# Is this really what MTV wanted to say? (a tad gross) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444 "2002-11-29T04:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/1 "2002-11-29T04:03:32Z")
Still, it’s nice of them to finally admit what we’ve been saying all along. I was in the gym last night and the monitor over my treadmill was playing MTV-Japan when the following commercial came on: A young guy is sitting on a sidewalk with a cardboard box full of records he’s selling on one side, and a toilet on the other. A pedestrian walks by, ignoring him. The young man then gets up, goes over to the toilet, drops his pants, and sits down for a few seconds (the volume was muted, so I don’t know if there were sounds effects). He then pulls up his pants, gets up, looks back at the toilet and lifts the seat. He then reaches in and pulls out a double-handfull of shit, which the camera cuts to a close-up of. It looks, brown, soft, sticky and unmistakably shit-like (granted, its shape looks more like cow than human). He then slaps it down on the ground and starts kneading it with his hands (again, more close-ups). After shaping it into a flat patty, he then slams down a large press on top of it. When he lifts the press up again, the lump has been transformed into a vinyl record, with a bright red “M-TV” label on it. He then adds it to his box of records for sale. Now, I don’t think I’m being overly cynical when the message I come away with is “M-TV: Yeah, it’s shit.” Has this been running in other countries? (p.s. this is mundane and pointless, but since it deals with music, MTV and commercials, I posted it in the Cafe) ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/2 "2002-11-29T04:08:14Z")
Given what MTV in the states tries (and fails miserably) to pass off as intelligent programming, that’s not very surprising. MTV probably thinks they are being _edgy_ or _chic_ or _hip_ or _happening_ or some s\*\*\* like that.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/3 "2002-11-29T05:03:55Z")
Man, who knew **WSLer** was such an incurable cynic? **Sublight,** what gym do you go to? Mine doesn’t play cool stuff like MTV Asia. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/4 "2002-11-29T05:22:51Z")
It was at Tipness in Akasaka (the ones in Shibuya and Machida also have them). It’s pretty neat, they have a bank of muted TVs set to different channels, with headphone attachments for all the bikes and stair machines. ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/5 "2002-11-29T06:32:55Z")
Yeah, I use the Shibuya branch, but we don’t get any nice channels like MTV Asia. It’s all TBS as far as I can tell… ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/6 "2002-11-29T07:12:05Z")
Hokey smokes! MTV Asia wouldn’t be playing that would they? (I’m guessing MTV Asia and MTV Japan are two different but related entities. MTV Asia comes out of Singapore and given the censorship rules locally they wouldn’t allow such artistic material to be broadcast) (-ho hum, remind me to gripe about the censorship and bad editing of movies here -blah blah blah). MTV India is also different, I don’t know if they’d be playing that… So, no, I’ve not seen this ad on english or chinese MTV Asia. Has anyone else? Gene-o! ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/7 "2002-11-29T07:40:04Z")
Just out of curiousity, was there a young lady whose name, if she used her real name, was given as Ann (or Anne, or some phonetic that’s ‘ann’) that spoke perfect english? She would have been on sometime in the last 3-5 years. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/8 "2002-11-29T08:07:00Z")
MTV Japan is separate from MTV Asia, although both are available through SkyPerfecTV. I don’t know which one this was, but I think it was Japan. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/9 "2002-11-29T08:37:13Z")
'Light: I would figure the two being separate entities. MTV Asia tends to be quite generic, playing a lot of Ameri-English stuff, and a sampling of Bahasa Melayu/Indonesia and Philippino stuff too. The Chinese station tends to be HK, Taiwan and Singapore stuff (although the S’pore stuff is limited) and a fairly hefty does of J-pop. MTV Japan wouldn’t need a focus that broad given the musical diversity originating inside Japan. We also get ads for Channel [V], which no longer broadcasts in Singapore. I know not why. Tristan: This Ann of whom you speak, I know nothing… El Gene-o! ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/10 "2002-11-29T18:52:30Z")
If a certain negative statement is what they mean by pressing a BM into a record, I’m inclined to agree. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/11 "2002-11-29T19:08:32Z")
Maybe they’re trying (and failing) to say “MTV is the schnizzit!” or however that’s spelled. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/12 "2002-12-04T22:44:18Z")
I believe you mean “shizznit”. I used my Dogg - English dictionary. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-what-mtv-wanted-to-say-a-tad-gross/139444/13 "2002-12-04T22:54:19Z")
I don’t think we’ll be seeing that in the states anytime soon.