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Huh. You know the Peggy Lee song, “Is That All There Is?” It’s a pop cultural examination of jaded disappointment. Back when it was released, in 1969, the year I turned 35, it re-kindled Peggy Lee’s career. She won a Grammy. The song has been covered endlessly. Because a pop cultural examination of disappointment and boredom says something to us about our own disappointment and boredom. It gives us license to experience those emotions and frustrations as a carefully cataloged facet of human life. I mean, it’s also just a good song, but it has that adolescent tang of empty realization. Or is it an adult tang of empty realization? It doesn’t really matter. The point is that one day you wake up to the world with a giant shrug, and the world stares back at you, blankly.
The difference between that song and this show is that when you talk about (sing) and share your jaded boredom, it can be interesting, and kind of beautiful, because it’s a shared experience, but when you just stare passively at other people (children!) being jaded and bored (and boring) it is the worst. OMG, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT JESSIE’S OPERATION SMILE FUNDRAISER IS FINALLY HAPPENING?
What a dud! You call this a season finale? No one even threw a drink (or poison) in anyone’s face.
So, Sebastian wants to have a fundraiser to build wells in Africa. That is an interesting and thoughtful way to go about making the world a better place. Whoops, all he does is talk about how great this is going to be in his quest to get girls. UGH, SEBASTIAN, ENOUGH. We get it! You stink! He says that helping to build wells in Africa will show girls his sensitive side. You know what else will show girls your sensitive side? Being sensitive. At the end of the episode he explains that this year has been all about quantity, but next year will be all about quality. His dad just logged onto CafePress to order his “Proudest Dad” mousepad.
Meanwhile, PC goes in and out of having a beard. He has a beard, he shaves his beard. He has a beard, he shaves his beard. That is honestly what passes for drama at this point. Will PC get into college? I don’t know, will he? SPOILER ALERT: snore. He and Jessie are always fighting. I sure hope they can still be friends, but you know, it’s going to be different next year when they don’t see each other as much. Remember when I said I sure hope they can still be friends? I was lying. I don’t care either way. People grow apart. They are 18 years old. They’ll manage one way or the other.
Also PC is mad at Taylor because she didn’t come to his party. For someone who doesn’t have time for high school drama, he seems to have an awful lot of time for high school drama. “This is how you ruin relationships,” he ‘teaches’ her. Right. All of the most important relationships are ruined when someone doesn’t come to some party. World War I started because Archduke Franz Ferdinand totally, like, said he was going to show up at the St. Regis penthouse, but he flaked, and Serbia was like “assassination.”
Kelli sings in a restaurant. Seriously, I am checking my Facebook at this point. And please understand that I have put more time and energy into this show than most viewers. But it’s like, huh? Camille thinks that Sebastian does a bad job at his African wells speech because he reads it off of a laptop? Camille is Professor Speeches over here. Later she ridicules the Operation Smile Fashion Show because she is also Professor Fashion Show. “I would have probably put some of the dresses in a different order, or changed some of the looks.” WOULD YOU HAVE, CAMILLE? She is the absolute WORRRSSSST. Someone should untie that silk choker around her neck, just in case it makes her head fall off. Fingers crossed. There is something wrong with Esther, indeed. She also says that she feels like New York is “hers.” Well it is not yours, Camille. Your ideas aren’t even yours. You’re 17 years old, and you’re pretentious and confused. Nothing is yours yet. Relax.
Then again, Sebastian does do badly at his speech. Not because he’s reading it. That’s fine. But because he says “we take some of the smaller luxuries for granted, like shelter, food, and potable drinking water.” Um, THOSE ARE NOT LUXURIES! Maybe, maybe shelter. But I am pretty sure that food and potable drinking water are just necessities for being alive. Sebastian is like “uh, I looked up luxuries on my iPhone and I’m pretty sure I know what I’m talking about. Do you want to hook up? Chew gum chew gum chew gum.”
Operation Smile. This is what it has all been building up to? For real? Were there people at home watching this and just high fiving until their hands blistered, so excited were they that this was all finally happening? (No, there were not.) Operation Smile fashion show. Hah! Jessie is full of self-importance. That’s OK, though. I will cut her some slack on this one. Whatever this event is, it is big, and fancy, and she does play a key role in it, and she is 17 or 18 or whatever but the point being young enough for this to all be very overwhelming and “important” to her. She does sort of give the game away when she keeps saying things like “just seeing 400 people there to support me and to support Operation Smile.” I SEE WHAT ORDER THAT SENTENCE IS IN. And “I couldn’t ask for anything more than people’s support, helping me change other people’s lives.” Huh? You could ask for them to just directly change people’s lives. Often charities ultimate goal is to get everyone involved, not just get everyone to support you being involved. But let Jessie have her moment. I just don’t understand why we have to have it with her.
She falls down some stairs. She yells at people for smoking weed that they are going to “burn down the whole building.” Haha. PC apologizes to Carbon Marz Volvo, or whoever, for “ruining” his party. Right. That guy is like “the producers instructed me to pretend like I even know what you are talking about, which I don’t, because I have stuff going on in my adult life.” Everyone is there. It’s a gala event. It’s absolutely nothing whatsoever.
It’s actually almost impossible for me to believe that this season was only 8 episodes long.
Seriously? Is that all?
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I still managed to get drunk.
It was only 8 episodes?! Jesus Christ, it seemed like 20.
I always knew this show was the worst. Even the finale was the worst… episode of the season.
Worst.
It’s so hard to type with these blisters on my hands.
