MTV’s True Life… I can’t turn it off
For some reason I flip around the channels when bored and come across MTV’s True Life I can’t change the channel even if I have watched the episode before. It isn’t because I feel that the story these people are telling is helpful or even that interesting. It mostly revolves around the fact that I can’t believe they would sign up for a show and reveal the dumbest things ever about them.
The subject for the show I saw yesterday was about people that were addicted to porn. Two of the people recorded were severely overweight men and really two guys that you would automatically assume love porn just by looking at them. One was a guy that was about to get divorced and lose his wife and four kids. The other was an out of work dude that lived with his grandmother and watched an average of ten hours of porn a day. Now maybe the reason they signed up was that it would help motivate them to quit or something of that nature which is commendable. But really do you want to be recognized for the rest of your life as the guy that was addicted to porn on MTV?
Each season there are at least 3-4 shows with subjects where I wouldn’t want to be tied to. From people that are constantly cheating on their significant others to people that are battling a massive drug addiction or cutting themselves. Whatever the case may be why would anyone want to be associated with some of these issues?
The thing is now MTV is running out of ideas and I suspect these are some of the episodes we will be seeing in the near future.
I have an addiction to whippets- MTV follows around three young people that can’t resist going into the grocery store and scoring some Ready Whip in order to get high. Thing get really bad when an 18 year old girl from Wisconsin passes out in the dairy aisle and when she comes to offers to blow a stock boy for just one more can.
I’m a creepy pedophile- Three men are followed around as they reintegrate into their neighborhood after spending time in jail as a sex offender. It is set around Halloween, which is the most challenging time for them to overcome their addiction.
I’m a Scientologist- Watch three young people throw away thousands of dollars to reach enlightenment with the ultimate goal of meeting Tom Cruise and doing something with aliens. Of course MTV ‘s film crew “disappears” during the filming and the “church” sues MTV into bankruptcy because they felt like they were portrayed in a negative light.
Maybe that last one is a win/win situation.
Have you ever watched an episode of MTV’s True Life? Which one is your favorite?
why pick on Scientology when there are still so many Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses? They’re just as daft and only send out their lawyers when bigamy, pedophilia, and blood transfusions are on the line…
Mormans and Jehovahs don’t charge for magic underwear. Seems like a better deal to me.
Mormans and Jehovahs don’t charge tons of cash for their magic underwear. Sounds like a bargain to me.
Ah, True Life, good stuff. My favorite is one of the originals, “I’m Getting Married,” from like 2002. Three couples, a rich couple where the princess of a wife-to-be tatoos her eyebrows, the gay couple that don’t get much screen time, and the Brooklyn couple where the groom threatens to disembowel his limo driver for being a few minutes late.
Good times, good times. I caught one the other day that was filmed in my neighborhood about kids going to prom. Stupid episode, but the camera goes past my house!
Never seen it. I stopped watching MTV when they stopped playing music. Though I will admit, I used to break this rule every once in awhile. Best hangover do nothing all day activity is when they would have a Real World marathon. I couldn’t stop watching. Just lie in bed and vegetate.
I like the episodes where people rent seedy hotel rooms to smoke crack, but still have the camera crew go in there. Kinda purpose defeating, no?
I can’t remember what year it was shown but it was about a group of douchebags doing motorcycle stunts for a competition. its funny watching douchers getting hurt.
True Life could successfully pull off at least 4 more episodes filmed on the Jersey Shore and I wouldn’t complain one bit. Its the ultimate douche-baggery…and I can’t look away.