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		<title>Reality Show Version of Girls Has Predictably Self-Deprecating Casting Notice</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_285243" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2013/01/reality-show-version-of-girls-has-predictably-self-deprecating-casting-notice/girlsserver/" rel="attachment wp-att-285243"><img class="size-medium wp-image-285243" alt="girlsserver" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/girlsserver-e1358811643488.jpg?w=300" width="300" height="263" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">You know???? (HBO)</p></div>
<p>I'm not sure if we have a term in the English language for something like the singularity, except it happens when Craigslist ads for reality shows based on better scripted programs become self-aware, but if we did, the world we lived in would be even sadder. (Presumably because that means this phenomenon happened enough to deserve its own entry in Webster's.) </p>
<p>So just be glad that the Emmy-Award winning producers behind <a href="http://jezebel.com/5977613/reality-tv-producers-desperately-seeking-real-life-girls-just-like-the-ones-in-girls">this new program</a> about Brooklyn/downtown Manhattan hipsters 20-somethings who are trying to figure it all out can only have the one reference <a href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tfr/3555337768.html">like this</a>:</p>
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<p>"Are you thinking about that show--<em>Girls</em>? Well we didn't say it, but now that you mention it..."</p>
<p>YOU ARE NOT OFF THE HOOK JUST BECAUSE YOU JOKINGLY ADMIT TO ENCOURAGING YOUNG WOMEN TO ASPIRE TO BE HANNAH HORVATH.</p>
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<p>Sorry, we just needed to get that off of our chest. We'll see you at the casting call...calling dibs on Shoshanna right now!</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_285243" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2013/01/reality-show-version-of-girls-has-predictably-self-deprecating-casting-notice/girlsserver/" rel="attachment wp-att-285243"><img class="size-medium wp-image-285243" alt="girlsserver" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/girlsserver-e1358811643488.jpg?w=300" width="300" height="263" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">You know???? (HBO)</p></div>
<p>I'm not sure if we have a term in the English language for something like the singularity, except it happens when Craigslist ads for reality shows based on better scripted programs become self-aware, but if we did, the world we lived in would be even sadder. (Presumably because that means this phenomenon happened enough to deserve its own entry in Webster's.) </p>
<p>So just be glad that the Emmy-Award winning producers behind <a href="http://jezebel.com/5977613/reality-tv-producers-desperately-seeking-real-life-girls-just-like-the-ones-in-girls">this new program</a> about Brooklyn/downtown Manhattan hipsters 20-somethings who are trying to figure it all out can only have the one reference <a href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tfr/3555337768.html">like this</a>:</p>
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<p>"Are you thinking about that show--<em>Girls</em>? Well we didn't say it, but now that you mention it..."</p>
<p>YOU ARE NOT OFF THE HOOK JUST BECAUSE YOU JOKINGLY ADMIT TO ENCOURAGING YOUNG WOMEN TO ASPIRE TO BE HANNAH HORVATH.</p>
<p><a href="http://observer.com/2013/01/reality-show-version-of-girls-has-predictably-self-deprecating-casting-notice/xlarge-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-285241"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-285241" alt="xlarge" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/xlarge.jpg" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>Sorry, we just needed to get that off of our chest. We'll see you at the casting call...calling dibs on Shoshanna right now!</p>
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