True confessions time: I’ve never watched an episode of My Super Sweet 16 in its entirety. Read the full post.
Jun 18
2007
06:24 PM ET
Things That Make Me Die Inside (Vol. 23)
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The entire show is vile, and is a prime example of everything wrong in society. Those spoiled brats are not only permitted to act in a disgusting manner, but are in fact rewarded. Creating another “Paris Hilton” type generation. The thought of it is cringe worthy.
I dont think anything is wrong with this show. I mean if you have the means why not spend it. You only live once. So why not live it up. These kids parents worked hard to provide them with anything they want. And why not waste it on a decadent party. I mean dont blame the kids when there are grown adults doing the same thing. In and Out of thier means.
Has anyone seen Bridezillas? Those are grown adult women behaving just like these children. Only without the means most of the time.
Bridezilla’s were once just like the junior harpies featured on My Super Sweet 16. I’ve seen the future people and it is bleak.
I think it is so clear from the reaction of this blog and everyone I know, that the show is meant to humiliate the child and the parents. They agree to do the show, thinking people will admire how rich and classy they are, only to be shown as the rich clueless idiots that they are. And yes, it is the parents fault that the kid is so spoiled.
Everytime I see a moment of the show, I think of a visit I took to one of the wealthiest, most exclusive country clubs in the country. Old guard wasps. The parking lot was filled with Camrys and Accords.
This show is a public dunning of the trashy parents and spoiled child, and they are often too clueless to realize it.
However, I think there is a peculiar streak in this show. On cribs, similar vulgar spending is seen, and the music stars are always lionized for it. Yes, the stars earn the money, but they also spend it stupidly. Yet, there’s no doubt we are to admire their shopping for video games, tvs and Hummers.
As I’ve said before, these wealthy ‘I simply don’t know what to do with all this money’ types should be forced to spend some time in impoverished countries. It may help them find the strength to climb out of the ‘privileged’ dunghole they’ve found themselves wallowing in.
I get sucked into this show every once and a while (like this Sunday when MTV ran a marathon). My favorite episode followed a girl who was recently adopted after spending most of her life in foster care. She had her cronies around her helping her pick out everything for the party and must have said at least 20 times in the course of a half-hour conversation that she “deserved” the party and all of the lavish accoutrements. Very disturbing — I thought that the only things you “deserve” at 16 are food, shelter and clothing.
Disgusting and disturbing, but I still watch.
Sure, we would all love an over-the-top party in our name, but the difference between us and them is that we don’t expect it, we don’t demand it, and we don’t freak out when the wrong crappy singer shows up. This is what is wrong with America. Shows like this and the one about Orange County housewives and such…NOBODY CARES! Am I really supposed to be entertained by shows like this when I a worried about making student loan payments? How about a show where you take normal people who struggle in their lives or who have had hard times and give them a super-expensive party? I would watch that.
Honeybee: I am not sure how old you are, but put yourself in an impressionable tween’s shoes. Are they looking at this show and saying, “Wow. That family is really sad. They really don’t know what real life is like,” or are they just looking at it and saying, “Wow! I want a party with dresses and bands and cars!” There’s a reason Paris Hilton is a celebrity, and it is because people want to be like her. Well, maybe not so much anymore, but you know what I mean.
It is like the Bridezilla show as well..these girls and women think they are princesses who deserve to be treated like royalty, no matter what the cost. It makes it that much harder for us normal girls to find a man!! Ok, end rant.
I’m not so much allowed to watch this show. I’ve seen it a couple of times, but it knots my stomach too much and I yell at the TV. Embarrassing, but it’s true.
I love seeing the expensive cars that these brilliant parents buy their spoiled brats at age 16. I mean, how can they not know that their idiot child is going to wreck that shiney Ferrari within a week? From their upbringing, these kids have it in their heads that they’re something special and real life can’t touch them. I’d love to see them try to fend for themselves in the real world.
And shouldn’t this reality TV fad be over by now? I’m definitely over it. I’m sure someday we’ll all look back and have an embarrassed laugh with our grandchildren as we tell them stories of what we used to watch.
So THAT’s what the children of the Upper 1% do for fun…
i watched judge judy on larry king last night and she asked what was wrong with america, every where the president goes he gets booed (except albania). i’ll give my opinion, which may be wrong: how can giving a 16 year-old a jaguar be considered right. and this is what people all over the world watch and think america is all about. how about teaching the 16 year-old the importance of an education, hard work, charity and respect. add all of the above and then you can buy yourself your jag. but, of course, these issues would be so boring for tv.
TeeCee: You have a right to your opinion, and I think you are correct. Giving a child everything they want sends the wrong message. No matter how much one gives, it just produces ingrates. Think of all the people who have committed suicide because they lost their “riches.” I personally know a family who were well-to-do. The father left and the mother was left to struggle with five children. Two of her sons turned to crime to keep living the lifestyle they had grown accustomed to. One was killed by a correctional officer on a Brooklyn street at the wee hours of the morning. the other served ten years in prison.
Irene Cara?
Im embarassed for the parents. They are teaching their children that everything in life can be bought. MTV is terrible….along with all those spoiled kids.
I suffered one of “My Super Sweet 16″‘s marathons while I was crashing @ my brother’s pad (he has teenage girls).
I see things this way:
The kids who get on it are completely clueless, ingrateful, and oblivious that MTV has no interest them whatsoever other than to put them on the air so we normies can mock them.
We, on the other hand, watch because secretly we want/need to vent at something.
And MTV has a ratings sensation that, true to legacy, they’ll continue to renew until the next stupid show makes us die inside even more.
The winner: MTV. Meh! *shrug*