French Gameshows vs American Gameshows

Okay, let's just get something straight here. I thought American Gameshows were pathetic...but French games shows?! You have got to be kiddi me! I feel the levels of my intellectuality draining by the second. The humor is so low that it makes a three year old child laugh. Not to mention the people that are chosen for these poor remake American Gameshows are the least cultured people in all of France. They use all of their lifelines within the first 4 questions and they still get the answers wrong. I have a theory...the French choose these dummies to be on their show because they know they will get the answers wrong and leave not winning any money, that way they never have to write a check! Can I get a second opinion on this scientific theory? Well, I'm changing the channel to France 5 (the bilingual channel: French/German) so I can gain back my cultured mind since I lost about half of it watching these idiotic Gameshows...Five minutes of watching these redonculous shows was five minutes too long. Oh yeah, did I mention that these shows are paid for by the STATE (government-- tax dollars)?! Oh mon dieu!