MSS16 "Marathon" on Sat.
MTV came up with an idea to make its already terribly great series My Super Sweet Sixteen even more obscene. After the initial 6-episode run, they played the episodes back-to-back with commentary by the Sweet Sixteeners themselves as well as other interesting people from the episodes. They did a pretty good job picking who we, the audience, would want to hear from. The commentary gave us an extra insight into their personality -- we saw how they reacted to MTV showing their (in some cases) spoiled and loony behavior. Some of them were refreshingly embarassed, others didn't seem to care, and still others lied about being "just kidding" when they said stupid things (I'm looking at you, Hart's dad). The commentary mostly just supported the audience's original opinion of these people, i.e., Jacqueline's a future Senator, Jacqui's mom is reprehensible, Ava doesn't understand that she's actually spoiled, and so on. Briefly, here's what I extra I noticed from the commentary and seeing the episodes again:
(side note: I saw things while watching the episodes over that were misquoted or misinterpreted in my earlier recaps, but I didn't feel like changing them, so I didn't. None of my errors really would have made a difference in my opinion of the people involved, so I'll keep them and claim poetic license, or something)
(side note 2: They also showed so-called "deleted scenes" during each episode, further devaluing the future DVD's. Of course, they can totally redeem themselves by doing a "Where are They Now" 5 years from now. Anyway, none of the scenes is interesting save the two involving Jacqui's drunk Mom, one where she goes out drinking and hits on some shirtless firefighters, and one where she gets botox injections to "freshen up" before her daughter's party. The number one thing I took away from this marathon is a feeling of sadness and pity for Jacqui, who is forced to be a mother to her own selfish and immature mom. )
1) Episode I, by Creepy Future Senator Jacqueline and In-Disguise Lauren.
The first thing I noticed is that Lauren has dyed her hair dark brown, presumably in an effort to distance herself from the bitchy zilch that she appeared to be like during her and Jacqueline's Party. She'd still a slave to fashion, though, you can tell by her clothes. Jacqueline's wearing (what else?) a shirt with a collar. They say that it was supposed to be their "coming-out party", which is interesting since both of them are now anachonistic real-live debutantes, according to an article I read in their local newspaper (I'm not obsessed with this show or anything). We also learned that local West Coast spare band Unwritten Law was what caused the moshing and punching, and that Pauly Shore wanted a kiss from the two girls when they were posing on the motorcycle. Pauly Shore wants a lot of things, I guess. And remember those two cute Freshman girls that were all dressed up but not on the list to get in? They were supposed to get invitiations. That makes that scene maybe the saddest one on the show. You know, besides that time Ava didn't get her Range Rover.
Lauren does seem embarassed by some of the things she said on the show, and was probably the Sweet Sixteener most wronged by MTV. She defends herself by twice saying, "I'm not like that at awl!" The girls also reiterate that their party raised almost $20,000 for breast cancer, which I'm sure they just aren't saying right. I don't think they took money to advance the progress of the disease.
Episode II, by Jacqui and her Deeply Troubled Non-Mother.
Mom came across in the commentary as just pure evil. She promised her daughter she wouldn't drink at the party, first of all. Let that sink in for a second. She also knew her daughter didn't want beads at the party since it was a maquerade ball and not mardi gras, but got out a bead catalog (there apparently is such a thing) anyway and bought beads for the party behind her back. She also got all botoxed up before the party against her daughter's wishes (in a creepy scene where the creepy doctor tells her "you'll look like your daughter's sister", which is both evil and not true). Jacqui makes comment after comment about mom's drinking and bad behavior, but mom just brushes it off like, "I'm the mom and I don't care what you think", which would be great if Jacqui were the one who was drinking.
Smart, nerdy Jacqui is smart and nerdy and anti-drinking clearly as a reverse rebellion against her parent's sketchy crapulence. She's textbook. Psychology classes should study her. In 5 years from now, she'll either have succombed to her mother's lessons that pain is to be medicated constantly with alcohol, or will have disowned her parents and started her own bead destruction business. Either way, I feel sorry for her.
3) Episode III, by just Ava, because her life is a black hole that sucks everything into herself.
What can you say about Ava? When MTV shows her crying because she didn't get her deathtrap Range Rover, she's (slightly) upset only because they showed her crying, not because she came across as spoiled. She wasn't misrepresented at all. For Ava, spoiled is the only way to be. Spoiled is life. Also, she really talks like that -- mohm, and all that. She has this constantly repellent voice. The sad part is, she's privleged, rich, and actually pretty, but the only thing people want to do when they meet her is punch her. Her dad wants her to be "his lawyer or to take over his business or something", but she's going to have to change her manner of speech first. Can you imagine her talking in front of a judge and jury with that voice? Yikes.
4) Episode IV, by Hart's dad and some kid whose name escapes me...oh, it's Hart.
