 The thing about reality television, whether you openly love it, loathe it, or consider it a kind of guilty pleasure you don't mention to your book club friends, its influence is undeniable. You don't need to have watched a single minute of it to experience its influence in everything from hidden camera and hidden microphone political revelations to online prank videos to classic TV comedies like The Office. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd.