MTV is turning the US into a cultural wasteland
 

Discuss.

'Super Sweet 16'? What the fuck is that?

I saw a kid on it once who wasn't 16. Jeez, MTV- what next?

I think most of the older 'demographic' who remember when MTV used to play videos don't even bother with it at all anymore. But those poor kids and their 'give me plastic surgery to look just like Brad Pitt' shows...

MTV is the opiate of the masses. There are a lot of 20 somethings who are lulled into the sheer idiocy, but even more teenagers who are. And if you turn on MTV2, those videos are pure garbage.

There are people who are totally brainwashed by it though, who think that life should all be about promiscuouty, drugs, and money. No appreciation of art or wisdom or any intangibles. It is really disgusting. If and when I have kids, I'm probably going to block out MTV as well as probably Nickelodeon (just because Nickelodeon has becomed so dumbed down.)

Anyone remember when television was intelligent? When you could turn on TLC or the Discovery channel and not see bullshit? Now all the educational programming is no longer on basic cable- now you gotta go to Discovery Science, which is on expanded cable or whatever.

Oh, and Comedy Central has gone waaaay downhill. They have so much good original programming that they cancelled, and now they show MAD TV reruns? And the Daily Show and Colbert Report 5 times a day? And Blue Collar TV? That should be on CMT. And 4 episodes of scrubs a day?

Don't get me wrong- Scrubs is funny, and so is the Daily Show and the Colbert report. But they should only be on once a day. Comedy Central should be split into like 5 different channels- News, Stand-up, movies, originals, and sketch comedy.

Cartoon Networks been going downhill too. Adult Swim has been boring as of late and the daytime programming is abysmal.
Cartoon network is split into 2 channels: Boomerang and Cartoon Network- but it should really be like:
Cartoon Network for 12 year olds, Adult swim, anime dorks, classic cartoons, and crappy cartoons that were made in the 60's that currently take way too much time away from classic cartoons on Boomerang.


Although it is probably a good thing that TV programming is such shit. Otherwise I'd be glued.

I don't know anyone who watches MTV, but I'm sure they're out there.

About Comedy Central: MadTV is the worst program in the history of television, followed closely by The Mind of Mencia. Blue Collar TV isn't very funny, but I don't find it actively annoying. And who can blame them for going after the Jeff Foxworthy cash cow?

The last mtv thing I liked was Daria, it was a pretty good cartoon. It's funny cuz her sis on the show Quinn was a perfect example of how the average mtv watcher is viewed, and Daria was quite the opposite.

I rarely watch tv at all myself, I try and occupy my time with other things, so I'm not too up to date on all the crappy shows.
If I watch tv it's either VH1 classic or forensic/crime shows, but not the fictional ones - I love forensic files, cold case files etc.

I used to tape Daria off the TV. VHS, man. Old school.

No show pisses me off more than My Super Sweet 16.

MTV hasn't been in years, actually I sometimes watch The Tube, which is a new 24 hour music video channel that is actually pretty decent. They tend to play a lot more older stuff though but I suppose that's alright. MTV is not even worth mentioning, its not like this new, ever since TRL became SO popular it totally changed the programming at MTV, its become so much more for Short Attention Span viewers then ever before. It has nothing to do with music and all about that 12-15 year old demographic. Watch in the next few years they will be the new Cartoon Network, but not of the Adult Swim variety but of the 1st grade to fifth grade variety. I've already stated how I think Cartoon Network sucks, any network that starts out as a cult following always get corrupted once it gets popular, Cartoon Network today is not the Cartoon Network of even five years ago, and that's sad.

I have to admit that Jackass is an awesome show, but that's been around for a long time.

I have a few friends that will partake in that sort of stuff out of sheer boredom.

What's MTV?

MTV is a waste of time. It fills your mind with unimportant stories about "Who's going out with Hulk Hogan's daughter". It's not even about the music anymore at all. They should just play different shows based on genre's, scenes, and time periods, with beavis and butthead once or twice a day. I keep the TV off; most of it is trash anyway. I'd rather spend my time reading or surfing Wikipedia.

Insert mindless agreeable discussion here.

Mtv Efing Rocks My Socks

I was being sacastic but i will admit to watching wildboys.

I used to masturbate to "Undressed" when I was like 12. Good times.

thank god for the internet

Haha that's funny. I thought that I was the only one that surfed cable TV and looked for 20 seconds of arousing footage when I was 12. Well no I didn't think that, but I still find it funny when people admit to it.

And the fuzzy porn channels~!?
Aaaaand sometimes Howard Stern. Like when he had orgasm girl on.
There's not much I won't admit to :)

ok i thought the us already was a cultural wasteland before mtv. mtv which doesnt actually show music much anymore.