The first link doesn’t work for me. As for the second, that’s actually pretty cool!
That was last week’s Fear Factor. This is a whole new different show.
Hey featherlou, I would normally agree with you. Maybe it’s just the phrasing that got to me.
Nobody has to “happen” to view a “few” episodes of any particular program. Takes me less than 15 seconds to see what’s crap and what isn’t. It’s not the “don’t watch it if you don’t want to see it” thing. It’s the “don’t sit there in appalled fascination for 1 and a half hours or more and then complain about the programming you’re contributing to” thing. Fuck, switch to PBS and watch how cardboard’s made, read a damn book, spend the time writing to this message board writing to MTV’s board complaining.
It’s not all girls. The boys are just as bad, but they want more sex.
The boys are just as bad about their sweet sixteen parties?
Ah, I say the producers told these girls and their families exactly what they wanted to see - it’s all acting. (Well, maybe not *all * of it.) And the price fo these parties is almost certainly being paid out by the show.
Oh yeah,
The one show I watched, well about 80% before I blacked out, featured a boy from the suburbs of Philly. I remember the part where he and dad took a trip to NYC to audition ‘dancers’ to be on stages or in cages at his party.
For me, it gives me a better understanding of how cool my teenaged son & daughter turned out… must’ve done something right…
I say you’re wrong.
Maybe if I had some fireworks and short length of hose…
I’ve sat through one of the Sweet 16 shows. My stepdaughter told me about one episode featuring a girl who used to live in our hometown so I had to watch it just to see pictures of our podunk little craptown. I was appalled by how much of a little bitch this girl was.
MTV is not ridiculing these girls; they are celebrating them. One only needs to look at Paris Hilton’s meteoric rise in popularity to discern that the current young generation is being taught that money and prestige and Louis Vuitton and Prada and itty-bitty Chihuahuas are all you need to get anywhere in life.
From what I’ve heard, fireworks and a short hose don’t go together.
As for that Hilton show, Mama got it all over her brats in the looks department. May be a bitch but she fine.
I’m confident that for most of them, the cold, hard bitchslap that is reality will take care of this attitude. Most people will have nowhere near the money and prestige it takes to pull this off successfully. If you’re a vacant-headed 22-year-old middle-class chick in from a small town, it’s exceedingly unlikely anyone is going to let you design purses or hand you a reality show.
I work with college students trying to enter the real world of work. It’s quite a shock to some of them that no one is waiting to shower them with cash for all that fun they had at frat parties and bars and clubs while pulling down a B average and doing absolutely jack-shit else.
See, this is why the aristocracy has something to be said about it.
Sure they inherit the money, but they also inherit some class, treat the staff nicely and don’t blow everything in one trip to Tiffany. Then, in a few generations when death duties, divorces, bad business decisions and one too many coke heads in the family tree deplete the wealth, at least the class will remain.
Plenty of people manage to grow up with money and still act like decent human beings…it’s the parents who give them this sense of entitlement, no-one else.
I can’t see these girls taking care of mom and pop in their old age, or even springing for a nice retirement home and that is quite appropriate revenge on these people for inflicting their spoiled spawn on the world.
Yeah, I can see your point. If it’s that awful, don’t tune in every week. But I still say that tv producers don’t have to much such terrible shows. They do, and we all know why they do, but they don’t have to.
I see your assertion and raise you Chuck, Di, Fergie, Randy Andy, Nazi Willy, and all of Rainier and Grace’s kids.
I distinctly remember the episode with the girl who was half Jewish and half something middle eastern (can’t remember what she was exactly…but she had the really slutty dress that mom flew her to Paris to find, bitched about wanting a Land Rover and not a Mercedez, and was carried into her party by big men). At the end of the party, dad brought out the check book and wrote the two hundred and something thousand dollar check.
And I think MTV is making fun of these girls. Look at the editing- they make a point to show how stupid, spoiled, and bitchy these girls are. MTV could have easily turned it into a “Look how cool this party is!” show, but instead it is a “Look at these brats and how they get whatever they want including a crazy party” show.
Just my $.02
Do you expect their website to be anything other than promotional? The whole point of the show is that the kids are spoiled rotten. That’s what the producers want. It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not.
I’m not saying it couldn’t be real. But seriously, I think they are just showing off for the camera. If the show is paying for it (and expenses are easy to arrange) 250 grand a show is not neccessarily out of the ballpark. It all dependws on how much commercial revenue it gets.
Forgetting the “what it’s really like” part, in what way is 16 a major turning point in anybody’s life? In some states you get a learner’s permit to drive, but what the fuck did I miss?
You made a claim (without any kind of evidence) that the show probably provided all of the expenses for the party.
I provide a cite that the parents are the ones who “lavished” the gifts and whatnot…and you’re questioning my cite? Okay… :dubious:
Of course the kids acted differently because the cameras were there (Most people DO act different in some ways if they know they’re being filmed.) But part of the premise of the show (which one can surmise from the website) is linking the kid’s behavior with their parent’s behavior. If the parent’s are not involved financially…that pretty much defeats that particular point of the show.