If you live in a major city, three or four shows are looking to cast on Craigslist every single week.

Sometimes the subtitle "Three Strikes, You're Out" would be used on a date to indicate that the person has twice before appeared on the show with unsuccessful dates and is foreshadowed to be another unsuccessful date yet again.A few weeks ago we shared stories from three guys who had their cars tricked out on MTV’s totally manipulated reality show, ‘Pimp My Ride.’ I felt a special connection with them, because I also have some reality television experience – as a dater on syndicated classic ‘Blind Date.’If you’re too young to remember ‘Blind Date’ (which is a scary concept), it was some of the best televised cringe around.Two strangers were sent out on a romantic outing with camera crews, and the producers would make fun of them with pop-up text and animation.Over the course of 910 episodes, they saw all kinds of people from football players to magazine models to Steve-O from ‘Jackass’ pair up.I found out about auditions in 2005 from – where else? It’s no coincidence that the rise of reality TV coincided with the popularity of the free classified site.