I spent Sunday afternoon in Athlone, in the recovery position. Watching The Hills on MTV. For the first ten minutes or so I complained. Loudly. Disgusted by their vacuousness and by the fact that I couldn't tell any of them apart.
Three episodes in, I got it. "Is it a hamster or a guinea pig?" Lauren asked Stephanie. "Because hamsters are, like, this big..." (makes circle with forefinger and thumb). Stephanie smiles confusedly.
"She used to be a hamster, but now she's a guinea pig".
I love her. I watched it from midday right through until 7pm.
And then I watched Run's House.
Three episodes in, I got it. "Is it a hamster or a guinea pig?" Lauren asked Stephanie. "Because hamsters are, like, this big..." (makes circle with forefinger and thumb). Stephanie smiles confusedly.
"She used to be a hamster, but now she's a guinea pig".
I love her. I watched it from midday right through until 7pm.
And then I watched Run's House.
16 comments:
This sounds sickeningly intriguing. If it's anything like the real world San Francisco then I am in.
This can't be Lauren (Fugee) Hill, can it?
Leeroy, you'd love it.
no, Conan. in the seven hours i spent watching it, i did not spot one person who was not WASPishly blonde and bronzed. i think that's the ugly appeal - they may as well be on another planet, so alien is it to real life.
It is the funniest show ever, in a sick way
what's this I hear about a little Waterford reunion???
you never know your luck, Conor.
Who's house?
Run's House!
*high fives all round*
They're disgustingly rich shallow pigs. I shout every time its on...still watching it though.
The Hills upsets me because I find it hard to understand how much of it real and how much is scripted. Like do they take a kernel of these kids lives and expand around that with crummy scripts, or are their lives really that close to an episode of the O.C? It gives me a postmodern headache.
i haven't seen it since, i don't think i have the channel. i may have to go back to Athlone.
even if it's real, it's fake, right?
your headache is contagious, GardenHead.
It's definitely fake; scripted reality, as it were. Baudrillard would have a field day. But if you think that's bad, try watching Living on the Edge, The Hills based in Alderley Edge, where all the WAGs are from. I'm not even joking. I have a friend - soon to be enemy - who is addicted, convinced it's real, very involved in the lives of each "character". Sick, indeed.
All the girlies are obsessed with the Hills. In America they'd crowd around a single laptop, huddled together in awe and devotion, while me and AAF had 'real fun': drinking, farting and playing Mortal Kombat.
Its actually great hangover tv. I used to put it on mute with some decent chunes in the backround. Hmmm...pretty girls.
I love Lauren. But I know that after ten non-sex minutes in her company I'd be as liable to head-butt as kiss her. Terrible beautiful people...
i saw the ad for that, Rosemary, it looked cack. i like the Hills because they're like space aliens, they're so removed from my reality. i've never met anyone like them, nor am i likely to. whereas i reckon their UK counterparts might be a bit closer to home. so i'd end up punching the telly.
i get what you're saying about Lauren, Rua, but what about Whitney? (i <3 her!!!)
The Hills is oddly watchable, but Run's House?! Christ.
Who's house??
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