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Title card.

Status: Partially Found

Married by America was a reality show broadcast from March 3, 2003, to April 14, 2003, on Fox.^[1]^[2] The premise of the show revolved around five single people to, as the title says, be paired up with other people "by America" (family members and phone-in voters).^[3] The other major gimmick of the show was that the singles would pair up with the strangers "sight-unseen" with a wall separating them on stage, meaning that they could only talk to each other.

If a couple successfully got married on the set, they would win a huge sum of money.

Controversy

In the show's short time on the air, it managed to drum up a great amount of controversy over its content; one affiliate in North Carolina (WRAZ) dropped the show after its premiere for how it "demeans and exploits the institution of marriage",^[4] and a year after its cancellation, the show received a $1.18 million FCC fine over an episode which contained explicit footage of whipped cream being licked off a stripper's breasts and a man being caressed by strippers.^[5]^[6] The fine was eventually dropped to $91,000 in 2009 and then dropped entirely in 2012.^[7]

The show also dealt with a contestant who was revealed to have been already married after the first episode had aired; in the end, none of the couples on the show ended up married, making the show a failure.^[1]^[3]

Availability

This show has never been rebroadcast or released on home video; only a few full episodes have turned up online. Additional clips can be found online, one featuring the premiere's opening and another showing a compilation of Tony Ross' time on the show. Another clip can be found on a Parents Television Council compilation of "worst clips", namely the controversial stripper footage (not linked due to its graphic content).

Gallery

Episode 4.

Series finale.

Premiere intro.

Compilation of Tony Ross' episode.

References

External Link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_by_America

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 http://www.realitytvhallofshame.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article1034.art&page=1

[2] ttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364837/fullcredits

[:1-3] 3.0 ^3.1 http://www.fansofrealitytv.com/forums/married-america/5888-married-america-episode-one-recap.html

[4] ttp://www.crosswalk.com/1189857/

[5] ttp://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2004/FCC-04-242A1.html

[6] ttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/married-america-fined-fcc

[7] ttps://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090202/tv_nm/us_marriage;_ylt=Ah1O6jcn1kz.84IZcJTG86JxFb8C

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-'''''Married by America ''''' was a reality show broadcast from March 3, 2003 to April 14, 2003 on Fox.
+{{InfoboxLost
+|title=<center>Married by America</center>
+|image=Married by America title.jpg
+|imagecaption=Title card.
+|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>
+}}
+'''''Married by America''''' was a reality show broadcast from March 3, 2003, to April 14, 2003, on Fox.<ref name=":0">http://www.realitytvhallofshame.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article1034.art&page=1</ref><ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364837/fullcredits</ref> The premise of the show revolved around five single people to, as the title says, be paired up with other people "by America" (family members and phone-in voters).<ref name=":1">http://www.fansofrealitytv.com/forums/married-america/5888-married-america-episode-one-recap.html</ref> The other major gimmick of the show was that the singles would pair up with the strangers "sight-unseen" with a wall separating them on stage, meaning that they could only talk to each other.
-In the show's short time on the air, it managed to drum up a great amount of controversy over its racy content; one affiliate in North Carolina dropped the show after two episodes, and the show later received a $1.18 million FCC fine over an episode which contained explicit footage of whipped cream being licked off a stripper's breasts and a man being caressed by strippers. (The fine was dropped in 2012.)
+If a couple successfully got married on the set, they would win a huge sum of money.
-The show also dealt with a contestant who was revealed to have been already married after the first episode had aired; in the end, none of the couples on the show ended up married, making the show a failure.
+==Controversy==
+In the show's short time on the air, it managed to drum up a great amount of controversy over its content; one affiliate in North Carolina (WRAZ) dropped the show after its premiere for how it "demeans and exploits the institution of marriage",<ref>http://www.crosswalk.com/1189857/</ref> and a year after its cancellation, the show received a $1.18 million FCC fine over an episode which contained explicit footage of whipped cream being licked off a stripper's breasts and a man being caressed by strippers.<ref>http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2004/FCC-04-242A1.html</ref><ref>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/married-america-fined-fcc</ref> The fine was eventually dropped to $91,000 in 2009 and then dropped entirely in 2012.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090202/tv_nm/us_marriage;_ylt=Ah1O6jcn1kz.84IZcJTG86JxFb8C</ref>
-This show has never been rebroadcast or released on home video, nor have any full episodes turned up online. However, a few select clips are online; the one linked is of the opening of the premiere of the show, and another that can be found online is on a Parents Television Council compilation of "worst clips" (not linked here due to graphic content), which features footage of the stripper scenes.{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBlsmYjKwY|320x240|right}}
+The show also dealt with a contestant who was revealed to have been already married after the first episode had aired; in the end, none of the couples on the show ended up married, making the show a failure.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
+==Availability==
+This show has never been rebroadcast or released on home video; only a few full episodes have turned up online. Additional clips can be found online, one featuring the premiere's opening and another showing a compilation of Tony Ross' time on the show. Another clip can be found on a Parents Television Council compilation of "worst clips", namely the controversial stripper footage (not linked due to its graphic content).
+== Gallery==
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+  |description1 =Episode 4.
+  |service2     =youtube
+  |id2          =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMZ6MSwYftc
+  |description2 =Series finale.
+}}
+{{Video|perrow  =2
+  |service1     =youtube
+  |id1          =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBlsmYjKwY
+  |description1 =Premiere intro.
+  |service2     =youtube
+  |id2          =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU9W3NxfeAw
+  |description2 =Compilation of Tony Ross' episode.
+}}
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+==External Link==
+*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_by_America
 [[Category:Lost TV]]
 [[Category:Partially found media]]