I hate MTV Cribs

[EstimatedProphet]

Bunch of stars wandering around in their McMansions, most of them I have never heard of, and all of them seem to have a Hummer in the driveway!

[Dave Reynolds]

1. I watched a show on TLC called "Rides" once,

they had coverage of a "Bling-off" in Hollywood with celeb and athlete vehicles.

90% Hummers, 9% other very large SUVs, and 1% cars.

[Lavender Brown]

2. You mean you don't care to find out what c-listers have in their fridges?

:shrug:

The houses are always hideous, exactly what you'd imagine a 15-year-old overnight millionaire would have. You'd think they'd hire a designer with all that cash to burn.

[Heddi]

5. Exactly

Oh, and did I miss something? I mean, I try to be "hip" and "in" and all of that jazz, but when did it become a requirement to have a framed picture of Scarface in every room of your house? I mean, is that what passes for "art" these days?

Of course, most of the people on this show are barely old enough to drink, and probably think posters tacked to the walls with pushpins qualifies as "high art" :eyes:

After watching Cribs (hey! I'm a full-time student...need some mindless entertainment to take my brain off of the world), I have decided to buy a bundle of stock for companies that make White Paint, Off-White Paint, and Scarface posters. I mean, go to Lowes...they add the colour to the paint FOR FREE.....

[Lavender Brown]

7. Don't forget exercise equipment... they always have a full, unused gym

Alanis Morrisette actually had a nice place... She had a meditation room. I don't know how sincere she is about meditation if she's inviting a film crew into it, but it was very nice.

[Heddi]

8. oh yeah! Her place was great

See, that's the kind of place that you know someone lives in, sleeps in, eats in, etc.

Most of the other places are like, empty rooms surrounded by empty walls and occupied by empty people.

Did you ever see the one where they showed the rapper REdMan's house? Oh my god that was so funny. It's a duplex/townhouse in Long Island or New Jersey--totally "normal people" house. The doorbell didn't work so you had to rub the 2 doorbell wires together to make it work. Shit all over the place. Blinds falling off the windows. Keeps his money in a shoebox above the fridge. It was great. Hubby and I were like "oh shit..that's OUR HOUSE"---our doorbell doesn't work either. Well, it half works. Instead of going Ding Dong, it just goes Dong. And makes an electrical buzzing sound that eminates from the floor of the kitchen. Who the hell knows. And it freaks our cat out.

A few months ago, it mysteriously started working again out of the blue. I'm sitting there and I hear DING DONG and I think "oh, that's just on TV" because I'm used to a solitary dong without the ding. Well, it was the UPS guy and our cat is freaking out, climbing the walls and this horrible DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG as he's ringing the hell out of the bell...

it stopped working after that, and the lone Dong has been replaced by a solitary Ding.....

[Lavender Brown]

9. sounds better than my apartment buzzer

That thing made us jump, it was so loud and grating. :crazy:

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Did you see when they had Bam's house?

Bam Maguera from Jackass. He comes on and he has this huge McMansion, and he's acting the complete spoiled jerk. He picks up glasses off the counter and throws them against the wall, and says "I own this place! See! Look at this!" and keeps breaking stuff. Then he tells his girlfriend to clean it up. You can see the complete disgust in her expression. There's a relationship made in heaven...

[Heddi]

11. Yeah. He's a real gem :rolling eyes:

Hubby and I saw that one and at the same time we both said "Aren't his 15 minutes up YET?" He was such a boorish ass. And most of the people ON that show are complete bores. Oh yeah, big deal. You have more money than the GDP of many small countries. Doesn't make up for the fact that you're an uneducated asshole with zero intelligence and even less personality.

My husband (re: Bam's show) was like "wow. I feel bad for his girlfriend" I'm like "FUCK THAT. She has the option to tell him to kiss her ass and clean it his fucking self". I don't feel bad for her. I imagine that his ego is bigger than...ahem...his personality. I also assume that he's one of those people who LIVES the mantra of "live every moment of your life as if it were on film" and believes the world stops existing every time he closes his eyes. I'm sure he's just as much of a hoot when the cameras aren't rolling as he is when they are. Then again, I've never been a fan of sophmoric imbiciles who think that acting like a rude asshole is clever or charming.

