>>I think Verbena is conflating the bottle show/episode trope with the
>>'dump a bunch of strangers into a relatively small space, stir
>>occasionally for drama' genre of pseudo-reality shows, like the one
>>actually called Big Brother.
>
>Oh.
>
>No no, plague lockdown, not fake-gameshow lockdown.

Ah. Well, Astynax was exactly correct, but the truth is I don't watch any of those shows. I admit, some conflation may have been happening. =)

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