I Want A Famous Face

[Filipe]

So on yet another boring Friday evening, while sitting with a couple guys on the hall, we're flipping through the channels and up pops more of MTV's garbage.

According to the FTC, over half of MTV's audience are children under 17 and a target audience of 12-34. (http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/09/pitstatementviolence.htm)

Friday night's garbage, was a show called "I Want a Famous Face" and it talked about two 20-something women, neither of whom needed anything done, who wanted to look like Carmen Electra.

The main woman in the episode was an extremely beautiful woman who wanted a nose job, fuller lips, a breast job (she had B cups), and liposuction on her barely there love handles.

The total cost of the surgery would be 18,600 dollars, and the main reason she wanted it was because she wanted to be on the cover of Maxim. The secondary reason was her exboyfriend didn't like how she looked, and she wanted to look sexier for her current 'boyfriend' (they hadn't officially declared it but had been living together for 9 months)...he of course was a smarmy guy who was very shallow and only asked her to be his girlfriend after she had the surgery...

What are we showing our children as acceptable and not with shows like this? Why aren't we teaching them to be proud of their bodies?

[New York XC]

I saw a part of that show once and I was horrified. Of all the terrible, shallow, immoral, irresponsible things that are on T.V., that show is the worst by a considerable margin. I'm not even going to begin to point out what is wrong with that show because I think it's just so obvious.

[Sweat]

It's stuff like that that make me sad. It shows how shallow/superficial the society is getting. And MTV is just trash now. The don't play music and instead they air shows promoting everything we dont want our children to learn.

[Brumund-Smith]

I guess I also don't really understand why these people are so happy that they look better when they've been all cut up and reconfigured. I suppose MTV will do ANYTHING in order to not have to play any show that is in any way related to music though.

[Renbircs]

I'm going to try to make my face famous, but without surgery or anything.

[gesser]

This show is absolutely the grossest show in MTV.

However, I still watch because I get sidetracked easily.

The grossest procedures are the rhinoplasty ones. They take like a chisel, jam it up your nostril and hammer with hard blows. I almost passed out just typing that.

The other stuff doesn't bother me as much because you can see this stuff on TLC, Discovery and all of those. Even the networks play this stuff...The Swan, all thos ABC makeover shows.

So I don't think MTV is irresponsible when there's already a precedent. And they make these people look like morons too so that only helps that cause.


*That Carmen Electra wannabe was soooooooo hot anyway. I was pissed she wanted surgery. She was so hot and didn't need it.

[jrun]

Didn't a guy on there...for lack of a better term...get man-boobs?

[FIRE CHIEF]

Didn't a guy on there...for lack of a better term...get man-boobs?

His name was Colin Montgomerie.

[Filipe]

*shudders at the thought that LLers are watching the show*

;)

[Filipe]

Chris has a point. For the amount of alleged intelligence in here, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for watching that show. But it's a psychological thriller. Many of these people are getting plastic surgery for all the wrong reasons, and it's just an emotional trainwreck waiting to happen. I prefer Dr. 90210 because the people they interview get plastic surgery to correct a scar, boost their self esteem, etc- not try to look like Pam Anderson to get into Playboy.

It seems like all of the people on this show are shallow self-serving people trying to, like Layla said, get into Playboy, or in the original post I made, get on the cover of Maxim (and have the guy she's been living with for 9 months finally ask her out). You think that spending 18000 dollars plus for some surgery will make you feel better, but I'd much rather buy a car with that money and work out some more.

[Biscuit_AQ]

engaging in the classic pastime of telling other people what they should find fufilling or satisfying are we?

[Filipe]

engaging in the classic pastime of telling other people what they should find fufilling or satisfying are we?

No, not at all.

[jrun]

Yeah, I think you're talking about the episode with the transgender who wanted to look like JLo. Aside from the inherent oddity of wanting to televise physically altering yourself to resemble the other sex, did anyone else notice his/her tendency to talk like a coke addict?

No, this was an episode that I caught the last 2 minutes of, like last night or sometime this week. The guy was a man, but got 'chest implants' stating he wanted to look like Governor Arnuld. His chest came out looking like a launchpad with two missiles.

Nice one, FC.

[fentonfreshman]

I really dont know why MTV is still arround. Today while I was just relaxing before practice, I was watching the battle of the road rules/real world thingy. Every single person on the show acted as if they were still in high school. I know that some of those people were on other shows in seasons past, so I was wondering if those people had a job or was MTV thier lives?

[andoverxc]

What happened to MTV having music vids? sure it has a few decent shows, but most of it is the cheasiest stuff i have ever seen.

[boon322]

What happened to MTV having music vids? sure it has a few decent shows, but most of it is the cheasiest stuff i have ever seen.

MTV was great back in the day when it had "Bevis and Butthead" and music videos... after that it just kept going downhill. MTV2 was supposed to be the savior of MTV and bring back music videos, but now thats just a waste of TV as well... Just goes to show how our society is... the shows they watch are for the most part terrible, the music they listen to is for the most part worse than the shows, even movies have been going downhill for a while now... I'm looking forward to the day when people realize what they've gotten themselves into...

[New York XC]

Personally, I think Fuse is a decent enough channel for music videos. For live performances and documentaries and stuff, Trio can be great.

[boon322]

No, this was an episode that I caught the last 2 minutes of, like last night or sometime this week. The guy was a man, but got 'chest implants' stating he wanted to look like Governor Arnuld. His chest came out looking like a launchpad with two missiles.

Nice one, FC.


my coach was talking about this today... it was pretty funny. he was like "this guy wanted implants in his chest to look like arnold so he got them and all i saw were man boobs... he had boobies!!!" our whole team was laughing pretty hard

[mcflyxc23]

I really dont know why MTV is still arround. Today while I was just relaxing before practice, I was watching the battle of the road rules/real world thingy. Every single person on the show acted as if they were still in high school. I know that some of those people were on other shows in seasons past, so I was wondering if those people had a job or was MTV thier lives?

Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's unfortunate because shows like this set up false realities for young, impressionable youth (As Nielsons shows in their T.V. analysis of viewer statistics.) Shows like this are like catalysts for weird sociological phenomenon that would take years to occur without a source such as a T.V.