Second to Jacqui's mom, the one with the worst reaction to the episodes is Hart's dad. Hart thinks his dad is weird when he says stuff like "Where are you on that whole sillicone vs. real issue?" out of the blue. Hart's normal like that. Dad seems embarassed, but unlike a mature person, he doesn't come out and say that. He instead explains away his ridiculous statements with even more ridiculous lies. For example, he was "kidding" about the limo comment ("God forbid that thing go by my house and the neighbor's should see it"). Of course, that makes no sense. He could not have been kidding, because that would mean he was attempting to appear like a pretentious a__ clown on MTV. Why would he do that? He also claims that "people" think that his temper tantrum may have been "staged" for MTV. Again, that would assume that he wants to look insane. Again, why would he do that?
He comes to the brilliant conclusion later that "The more times he sees this he looks like kind of a jerk." Kind of a jerk? And King Kong was kind of a monkey. But that at least is the first baby step towards recovery, and Hart should be very slightly thankful.
In other news, people were late to the party because of the Can Dance (we already knew that) and because they were lost, Hart liked his party the best, and he still wears his collar up like a popular girl in 1985. I guess that's how they roll in...Pennsylvania. Oh, and Ava says he's cute and wants to meet him. Hart had better hope Ava can't find Pennsylvania on a map(which is a good bet, actually), because she would eat him alive. Chomp.
Episode V, by Embarassed Natalie, Cute Sara, and the Will who used to be known as Coby.
This was the most fun, because Sara and Will were constantly ragging on Natalie for her ridiculous statements. Natalie made herself look way less insane by being embarassed and able to put things into some perspective. Will's even more feminine than he was on the episode, and watching this marathon was worth it just to see his reaction to learning what MILF stands for. Sara's still cute even though she says "blang blang"*. Natalie complains that way too much was made of her kicking people out, since she said she didn't after that 2-minute search for the girl MTV highlighted (Will and Sara did, though). She spent much of the episode being embarassed and doing damage control, which was perfectly appropriate.
Also, they all hate Angel, the girl who made fun of Sara's jewelry. Blang blang that.
Episode VI, by Still Diva Sierra and her Mean Mom.
All you need to know is that these two have not changed a bit -- mom stil looks like her sister and is wearing those loony foot-wide hoop earrings, and Sierra is still doing her diva bit. At least it better be a bit, because if it's not, Ava has some competition. Sierra seems funny and creative, and insane only for MTV entertainment purposes -- that's the vibe I get, anyway.
The funniest moment of her commentary is when she saw the oversized glasses she was wearing when handing out Krunk Cakes and said, "Those glasses look huge on me". Those glasses would look huge on Ted Kennedy, and his head is expanding at an alarming rate. At the end, she gets out her tiara and puts it on, and tries to look all serious and regal. What a goofball.
So that's it. Stay tuned for my End-of-Season Awards.
* And to Sara's credit, she actually makes that line kind of work, because she's so cute.
(side note: I saw things while watching the episodes over that were misquoted or misinterpreted in my earlier recaps, but I didn't feel like changing them, so I didn't. None of my errors really would have made a difference in my opinion of the people involved, so I'll keep them and claim poetic license, or something)
(side note 2: They also showed so-called "deleted scenes" during each episode, further devaluing the future DVD's. Of course, they can totally redeem themselves by doing a "Where are They Now" 5 years from now. Anyway, none of the scenes is interesting save the two involving Jacqui's drunk Mom, one where she goes out drinking and hits on some shirtless firefighters, and one where she gets botox injections to "freshen up" before her daughter's party. The number one thing I took away from this marathon is a feeling of sadness and pity for Jacqui, who is forced to be a mother to her own selfish and immature mom. )
1) Episode I, by Creepy Future Senator Jacqueline and In-Disguise Lauren.
The first thing I noticed is that Lauren has dyed her hair dark brown, presumably in an effort to distance herself from the bitchy zilch that she appeared to be like during her and Jacqueline's Party. She'd still a slave to fashion, though, you can tell by her clothes. Jacqueline's wearing (what else?) a shirt with a collar. They say that it was supposed to be their "coming-out party", which is interesting since both of them are now anachonistic real-live debutantes, according to an article I read in their local newspaper (I'm not obsessed with this show or anything). We also learned that local West Coast spare band Unwritten Law was what caused the moshing and punching, and that Pauly Shore wanted a kiss from the two girls when they were posing on the motorcycle. Pauly Shore wants a lot of things, I guess. And remember those two cute Freshman girls that were all dressed up but not on the list to get in? They were supposed to get invitiations. That makes that scene maybe the saddest one on the show. You know, besides that time Ava didn't get her Range Rover.
Lauren does seem embarassed by some of the things she said on the show, and was probably the Sweet Sixteener most wronged by MTV. She defends herself by twice saying, "I'm not like that at awl!" The girls also reiterate that their party raised almost $20,000 for breast cancer, which I'm sure they just aren't saying right. I don't think they took money to advance the progress of the disease.
