonably tolerant and educated. The fundie on the other hand will probably end up looking dumb or scary or both. Hopefully those of us who defend evolution could use this as a good medium to get the message across to the general public about why evolution is proper science and why ID is both non-science and nonsense.
Sadly I won’t be applying because I’m in the UK, single and have no kids (thank the FSM).
CF
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Please post when the episode airs!!!!
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I wish I had kids because my wife and I would be perfect for the show. Hell, we’d dress like pirates for the entire episode! If we did have a kid, I’d be proud to send my little pirate over to live with some fundamentalist Christians and RAISE HELL. If we have kids, I plan to raise a rational kid that will not take my word for anything, but will use his/her own reason to make up his/her mind.
I hope they do make an episode and there is a family dressed like pirates the whole time. And I hope they mix them with a religious nut-job of a family. Some of the religious nut families in this nation need to be slapped by his noodley appendages!
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Hopefully, if this does happen, the true message of the FSM, which is reverence for true science and especially evolution, does not get lost in a bunch of piratey spaghetti throwing… :/
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I am hoping that the fundies that they put FSM-knows-who with are the type that pray or make the sign of the cross before they participate in a sporting event or some other similar, vapid activity so that they can be questioned as to WHY they think that their prayer will be answered while halfway around the world, a woman may be with her dying child, begging that same “god” for her malnurished, impoverished baby to make it through another hopeless night. And the chances of that child making it through the night vs. the basketball going through the goal (let’s just say) are far slimmer. I would want to ask the fundies why they are so smug and why they think we are so silly??
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No, No, NO! No good can come of this. I agree with Boarg – Avoid!
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No matter what the Pastafarians do or don’t do, they will edit it to make us look bad. They are looking to make trash TV for the lowest common denominator, and their audience isn’t looking for reasonable people who are kind and tolerant.
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A shame really, because my family is exactly what they are looking for. But there is no way that i am going to go live with a Fundie family for a week (you know that’s what they’re going to do) with a camera following me around every minute. Nope, not going to happen.
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The only way reality TV could do justice by us Pastafarians is to invite us to Project Runway for some designer pirate wear, followed by a visit to Top Chef for new pasta recipes. Yarrr – I’d go for that mateys!
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RAmen
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Do they know we’re really Atheists and Agnostics? Or do the Producers think we’re serious about worshipping spaghetti? Perhaps it would be better to find a family to play it up in casting, who is then reasonable during filming?
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I would be VERY careful about this. With the way these shows are edited they can take a weeks worth of footage and edit it down to an hour to portray ANY message they want or display any party in any way they want. You better pray to FSM that ABC is not doing this to show Pastafarians in a bad light.
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My first response was bummer…too bad my son is too old. I’d volunteer, even though I don’t watch reality TV. But the reality is, if they found enough controversial material to air the show it could easily turn into something ugly. If you want a volatile show – match up a Christian with anyone who doesn’t share their beliefs, especially if the perception is that they are being laughed at. We’ve seen what happens when Christians (mostly with atrocious spelling) find this site. Many of us have had discussions with Christians which have ruined friendships, made people cry and gotten people thrown out of houses. I would be particularly interested in finding out the agenda of these party planners before committing to anything!
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This has already been done. Wiccans (maybe atheists) and some fundies swapped and the wife swapped to the wiccans could hardly contain her freakshow, however, the wife that went to the fundies was just overwhelmed with all of the work (mysogeny) that she was expected to do for the family.
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Anyway, whoever may do this would likely have a bunch of fun(die). It’d be alot like Dave Chappelle’s imagining of the show…..
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Come now. We aren’t getting that Christian Persecution Fetish, are we? Do it for the lulz.
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Not on a bet. TV is only there to sell stuff. If you step back and look at it objectively, pretty much everything you see on TV is stupid, designed for a person with a third grade education – supposedly about what the average TV viewer can handle. I don’t remember where I read that, but it impressed me. Anyhow, regardless of the accuracy of the third-grade-average information, it seems to me that the whole point of a show like this one is to make the participants look like idiots. Personally, I don’t think I need the help of a TV program if I want to look like an idiot. And I don’t think the FSM would want any of us to make a spectacle of ourselves just to promote pastafarianism.
RAmen
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Stephanie – How dare you insult the mighty FSM with your blasphemy. I would love to show my family the light but it would be disrespectful to teach the ways of FSM without full pirate gear.
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This is a VERY bad idea. I remember when Brian May & Roger Taylor of Queen appeared on the “Rock Star” show (the rock version of “American Idol”), and their comments about the various contestants were TOTALLY rearranged so as to make it look like they were bagging on some of the contestants. It was totally done by the producers to create a controversy. Brian was LIVID about this and totally blasted the show and its creators on his web site as a result. I cannot help but believe that the producers of this show are going to do the exact same thing here. Just because you appear on a TV show does NOT mean you have any control over how the show decides to present you, as once you sign those release forms you might as well have signed your dignity and reputation away forever. AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE.
