Most shocking reality TV moments

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Mixing the trashiest elements of game shows (shameless promotional tie-ins!) and reality television (even more shameless promotional tie-ins!), the reality competition hybrid has created its share of unscripted, unpredictable moments.

Here are five of our favorite reality competition shockers:

1. The Bachelor
If you didn't catch the "After the Final Rose" special that aired directly after the "Bachelor" finale, you missed one of the most shocking moments in reality competition history. In reality, six weeks passed between the finale and "Final Rose" special, but for home viewers, the whole affair played like a fairytale turned nightmare in a matter of minutes. Thank you, ABC!

2. The Joe Schmo Show
Not many people watched "The Joe Schmo Show," a "Truman Show"-esque reality competition in which all but one of the contestants was a hired actor. The series had some wild moments, but few reality TV moments have captured such genuine, unfiltered human emotion as the show's finale, in which Mr. Schmo himself was let in on the show's secret.

3. There's Something About Miriam
A dozen bros vie for the heart—and rockin' bod—of a single, sexy lady. Sounds like your typical VH1 dating show, right? Only difference in this otherwise by-the-numbers reality competition: she's a he. "Crying Game," anyone?

4. America's Next Top Model
Before Donny Osmond totally ate it on the "Dancing With the Stars" stage, "Top Model" contestant Rebecca took a one way ticket to Fainstville while chatting with Tyra and Co. The incident sent a thousand TiVo remotes into slo-mo mode, and reminded us all of the daily dangers of modeling (i.e., falling while being positively critiqued).

5. Johnny Fairplay: "Survivor"/"Reality TV Awards"
He surprised America by lying that his grandmother had passed away on "Survivor," but Johnny Fairplay's most shocking (and disturbing) reality TV moment would be saved for the Fox Reality Awards. As virtually every member of the D-list reality community watched on, Johnny and a juiced-up Danny Bonaduce turned a tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony into a bloody-teeth-in-mouth one. Ouchies.

Fairplay lies on Survivor:

Bonaduce and Fairplay brawl at the Reality Awards:

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