Episode II, by Jacqui and her Deeply Troubled Non-Mother.
Mom came across in the commentary as just pure evil. She promised her daughter she wouldn't drink at the party, first of all. Let that sink in for a second. She also knew her daughter didn't want beads at the party since it was a maquerade ball and not mardi gras, but got out a bead catalog (there apparently is such a thing) anyway and bought beads for the party behind her back. She also got all botoxed up before the party against her daughter's wishes (in a creepy scene where the creepy doctor tells her "you'll look like your daughter's sister", which is both evil and not true). Jacqui makes comment after comment about mom's drinking and bad behavior, but mom just brushes it off like, "I'm the mom and I don't care what you think", which would be great if Jacqui were the one who was drinking.
Smart, nerdy Jacqui is smart and nerdy and anti-drinking clearly as a reverse rebellion against her parent's sketchy crapulence. She's textbook. Psychology classes should study her. In 5 years from now, she'll either have succombed to her mother's lessons that pain is to be medicated constantly with alcohol, or will have disowned her parents and started her own bead destruction business. Either way, I feel sorry for her.
3) Episode III, by just Ava, because her life is a black hole that sucks everything into herself.
What can you say about Ava? When MTV shows her crying because she didn't get her deathtrap Range Rover, she's (slightly) upset only because they showed her crying, not because she came across as spoiled. She wasn't misrepresented at all. For Ava, spoiled is the only way to be. Spoiled is life. Also, she really talks like that -- mohm, and all that. She has this constantly repellent voice. The sad part is, she's privleged, rich, and actually pretty, but the only thing people want to do when they meet her is punch her. Her dad wants her to be "his lawyer or to take over his business or something", but she's going to have to change her manner of speech first. Can you imagine her talking in front of a judge and jury with that voice? Yikes.
4) Episode IV, by Hart's dad and some kid whose name escapes me...oh, it's Hart.
Second to Jacqui's mom, the one with the worst reaction to the episodes is Hart's dad. Hart thinks his dad is weird when he says stuff like "Where are you on that whole sillicone vs. real issue?" out of the blue. Hart's normal like that. Dad seems embarassed, but unlike a mature person, he doesn't come out and say that. He instead explains away his ridiculous statements with even more ridiculous lies. For example, he was "kidding" about the limo comment ("God forbid that thing go by my house and the neighbor's should see it"). Of course, that makes no sense. He could not have been kidding, because that would mean he was attempting to appear like a pretentious a__ clown on MTV. Why would he do that? He also claims that "people" think that his temper tantrum may have been "staged" for MTV. Again, that would assume that he wants to look insane. Again, why would he do that?
He comes to the brilliant conclusion later that "The more times he sees this he looks like kind of a jerk." Kind of a jerk? And King Kong was kind of a monkey. But that at least is the first baby step towards recovery, and Hart should be very slightly thankful.
In other news, people were late to the party because of the Can Dance (we already knew that) and because they were lost, Hart liked his party the best, and he still wears his collar up like a popular girl in 1985. I guess that's how they roll in...Pennsylvania. Oh, and Ava says he's cute and wants to meet him. Hart had better hope Ava can't find Pennsylvania on a map(which is a good bet, actually), because she would eat him alive. Chomp.
Episode V, by Embarassed Natalie, Cute Sara, and the Will who used to be known as Coby.
This was the most fun, because Sara and Will were constantly ragging on Natalie for her ridiculous statements. Natalie made herself look way less insane by being embarassed and able to put things into some perspective. Will's even more feminine than he was on the episode, and watching this marathon was worth it just to see his reaction to learning what MILF stands for. Sara's still cute even though she says "blang blang"*. Natalie complains that way too much was made of her kicking people out, since she said she didn't after that 2-minute search for the girl MTV highlighted (Will and Sara did, though). She spent much of the episode being embarassed and doing damage control, which was perfectly appropriate.
Also, they all hate Angel, the girl who made fun of Sara's jewelry. Blang blang that.
Episode VI, by Still Diva Sierra and her Mean Mom.
All you need to know is that these two have not changed a bit -- mom stil looks like her sister and is wearing those loony foot-wide hoop earrings, and Sierra is still doing her diva bit. At least it better be a bit, because if it's not, Ava has some competition. Sierra seems funny and creative, and insane only for MTV entertainment purposes -- that's the vibe I get, anyway.
The funniest moment of her commentary is when she saw the oversized glasses she was wearing when handing out Krunk Cakes and said, "Those glasses look huge on me". Those glasses would look huge on Ted Kennedy, and his head is expanding at an alarming rate. At the end, she gets out her tiara and puts it on, and tries to look all serious and regal. What a goofball.
So that's it. Stay tuned for my End-of-Season Awards.
* And to Sara's credit, she actually makes that line kind of work, because she's so cute.
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