attention please to watch flavor flav's dating show on vh1 called "flavor of love"

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― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's the bachelor
except it's with flavor flav
hahaha AWESOME

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

"I AM THE BLACK-CHELOR!!!!!!"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

w/ amazing hairstyles

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

So Brigitte Nielsen ain't in the picture anymore?

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 2 January 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

True Love didn't work out.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 2 January 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

My wife, to contestant 'Cherry': "You and your nipples have got to go."

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 2 January 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Strangely depressing, actually.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

what's the deal w/their names?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

They have psuedonyms so that Flav won't uh... get turned off if one is named Prudence.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

The show is pretty addictive. Why are these women so enraptured by him?

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the words Public Enemy never ever come up.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

such a trainwreck.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I know it's all in fun and everything, but I'm amazed this show hasn't inspired outrage (though it probably registers as a blip on any sort of ratings charts).

Flav is happily cast in a gruesome Stepin Fetchit role, running through a greatest hits of minstrelsy for the full hour (?!) of the program. There's some cringe-inducing bug-eyed reaction shot every 10 seconds.

A couple of weeks ago Flav held a "Fried Chicken Cooking Contest" (shades of the dreaded Kill Whitey thread) with the best cook winning a date with Flav in his hot tub.

That said, I've sat through at least 5 episodes of this, bathing in shame.

And Brigitte Nielson is still in the picture, to a degree. She's on next week's episode, helping Flavor narrow his choices down.

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck D is rolling over in his... Air America broadcast studio?

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

No way, it's the best reality TV show of all time. It's like they took all the subtext of every other show and made it explicit.

Plus, Mr./Long/Moniker, how can you talk about Flavor Motherfuckin' Flav being Stepin Fetchit? Are you the Sheriff of Negritude?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think everyone involved - Flav, the women, the audience - is "bathing in shame". Myself included. It really is just stupefyingly offensive on every level.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

So what television show measures up to your high standards, Shakey Mo? Tell me what you watch and I'll tell you why it sucks.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

(actually, I won't, because I'm at work. but still.)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong, its fucking evil, but if 15 attractive women were scrambling to win a date with Crispin Glover I'd watch that too.

Matt, whether or not its a new pinnacle of offense, I'm surprised you're being so contradictory about this.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

NO YOU'RE NOT

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

"These 16 young men will compete for the chance to win the heart of...Yeardley Smith."

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

SPROING

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

omg, the Crispin Glover ("Glove of Love"?) show would be so great...

I don't really watch many TV shows regularly. King of the Hill (which has def. declined in recent years). Colbert Report, I guess...? Iron Chef!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

well if that's what you watch then no wonder you can be up in arms over 'flavor of love.' no one is holding a mu-sick-in-hour-mess-age -style gun to flav's head, the women are who they are (which is what everyone is on these damned shows, except a few of them are hotter) (although i think 'hottie' is a plant), that's the name of the game.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I know all that - I just find the atmosphere of constant, willful, mutual exploitation depressing. Everybody on the show wants to be there, but its just sad to see what people are willing to do to themselves (and others) for a little time in the public eye. its sorta gruesome. but funny too in an "this is so bad I can't believe this is on TV" way.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

believe me, it's more honest than 'the bachelor' or 'the bachelorette' (or 'survivor') (or 'family guy') (or 'm*a*s*h'')

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

if by "honest" you mean "cartoonish" than yeah, maybe.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Though I love your phrase ("Sheriff of Negritude"!), I don't think it's that much of a stretch to compare Flavor's "character" on this show with Stepin Fetchit. Jesus, it's like he's borrowed his entire persona from a "shuckin' and jivin'" manual.

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Um, bullshit. He goes everywhere in a limo, he's walking around in expensive weird clothing, the only white person around is the girl throwing herself at him hoping to be his wife. Shuckin' and jivin' is different. Try to keep up.

and xpost to Shakey: I said what I meant, and I was right.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what you mean by a TV show being "honest" but that's a semantic debate that's probably not worth getting into...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

well, it "honestly" makes me feel very bad to be alive

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

that's great news! maybe you will keep watching it and spiral into a deep depression, or maybe you will stop watching and become a happy person with no problems!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

maybe they'll have a watermelon eating contest next.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey, you are an insufferable tool. But you like Funkadelic and Parliament, so you are useful to me.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

okay we get it YOU LOVE THIS SHOW

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

and yeah we all get it YOU ARE BETTER AND SMARTER THAN FLAVOR FLAV AND YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW TO BE A GOOD UPSTANDING REVOLUTIONARY BLACK MAN THAN HE DOES, BUT YOU STILL WATCH THE SHOW BECAUSE YOU ENJOY THE MINSTRELRY

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

okay that was unfortunate. i'm sorry. i must go get some work done now. all apologies.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Seems like a strange thing to be defensive and condescending about. I'm simply saying that, as there is a history in entertainment of African-Americans being portrayed as inarticulate, cartoonish, sex-crazed buffoons, Flavor's participation in furthering these century old media-depictions is sort of depressing (especially considering his past work in a musical group that was pretty forward thinking on issues of misogyny and media depictions of blacks (If "Burn Hollywood Burn" doesn't apply to a reality show where a bug-eyed black guy chases a lingerie-clad woman while holding a fried chicken drumstick, I don't know what does).

