Word: mtv
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...with me." He's about to be married, and is worried that his leaky bowels will embarrass him during the ceremony. At times, this gentle, articulate guy shows the pressure of a film crew's crowding presence. "You wanna film my fridge?" he asks Spiro. "What are we on, MTV Cribs...
...actions speak louder than elegy, it tells you where we are that the team coverage on the eve of the sixth anniversary of 9/11 alternated between General Petraeus' performance on Capitol Hill and Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Osama returned to prime time, only to be mocked for his "impotence" and apparent need for Grecian Formula. A New Jersey community that lost 100 people that day has had to delay expansion of its memorial because fundraising fell short. September 11 falls once again on a Tuesday, we are six years away from the fire, and wondering...
...MTV...
...list of the most influential shows misses the point of how people watch TV in the cable age: they watch networks--HGTV, ESPN, Nickelodeon--as much as they do shows. MTV, in the pre--Real World era, was the first network to teach viewers to watch this way. Quick-cut and compressed, music videos were not just a new way of selling music; they changed TV series (the pitch for Miami Vice was simply "MTV cops") and influenced movies (graduating directors like Spike Jonze, David Fincher and Michel Gondry). The best clips from MTV's all-video '80s heyday--from...
...those who would call this MTV cartoon the boob tube at its most puerile, I have but one rejoinder: You said boob. This show's fart-knocking, frog-smashing anarchy alone might have put it on the list, but B&B was so much more. It was a surreal comedy ("I am the great Cornholio!"). It was one of TV's great inside critiques, peeling back the MTV fantasy of unattainable cool and personifying the sugar-buzzed idiot children who paid the channel's bills. Like creator Mike Judge's later Office Space, King of the Hill and Idiocracy...