This is a shameless, all kinds of wrong send-up of the trashy dating "game show" Baggage, which airs on GSN in the USA and stars Jerry Springer.
For those unfamiliar with the formula:
One bachelor must select from three hopeful bachelorettes who each have baggage no sane person would admit to anyone, let alone air on national television. The bachelor must wade through the increasingly horrific personal baggage, and at the end of the show, must choose the one of the three whose baggage is the least run-and-scream-worthy. However, the bachelor himself ALSO has a big piece of baggage, which is revealed at the very end, allowing the girl he's chosen to opt out of the date if his baggage is just too much.
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Fast cancellation
3369065 The "Cancelled" tag is a joke. As in, TV shows that are so bad they're immediately cancelled. :P
I had a lot of fun reading this. Spotting the references to the comics was neat, and the subtle implications of Fleetfoot's baggage got some good chuckles out of me. Gotta say though, the 'Cancelled' tag on the story might be a bit confusing to some people. I get the joke, of course, but I'm just worried that other people may look at it, see that word, and ignore a story that's absolutely worth a read because of it.
I gotta agree with Mook, the cancelled thing only makes sense after reading.
Hilarious little fic, though. Planning any more game show parodies?
On a side note, I wish the real Baggage would be cancelled... Trashy is right. The current version of the Newlywed Game too. Way more tawdry than funny.
3369160 Yeah, the "Cancelled" joke wasn't as funny as I thought it was. Changed it to "Complete".
i have never heard of this show.
3370836 If you couldn't tell, you aren't missing anything. The best description I can come up with for Baggage is "parade of human filth".
It's too bad this is complete, I'd love to see more episodes.
At least it was a fair fight and they were all good sports about it.
I don't think I'd be able to watch the human version of this show though, sounds like garbage.
3376531 It's complete garbage. But it's like a train wreck. You're horrified, but you just can't look away...
3376531 Don't believe him? Here's some small clips. It's terrible, and I hope to GOD it's fake...
http://www.youtube.com/show/baggage
3380549 I can tell even without looking that it isn't fake, because that's the show's official Youtube channel.
3380814 I mean that the actual show was fake. You know, like a good bit of reality TV. Though I suppose some of this shit you just can't make up.
3381494 Unfortunately, it's not scripted.
Why have you not continued this?
And hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing!
It's glorious!
3540506 Glad you liked it. :)
I have no plans to continue this story, unfortunately. Just writing the one episode was torture enough.
3540507 Ahh, oh, well.
Dammit. Guess I'll just have to check out the rest of your fanfics. 
Also, Fleetfoot is Scootaloo's mom? That's one I haven't seen before.
3540510 And Rainbow Dash's half-sister. Twisted, innit?
3540512 Yes.
You magnificent bastard, you.
3540514 We do try.
And Princess Twilight sufferers from OCD !
That was pretty hilarious. I actually feel rather stupid for not catching the Rainbow Dash relation right away, but everything else was great. Bit disturbed by the fact that Cheerilee did what she did. Who is he supposed half-sister by the way?
3950066 I'm going to assume you're referring to Cheerilee's sister and not Fleetfoot's half-sister since you said you got that one. Cheerilee's isn't half-sister, it's just sister. And nopony in particular, I just threw that in at random with no particular pony in mind.
3950085 Oh, must have misread something. Actually kind of glad to know that none of our beloved background ponies were hurt in the making of this story. But why is Cheerilee not in jail if her sibling is dead?
3950094 What you misread was "I beat my sister half to death". You read that as "I beat my half-sister to death".
3950105 Damn you dyslexia!
Interesting...
Jesus Christ, man. Feetfoot's a bitch, Cheerilee's a psychopath, Big Mac is a creeper, and Fluttershy is adorable.
The thing that caught me off guard was two bits about Fleetfoot's baggage.
Distinctive mane, half sister, and foal given up for adoption because doctors said she'd never fly...
Fleetfoot is Rainbow Dash's illegitimate half-sister and Scootaloo's mother...wtf...
On that note, I have a suggestion for something along these lines you could do.
Discord holds a "The Bachelor" type game (one 'bachelor' on stage, three 'bachelorettes' behind screens and with their voices garbled, and after numerous questions the 'bachelor' chooses one to date, and then it's revealed who each one is). The reason Discord's holding it, though, is to help liven up Shining Armor's wedding anniversary, and the 'bachelorettes' are Cadence, Twilight, and Chrysalis. And no one knows who's who until after the show, when Discord flees.
5019119 I'd write it on commission, but not of my own volition.
5019749
I have no money for commission...
5019842 Them's the breaks...
Ah well, at least there's "Let's Get Boyfriends" to scratch that itch.
5019881
Is that what's going on there?
5019888 Kindasortasimilar. Pinkie challenges her friends to a game where they all draw a stallion's name out of a bag and then try to hook up with him. It's comment-driven, so each round of matchups is decided by the readers. I'm in the middle of writing the first set now; some of them will invariably (and hilariously) fail, and then there'll be a second round of voting. I'm currently planning to torpedo at least three of the first round matches.
That last line almost sums up the entire show. The only part missing is "Oh, and by the way, this is all completely faked." hilarious and clever story.