Favorite MTV show, past AND present

Sifl and Ollie of course- where my handle began

Also..... videos

 

Latest old fart to weigh in. Daria was amusing, Beavis & Butthead was inspired, but MTV was never better than when it played wall-to-wall videos.

I watch two music-channel things now -- the VH1 Top 20 on Saturday mornings, and MTV Hits, which is MTV's concession to all of us who liked the old way.

The first night I discovered MTV, at an old college roommate's apartment in Allentown, Pa., in 1981, I stayed up all night enthralled. And nothing transported me quite as much as this video. I knew big change had arrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

EDIT: And this one.

 

OK, not MTV but don't think it deserves a separate thread. Flipped down to VH1 for the first time in forever the other day, and saw their new (I think) dating show.

A guy and a girl go on a blind date, then go on blind dates with 2 or 3 other people. And they are naked. It's called "Dating Naked" or "Naked Dating", I forget which.

And the dates are very touchy-feely. One of them had the naked couple strapped together and doing a tandem ziplining, another had them rubbing mud on each other's bodies, then rinsing off in the surf. Then they all gather at night in a little "clothing optional" resort hut where they drink, swim and talk about the dates. With plenty of jealousy and hooking up ensuing.

That show made me feel very old and "get off my lawn"-ish. Not enough to make me stop watching, but very old nonetheless.

 

UnderGrads was really good. That and the early Real World years, until San Francisco, maybe, were the only reasons to watch MTV. Oh, and of course, the music videos. Does Music Television even play music videos anymore?

 

Daria is the best show MTV ever made.

 

Real World really became something else when roommates started hooking up. I thought Seattle's was interesting. Denver was pretty good, at least three epic meltdowns.

 

Beavis and Butthead and I haven't watched MTV since the Beavis adn Butthead reboot ended.

 

All "reality" shows on MTV, and all their fucking imbecile participants, should have been fucking euthanized with gas.

Spawned the brain-rotting cancer of reality teevee which has consumed pretty much all programming on every network everywhere.

 

Hadn't thought enough about it to make the connection, but yeah, I guess MTV was the pioneer in that area.

Damn them to hell.

 

Present: Ridiculousness
Past: Jackass/Viva La Bam

 

Is there anything less real than reality TV?

 

Old: Remote control. From Stud Boy to Sing Along with Colin to Kari Wuhrer, it hit the late 80s teenage boy trifecta.