"celebrated diversity" is your take; mine is that it exploited little people like a freak show. I flipped between that an PBS and was generally just as appalled by that as by My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance and Average Joe and the Bachelor/ette. They all have "diversity."

The BGOF: a money-grubbing girl who "feels bad" about the trauma she puts her family through and in the end says she did it all "for them." Basically the producers took an unwilling family and embarrassed them on national television by pairing their daughter with an obnoxious man, totally opposite from her (though he was an actor in the end, I believe I heard). That's "diversity" between her classiness and his lack thereof, but money's still the bottom line.

Average Joe: It's not "diversity" that tricks the girl into thinking she's meeting good-looking guys, and it's not "diversity" that makes them bring in a bunch of good-looking guys later to compete with the Joes, just as it's not "diversity" that makes the producers of The Littlest Groom bring it a bunch of beautiful tall women to compete with the shorter women who by society's standards aren't as "beautiful" (though I did think they were fairly attractive).

And then there's the "diversity" on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette where they provide the token black/asian/hispanic people who get voted off, not in the first show, but in the second so that the Bachelor/ette doesn't look racist.

[insert embarrassment about having watched parts of all these shows]

Had I watched more of the littlest groom, I might have seen the show celebrating diversity, but I didn't. Perhaps I didn't give it a fair trial. But when money and ratings are the bottom line, I think exploitation is a better word.

Yes, I see your point, and a vallid point it is. Thank you for contributing.

I have to agree with Angloesque. I think if I made a show with the same concept, except it was called "The Blackest Groom" where Black women and White women fought for his love, I'd be called a racist. Still though, I don't think these shows are that bad, 'cause at least they're honest about it complained to more popular ones, such as American Idol (how I hate that show), where they pretend it's all about the talent and not the fact that it's ok for a man to be really fat and an idol but not for a woman to be a little hefty.

Yeah, Messy, I'm with you about AI (heh, I like the acronym there). I forgot that one. I watched it for a bit since one of the guys on it went or goes to a sister college of mine. Of course I have to qualify every observation of a reality show; who likes to admit they like them? Me, I miss the good ol' sitcoms. I hate to see them die out to shows like the Apprentice. Grr.

I liked the Littlest Groom. It was just as good as any other "The Bachelor"-type show.

I was also pleased with the littlest groom's pick. He and Mika (the winner) actually seem to make a cute couple.

Unfortunately though, "The Littlest Groom" was also the littlest series. It only lasted two episodes. I wonder why they couldn't milk it for more.