Sure, the show was no classic. But it was a passable blend of quizzer and shopping game, about as watchable as its wildly overrated predecessor Sale of the Century. And while I'm not a big fan of shopping games - see this blog's preceding entry - the quizzer segments were fun little pop culture tests. Which celebs did have plastic surgery, or at least admitted to it?
Okay, I've been through all this before. The new wrinkle in last night's Temptation reruns was a reminder of the old country. For three years back in the 1970s I labored as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya. And wouldn't you know, the most expensive prize on the Temptation eps last night just happened to be a Kenyan safari, worth $22,000 retail but yours for only 825 Temptation bucks.
This got me thinking about how they actually paid me - not much, I admit - for a three-year safari in Kenya. No, I didn't live in the kind of lavish mtalii (Swahili for "tourist") digs pictured in the screenshot from the show. My hut was state of the art for maybe 600 A.D., with no electricity or running water.
Still, the tag line of the Peace Corps was that you couldn't buy the experience. Which was true enough. I did get to see the country up close and personal, in a way no tourist ever could. Even if the bouts of malaria were no fun.
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