# Vh-1 Just Fucking Stop It. Now **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351 "2002-09-23T22:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/1 "2002-09-23T22:22:31Z")
So I flip on VH-1, not on the off chance that God forbid, they would actually be playing music videos, but just to see what they are playing instead of music videos. Well, since Dad got the HBO package for cable when you change the channel, it takes a few seconds for the picture to come up, but you do get the sound. So… I hear the opening guitar riff from G N’ R’s **Welcome To The Jungle** and I simultaneously have 2 thoughts: 1. COOL!!! I haven’t seen that video in a damn long time. I love it even though it has fairly crappy editing. 2. No, it’s some kind of evil trick. VH-1 NEVER plays videos anymore. /Alex Trebek/ And the answer is… /Alex Trebek/ A little bit of both of my thoughts actually. 'Cause what VH-1 did was show how you could set a montage of scenes from _The Godfather_ to **Welcome To The Jungle** and it **still** makes a pretty cool video. But the downside is that the “video” is being used to promote the fact that VH-1 is having their premiere showing of _The Godfather_ this weekend. Now, I know I had a rant thread on this before, but I’ll delve back into it for a bit, if you’ll allow me. Showing movies like _Valley Girl, UHF_ I can understand those, hell I can even understand showing **9 1/2 Weeks** to a point. But **The Godfather??!!?!?** Not only is there nothing even resmbling pop music in the film, what music there is either jazz, jazz or well, jazz. And I can count on one hand the number of jazz videos that VH-1 has show and all one of them were Candy Dulfer, and even **that** was a pop song. Sheesh.:smack: :smack: :smack: Oh, I happened to catch a few minutes of _Cool As Ice_ and I can’t understand how **ANY** of the actors could read their lines with a straight face, unless maybe they were being threatened with cattle prods. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/2 "2002-09-24T01:17:56Z")
They already show _The Godfathers_ I and II uncut on TNN every other month. Does Viacom have to put the thing on every one of their networks? (Maybe not. They’ll need happy, humorous, child-friendly “mobsters” for Nickelodeon.) [old man]Ah, fer the good old days. When MTV played music, and VH-1 played videos, and AMC actually showed classic American movies, and the Travel Channel actually moved around your room, and the Food Network was edible…[/old man] ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/3 "2002-09-24T01:52:19Z")
yeah, rule of thumb is this: if it’s on one Viacom channel, sooner or later it’ll be on all of them. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/4 "2002-09-24T03:36:25Z")
Saw the commercial, had the same reaction. So VH-1 is turning into TNN-2. And Nick has a kids version of _Robot Wars_. Like the TNN version wasn’t dumb enough. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/5 "2002-09-24T03:42:51Z")
What’s the big deal? VH-1 has occasionally shown movies for as far back as I can remember (which, I do believe, is the entire lifespan of the station.) Not to mention the commercial was unbelievably cool, even to a person who stopped liking GnR a decade ago. Slightly older people who haven’t seen the movie in awhile will probably check it out as well as some younger people who have never seen it. Plus VH-1 is pretty good about not over-editing or having commercials every 5 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/6 "2002-09-25T00:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*What’s the big deal? VH-1 has occasionally shown movies for as far back as I can remember (which, I do believe, is the entire lifespan of the station.) Not to mention the commercial was unbelievably cool, even to a person who stopped liking GnR a decade ago. \*\* Yes, but the movies they **used** to show were at least _vaguely_ related to pop/rock music, even if it was something horrible like _Eddie & The Cruisers II: Eddie Lives_. \*The Godfather \* is **nothing** like that. I actually really liked the commercial, I was just pissed that it wasn’t the actual G N’ R video and how the music was used, ie, how it was manipulated. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/7 "2002-09-26T21:09:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > They already show _The Godfathers_ I and II uncut on TNN every other month. TNN does _not_ show them uncut. They cut all over the place. The producer waking up in bed with the horse head, Michael’s wedding night in Sicily, a whole lot of the revenge against the heads of the other familys violence, and on and on. I know they say they don’t cut but it is one big fat lie. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/8 "2002-09-26T21:30:06Z")
**WSL** , you did intend this for the Pit, right? I hope its being in the Café isn’t intentional because you have been warned about the language. I suggest you email a Mod and politely ask them to move your OP so you don’t risk getting banned. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vh-1-just-fucking-stop-it-now/129351/9 "2002-09-26T21:31:20Z")
Or at least ask them to clean up the thread title.