MTV's "Next"

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I very rarely watch reality dating shows, but somehow I'm totally enraptured by this show. It's so wonderfully shameless. It doesn't even try to make the viewers believe that it isn't scripted. On one of last night's shows, the girl made every would-be dater put on a unitard and hang from a trapeze. And so her Nexting of a guy while he's hanging by his knees gets the response, "I guess you aren't looking for a guy who's hung."

Last night was actually one of the few times that the contestants weren't completely loathsome. In one episode, a guy forced a somewhat overweight girl to put on a hideous bodysuit, and then nexted her. The girl after her then called him a "cocksucking piece of shit" to his face. I've been told that the episodes with gay contestants are even more horrifying, but I haven't yet seen them.

So, totally classic? Hideous indictment of modern youth? Both? I hope I'm not the only one watching this show.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

nope!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, you're not the only one watching, but you're the only one that cares.

ps - grand ave is $$$ amirite

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

I love the quick facts that appear next to each contestant.

"Julie likes farting in her sister's face"
"Lisa likes to date overweight nerds"
"Mark shaves his chest daily"

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing compared to Parental Control

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

I've met two people who have appeared on the show. One was a girl who was the first contestant voted off on a lesbian episode, the other person got to be the one the contestants were competing for. The latter person told me that the producers tell everybody what to say and when to end the dates. I wouldn't say it's a total indictment of today's youth as the show is totally scripted.

― naus de lekkerste..! (Robert T), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

watching a show like this or one of the taped segments on maury povich when you can tell the procucers told them what to say is seriously one of my least favorite things.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes the writers actually come up with something interesting, though. I was more delighted by the twist ending of the gay episode of Parental Control than I was by any plot twist in any recent movie.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

This show also seems to inspire bizarre religious musings, to wit:

There was a time that you really wanted to impress God. You wanted to obey Him as best you could. You took the words of Jesus very seriously especially where He says that those who love Him will keep His commands. So, you asked other Christians what you should do in order to please God. They told you to stop listening to worldly music. You were taught not to watch rated R movies. You were most certainly to never drink any alcoholic beverages. You gladly left all of your "wordly" friends and began hanging out with more Christlike buddies.

After a while, this date with God began to be really boring. There was no fun in it. Everyone just seemed to pretend to be having fun. It was so surface level.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

i miss "Elimidate".

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't say it's a total indictment of today's youth as the show is totally scripted.

that doesn't surprise me...half the things the people say on that show sound like canned bullshit they were told to say.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

not to be too much of a fuddy-duddy but it does kinda disturb me that younger, more impressionable kids will be seeing this and thinking that this is how people are supposed to act IRL

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

(i mean pre-teens and shit)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

but i guess it's really not that much worse than anything else on tv

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

100% of everything people say on Parental Control is obviously scripted which makes it a better and even more surreal watch than Next, which I can't really sit through unless the people are being obscenely awful. Every episode of Parental Control I've seen is basically front to back death of western civilization moments whereas Next can be kind of slow.

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

next is one of my favorite shows of all time. parental control at first i thot i cldnt handle, just the complete awkwardness of it, forcing the current bf/gf to sit with the parents, but ive definitely come around. i just love the shit out of all these shows, room raiders too, but i dont really dig the new one with the lie detector or whatever

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot about the terribly awesome rhyming by the voice over lady. "Jenny couldn't get a piece of the Kenny. Not only can she not get any, but she's walking out with less than a penny. Next!"

Clip.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah the lie detector show is really underwhelming, even the girl who fell off the next bus couldn't save it

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, snap.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 8 January 2007 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

Now I'm curious what the "twist ending" was.

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

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