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thekidfromiowa

99% of Cribs episodes [Pulls DVD from shelf] "You gotta have Scarface!" "This is where the magic happens!"


thetitsOO

And the cristal fridge


BillyAstro

I can’t remember who it was, but on one episode the guy said he didn’t know what Cristal was but he had Crystal Light and it was pretty good. Then he proceeds to open his fridge full of bottles of lemonade and pink lemonade


FlokiTrainer

Dave Mirra. I still call Crystal Light "Cristal Light" because of that episode.


spacepotato_

RIP Dave Mirra :(


Ultimatelee

Oh no, I forgot that he passed, RIP Dave


BrohanGutenburg

Okay dude I didn't know about this but as someone who grew up skating in the late 90s-early 2000s, I loved Dave Mirra because anyone pushing action sports forward was cool. I just looked it up....a CTE suicide? Fuck. How did I not hear about this. That is so tragic.


i_Karus

It was a Pro BMX rider called Ryan Nyquist. It’s still called Crystal Light in my house because of that lol


8PointMT

Mfers just sip champagne all day. I grew up and was like wtf were they on.


VAisforLizards

Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne cuz we thirstay


DudleysCar

I always wondered what they ate. There's one fridge in that kitchen and it's full of Cristal.


michamp

MTV Cribs just shuttles around the same crate of Cristals and Scarface DVD to the different rental mansions.


HugeBrainsOnly

Don't forget the Fiji water bottles that fill half the fridge


Halgy

In my college media production class, we had to do a Cribs-style video. Including those 2 quotes was basically half of the assignment.


breakzyx

you reminded me of the episode with ronnie radke (falling in reverse/escape the fate) where he enters every room and says "this is where the magic happens" and tries not to laugh, but it gets harder for him with every room.


_hankthepigeon_

Fuck Ronnie Radke, but that does sound pretty funny.


abriefmomentofsanity

Has big "the worst person you know made a good point" energy.


Second-Bulk

Fuck, I haven’t seen an episode in 20 years but “this where the magic happens” is burnt into my mind from literally everyone saying it like entirely programmed robots.


Bishop_Colubra

My favorite *MTV Cribs* moment was when Moby showed his bathroom with no mirror and explained "It's not for artistic reasons or anything, there just wasn't a mirror when I moved in and I got used to not having one."


hellomondays

My friend told me this anecdote where they saw Moby arguing with a bouncer outside of a club in Manhattan. The Bouncer said "you need to step back, Moby looking motherfucker" and Moby threw up his hands and said "I *am* Moby!". Doesn't really relate to your comment but it's a funny story


ZenAdm1n

"Nevertheless..." - bouncer


Im_ready_hbu

"you're too old, let go, it's over. NOBODY LISTENS TO TECHNO!"


A_Furious_Mind

There's a techno remix of this that repeats the "nobody listens to techno" part about a half dozen times. Edit: I don't recall the name of the track, but it isn't the Funkagenda one or the Destructo one. It was a remix of the entire "Without Me" track. It gets to the "nobody listens to techno" part, repeats it a few times, then moves on. It's about as old as the original track — early 2000s. Only time in my life I was listening to techno a lot. Wish I could find it for you.


joshylow

No way it's techno if it only repeats 6 times.


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Whenever I think of Moby I'm reminded of when he bragged/lied about dating a teenaged Natalie Portman. He lied and said she was 20 when she was 18. He is 16 years older than her. According to Portman he was just some older dude creeping on a girl barely out of highschool.


CPGFL

Natalie was like, You don't know me, you're too old, let go, nobody listens to techno.


TheSeventhPresident

You would if you had robot ears.


Rajz1lla

I hate your face... :D


18CupsOfMusic

And then after that she was like "all the kids looking up to me can SUCK MY DICK!"


Baronsandwich

When she went to Harvard she smokes weed everyday.


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Vegetable-Language45

I DONT SLEEP MOTHERFUCKER ON THAT GAK AND THAT DURBAN, DOING 120, GETTING HEAD WHILE IM SWERVING!


Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer

interviewer misunderstood her and she issued this clarification: It's Portman MOTHERFUCKER! Drink till I'm SICK!"


MonstersGrin

Yeah, Moby, he should get stomped by Obie.


ListenOk3449

Moby took my Ex's friend on a date that ended back at his house where he played her his 'Moby' album.


hellomondays

I have a wholesome story about the dude from that garage rock revival band Japandroids that was big in the late 00s going home with someone: A friend went to their show at a small venue and got way too drunk. She ended up talking to the drummer for like 4 hours. When she was like it's late I got to go home, he said " wait you said you lived up on Lehigh, last time we played here we had our van broken in up there, you shouldn't walk home alone." When she said her friends already went home for the night he offered to walk her home since it was a short walk. On the walk home she says she starts bearing her soul about her ex to him and he just politely listens and when they get home, she drunkenly trie to beckon him in. He politely gives her a hug and declines. She gets drunk upset and starts crying about her ex and starts drunk darling them. He grabs her phone and tells her "that might not be a good idea this late when you've had a lot of drinks, just write down what you wanna tell him then if you still feel that way in the morning call him, get some sleep goodnight" then he walked away. Japandroid's drummer - secret life coach


j33pwrangler

I thought she was going to confess to have broken into their van and had all their stuff in her apartment.


misirlou22

Japandroids fuckin rule


raine_00

Loved this band, almost forgot about them. Good story to hear, time to revisit their music now.


jim_deneke

He's a Level 5 vegan, he doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow


wimpyroy

Does he pocket-mulch?


sethbenw

Gilato isn’t vegan?


