>>19922431>they are all so guarded because they know firsthand that people will laugh at them if they do or say anything weird.>It makes EVERY single conversation inauthentic because they are playing to the camera.This is because they were told they would be kicked if they revealed the fact they knew about the show. Tay remarked on an early digest that it was agony trying to couch every conversation in a manner she felt that wouldn't give off the indication she knew anything about the show. There is a reason they were overjoyed when the reveal happened that all of them were fans, they could stop overthinking every conversation and just let things flow naturally, which is the point that the fish started showing their real personalities in full and became very likeable. Once again your grip is with a retarded mandate from production, not the fish themselves trying to navigate the mandate. Its telling that the one fish that was too retarded or unwilling to follow production mandates -- Jimmy was well regarded early on because he didn't abide by this rule and is the one that broke the seal on it entirely.
The S1 cast aside from Simmons and maybe Jon knew who Sam was and were MDE fans as well so the Season 1 dickriding doesn't even fucking work on its face. Production just didn't tell them they would get instantly kicked for revealing the fact so they could just be themselves.
