This Season On 'Sunset Tan': Giants, Dwarves, And Amputees

Even though we're painfully aware of how little reality is involved in the production of reality television, we're nonetheless a little saddened that a reader ruined Spray-Bronzer Christmas by forwarding us this casting notice revealing the people we'll eventually see wandering into "L.A.'s most successful upscale tanning salon" on E!'s Sunset Tan, each of whom will present a unique pigment-correction challenge for the show's aesthetic technicians. As entertaining as it might be to watch the Olly Girls climb a step-ladder to evenly distribute Too Tall's perfect copper topcoat, stoop to slather a little person in high-end cocoa butter, or bicker over to the best way to color-match a prosthesis and a tragic farmer's tan, the magic of the show is inevitably diminished by knowing all their quirky characters were just ordered from a casting agency's take-out menu.

Previously: Miserly 'Sunset Tan' Mom Only Cares Enough To Spend $1300 On Daughter's School Photo Prep [Defamer]

5:46 PM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Mark
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Colonel Mustard at 06:28 PM on 06/28/07
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I notice they forgot to include the Indian Chief and the Construction Worker from that carefully balanced list of cultural avatars.
SchmatSchmaymon at 06:49 PM on 06/28/07
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I love that "little person, dwarf" doesn't have any qualifying tone problems/"issues"

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TedSez at 07:19 PM on 06/28/07
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The funniest thing about this show is that E! was apparently hoodwinked into thinking it would be about sexy naked Angelenos, when really almost all the action involves business infighting among the employees. It might as well be on CNBC.

Also, the one time a "celebrity" was said to be entering the salon, it turned out to be a depressingly ashamed-looking Chris Kattan.
Sweet Panda Love at 10:14 PM on 06/28/07
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Goddamn, if they had a 100 year old Eskimo dwarf on for a tan, I might just watch.
BabylonSister at 11:49 PM on 06/28/07
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What? They cast this show? It's not just cinema verite about what happens on a daily basis at the world's most important spray-on bronzer palace? I may weep in disillusionment. :(
scroll_lock at 05:36 AM on 06/29/07
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What, no transgendered nut-allergy albino with a speech impediment?
actorpull at 06:36 AM on 06/29/07
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At first I thought there was finally a personal ad site that catered to my interests. Damnit.
niterunner at 09:43 AM on 06/29/07
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@MattGaymon:

That is becuase its a known fact that all people that are considered a "Dwarf" have bad skin. Have you seen Gary Coleman up close?...scarry!
GinaRomantica at 01:01 PM on 06/29/07
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"Complected." Ha. With that syntax, why aren't they also casting a "high yeller"?