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#183

U.S. state quarters are great. Collect all 50! But I wonder what they're going to do in 2008, when the run of state quarters has completed. What will quarters look like then? Will they go back to the eagle, or will they adopt some new design? I've got a great idea about that. The government should hold a reality series, where quarters get voted off each week, and the winner gets a million dollars (In quarters? Or would a coin harem be too risque unless Utah wins?) plus the privilege of being minted exclusively in 2009 and thereafter. The quarters could be rendered with computer animation and have computer animated squabbles over which quarter respects which other quarter and which quarter has a chip on its shoulder and which quarters don't do its share of the work. Each week, the quarters would have challenges like eating nasty food and navigating perilous vending machines in the shortest amounts of time, the winners receiving highly coveted visits from their beloved nickels and dimes. Quarters would have to form alliances to make it to the end. Who wouldn't be game for a more friendly rematch between the North and South? I tell you, this show is a sure-fire hit, and it would make history as the world's first government-sponsored computer animated reality series starring monetary currency. I think. With all the whacked reality series that come out every other day, it's hard to keep track.