Bravo TV has had another bright idea for a reality television show. In Better Half, two professionals have two days to teach their spouses all they can about their careers/jobs so the spouses can compete against each other for a $20,000 prize. It’s a super way to screw up a marriage or serious relationship.

The first in the series was on this past Wednesday night. Two women, both type A career women, had to trade places with their executive chef ”mates” in a cook-off at a restaurant. The premise was that neither woman was proficient enough in the kitchen to boil water or cook an egg. That was proven with a mini challenge to set the stage for the main event.

After both women proved they were all thumbs in the kitchen, they had two days’ worth of coaching by their mates prior to stepping into executive chef roles in restaurant kitchens to direct the preparation of food for 25 diners in pursuit of the $20,000 prize. The men watched closed circuit televisions and commented as the women tried their best with the complicated dishes. While I think the judging and the actual show was pretty weak, the women did end up with new respect for the difficult job the men have.

I’m not going to waste more time talking about this show. I’ll save it for the show in which female brain surgeons have two days to teach their stockbroker husbands all they need to know in order to perform frontal lobotomies on the producers of this show. That’s one episode I’d even Tivo.