While it's true that MTV hasn't produced a decent non-music show since the 1980s, Punk'd takes the cake as the worst show they've ever bothered to air. Igonoring, for the moment, that Ashton Kutcher is an annoying idiot's idiot, the "pranks" that they pull often look like real sting operations or whatever "official impersonation act du-jour" they're pulling this week. Personally, I'd love to see the entire cast and crew arrested and jailed for imitating law enforcement officials.
I was totally ambivalent towards this brain-melter until the subject was Pink, one of my favourite people, so I admittedly have had a bias against it since then. If I was ever the subject of this festering mound of compost, I would sue MTV and the makers of this show within the hour I found out that it was all staged.
Unfortunately, since the whole show is so intellectually devoid, that problems means that it'll be around forever and ever due to the high ratings that corn-fed suburban trash-o-philes that watch it.
I was totally ambivalent towards this brain-melter until the subject was Pink, one of my favourite people, so I admittedly have had a bias against it since then. If I was ever the subject of this festering mound of compost, I would sue MTV and the makers of this show within the hour I found out that it was all staged.
Unfortunately, since the whole show is so intellectually devoid, that problems means that it'll be around forever and ever due to the high ratings that corn-fed suburban trash-o-philes that watch it.