Plastic Surgery TV shows: Classic or Dud?

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MTV's new "I want a famous face" show looks to be extremely fucked up, for fans of the genre.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Never has "vast wasteland" been so appropriate.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ewww.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

official first "pimp my face" joke

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you see the lambasting of those twins who were on the first show that Us weekly did? These kids were trying to look like brad pitt, and got uh, less than stellar results. in the box in the mag they put the celebrities the kids most resemble: kojo, and that older hanson kid

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic when the plastic surgery TV shows are on the Discovery Health Channel, or when the TV show in question is "Extreme Makeover".

Dud when the plastic surgery TV show is on one of the MTV Networks. Most especially when it's on MTV proper. But then again what MTV program isn't dud, hm? (Apologies to the one person whom I think can get away with her MTV viewing habits, i.e. Sam.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but those guys were something else... You can't write that shit, seriously.

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The ad for that Swan thing on Fox really disturbed me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic if it's Nip/Tuck.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Just fucking giving up on humanity: c or d.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, hello, ah, CLASSIC.

Even better, shows where the winner has to kill him/herself. Think how employable you'd become as a celebrity entertainer!

― Skottie, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw extreme makeover (again) the other day. I'm going the record as saying it's an amazing concept. The show's structure, however, is pretty dull. The latest one featured an unattractive engaged couple who were reunited at their wedding ceremony following the 6 weeks of reconstruction. They went from being two fat, ugly, but basically normal looking people (nothing that a six-months' fast and some sit-ups wouldn't have cured) to being two thinner-but-not-thin ghouls with dawn of the dead eyes.

ALmost all of the techniques work wonders except the facial reconstruction. Dental veneers, wonderful. Vision correction, invisible but wonderful, hair transplants/new hair dos, wonderful. Liposuction, icky, but apparently good results. But the plastic surgery on their faces always yields the same strangely shaped eyes and weird noses. Like all of that doctor's patients came from the same inbred family. Very strange. Still, it's amazing what a good haircut and a new set of choppers can do for someone.

― Skottie, Sunday, 4 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Skottie, Monday, 5 April 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Skottie, Monday, 5 April 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Watching the "Brad Pitt Twins" episode right now.....and I can't recall feeling this disgusted in a damn long time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 April 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Christ, the "J.Lo" one is even more pathetic/terrifying. What is wrong with the world?g

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 April 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

what I loved was back to back ads I saw on ABC, the first of which was one for Extreme Makeover and the second of which was a 20/20 ad that intoned "people are obsessed with plastic surgery to the point of etc etc.....how dangerous is it? a shocking new etc etc..."

fuckers

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 17 April 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a regular "Extreme Makeover" viewer who watched that "20/20" report and essentially what they talked about was the dangers of not thinking and ending up using a plastic surgeon who'd actually do something like operating on you outside a hospital setting.

I mean, seriously. Plastic surgery is still surgery, hello? The "Extreme Makeover" people always show the plastic surgery happening in a hospital setting and the only things that are done in clinics are the dentistry work, LASIK surgery, and dermatological improvements. Plus, these people (the interviewees and/or their families) didn't do any real investigating of the focus of the report, i.e. this one lone surgeon in Sarasota, FL. If I'm going into surgery, I'm damn well going to be researching the guy who'll be in charge of cutting me up and putting me back together again.

But yeah, the ads were pretty much geared toward the sensational and the reality of the report was that it stated the obvious. Oh, and AFAIK the news division of any network is supposed to be separate from the entertainment division.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 17 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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