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

You have an interesting point. I will consider it for the rest of the day.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah jeez relax man. I agree w/Oki Dog about the context of the show.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

This is seriously the most boring show I've ever seen. Celebrity Fit Club 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Flavor of Love. At least that had Tim Conway going nuts on drugs. Flav just kind of wanders around among a bunch of girls who say about what you'd think they'd say as Flav reacts in about the same way you'd think he'd react .

― ________, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

remember all the yuks we had in a few years back when Ol Dirty Bastard was acting crazy? that was so fun to watch!

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

there's a point here, but i still don't understand how this makes the show good.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

let alone honest - its a show where a two dozen women pretend that they're on a reality show because they're in love with flavor flav!

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

omg, ilm really is completely nuts.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

ODB appeared on/made more great records than Flavor Flav has. Fact.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

(which is apropos of nothing really - just that I didn't like ODB for his antics, I liked him cuz he made great records. The antics were kidna secondary - albeit getting arrested by an admitted fan outside of McDonald's after jumping bail makes a great story)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Tim Conway going nuts on drugs"

It was Jeff Conaway from "Taxi"! And it was pretty sad.

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tim Conway losing it on drugs DOES sound pretty funny tho...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Duff on Dope!

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

TS: 'nigger rich' v. 'shuckin' and jivin'.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm half in agreement with haiku fwiw, admonishing individual black entertainers to fit certain molds and avoid others is ass-backwards(see Cosby v. Martin Lawrence et al); a more valid critique concerns the breadth of black(or whomever)performances/personas/characterization major media outlets are prone to allow and encourage at any given time.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Forget Stepin Fetchit, Flav is embodying a contemporary archetype - crackhead.

Seriously.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

i choose to believe that this is entirely fictional, that everyone (including flav) is completely acting, and that this is thus the most devastating, hilarious cultural parody of the modern age.

i am probably wrong.

but that is my defense mechanism, and i'm sticking to it.

― awful bliss (awful bliss), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Can someone update me with the latest? I don't have cable.

Steve Shasta, Wakeboarding Legend

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Brah,

Killer sig.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Hoops! finale was kinda boring, even NY was getting tired of her own schtick. Hoops could care less(about anything if you ask me). Get at me Flav!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 13 March 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

i was knocked out with the flu two weeks ago and staying at home on drugs, saw the show where pumpkin spat on new york -- i kind of got hooked, fortunately it was the second to last show. had the finale on in the background last night, and super dud boring.

only good part now was "Bitch, he's my man now".

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Man, every time Flav was up to something, I just kept thinking "Bamboozled"...

― js (honestengine), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

So what did she actually win now?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES,

What is the scoop!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?

Steve Shasta, semi-professional Wakeboarder

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

This African-American and Italian-American beauty also loves dancing, gymnastics, writing, and of course, acting!

lol

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4130

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Caroline Roberts is about as funny as Fire Joe Morgan, or a rubber crutch.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I fell asleep. I woke up briefly when my wife busted up about them wearing the same dress to the elimination.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Season 2! More drama; there was a big brawl within the first fifteen minutes.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 7 August 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

One of the girls SHIT ON THE FLOOR last night.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

It was soooooo classic.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 7 August 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Why did she shit on the floor?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

and did she shit indian style on the floor?

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

To shit is human, to forgive divine.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DO I SHIT ROBOT?

― heavyweight grebt (sanskrit), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

I believe she said that she even though she tried really hard, she just couldn't hold it in anymore. If I remember correctly, I think she added that you never know when it'll happen to you. The video might be on Vh1's page for Flavor of Love 2.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

she poos clouds

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

so just remember, kids

throw the first punch = out on your ass
take a dump in the foyer = you'll get to launder your $9.99 dress in the lap of luxury

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

i know someone who shit on the floor one night, when everyone else had gone to bed. it never really got mentioned because they were all english, but every time somebody said "shit" in conversation after that and she was around they would have to stifle teh gigglez.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

WHY U SHIT ON FLOOR ALL TIME?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have no doubt in my mind that Buckwild is a ringer.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

If she isn't some Best Week Ever reject "in character," I'll eat my hat.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

6 months after my minstrelsy screed, and I tuned in to the S2 premiere, hating myself every second. Incidentally, Flavor's repsonse to the woman who (apparently it needs to be said again, with emphasis) SHIT ON THE FLOOR during the premiere: "She's like a wild gorilla."

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Video Clip here.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

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