I have a sneaking feeling, though, that in 5...perhaps 10 years, the name Bam Margera will evoke the same emotion as the name "Yahoo Serious" evokes these days.... (one can hope, at least)

[Heddi]

3. Have none of these people heard of "painted walls"

or "art on the walls?"

ALL of the houses (save for a few--Boy George's house comes to mind) look like the Welcome Houses at the front of subdivisions where you meet the salespeople to buy your house.

White/Off-white walls
Nothing ON the walls
Minimal furniture
furniture that is there is grotesque and uncomfortable looking.

Generally, the houses don't look lived in. No pictures, no personal effects, no nothing. I mean, I understand being a gazillionaire for no reason gives you reason to hire a team of maids and chefs...but NOTHING? Even the bedrooms are sparce--"Here's my bed, where the magic happens. Here's my TV. Here's my remote. Now let's go down into the empty basement that I call my "chill out room." Here is a chair. And there's another chair. Oh, and here's another remote..."

Goes to show that money DEFINITELY does not buy class or....anything. I'd rather live in a hovel with personality than a McMansion with bare walls and ne'er sat on couches.

Oh! And what the fugg is up with living in neighborhoods where your neighbors are, like, 4 feet away from your house? Fuck that. If I had all that money, I'd have a grande palace in the fucking country with no one around me for miles. Fuck neighbors. Although I'm sure the neighbors of the more "bling-bling" Cribbers probably wish they'd gone with their first thought and lived in the country rather than next door to a bunch of partying assholes who just beg for ways to blow $1 million in a weekend...

[EstimatedProphet]

4. That might be exactly what the houses are

ALL of the houses (save for a few--Boy George's house comes to mind) look like the Welcome Houses at the front of subdivisions where you meet the salespeople to buy your house.

Maybe that's how these idjits buy houses-they take the realtor's tour, and then say "I'll buy this one, and just keep all the stuff with it."

[Heddi]

6. My husband heard recently that most of these people don't even

live in the houses that they show on Cribs. More like a "time share" house. Not where they live, just where they crash, and that's why there's nothing at all personal in there. Generic houses for generic "celebrities", I suppose.

And what's up with the shitty furniture? Shitty everything. Oh look..ANOTHER bathroom with the separate room for the toilet---what is up with that? I understand the need for privacy, but even if I am in a little closet on the side of the shower, I still wouldn't feel comfortable taking a poo knowing that someone was lounging in the 40-person hot tub just on the other side of the door....

THere was one episode we watched and it had some kid---Little BowWow or some shit---anyway, he was smiling and bragging about never wearing an article of clothing twice. He'd wear it once and throw it away. :eyes:

I think I watch that show just to remind me how much gluttony and wastefulness there is in the world, and to keep me grounded in the event that I win a huge lotto settlement. I could never imagine not only being rich enough, but SELFISH enough, and GLUTTONOUS enough to outright BRAG about wearing clothes once then throwing them away. How utterly, utterly clueless that poor boy is.

I hope these "celeb's" have really great investment bankers...I feel they'd have a hard time living in a world where one had to live in a house that wasn't the size of a shopping mall, and *gasp* actually having to buy things you needed, as opposed to just wanted on a whim....

[Mutley]

13. Geez...

The least he could do is donate the clothes to charity. Then at least it would be a complete waste. :(

[DS1]

15. I'd have the coolest place ever

It'd have nice living rooms, and then my own game room that looked like it came out of a H.R. Giger painting and built by Rob Zombie

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. Have you seen Super Sweet Sixteen?

It makes the D list celebrities on MTV Cribs seem dainty and refined.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. I'll have to try to not see it

[datasuspect]

14. although,

the snoop episode was pretty fly.

he has reefer all over his house.

[madinmaryland]

17. Why is MTV called Music Television,

yet they play no music? I haven't watched them in years. It's strictly the "E" entertainment channel.

Samething for VH1.

What happened to music videos and concerts?

[underpants]

18. L'il John's was hilarious

HE looked like he had just moved into his (actual McMansion) the day before. He had artwork that looked like he bought it at a gas station and two huge sailboat models....L'il John doesn't strike me as the yachting type.

He had an empty Corona box on top of the Fridge and a car fresh out of impound.