By Via the Marmot’s Hole comes this news about a new show that shamelessly rips off the Jersey Shore theme:
If you can believe it I have never watched Jersey Shore, but I feel like I know who all the main characters are simply because of all the media hype surrounding the show. I don’t expect a bunch of women that look and act like Korean salon parlor girls judging by this video to get the same media hype.
Unsurprisingly according to the TMH link the producers for this show are having a hard time finding a network to pick it up.
4:39 pm on March 31st, 2011 1
Looks to me like it's light on reality, heavy on show.
5:48 pm on March 31st, 2011 2
"Looks to me like it’s light on reality, heavy on show."
It's a television show, meant to break the masses away from their constant state of mundacity. Do you think it's going to work?
As far as it being a rip off, no real surprise there. Much to my dismay, I briefly focused on a CNN program, highlighting the super-group, Super Junior. Not one of their songs were written by any of the group members. Most of their songs are written by individuals from western nations.
Yep, Light on reality and HEAVY on show!
8:17 pm on March 31st, 2011 3
But, did you really need CNN to figure out that members of a boyband aren't musicians or lyricists?
9:21 pm on March 31st, 2011 4
I can't believe Jersey Shore is as popular as it is. The fact that enough people want to spend their leisure time watching a bunch of retards in their daily capers to make the formula marketable scares me.
Thought we'd advanced at least a little beyond the days when they'd open up public viewing in the insane asylums as a form of 'entertainment'.
10:42 pm on March 31st, 2011 5
Liz,
Go to Walmart.
I thought all the Walmart customer jokes were just jokes… until I went there.
It is a true freakshow… and it is a large freakshow.
The cast of Jersey Shore is something for these people to aspire to.
America's division of class can be partially blamed on the politicians and the corporations… but half of the blame goes to those who expect so little of themselves… although they are good at expecting "entitlements".
11:12 pm on March 31st, 2011 6
I'll take it a step further: that show should be retitled "The Future of America".
11:37 pm on March 31st, 2011 7
I meant that as a response to #5, but the title would also fit for K-Town.
11:53 pm on March 31st, 2011 8
#4 and the same people who like JS are also allowed to vote.
#5 Walmart is not so bad in my area. But I have no problem believing the jokes.
#6 Try: "The future of the uneducated in America".
I've never seen Jersey Shore either, but I've heard of the little fat girl that seems to be the star. At least the females on the video of K-town look good.
3:19 am on April 1st, 2011 9
It may be too late for us; but we can pray that the Lord will forgive us and give us a softer landing than we deserve…
8:22 am on April 1st, 2011 10
What dismays me about reality television is that it models outrageous behavior for its viewers to start thinking is normal and worth emulating, and eventually outdoing.
Jersey Shore, crap. K-Town, derivative crap.
Survivor, once great. Now headed toward crap if they're not careful.
9:55 am on April 1st, 2011 11
Kushibo – "What dismays me about reality television is that it models outrageous behavior for its viewers to start thinking is normal and worth emulating, and eventually outdoing."
Good point, until some overweight female sports a mini-skirt and skin tight blouse, walks into a biker bar and sits on a bull-dyke's lap. Later, finding her self in the hospital, undergoing 4 months of traction therapy.
10:12 am on April 1st, 2011 12
"But, did you really need CNN to figure out that members of a boyband aren’t musicians or lyricists?"
In here lies the confusion. In watching a KBS documentary on the same "SUPER – boy bad", it was stated that all material was self-generated. I guess the joke was on me. I was hoping atleast one word or note might have come from someone in the band.
12:13 pm on April 1st, 2011 13
#12,
If so, they do with a group of song writers and producers.
1:02 pm on April 1st, 2011 14
The girl playing the violin is Thai. It was ripped off a Thai shampoo commercial.
1:07 pm on April 1st, 2011 15
Re #14….
Hmm… I was watching this and thinking that a lot of the shots of the non-participants seemed they might be copyright violations of some kind.
1:11 pm on April 1st, 2011 16
I knew this Korean girl in Seoul once. She liked to play the violin. I liked to play with her Ubongs. We came to an agreement. She could play her violin only if I could play with her Ubongs at the same time.
The only point is that at least once, we were able to agree. And she had a talent. And i wasn't as impressed with it as I was those.
3:22 pm on April 1st, 2011 17
We (I know I'm generalizing but for the most part it's true) have a minority group (Asians) that work hard, believe in education & enterprise & achievement so what does the entertainment industry do? Well let's drag the Asians down in the gutter along with every one else. So we don't want Asian youth to have businessmen, businesswomen, professional people, scientists, & engineers as role models. Let's have the usual bunch of drunkards & assorted sleasebags as role models. Ain't that just great? However I would like that Asian babe doing the lapdance to do the same to me. Suddenly my trousers have gotten tight.
3:51 pm on April 1st, 2011 18
Tom L.
"Suddenly my trousers have gotten tight."
Did you crap your pants from watching the growing stupidity of American pop culture?
4:59 pm on April 1st, 2011 19
Chickenhead hahahahahaha! Always the master!
9:40 pm on April 1st, 2011 20
CH, you should have went ahead dropped the link:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
/I'm thinking of registering fatasseddependentsatthecampcaseycommisary.com
//for now, the USFK facebook page kinda fills the gap
4:52 am on April 17th, 2011 21
Speechless indeed.