Tool Academy Minus The Whole Academy Thing
MTV has a new show beginning June 15 called Is She Really Going Out With Him? about "great" girls with "terrible" boyfriends. Trailer, you guys:
I can't believe these beautiful, ambitious girls are putting up with these obnoxious losers! Oh wait, yes I can, because they have low self-esteem and this is all bullshit. I have to give it up to MTV, though. They are quickly becoming basic cable's premiere source for douchebag-based humor reality programming, one of the fastest growing new genres.
But who does it appeal to exactly?
Obviously, shitty dudes are hilarious, and making fun of them is like shooting half-literate hair-gel fish in a cologne barrel. But if Ed Hardy having his own vintage of wine teaches us anything, it's that there are so many of them that the ratings depend on them. Tools have to themselves be part of the audience for making fun of tools. Sort of like how only hipsters actually read LookAtThisFuckingHipster. Look At This Fucking Douchebag. Tools around the country are watching these shows and turning to their bedraggled, scared-they-can't-find-anyone-better-for-some-reason girlfriends, punching them in the shoulder and saying, "See, dude, I'm not that bad."
This guy knows what I'm talking about:
I'm not saying that you can't feel better about yourself by watching these shows, or that you can't take these caricatures of your ex-boyfriends to be comically entertaining specimens of human civilization's spiraling decline, I'm just saying that if the tools are laughing too, and they are, then basically we all lose.
Again. Why are we always all losing so much? (Via WarmingGlow.)
Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in Wait For It...
Tags: Bags | Is She Really Going Out With Him | Tool Academy
Maybe MTV should just rename themselves Tool TV.
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woa LOL how did da ompa lompa get out of da chacolat factery!!??? LOL
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The line "They all live by The Code of the Choad." Almost makes this worth it. Almost. But not.
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...but Bromance taught me that douchey was the way to be.
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After the announcer guy is like, "These something-sapiens have their own walk," and then the guy yells out "YEE!" I rewound that part like fifteen times.
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I can't decide whether to hate watch this, or just hate it
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The gremlin in the middle of that last photo is nightmare-inducing. Old Gregg without the seaweed hair.
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"If my style would have to be summed up in word word, that would be fresh."
If anyone is ever curious as to why I'm cynical about the prospects of humanity, this quote sums it up fairly well.
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Even if this flavor of douchebaggery was anihilated, people would just find some new way to be assholes.
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I'm confused... it looks like a bunch of awful guys dating a bunch of awful girls... why is there shock?
Douches gravitate naturally towards nasty twats.
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i'm pretty sure that that guy at the end (throwing his hat in frustration) was also on Daisy of Love on VH1. But I can't be sure. They all sort of look the same to me.
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Yeah I noticed him also. I think his name is Brooklyn. :( I will now down arrow myself for watching Daisy of Love and knowing who that guy is. :(
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That was definetly him. Also, I recognize his girlfriend's voice as being the same one that called the house every five minutes from 11pm to 7am yelling "CHRIS HAS A GIRLFRIEND!" and then hanging up. That doesnt make her look much better than him.
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I'm not sure if it's more or less sad, but none of those women were particularly good looking or seemingly intelligent.
Matches made in heaven, it appeared. It's pretty bad when MTV can't find good looking people anymore.
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that's what i always found so funny about the whole "hot chicks with douchebags" thing... those chicks were douchebags too, man. you have to be a douche in order to be attracted to, not to mention put up with, a douche.
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Douches of a feather douche together?
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I'll be honest, I was expecting that to be a lot worse than it was. It's like they know and the audience knows that the show is already terrible, and they're already making fun of it. In fact I'm ready to believe that this is meta reality TV. (MTV?) Kind of like Hipster Runoff is a meta teen blog.
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Speaking of...we have this also look forward to. YAY!
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You totally fucked the rest of my day with that picture of that guy standing next to the orange gremlins. Most unsettling image ever.
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This is the most annoying thing I've listened to all day. WTF is with the announcer's voice? Argh.
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Hold on, Fresh is how I describe myself.
After a shower.
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To whom.
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Spay and neuter your pets, people.
"Bye, Cassanova." BEST. EXIT. EVER.
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No, you know why we watch these shows on MTV? Because we want them to get HUMILIATED.
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actually YAK=VOMIT
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