My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss (2004)

Genre

reality television

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 10 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Twelve contestants compete for a job and a cash prize at a company that is completely fake. The boss and his family do strange things to see how far the contestants will go without realizing they are being fooled.

parodiccompetitiveabsurdcringe-inducingmanipulativeplayfultensefast-paced

What happens

My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss is an American reality television series broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox). The series premiered on November 7, 2004, while its tenth and final episode aired on December 12, 2004. Filmed in Chicago, Illinois, the series depicted twelve contestants in competition for a position at a venture capital firm. Similar to My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, it was a parody of shows such as The Apprentice. The contestants performed several tasks that they were all told would help them win a job at the Chicago-based conglomerate IOCOR and a $250,000 prize. However, none of the contestants knew that the company – and the position – were fake. The show was usually punctuated by the actions of the "boss" Mr. N. Paul Todd, whose name was an anagram of that of Donald Trump. The contestants learn about his multibillion-dollar venture capital firm IOCOR, and in any episode, he or a member of his "family" could usually be found doing something either to unsettle the contestants or to test the limit of their blindness to truth. The show received low ratings in the United States and was canceled after five episodes. Fox released the remaining 5 episodes online in late March 2005. In 2005, My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss was one of several television programs cited in a class-action lawsuit filed by the Writers Guild of America concerning labor law violations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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