# Ridiculousness the tv show cancelled after 46 seasons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470 "2025-11-01T02:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/45 "2025-11-02T15:30:52Z")
Music video television peaked with VH-1’s “Pop up video”, they should just show that 20 hours a day. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/46 "2025-11-02T15:38:55Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I think MTV read the writing on the wall long before YouTube came around. They started dabbling with original programming in the 1980s, I remember the game show Remote Control the most, starting in the 1990s and continuing into the 2000s, they really started shifting away from music videos to regular television programs. It just happened so gradually a lot of us didn’t really notice it. I remember Remote Control; it was funny. (And I think a very young Adam Sandler was on it.) They also had The Real World starting in 1992, which was before most reality shows. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/47 "2025-11-02T15:57:22Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Music video television peaked with VH-1’s “Pop up video”, they should just show that 20 hours a day. I. Loved. Pop Up Video! I’d usually turn to MTV or VH-1 just to have some background music, but I’d sit down and watch Pop Up Video from beginning to end. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I remember Remote Control; it was funny. (And I think a very young Adam Sandler was on it.) They also had The Real World starting in 1992, which was before most reality shows. Yeah. MTV started with shows that revolved around showing music videos like Yo! MTV Raps, Headbanger’s Ball, Dial MTV, etc., etc. Then they started dabbling with original programming the likes of which you’d see on regular networks like Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes, Remote Control, Just Say Julie, and by the early 1990s they had a big hit with The Real World. By the mid 1990s, they were showing fewer and fewer blocks of music videos in favor of regular programming. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/48 "2025-11-02T16:00:55Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I think MTV read the writing on the wall long before YouTube came around. They started dabbling with original programming in the 1980s, I remember the game show Remote Control the most, starting in the 1990s and continuing into the 2000s, they really started shifting away from music videos to regular television programs. It just happened so gradually a lot of us didn’t really notice it. > > I know I miss the classic MTV but the truth is I certainly wasn’t watching it as much in 1994 as I had been in 1989. The MTV I knew and loved really only lasted for 14 or 15 years. This made me realize that people have been complaining about the dearth of videos on MTV since I was a teen, _30 years ago._ Anyway, here’s a good podcast that came out last year, produced by someone who used to work at MTV, that goes into detail about what happened to the network. And it does mention many of the problems people have stated here - YouTube, advertiser issues with the short format, audience aging out. [Who Killed the Video Star: The Story of MTV - Podcast - Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-killed-the-video-star-the-story-of-mtv/id1738048424) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/49 "2025-11-02T16:05:13Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > This made me realize that people have been complaining about the dearth of videos on MTV since I was a teen, _30 years ago._ Bingo. What a lot of us are remembering is a relatively brief, shining moment in history. At this point, MTV hasn’t been MTV longer than it was MTV. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/50 "2025-11-02T16:17:18Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > This made me realize that people have been complaining about the dearth of videos on MTV since I was a teen, _30 years ago._ The undead channel in the history cable television; it has more vampires than _True Blood_. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/51 "2025-11-02T16:24:17Z")
Pop Up Video was great and what was great about it was the factoids about the videos that we somewhat recently saw and remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/52 "2025-11-02T16:38:38Z")
Liquid Television. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/53 "2025-11-02T18:04:12Z")
Gave us Beavis and Butthead, Daria and Aeon Flux. Loved that show. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/54 "2025-11-02T18:14:23Z")
Now _that_ was cool! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/55 "2025-11-02T18:22:36Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Pop Up Video was great and what was great about it was the factoids about the videos that we somewhat recently saw and remembered. That actually ran on MTV’s sister station, VH1, back when _they_ showed videos, too. > **[Pop-Up Video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Up_Video)** > > Pop-Up Video is a VH1 television show that shows music videos annotated via "pop-up" bubbles — officially called "info nuggets" — containing trivia and witticisms relating to the video in question. The show was created by Woody Thompson and Tad Low and premiered October 27, 1996. For a time, it was the highest-rated program on VH1, though Behind the Music overtook it by 1998. It was originally produced by Spin the Bottle Inc., and later by Eyeboogie Inc. during its original run. > In October 201... ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/56 "2025-11-02T21:21:58Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I. Loved. Pop Up Video! I’d watch a channel that was just devoted to that. Holy crap it was the best. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/57 "2025-11-03T00:18:25Z")
“Beavis and Butthead” has new(er) episodes, on Comedy Central. They also have “Old Beavis and Butthead”, probably the age they would be if the 1990s miscreants aged in real time. Butthead is fat and bald, and Beavis is skinny and wears glasses. They live together in a filthy studio apartment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470.md?page=2)