Did You Watch Last Night's The Spencer Pratt Show?

We're all smart here, right? Smart enough? So can we cut the shit with The Hills already? It was cool last season for smart-ish people (and myself) to come up with elaborate college reasons for why it was OK to watch the show, involving universal signifiers and Baudrillard's "spectacle," but at this point can we all admit that it's basically nice looking bullshit and that it just turned out that we love soap operas and were embarrassed to discover that fact?

Now that that's out of the way, we have another issue to address, which is how The Hills is treading water and who gives an F about L.C.? Hate him, or hate him, this is the Spencer Pratt show (not even the Spencer and Heidi show, now that Heidi has gone all plastic face on us.)

And that's OK, guys. Spence (I call him Spence because I have low self-esteem) is extremely entertaining. Yeah, he's horrible, but if we're in the business of exploiting clowns for entertainment, at least he does something in front of the camera. I'm pretty sure a half hour of holding a latte while trying to find your phone in your purse is not actually entertaining (anymore, season 2 of L.A. Latte Purse was phenomenal.)

Posted by Gabe at 9:45 AM in Hate-Watching, Reality TV
Tags: Audrina Patridge | Heidi Montag | Horrible People | Lauren Conrad | Spencer Pratt | The Hills

9 Comments

Stephanie is a really good actress.

Posted by: scott at 04/08/08 9:50 AM | Reply
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talk about plastic face! heidi is so shiny now.

Posted by: stuart at 04/08/08 10:25 AM | Reply
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I can't watch this show without screaming FAKE FAKE FAKE at my TV

Posted by: Robocop at 04/08/08 10:29 AM | Reply
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i know, they don't even try to make it seem real anymore. like, stephanie and heidi running into audrina at a club? FAKE. heidi's coworker just happens to be working the door at lauren's bday party? FAKE. stephanie and lauren are friends now! FAKE FAKE FAKE. i still like it though.

Posted by: stuart in reply to Robocop's comment at 04/08/08 10:37 AM | Reply
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You could actually write a whole Masters thesis just on the impossibility of LC and Stephanie having a well-lit, two-camera hushed conversation in the middle of an on-going computer class.

Posted by: Gabe at 04/08/08 10:59 AM | Reply
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"but at this point can we all admit that it's basically nice looking bullshit and that it just turned out that we love soap operas and were embarrassed to discover that fact?"

no, fuck you.

Posted by: justin at 04/08/08 11:10 AM | Reply
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I can't wait until Spencer spraypaints CRESTED BUTTE on Stephanie's wall.

Posted by: Hannah at 04/08/08 11:17 AM | Reply
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what the heck. they've been promising us a stephen appearance since day 1 and he hasn't shown up yet. i hate all of these people but I CAN'T. STOP. WATCHING.

i do appreciate spencer's attempts to bring back the thumbs up

Posted by: ThisGuy at 04/08/08 2:07 PM | Reply
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Worst.

All I know about The Hills is 30 second clips and Joel's wisecracks on The Soup.

Posted by: mmmikey at 07/25/08 12:02 AM | Reply
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