"30 Days:" Create your own mix-n-match ideological clashes

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"30 Days," Morgan Spurlock's provocative reality/documentary series which plops participants in unfamiliar territory - often, territory contradictory to their own ideological beliefs - returns tomorrow to FX for its third season. This season's culture clashes include a hunter spending a month with vegan animal-rights activists, a woman who believes homosexuality is a sin and that gay people shouldn't be able to raise children in a household with same-sex parents and a woman who hates guns hanging out with gun enthusiasts and working in a gun store.

All well and good, but if Spurlock is thinking ahead to a fourth season, we have some suggestions for him:

* A suicidal individual spends a month with really cheerful people. Which only makes the person that much more suicidal.

* A Scientologist hangs out with followers of the UFO cult Raelian Movement, and each makes fun of the others' beliefs: "Really? You buy into that crap?"

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* A producer of lame, cynical reality TV moves in for a month with people who gobble that stuff up. After which he is either shaken to his very core or vows to make the shows even dumber.

* Dick Cheney spends a month with a family against the war in Iraq. After the 30 days, he has everyone in the family placed on the national Terrorist Watch List.

* An "According to Jim" writer spends a month on the set of a sitcom that's actually funny, and discovers how "jokes" are created. Or, an "According to Jim" writer spends a month with a family of human beings and learns how human beings behave, as opposed to how the characters on "According to Jim" behave.

Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments. I'm told Morgan Spurlock checks this site every day for ideas, so you'd be doing him a big favor.

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david-kronke.jpgDavid Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place.

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