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DetlefK

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11. What if it's a reality-show, like in South Park?

Reply to aletier_v (Reply #9)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:15 AM

Oct 2012

There's an episode where the kids find out, that the life-forms on earth are really participants in a reality-show for aliens.
And the show's about to be scrapped, because the ratings are down...

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