MTV Network
Written: Aug 30 '01
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Pros: Road Rules and TRL will keep you coming back for them.
Cons: Shows like Jack A** and the Tom Green Show are vile and disgusting.
The Bottom Line: One bad apple spoils the bunch, make sure to watch what your kids are watching!
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| ImAmes's Full Review: MTV |
I used to love to turn on MTV to see my favorite music video playing, crank it up, and either do my homework, or now, clean my home. However, as each year passed by, MTV seems to be going more and more down hill, and it TRULY scares me. Why? Because the channel was about playing music, of ALL sorts, and keeping it semi-clean so that my parents wouldn't have a fit if I watched it occasionally.
Now, all I see are the oddest shows that involve bodily harm or fluids, and the only thing I can stand anymore is TRL and Road Rules.
Let me explain.. I am only 27, so I am in that middle category of still being young, yet old enough to know what I want for MY own children to watch some day. Now obviously, young children should NEVER watch MTV, I am talking when they get into the age of understanding and wanting more out of their music.
So what am I so appalled with? Shows like "Jack A**" and the "Tom Green Show" make me literally sick. Yes, I know what you are going to say, obviously I have seen them to know what I am talking about, and yes, I have! No, I dont tune into see them, but have the unfortunate run in to pass by them on a dead night of television. I wanted to see what the heck was all the hub-bub about this "Jack A**" show. The first 10 minutes of the show I just sat there and stared with my mouth open- not only could I not believe that people would actually do these crazy stunts, but that they were involving the real public to view this as entertainment. The show I saw was about a guy named Johnny Knoxville who decided to be put in a port-a-potty, full to the brim with excrement, and be turned over by a crane, flooding and soaking him with human fesces. Excuse me, but how is this entertaining? I think people see it as a car accident, you don't want to look, but you are curious as to what has or what will happen. The skateboard and other stunts are so incredibly dangerous, that I can't imagine MTV thinking that some deranged child would NOT try this at home!
Then there is the Tom Green Show, what a fine example for young people to follow. Tom Green hosts his own show with his sidekick and they pull pranks on the innocent public. What I find more humiliating for the show, is that Tom's own co-worker and friend, had his real phone number plastered on the show TRL for everyone to see! Not only is that an invasion of privacy, but Tom took it as funny- showing no remorse until later, and even then not taking his apology very seriously. Yes, he CAN be funny, but I don't know who in their right mind would allow their son to tape them sleeping in their bedroom at night, or bring in farm animals INTO the house to pee all over everything.
On the lighter side, I will say that I tune in to see Road Rules because I love the adventures they get to go on. Road Rules is where they take three girls and three boys and send them to exotic places where they have to complete tasks to get their handsome reward. This year, if they do not complete a task, one person must be voted off- seems that Survivor has started alot of "voting off" copy cats out there.
I also do enjoy Carson Daly's TRL Show now and then, but I get sick and tired of trying to enjoy a video, only to hear some whacked out girl scream something about the video, that I can never understand, and then scream for no reason. I think MANY of you would agree with me that they should cut those audience participation parts out and let us hear and see the video in peace! They also seem to LOVE cutting off the video early, and I can understand that the MTV production crew probably gets sick and tired of hearing the same songs every day, but WE, the public, may not- so play the ENTIRE video please!
I think MTV is a great source to view a good music video, but you will have a hard time finding it or hearing it on TRL. Most of the shows are for college age children and adults, but other than Road Rules, tune into something else.
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Average Program Rating: TV MA -- mature audiences only
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