This show comes on right after RW so I have seen severael episodes in the last 2 months or so and I have a few issues with the show.
They sure use some shady methods of “proving” these myths right or wrong. For instance they had one where they talked about the story of a man who orders a hooker from an escort service when he is visiting his daughter at college and she shows up at his door as the hooker. The way they “proved” that this was true was by asking a couple of hookers if they had ever heard of it or knew anyone who it had happened too and that was enough to verify the truth of the myth. Not very scientific. The also interviewed a few baseball players to find out if wearing a hat would make you bald.
They need to fire who ever does the editing on this show. You so not see the same image on your screen for more than 3-4 seconds. There is crap flying in and out of the screen non stop thru out the entire show. Its hard to focus on anything.
Same goes for the nararrator. He babbles all these witty lines and ryhmes thru the whole show and makes it very hard to figure out what the hell they are talking about. This dude talks non-stop. That mixed with all the hip tunes they play in the background makes it headache inducing.
I think I will just stick to SDMB and snopes to dispel myths for the time being. This show stinks.
I saw this show on over the weekend when I was lying on my couch sick and they showed the same one twice in just a few hours.
The ones I saw were ok, though easy to disprove, they showed the one about the kidney being removed, being killed by your own farts and the one about pop-rocks and soda. They did have a rep from the Pop Rock company actually eat them and drink some coke. Though I guess he could have died later on!
I didn’t think the show was all that good either though, out of all of them that they show they all turned out to be false, they should have done one or two true ones, actually I think they did one true one but I don’t remember what it was. I think I knew most of the stuff so it wasn’t that intersting to watch and I probably will not again.
Wait, you’re not suggesting a show on MTV should’ve been taken seriously in the first place, are you? All the drwbacks you mention --vague grasp of journalistic methods, herky-jerky cutting, stupid, nonsensical narration-- are just par for the course for that channel.
Pointing all this out is like saying “Hey! The History Channel is showing a program about WWII!”
You know, I was going to post a thread about this too.
I thought the above was truly a bad example of trying to authenticate something. I mean the woman who vouched for it said it happened to a friend of hers-isn’t that how most of these Urban Myths get started??
Also, I can’t stand the rapid picture changes, whoever’s editing the show should be fired.
Snoooopymy frind, she was on the pilot for the Big Urban Myth Show,which was either 1 hour or just 30 minutes. However it was only the pilot. For the actual show they got some robotic sounding VeeJay and a new craptastic editior.
Being from the MTV generation though, I actullay do like the show because it does deal with yths I was wondering about myself, like the Pop Rock one and the one about dogs being cleaner.
I watched the first episode, and thought “That’s irritating, but tolerable for 30 minutes”. Fifteen minutes into the second episode, I stopped watching for good. He’s annoying beyond belief!
I was gonna start a thread about this one too. It really annoys me. Their way of dispelling the myths/legends are for the most part atrocious. I saw one where they attempted to dispell the notion of the correlation between foot size and penis size when erect. They got three, count 'em three, guys and a doctor with a ruler to test this out. Nothing like a large sampling to make it true. Hey, MTV, shut up and play music.
The narrator , the tarribly fast pace of the show, and the crappy job they do at dispelling the myths makes for a bad show. But their target audience are kids, so it doesn’t matter. I’ll stay with snopes.com
