Oh, but Sorority Girls is, like, so good!
Ditzy, buxom blondes with impossibly curly hair crying because they can’t get trashed every night. Oh boo hoo already.
I haven’t watched MTV since the late 80s. For a while, I’d watch the Top 100 countdown on New Year’s Eve, then, not even that any more.
Chastain86, I believe Cox digital cable has MTV2 in Phoenix. DirecTV sure does, but I don’t know what channel it is - I never watch it.
I hate most of the music that’s out now, anyway. Why would I want to watch videos of it?
And they’ve ALWAYS played way too many commercials.
Personally, I’d stack Martha Quinn up against any of the silicon-based talking heads they’ve got on MTV now. There’s one girl they’ve got now (I don’t watch enough to know what show she’s on–something on a beach) who is so pointlessly inane that she actually makes me feel stupider the more I listen to her babble. Honest to gawd, I can feel my intelligence draining away whenever she opens her mouth! At some point I’m guessing I’ll be so moronic that I’ll forget how to use a remote; it’s probably the only way I’ll ever become a regular MTV watcher again.
actually viacom still owns the rights to air some of the episodes of the young ones …
Comedy central used to have marathons when they werent showing ab-fab a few years ago
On a sort of related note doens any one see any new stand up comedy on comedy central ?
Last time i botherd to watch al lthey ran was old snl &kids in theh all and showed mst3k movie rejects
Daria is shown on Nickelodeon. Look for it in the late PM.
I only know this because some of my friends watch that crap. All males, they are, and the irony kills me.
Hey, I remember it and I’m pretty young, so it can’t be that bad 
Err… Actually, I think all I remember of it were some Aeon Flux shorts and (I think) the first Bevis and Butthead bit. Been way too long, but I remember anxiously waiting to see it, and being so dissapointed when it stopped showing. I think that was the last time I really watched MTV, too.
Now I’m surprised anyone even watches MTV. Almost no music, and it seems like most of the shows they do are just to try and shock people by all sorts of weird and idiotic stuff. Pretty pathetic and annoying, really.
[sub]shhh…I saw those too![/sub]
Oooh, I remember when I was in high school, they had this completely kickass sketch comedy show called “The State”. Anyone remember that one?
“I’m Doug. I’m OOUUUTAAA here…”
I remember the State. Barely watched it though. HEehe
"Remember when “The Young Ones” was on MTV? “Remote Control”? “The Ben Stiller Show”? "
raises hand Yup! It’s been like ten years…eeesh…
I don’t remember “The Young Ones”-what was that? I remember
“Remote Control” though-I had an 11 year old’s crush on Colin Quinn. Just shut up, okay?
It was about 3 college roomates in the uk that had nothing in commen with each other
there was a conversative prissy type … your typical punk … and a conartist type that never went to class
Good shows on Mtv: Beavis & Butthead, Daria, Aeon Flux, The State 
, and…AmP.
Now AmP was THE greatest stoner show ever created. It was always aired in late night multiple hour marathons and had no commercials during the program. The entire show was just wierd, totally trippy electronica music videos played back to back. I must have been the only person who ever watched it though, no one I mentioned it to had ever heard of it, but it still aired for a good year or more before it disappeared.
I miss that show 
It was a fairly anarchic (for the time, at least) comedy about four stereotyped student housemates–a hippy, a ladies man, a punk and a ‘right on’ leftie.
“Kenny wasn’t like the other kids,
Remote Control.
TV mattered, nothing else did,
Remote Control.
Girls said ‘yes’, but he said ‘no’,
Remote Control.
Now he’s got, his own TV show.”
I remember Remote Control giving a start to the careers of Adam Sandler (hurray) and Colin Quinn (boooo). I was SOOO glad when they got rid of it and replaced it eventually with Singled Out (sigh).
I forget the time, but if you keep an eye open on BBC America, you will find episodes of The Young Ones on every now and then. I just saw Bambi (with musical guest Motorhead!) about three weeks ago and it is still as funny as ever, though I always hated the one guy who does the stand-up. That was the only flaw in an otherwise perfect show.
Hell, I’d give my left nut just to see Beavis and Butthead again. Compared to the crap on MTV now, B&B is Masterpiece Theater.
The only channel I know of that shows videos around the clock is VH1 Classics, but of course nobody gets that channel (we do, though). They show stuff from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Just a word that there is salvation somewhere, even though it’s very remote (no pun intended).
Wow. One of my friends in high school had a Craftmatic Adjustable Bed. I used to like to go over there and fold myself in half.
“DEAD or CANADIAN!”
Shoot, people were complaining about MTV programming in 1987! I remember a “project”, I guess you’d call it, called “Amuck in America”. It was like a prototypical Road Rules: a crew, headed by, I think, Alan Hunter, toured America, getting people to do things like try to cram a dorm full of college students into one dorm room. Then there was a promotion where MTV was going to give someone their own town, and some kind of Beastie Boys-related promotion…and people were already saying, “If this is the best they can do, they’re doomed.”
No one’s mentioned 120 Minutes yet! “Two double cheese, side order of fries!”
I also remember when MTV had to be pressured into playing Michael Jackson’s videos, or, for that matter, anything performed by someone darker than CoffeeMate. Now they play more rap and hip-hop than they do rock. I would smile cynically, except that I’m sure management has turned over at least ten times since the MJ decision.
Also, for a brief time, MTV had were TWO Julie Browns. There was the ditsy-acting “Downtown Julie Brown”, but she was preceded by the tall British sistah. Or was she the “Downtown” one? Anyway, there were two VJs by that name.
Uh, no.
Cox does NOT carry MTV2, or I’d have it. And be watching it. Probably right now.
DirecTV does NOT equal Cox. And probably just as well. I’ve heard enough bad things about DTV to want to stay away from that as well.
Mrs. Chastain and I popped on MTV just a couple days ago out of habit, and happened to catch TRL, with whatever new asshat they’ve got to replace Carson Daly. Just pathetic.
Anybody know whatever happened to Dave Holmes? The last VJ that didn’t annoy the everloving piss out of me. And he obviously knew his shit, unlike all the pretty little puppets they’ve got on now. Fuck.
Sifl and Olly was the greatest MTV show ever, too bad MTV screwed them over. The bastards! :mad:
I get it here in Milwaukee on my Time/Warner Digital cable, and it’s EXCELLENT! Much of it is very much like the early days of MTV, before it started to suck so bad. Why do the fucking call it Music Television when the don’t play any music on it?
:mad: