
Now, it might just be a result of me going tanning, which darkens the color of my skin, but I’m starting to watch MTV again. Not the “music” part of MTV (which ironically stands for music television), but their shows are becoming somewhat appealing to me.
Last night I recorded “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” and watched it this morning. I think Tila Tequila is annoying as annoying can be, at least on her MySpace page, but the show wasn’t horrible. Basically it’s Flavor of Love and I Love New York combined… yes, girls and guys both fight for the bi-sexual’s heart.
As much of a rip-off of the “Flavor of Love” series of shows that it is, it’s kind of understandable because the formula obviously works, and MTV and VH1 are both owned by the same parent network. I found it entertaining that the biggest redneck on the show is an “Elementary Teacher” in West Virginia. I also enjoyed that Tila Tequila is a lot more insulting to the contestants than you’d find on other reality dating competition shows. I watched the season preview at the end of the show, and it looks like a lot of bad ass events like someone going to the hospital, and fighting, and crying will take place. I live for that shit.
Some of my favorite quotes of the first episode are:
“What is penis doing here? Eww… gross.” — angry lesbian
“Who I pissed off in this house?” — angry black man
“I ain’t step aside for anyone” — angry redneck (the Elementary Teacher from West Virginia)
In addition to the Tila Tequila dating mess, I’m also looking forward to the show “Making Menudo” which attempts to re-create the classic boy band. I don’t even know why I’m looking forward to this show. Maybe because I faked sick a lot when I was in elementary school and watched Menudo’s “Behind the Music” like, 450,000 fucking times.
I made the unfortunate error in watching an episode of “The Hills” to see what everyone is talking about, and now I got fucking sucked in to that show. So I’ll be watching that, and the hundred thousand spin-offs with the blonde girls from California who bang random guys and cry about it.
I don’t know. MTV’s lineup of new shows, at least on their evening schedule seems to be shifting away from 10 shows where Nick Cannon screams at the camera in an effort to be funny, and the 999,999,999 shows where people go on a date with 3 people, and then either they or their mom pick a winner. It’s kind of reminiscent of the days when MTV used to be really awesome (Clone High, Sorority Life, Fraternity Life, Undressed, The Real World, Making the Video, TRL before Carson Daly left and became a douche, Say What Karaoke, MTV Cribs, Fear, The Tom Green Show, Ashlee Simpson Show, The Osbournes, The Tom Green Show, Jackass, The Andy Dick Show, Spyder Games, Daria).
Seriously, MTV used to have good shit to watch. But instead of keeping good programming on the air, they find a genre that’s popular and then fucking dominate their entire programming schedule with it. One day someone called MTV and said “Jackass is funny because they break stuff” and then that lit a fire under some executive’s ass and suddenly every MTV show was about breaking shit. It’s hard to entertain and be original when there is not even a slight difference between the shows. Then, after people got sick of seeing Bam Margera’s fucking face EVERY GOD DAMN SECOND ON MTV JESUS CHRIST HE IS ANNOYING they decided to have a million dating shows. The dating shows are so badly scripted they’re not even worth watching. Maybe they should just focus on one dating show and doing it well.
I’m kind of glad MTV is stealing ideas from VH1 now, because I love VH1, and I used to love MTV, and it’d be nice to have a threesome with them someday.