| I'm sure I'm the 6 billionth person to point this out but it sucks that MTV gradually slipped away from showing music videos. Sure there's "TRL" but they show what, 30 seconds of a music video? And half of that 30 seconds is filled with a smaller box on the corner featuring a girl screaming something like "OHMIGOD THE LEAD SINGER OF MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE IS SO HOT I WANNA DO HIM! AHHHHH!!!!!!!"
To everyone who isn't between the age group of 13-19 often wonder to themselves and outloud on various blogs what happened to MTV. I actually can pinpoint it. It was the day they started "The Real World". It was the first show that had nothing to do with music. Even "Beavis and Butthead" featured music videos. But since "The Real World", we've gotten a shitload of other equally horrible "reality" shows, including "Road Rules", "Real World/Road Rules Challenge" "The Challenge" and whatever other show that out now that features people named Tiffany and Skylar mountain climbing to win 25 thousand dollars and a new car. But another new wave of horrible shows took the airwaves. The dating show. It started simple enough with "Singled Out", but now that we're in the 2000's, they've gotten extreme, or simply put, more retarded. The few that come to mind when I think of modern day dating shows on MTV are "Room Raiders", a show where a person decides who to date just by simply looking at the crap in their room. Let me tell you, if I was on this show, I would probably be single for a long, long time. Wait, I take that back. I have a kickass room. I got a Pulp Fiction poster, a cabinet full of obscure B-movies, a cool computer, and tons of porn. What girl wouldn't find that attractive? Secondly, there's "Next", which is way too hard to simply describe. Something to do with a bus, five people, a dater, the dater dating the five people one at a time, the dater not liking something so they shout NEXT!, and something to do with money. To explain the show properly, I'd need to go to college for another 10 years. Third, there's a show called "Dismissed", which is only awful because it's like a threesome gone horribly wrong. A person goes on a date with two people and at the end they gotta pick one person. And the entire time the two people are just talking crap to each other. I'd love nothing more in the world than to have two girls fight over me, but there is a line between sexy and annoying. The fourth show is "Parental Control", which isn't that bad of a show honestly. The parents hate the person their son/daughter is dating so they find two other people to date them, and the son/daughter has to choose between the two dates or stay with their boyfriend/girlfriend. There's many problems I can point out with this show, but compared to the other shows mentioned, this one is like the "Citizen's Kane" of dating shows. There's also "My Own" which is just downright fuckin' creepy and I don't wanna think too much about this, so we'll just skip it and move on. So where am I going with all of this? Well..."Date My Mom". When you hear that title without ever seeing the show, I'm sure a bunch of different scary images come to mind. When I told my friend Adam about this show, he went into a coma for a few days. When he got out, I explained the show to him and he tried to strangle me for introducing him to the most evil thing on the face of the planet. So why should we be the only ones who have to suffer? The premise of "Date My Mom" is as follows: There's a person, whom I'll call "The Dater", who is looking for a mate because they have extremely low self esteem and have no choice but to go on a horrible MTV dating show. Instead of just dating three people chosen by MTV (That's a scary thought right there), the Dater is going to date the three people's MOM'S! So basically it's a show for "MILF" lovers. And if all of that isn't bad enough, the entire show comes off has forced and horribly over-written and even more horribly under-acted. And it is these reasons alone that convinced me that I needed to review this show for this site. There's nothing I can say or do to prepare you for the horror that is "Date My Mom", so just strap yourself in, and click on the link below. And please, don't hate me too hard for putting this into your psyche. |
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