It’s like an hour-long argument in favor of permanently repealing the estate tax, because if 90% of these rich idiot offspring had to actually fend for themselves in the real world, they’d be dead in six months.
The premise, if you’re unfamiliar, is about a dozen spawn of the rich and “famous,” all in their mid-to late 20s by the look of them, go to the Saddleback Ranch and drive cattle to market for charity. Um, OK. They’re scraping the bottom of the fame barrel for these kids. Lou Ferrigno’s daughter, one of Anthony Quinn’s two dozen or so illegitimate kids, the daughter of the guy who founded Yahoo? E! is even cannibalizing other rich bitch reality shows by casting one of the horrid Gastineaus from “The Gastineau Girls.”
One highlight of the first episode was Noah Blake, son of unconvicted murderer Robert Blake, repeatedly saying his cattle driving team did well by saying “we murdered.” The other highlight was the Gucci Jeans Incident. One of the interchangeable skinny white bitches was trying to throw her leg over a horse but her tight jeans were restricting her movements. The (white) ranch hand assigned to these dimwits said something about how she should stop wearing Gucci jeans and wear proper ranching attire. She flipped out at the idea that she’d be caught dead in Gucci jeans, and later either she or another of the interchangeable skinny white bitches accused the guy of being “almost racist” for making the comment. Yeah, because criticising even obliquely your fashion sense and your willingness to spend more on a pair of jeans than some people pay for rent for a month is amazingly similar to busting out the N-word.
Amazing. I didn’t watch the show, but this incident sounds truly bizarre. Could she have meant “almost sexist” rather than “almost racist”??? Or is “Rich Bitch” now a protected class, and any slur upon this group considered “hate speech”?
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Most rich kids are not impressive. Most non-rich kids are not impressive. The level of non-impressiveness does not change by parental income that I have ever been able to determine. The only thing that possibly effects outcome is parenting, and the “skill” which makes one a “good” parent is not related to any skills that determine ones financial success.
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Caught the marathon of this trainwreck over the weekend and had to comment.
Fabian is a serious waste of human flesh. Had to be said.
The rest of it was fairly amusing. Too much arguing, but the clueless utterings of the rich and spoiled were just too funny. Just when you think they can’t be any more bratty, they prove you wrong. Fortunately, some of them seemed to learn a few things through the experience.
Unlike Otto, though, I think this was more like an argument for seriously jacking up the estate tax. That any of these yahoos will be tying up a significant share of national capital does not reflect well on the country (the lone British contribution to the cast was one of the few decent ones).
Did I mention Fabian is a serious waste of human flesh?
The one that got me was when they decided the ranch hands needed “makeovers” because they wear “flared jeans”. Yeah, cuz they were BOOTS, you idiots. Unlike most of y’all they feel more comfortable in appropriate attire for the job at hand.
I got a kick out of the Yahoo bitch getting all bothered about Alex going out with that ranchhand’s cousin despite the fact that he’s married. Was it my imagination, or did she not chase him shamelessly during the entire cattle drive?
And another thing - no one came to Alexander’s defense agaisnt Fabian until the next morning, when Fabian was still passed out? With friends like that yadda yadda yadda.
They had to pay those cowboys an awful lot to put up with that bunch, didn’t they? Didn’t they? Oh, never mind, I know a few cowboys that would do that for free just for the snark opportunities.
I saw a couple of episodes and got the impression some of them are doing a Cartman “Wha’ever, wha’ever, I do wha’ I want!” intentional snotty snobby one upmanship for screentime and to stretch that fifteen minutes by a few seconds.
The title Filthy Rich irritates me because for most it’s just not true, though Moderately Privileged probably wouldn’t sound as good. (True, if your father owns Yahoo or half of Ecuador then you probably grew up in great luxury, but I can’t imagine that being the son of Robert Blake and Lou Ferrigno was more than very comfortable [especially since Blake now has a worth of around $1 million and liabilities of twice that] and Anthony Quinn, while loaded, had 14 kids to support and left most of his change to his last wife and their two little ones.
Anyway, still a good exhibit for ‘Class Warfare: Arguments For’; the themesong should be A New Argentina.
Pretty much, although it seemed to be her particular personal delusion that no way was she was interested in him after the beginning when her repeated protests (over and over and over again) made it obvious she would jump him in a heartbeat.
Also, my wife thought Noah and Shanna, for all their heated arguing, should just f*ck and get it over with.
The idea for this show was thought up by none other then Jessica Simpson’s creepy dad. I believe he is the producer. Ick.
And Fabian is an asshole. A few weeks ago, there was a quote from him where he (basically) said this when asked what he does in his spare time, “My wife and I have lots of sex. We’re beautiful and that is what beautiful people do.” 1: He isn’t that attractive. 2: Either is his wife (I’m too lazy to dig up a cite). 3: So, um, ugly people aren’t procreating now?
