by cassie la rue casboslarue@bellsouth.net
My favorite show to watch, besides VH1’s Surreal Life Fame Games where B-list stars compete for fame and $100,000.00 (including TVs Webster, Vanilla Ice and some girl from Baywatch), is VH1’s I Love New York, which recently ended. The show, oddly enough, was a spin-off from another terrible VH1 reality show called The Flavor of Love that had women compete for Flavor Flav’s (from the hip-hop group Public Enemy) love and to be his girlfriend. These women would cat fight and make out with Flavor Flav to win. It awed me what people would do to be Flavor Flav’s girl. One of the girls, New York, was especially bitchy and eventually lost her true love, Flavor Flav, to another girl. She was, apparently, interesting enough to become her own little celebrity (doesn’t take much for VH1) and got a show where men compete for her love and affection. The competitions included anything from dancing in a thong to building a doghouse for New York’s wannabe Paris Hilton dog. The men had to go to church with her very charismatic mother and come up with a business plan to show how they were going to make a ton of money to let New York live the life she so deserves. As standard reality TV goes, she votes one off each week. This show finally ended and VH1 has done I Love New York: The Reunion Show and even an I Love New York: The Final Adios. Now this show has its own spin-off. Is Flavor Flav really that popular? If it could get much worse, it does with this new show.
The new show, Flavor of Love Charm School, is hosted by Mo’Nique (from the long-running show The Parkers), who is teaching the girls from the Flavor of Love show how to behave, if you will. In Flavor of Love Charm School, the girls face various challenges to win $50K. Mo’Nique is determined to teach the “Flavorettes” poise and grace. She has made a list of Ten Commandments for the girls to follow, with rules such as Check Thyself Before Thou Wreckest Thyself. These girls are usually fighting, ho bashing, girl-hating and spitting in the face of other competitors. This show will still have plenty of this to offer, no worries. The girls don’t straighten up too quickly.
MTV’s Run’s House is pretty boring when it comes to reality TV. It’s all about the life that Run Simmons of RUN DMC, the hip-hop group from the 80s and 90s, and his family. Run’s wife is nice, his house is cool and his kids are great. It’s BORING! If you like watching what normal boring people do all day, then I should have my own show (minus the half-a-million dollar Benz to pick up the kids).
Set in LA, MTV’s Adventures in Hollywood is awesome. Three 6 Mafia is the only rap group from Memphis, Tennessee to go platinum and receive an Academy Award. Adventures in Hollywood features this group and their entourages as they move to Hollywood and establish themselves as Hollywood players. DJ Paul and Juicy J are very funny and they stay true to the dirty South in their hearts. With their best friend, Big Theice, their computer guy, Juicy Js’ brother and Dad, they definitely bring the dirty South to Hollywood.
As disgusting as reality TV may be, somebody has caught on that we will keep watching! As my friend Sid would say, instead of watching so much TV, I should be playing the ever-popular Sudoku and let my brain work for a minute.
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