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So there's a show on MTV called "Rich Girls" now, and I wonder, was it MTV's goal to create ANOTHER program where you come across it while flipping around, watch 2 minutes of it, mutter "go fuck your

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That was my reaction. It's been on twice that I've seen, so I've watched like 4 minutes of it and muttered "Go fuck yourself" once and the other time I think it was "Eat shit and die."

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 1 November 2003 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 1 November 2003 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

At least that's on MTV and everyone's going to laugh. HBO aired this fucking awful documentary called "Born Rich," badly done interviews with a bunch of millionaire heirs and heiresses, mostly reflecting on how they still have problems, even with all their money. Depression, drugs, identity issues, no clue what to do in life. Poor babies.

Of course, everyone I've ever known has wrestled with at least two of those four, and yet none have had mummy and daddy's millions to pay for rehab or a Manhattan penthouse to 'find yourself in' so the lot of them can fuck off and die.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to find one of these rich motherfuckers who has nothing to do with themselves and give them purpose in life by giving them the opportunity to give me some kinda "Grant For The Arts" so I can buy that Fostex 16-trk recorder w/ the built in CD burner, and a Gibson Les Paul Custom with the flametop (like Euroboy has, those things are over $3K in Musicians Friend, Jesus.), and one of those little wee-little modules with the drawbars that is so wee-little but it still costs like $800 and I can use my chaep-ass yamaha keyboard and a midi cable and I'll have authentic Hammond organ drawbar sounds.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

One surprise - some of these kids were goofy looking and dressed badly. You'd think with the Vanderbilt-Whitney fortune, motherfuckers could see a dermatologist and get a decent haircut.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probably all of that inbreeding that rich folks do, like the brit royalty. P. CHarles's gene pool is prolly bout as deep as those cats from "Deliverance" (not the Bubba Sparxxx album).

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The deal with much MTV programming is always related to, at least partly, the following:

They don't own the underlying rights to music videos. The way Viacom can exploit videos owned by the record labels is limited (of course, Viacom owns some record labels too).

When MTV "creates" a show, it owns 100% of the rights (or may) and can exploit the product across an unlimited range of venues. The reason the junk they make is (can be) so profitable for them. Especially if someone actually watches it.

― Skottie, Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Skottie, you're wrong. MTV made "Rich Girls" in a righteous quest to give respectable targets to the people with uncontrollable psychotic homocidal urges so decent people don't get taken out.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night I saw that show where they give ugly people plastic surgery. They cut off one guy's hair and put it all on a little bald seven year old girl who had just finished chemo.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

America's everything I wanted it to be. And more.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

now, now, i think you're also missing the "suck cock for crack on the streets and die" contingent of the show's fan-base.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Skottie, you're wrong. MTV made "Rich Girls" in a righteous quest to give respectable targets to the people with uncontrollable psychotic homocidal urges so decent people don't get taken out.

Well, yes, there is this community service aspect to their strategy...

― Skottie, Saturday, 1 November 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

they'll do anything to avoid playing actual music videos

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 November 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw an episode of "born rich" a few nights ago. compared to the u.k.'s "young, posh, and inbred" (or whatever it's called), it was very disappointing.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

or "rich girls." whatever. it's so hard to keep this all straight!

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it they don't have the foresight to use Hall and Oates for theme music?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

they're using the Korn ft Nelly cover versh

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, they'll never make me angrier than Squirt TV did in high school.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What's Squirt TV?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 1 November 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

basically around 1994-1995 MTV decided to take this cable access show run by this 15-year-old fartknocker named Jake Fogelnest and make it their late night show. It was him in his room hanging out with cool NYC guests like Cibo Matto and Mike D - even Jackie Chan showed up once. Thing is, NO TEENAGE ROCK NERD WILL ENJOY SEEING ANOTHER TEENAGE ROCK NERD HANGING OUT WITH COOL PEOPLE. It will only inspire seething jealousy and envy. Especially when you think you'd do a better job. I'd probably be amused by the show now, but all I can remember about it is the RAGE. Especially cuz he kept reminding people how young he was.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

mighta been 96 actually.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I was laughing at Rich Girls when I saw it. What morons. One of them is butt ugly and sounds like Fran Drescher. Poor thing. The other one was talking about how her friends were the most gifted people in the world and how they were all going to be famous. Those of you that don't OD or end up in endless rehab, I thought.

They're being made to look like idiots. Good for laugh. Though not as a big a laugh as the other new shows: e.g. Steve-O putting fresh Okebi (sp?) dung in his mouth on Wildboyz; or Bam refitting his entire house with skate ramps and inviting Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek over for some air time. Actually that last bit wasn't funny just fucking awesome.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 1 November 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

squirt tv was genius.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 2 November 2003 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to find one of these rich motherfuckers who has nothing to do with themselves and give them purpose in life by giving them the opportunity to give me some kinda "Grant For The Arts" so I can buy that Fostex 16-trk recorder w/ the built in CD burner, and a Gibson Les Paul Custom with the flametop (like Euroboy has, those things are over $3K in Musicians Friend, Jesus.), and one of those little wee-little modules with the drawbars that is so wee-little but it still costs like $800 and I can use my chaep-ass yamaha keyboard and a midi cable and I'll have authentic Hammond organ drawbar sounds.
-- Helltime Producto (jostababy197...), November 1st, 2003.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! Dude, that's exactly what I was thinking today when I saw it. The Hilfiger chick spent $3000 on a crappy dress, when she should have given it to me! It was my 21st birthday today and not even my parents bought me a gift! Respeck for the starvin' artists!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 2 November 2003 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing that struck me most about Rich Girls (and, to a certain degree as well with Born Rich as Milo noted) was that the girls were completely unattractive. You would have thought that MTV could have found hotties for this, but apparently if you're hot and rich then you don't really seeing the point in being made a fool on MTV.

WTF was Tommy Hilfiger thinking?

"Born Rich" was not nearly as good as it could have been. Although it was nice not to have the standard blithering PBS perspective on the matter, complete with faux-aghast class warfare underpinnings, the director's perspective was too inbred to give the film any weight. I mean, everyone knows that there is a class of people out there who are born filthy rich and only aspire to bigger plates of blow while attending Brown, but what would have made that film a lot more interesting would have been the details. Like, what the fuck do you do all day when you don't have to do anything?

― don weinr, Sunday, 2 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...
ally hilfiger is like a little brunette cheryl hines.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 07:19 (twenty years ago)


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