MTV - classic or dud?

yeah i have to admit that when carson was on trl i kinda thought he projected a subtly above-it-all attitude but i guess he was just waiting to become showbiz shill dude all along

one of my fave trl moments was when he tried to drop a joke about rush

tom green went on trl 2 retire the bum bum song iirc

after it #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0nyfULWn4I

i remember the horror as if it was yesterday.

Do you remember the video for you are not alone?

ARen't they naked in a bathtub together?

man i wish there was a better clip of pee-wee's post-bust vma's appearance. that made me so happy.

on the other hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6Ek2g5KJI

I think I still have a VHS copy of the MTV Awards with the MJ kiss somewhere. That was also the one where Sandra Bullock was presenting with someone (I want to say Adam Sandler) and she misread the cue on the teleprompter and asked Adam what it was like to kiss Keanu Reeves. He handlded it pretty well and riffed about how safe he felt in Keanu's arms.

never forget, kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXyTx97Z4U

fiona apple otm

i think objectively speaking jackass is the legacy of mtv for our gen of teenagers

i'm curious what your thought process is here, cause i don't see it. but i always hated jackass tbh.

go on, girl, go with yourself.

I remember a weird "5-day weekend" I got after being suspended from school when I was 13 where I did nothing but watch dumb shit on MTV and VH1. Remember Robbie William's "Millenium" video quite well and thought the song/video were amazing. Also "No Scrubs" came on a lot and I had a serious crush on TLC, only to find out they didn't look so hot outside of that video

well for one, it was the most successful new mtv show from that era -- it was a genuine cultural phenomenon

xp to hoos

she was too real and too frail for this world

i'm curious what your thought process is here, cause i don't see it. but i always hated jackass tbh.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, August 1, 2011 3:55 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OH FFS, ANYONE UNDER 26 STFU AND GO TO THE DEXTERS LAB THREAD OR SOMETHING FUCK

Seriously I think J0rdan is pretty much 100% otm. I mean, what other MTV shows from that era are still cranking out reasonably successful feature film sequels?

i agree w/j0rdan, it seems like jersey shore and jackass are the more recent things that were really culture wide from mtv.

Also "No Scrubs" came on a lot and I had a serious crush on TLC, only to find out they didn't look so hot outside of that video

o_O

I love you guys like little brothers, but the hoos, jordan, markers, jon, delonge jack-off sesh has to go, because some real talk about Downtown Julie Brown vs Uptown Julie Brown is about to pop off

Watching all this on VH1 Classic made me wonder when we'll see the special three-day weekend for this shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-926c5NU8

Hahahhahahaha Whiney seriously has no fucking idea how old I am.

because some real talk about Downtown Julie Brown vs Uptown Julie Brown is about to pop off

uptown all the fucking way - Shakes the Clown forever

i dont even have the energy to scroll up to see who said that about tlc but go fuck yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZydtG3xqI&ob=av2e

Jackass was the last gasp for the 90s generation on MTV imo. It was fun (or not) for people markers' age, but it was real life for people older.

every look tlc ever rocked is classic. love the aesthetic of the ain't 2 proud 2 beg video.

I want to tell horeshoe otm, but I'm afraid Captain Whiney won't allow his thread to be besmirched with an opinion that isn't his.

yeah jackass is definitely "gen x" minutemen theme and all...

Downtown Julie Brown 4EVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEU_5lVjRFQ

seems like every moment of mtv ever broadcast is up on yt... like martha quinn marveling over frippertronics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Wa3QJLkFQ

Just Say Julie was such a weird show. Like it was this kind of "fake airhead" that i guess MTV thought they could play to real airheads? Kind of the Stifler of her day?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Whitegirl.jpg

noticeable lack of Singled Out clips in this birthday celebration

Anyway, between Uptown Julie and Jessica Rabbit, it pretty much established my lifelong fascination with redheads even as a wee nine year old, tbh

I love you guys like little brothers, but the hoos, jordan, markers, jon, delonge jack-off sesh has to go, because some real talk about Downtown Julie Brown vs Uptown Julie Brown is about to pop off

― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten)

http://i.imgur.com/jrL8E.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjuWBU0OQbA

^^^funniest scene Kathy Griffin has ever been in

singled out is a pretty good representation of how i'd watch mtv even when there was something on i didn't really even like because it was probably better than whatever else was on

True story, my college had a version of Singled Out for charity and I was one of the "bachelors" or whatever the guys were called that started out in the corral. I ended up in the last two guys and it all came down to the question "N'Sync - tearin' up my heart? Or tearin' up my ears?". I answered wrong and didn't get the date. :(

correct answer was "tearin up my ass" amirite?

Should've been a choice.

shakey!

wtf carmen electra was on singled out at one point

on singled out when you advanced to the next stage sometimes the DJ would scratch "welcome to the next w-w-w-welcome to tha next level" from showbiz & ag

you know there is one aspect of "classic" mtv suspiciously missing from this love-fest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsC-GXd0q6A

That was back when Jenny McCarthy was hot and before she turned into super-crazy "vaccination is wrong" lady. She was exteremely popular at my school because the Catholic high school she went with was like a feeder school for University of Illinois. Rumor has it she went to a couple parties there in her early fame days, but these were totally unconfirmed.

did anybody on the basement tapes ever make it?