Jun 1 2007 09:42 PM ET

Watch at your own risk. Protective eyewear strongly recommended

Categories: Reality TV

I’m not sure how the hell I missed the premiere of E!’s Sunset Tan, but luckily, our totally bronzed friends at Best Week Ever compiled a short clip series of why this show marks the turning point of civilization. (We’re falling down. Had you any idea?) You can read their footnotes to the 10 the-world-is-about-to-end "dings" at BWE, or just watch the video with squinted eyes (as if you’re tanning!) and sink lower and lower into your chair as humanity falters. This is just horrible, horrible parenting. You can bet your ass I won’t take my future Oompa-Loompas to the tanning salon until they’re at least 10.

I wonder if I were to breed with Willy Wonka, could we have an Oompa-Loompa? That just seems like something that could happen. Split-screen forthcoming! Not really.

Don’t you want to look like Lindsay Lohan? And I know he’s just a pawn in the operation, but how can we murder "Nick" and make it look like an accident?

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  • Tim

    That’s just freakin’ sad. Mommy should be taken out back and beat.

  • FLIPPER

    I couldn’t finish watching it… it really ticked me off!
    This reminds me of those mindless parents on ‘My Super Sweet 16′.
    This poor kid hasn’t got a chance…..

  • Jen

    Wow. That’s disgusting. That poor little girl looked positively pan-fried after her tanning session. Her mother should be ashamed of herself.

  • Vivi

    “This is LA. You gotta be the tannest kid in class.” I mean, just wow. And the mom should be shot. “Oooh, Lindsay Lohan…” Seriously? Tanning a 10 year old girl. Do you know that you have single handly ruined this kid’s life with that one trip to the tan salon? And I really can’t blame Nick…he’s running a business. And he is in LA. There are some dumb people in LA; he’s just using the grand opportunity to take advantage of it. Cha-ching!!!

  • Houstonian Jen in Baltimore

    Wow! No words…

  • Becca

    Ok Annie you are my favorite blogger on Popwatch. I hope Willy Wonka (or better yet, Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka) reads this post, falls in love with you, and you have a whole litter of very tan Oompa-Loompas.

  • bootsycolumbia

    All I could think while watching this was “That poor little girl. She doesn’t even stand a chance.” And that mother! She should lose custody of her daughter, immediately.

  • KDMASK

    I felt it was totally staged… this show HAS to be the least “reality” out there. If not, I just might shoot myself.

  • Maeve

    I’m pretty sure there is a minimum age requirement for tanning, and I think it’s 14 or 15.

  • Nix

    New on reality TV: child abuse.

  • t3hdow

    I wonder why this wasn’t part of the ‘Things That Make Me Want To Die Inside’ series in Popwatch, because I don’t think there’s much more you can say after viewing that besides the obvious.

  • Re: KDMASK

    Yeah, I wondered the same thing too. Fake, maybe. But, I don’t think so. People these days ARE this stupid. Believe it.
    Kids have the sh$tty end of the deal these days.

  • teecee

    is this for real? i’m just speechless. nick is doing his thing, while mommy dearest…well, i’m speechless. poor little girl.

  • maya

    yes, i definitely watched the premiere – strange, the things boredom brings on. awful. the whole episode/institution deserves to be ridiculed. the ollys? the girl from oklahoma who asks extremely inappropriate questions? the britney cameo? oof.

  • FLIPPER

    I think it’s time some people should ask themselves the question ” What is my purpose in life ?”

  • Realist Mom

    This is why the Brittany’s, Lohans, and Paris’s are where they are now in their pathetic pampered lives. Poooooor little rich girls.
    I pity them and want to smack their parents upside their negligent heads.

  • Honeybee

    A friend of mine works at Barnes & Noble. She described dozens of mothers coming in with their daughters to buy Paris Hilton’s memoirs. Society is doomed!

  • Lauren

    Mommy dearest oughta bleach those eyebrows and then maybe we can talk…

  • Janice

    $1300 for tanning!?! Seriously??

  • Kimi

    The worst part is that the mom was proud enough of herself to allow the whole process to be filmed.

  • BrandonK

    I hope Child Services sees that and gets that kid to some foster parents who don’t tell her to be like Lindsay “I’m Wasting My Life” Lohan.

  • Honeybee

    I watched this thing again and both mother and daughter look vaguely familiar. This could mean it is LA and they are both “actors” or it could mean they are both “actors” who were paid to perform in this reality show.

  • No Brand Woman

    That was so disturbing I had to laugh at it when there was the news feed about Lindsey Lohan down at the bottom. It’s not because it was necessarily humorous, but it’s just so unnerving that it causes laughter somehow. That is just appalling. What a horrible and stupid mother and that sleazeball behind the counter! But he knew he had a sucker when he saw Mommy Dearest there march her little princess into the store. That poor little girl. She probably will turn out like Lindsey Lohan. Thanks, mommy!!!
    P.S. I love BWE.

  • furry_tom

    That must have been filmed a while ago, I’ve already seen that girl in a commercial.

  • Hey furry tom

    It is her!… and the tan is now etched permanently into her body.

  • To No Brand Woman

    No Brand Woman: You have got to be kidding! You thought Pearl was cute, but this is not? Do I smell fake?

  • kats

    Disturbing. This is what happens when vain, stupid people with too much money are allowed to breed.

  • cadebra1961

    Ummm, correct me if I’m wrong, but Lindsay Lohan doesn’t really have a tan. She is pretty much either pale or sunburned with a million freckles! And I know all her freckles couldn’t have melded together to create the illusion of a tan. WTF is wrong with these tools? – except the innocent little girl. Her mother seems to be a real, honest-to-goodness HUMP!!

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