Underplayed Gems

Wanna Come In? (2004)

Wanna Come In? poster
Directed by
Katherine Brooks
Genre
reality television
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 3 episodes
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Two teams each have a smooth talker secretly coach an awkward guy on a blind date with a woman. The couples go through silly challenges, and the goal is for the awkward guy to get invited inside her home without blowing the secret.

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What happens

Wanna Come In? is an MTV reality television show. It was a modern reality twist on Edmond Rostand's legendary 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. In the show, a two-man team that consists of a "stud" and a "dud" competed with another "stud"/"dud" duo to try to win cash prizes. The "stud" secretly coached the "dud" by speaking through a hidden microphone while the "dud" was on a blind date with a beautiful young woman. Each team went through several challenges in an effort to get the "geek" invited inside the woman's home at the end of the date. If she did not invite her "dud" inside, the team lost. Wanna Come In? was on the air for three seasons on MTV. It was a half-hour show that aired daily in the afternoons. The challenges usually had the "geeks" doing zany things that would make it almost impossible for the date to end well. If the "geek" asked to come in at the end of the date or revealed that he were being coached, the "geek/stud" duo was disqualified. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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