Remember when PC walked over to Taylor and Kelli after the Operation Smile fashion show (Really? Fashion show? That’s how you raise support for cleft palate issues, through an industry renown for its humanitarian [and not self-] interests?) and looked into Taylor’s dulled eyeballs and asked, “Are we still friends?” The correct answer (i.e., the one Taylor does not give) is “No, we’re not still friends.”
Well, look on the bright side: This show allowed Gabe to finally have the opportunity to post a PJ Harvey video on Videogum! Yay!
Is it just me, or does Sebastian look a bit catatonic in this picture? Although, from what I read here about this show, that might just be his regular expression….ladies love catatonic. Catatonic and sensitive, that’s what ladies love.
YES. FUCK yes. That gif IS SPECTACULAR wondergrrl! You WIN FOR today.
Thanks AmPat, I’ve been waiting for something to come along and obviously this one was too perfect!
Oh, and while I have you, I should also mention that I may have dropped your name in a comment I made to wubdub about my affection for his gif, but you should know it was all out of love!
I didn’t KNOW ANYONE wanted TO HAVE e-nights WITH ME. Ever since MY EX-WIFE LEFT, I haven’t REALLY HAD any nights. SORRY y’all DON’T WANT my sob STORIES.
I would say Sebastian will grow up into a date rapist, but he seems to stupid to know how to date rape.
“So, I’m supposed to eat the roofies, right? Wha -?” [passes out]
And I’m too stupid to use the proper spelling of “too.” FUCK!
I know its a horrible thing to say and Im setting back feminism about the lengyh that reality tv has been on the air but…how come there were no token hot girls? It made everything that much MORE horrible
I hope the fact that they were all CHILDREN was why you weren’t able to find your “token hot girl”, but I dunno, guys work differently I guess–seems like sometimes your hot-girl dars have no age restriction.
Oh, I guess I didn’t consider that you might be closer in age to these kids, in which case nevermind.
Oh but, I am a girl. Also, 26. I just wanted to see pretty people being horrible instead of ugly people being horrible.
Oh, my mistake! I like your Monster spirit! Personally, I just like watching people being horrible, particularly, cross-eyed people being horrible to other people who’s eyes are properly aligned and at a natural distance apart. So when this show came on, I was like, “JACKPOT!”
and wasn’t it a super smart choice to have jessie be a MODEL for that operation smile postcard thing? she’s so selfless.
Randy Newman arranged the Peggy Lee version. Fun fact.
Note: the correct funny term for someone who takes public speaking too seriously is “Toastmaster General.”
I thought it was great how Sebastion had a charity event to help him get into college and teenage snatch, I mean help thirsty African children. But Jessie’s photo shoot to raise money for cross eyed thumb heads really over shadowed Sebastion’s event. Forget Operation Smile, how about Operation Look In Two Directions at Once. And Speaking of Operation Smile, what is up with it and Bravo? Did some third world child with a cleft pallet blow Andy Cohen or something cause one of the guys from Miami Social was trying to raise money for it to.
Cleft pallets are so hot right now.
I actually played the drinking game with Captain Morgan and Coke. By the time, Sebastian starting talking about that chick’s singing career while flipping his hair and looking at the ceiling, I needed a judges ruling on how to proceeded. Needless to say, I was so drunk I was quoting Captyn Zodiak’s “Iamananimal” monologue and wishing I was the dude who left for Europe for 2 weeks without telling this show I had left. That all being said, that little girl should hook up with hjfreaks & Tonetta777 and break down some musical barriers, as long as they stay in their respective basements.
Not to hate (I’m about to hate), but I think Jessie & the gang should raise more attention for cross-eyed-ness in upper class proto-monsters. Seriously, all of the gals on this show had eyes like inbred Shih Tzus.
I was really hoping for a comprehensive “WHEN is Sawyer’s beard” study of PC’s facial hair this episode, but it was probably not worth the effort, so I understand.
I am so happy we got to see Kelli! (or is it Kell!?) perform before the season ended. She has such star potential. And killer dance moves.
Fingers crossed for season 2!!!!
I was a little sad they didn’t freeze frame each of the awful teenagers (sorry, CAST MEMBERS) and put a “where are they now?” type thing next to them. Like freeze frame PC: After graduating high school and moving to LA, PC got a job at a dry cleaners in Chinatown and now lives with two roommates above a seafood shop. He still submits his portfolio and headshots and attends open call acting gigs (or whatever he wants to do in life). Sebastien went to Africa for a week to help out, and then stole a T-Mobile cell phone from a local to call his dad to order a private jet plane back to New York. He currently works at the Gap and attends a weekly therapy session to help him with his temporary shampoo addiction.
Oh well. I’ll just wait for the reunion. Which was inevitably happen in Hell.
i liked it. it reminded me of my own experience throwing a gala charity event at the end of my senior year.
I can’t decide what is the saddest:
1. This show
2. Andy Cohen’s weird after show nightmare
3. Andy Cohen as a whole
4. The fact that I know these things exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Prep: “Jessica …, born crosseyed.” Is this a joke?
this show has changed my life. it was like christmas morning waking up every tuesday just knowing that i would be able to watch the great adventures of PC and his gang of rich spoiled white kids. What am i supposed to do with my life? Can there possibly be a show that can fill the void in my heart that NYC prep once occupied? please someone help me!
this show has changed my life. it was like christmas morning waking up every tuesday just knowing that i would be able to watch the great adventures of PC and his gang of rich spoiled white kids. What am i supposed to do with my life? Can there possibly be a show that can fill the void in my heart that NYC prep once occupied? please someone help me!