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Well maybe the person goes on the show could actually be a member of the site, ya know, actually one of us from here. If this was the case we could set up one big ass forum and go through this thing with the finest of combs. Just a thought and a hope… but I do see where Ubi, Jon and Stephanie are coming from, this definitely has the potential to make us look like we are more retarded than tongue in cheek.
RAmen
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BAD BAD BAD IDEA!!!!! THEY’LL EDIT SHIT TO MAKE US LOOK LIKE BADGUYS!!!
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I didn’t realize that show was still on
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Honestly, do we really have a choice? We must get one of our own onto this show, regardless of what the producers do to the show. If we let them get some fake posers, they will trash our reputation regardless of what the producers edit.
But, assuming the worst happens, anyone have any idea to find a legal way to force them to portray us as we are?
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@bombadil
Actually, in my experience watching this show, they usually make the “normal people,” i.e. Christian family, look like bad guys, and portray the less mainstream family, such as the pastafarian family in this case, to look more reasonable.
The usual trend seems to be switch a christian family with a (fill in the blank) family. I’ve seen one where they swapped with a wiccan family, one where they swapped with an agnostic family, and one where they swapped with a jewish family. In all of those episodes, the christian family was portrayed as intolerant jerks.
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@ Imricdaelf: “anyone have any idea to find a legal way to force them to portray us as we are?”
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Unfortunately there is very little recourse in these sort of things, as the release forms that one is forced to sign if they want to end up on TV almost always state that you surrender all of your rights ahead of time, and that you give the party in question (in this case, the TV show) permission to portray you in any way they see fit. It doesn’t matter if what they cobble together bears no resemblance to reality whatsoever. If you don’t sign, you’re not getting on, and you know what? They don’t care, because they know there’s gonna be plenty of poor dumb saps lining up behind you for the chance–the PRIVILEGE–of being exploited on nationwide TV.
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One of the reasons why Bobby’s message has been as successful as it has is because it’s been HIS message–a clear, concise, tightly-controlled statement which leaves no room for misinterpretation, ambiguity, or loopholes that would allow outside parties to besmirch or outright lie about it. Because Bobby didn’t leave it up to the good graces (yeah, right!) of outsiders to carry his idea forward, the Church of the FSM has a message that if actually read intelligently carries a lot of weight, and more important, legitimacy–even though it’s wrapped within a humorous paradigm.
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This could be really good… As long as there’s a good pastafarian on the show, it’ll make us look good. As people have said, if they get some crazy jerk who’ll make us look bad, it’ll make us look bad.
So if you are sane and good and nice, DO NOT AVOID! go for it!
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Ande,
As an ordained Minister I can perform Pastafarian weddings and I am looking forward to the day when I finally get to. My Forum Name is “MonkeysInACan” if you want to discuss this any further.
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As for whether anyone should go through with the TV show. If we can find a level headed well informed Pastafarian couple who would be willing I say they should do it. I’m only saying this because it would be better to find someone to do this we all feel confident wont make us look too bad than having some schmuck who just wants to be on tv and dress like pirate and and end up making fool of himself and the rest of the Pastafarian community.
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As said above, if one of our own doesn’t go, they’ll find some pastafarian poser. Someone needs to step up in the name of all the is pasta! Someone just needs to sign up, and take your balls out of your back-pocket and show them how tolerant and amazing the Pastafarian community is. Of course while wearing full pirate gear..
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At first I thought this had potential but after having read all of the post here I now have serious doubts. The shows directors will edit the snot out of it just to make it appealing to the lowest common denominator,ie the viewers and ratings. I have to admit though that it could be fun if the Osbournes were Pastafarians. I can see it now: “Sharon. Sharon! You’re not fucking Sharon? Where’s the fucking Romano?”
Of course at the other house during grace, “You do know I’m married to the fucking Lord of darkness, don’t you?”
The picture goes on.
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Skeptics…are right on this one. I’d say avoid.
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I think we SHOULD send someone from the site to the show. They WILL get someone to do it, better it be a smart person from the site rather than some nutjob who wants to make us look bad.
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Someone from here should go for it, turn up at the interview with full pirate regalia and play up to it. THEN, on the show just act normally, but take every opportunity to question and push the bible basher(s) on their ludicrous beliefs and the vile spouted in the bible.
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Well, I would have to add my voice to those who say AVOID. I belong to a pagen homeschool group and one of the members was chosen for this show. By her telling, the show was not anywhere close to the reality of what happened that week. If her need for the money (10,000 is what they pay the families, 1000 is what they pay for referals) hadn’t been so great she would never have considered doing this show!
And to add insult to injury, I believe Wife Swap is the one where each mom gets to decide how the 10,000 is spent by the other family.
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Hmm not sure I even agree with the concept of a ‘Pastafarian Family’. A kid is a child of a Pastafarian not as a pastafarian him/herself.
Of course you answer kids questions about why you drink beer and eat pasta on holy Friday but only once they are old enough to drink themselves under the table should they become a following of his noodlyness themselves
Can a child really understand the complexity of Pastafarian theology while sober, can even an adult manage that?
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if you’re a pagan, shouldn’t you know how to spell pagan?
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