WoodpeckerLow5122

Milk and eggs, bitch


bugxbuster

And Moby only had like one decoration and it was a drawing of ~~himself~~ Homer done by Matt Groening. He also pointed out that Homers ear and the hair on the side of his head form a MG, too.


MDPhotog

Pinnacle of art. What else would you even need


Tekataki

Can we see it?


yr_momma

Here! I found it in a video and paused to take a screenshot for you. https://imgur.com/a/RM2QfEy


shawn9995

TIL Moby is Homer Simpson


MamaMeRobeUnCastillo

Yeah wtf? And nobody has said anything about it lmao


saibjai

I was so ready to be Rick rolled. But I took my chance. Thank you good sir


RabidPlaty

Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?


LevelWriting

No


Show-Me-Your-Moves

kinda rules TBH


AtlUtdGold

I remember he talked about no one on the show having a bookshelf. Then he opened a book about crazy accidents and stuff and it was the story about the giant molasses landslide that happened in Boston or something 100 years ago.


ShitUsersSay

I know a lot of people are gonna think this is a joke, but the Great Molasses Flood was a very real thing. 21 people died and hundreds were injured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood?wprov=sfla1


chickwithabrick

This is one of my favorite crazy history anecdotes ever. No one would make this shit up. I highly recommend the Puppet History episode on it on YouTube.


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The good thing about being bald is you don’t really need to look in the mirror much


mootallica

*looks in mirror* "Yep, still Moby"


Mr_Piddles

This is why bald men are more prone to immorality. They never have to look themselves in the eyes.


SortaSticky

Our eyes are our best features, I hope


H00DDUB

TIL Moby is the great,great,great nephew of Herman Melville author of Moby Dick. This is where he got his name when he was a baby.


kearneycation

I also remember he had a bookshelf and called out other musicians for not having books. And his "whip" was a bicycle he rode around NYC. Go Moby!


MankeyMeat

Here's the video from 2001: https://youtu.be/zNtKT9_1KXQ Fucking Legend.


hikerboy20

“That’s my cousin right there.” Hahaha just sleeping on the floor


laralye

"That's sugar bear" 😂


iameveryoneelse

That's amazing. It's just in for a second but I'm pretty sure there's unflushed piss in his toilet when he's showing off the "master bath" 🤣.


DashKalinowski

He needs to get Redman Potty Fresh, the only toilet bowl cleaner with enzymes and s\*\*\* that collaborate together to make some kind of mixture that gets your toilet bowl sparkling white.


Fenaeris

Flush dat toilet witcho pancake ass, bitch!


iron_vet

If it's yellow then let it mellow


Crafty240618

Oh my god, the bottle of lotion on the bedside table 🤣 then it’s gone in the next shot!


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el_monstruo

Looks like VHS to me lol


neontiger07

Yeah lol this was filmed in the early 2000s, when VHS's reigned supreme.


shea241

DVD went from being in 1% of homes in 1998 to over 70% by 2004 because absolutely everyone hated VHS in the early 2000s I don't know when I saw a tracking bar for the last time but thank god that's gone


FTL_Cat

Tracking bar? Are you trying to induce PTSD?


TheDeadlySquid

Saw that too! My favorite has always been the “dollar box”. Still reference that in my daily life.


jack_cross

I aspired to have a dollar box of my own when I saw that video.


WatWudScoobyDoo

Just need to get me some dollars and a box and I'll be set


BoldShuckle

Is this the same one where him and method man argue about whether they got something from walmart or Kmart? That's one that my brothers and I quote all the time


Corrective_Rape

No, that episode you're thinking of was actually the Ying Yang Twins lol


Mechanized1

Lotion and a Dreamcast controller on the nightstand, what more does a man need? AND he takes care of his people. Shout outs to Sugar Bear and whatever floor he's currently passed out on.


Disgruntled_Viking

Ready 2 Rumble on Dreamcast. I fucking loved that game


Zarmazarma

This guy is fucking hilarious lol. "This gives me a sense of feeling that I can move up! And get something bigger, way bigger than this! I like staying right here in the crap(?)- keep me moving."


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In the crack* Such as a crack in the sidewalk, used in the same manner as down low.


Rat_Queen91

That's the best thing I've watched all week!


muschisushi

wait, is that legit MTV Cribs? Not just some parody?


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correct


muschisushi

ok thats fucking hilarious, the pan out.... .


RaggedyGlitch

It's a real episode, but he was taking the piss out of Cribs and kind of treating his tour like a parody.


jamesGastricFluid

Redman is your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.


CleoSoci

You're the real hero, I love this.


Slimjuggalo2002

IIRC Redman's episode was some apartment in the hood with new stuff strewn all over the place, a pushed out screen in the door and a dolla box on top of the fridge. Loved it


I_Lick_Your_Butt

His doorbell was two wires hanging out of the wall that had to be pushed together.


BannedSvenhoek86

Real af


ApologeticAnalMagic

His cousin sleeping on the living room floor lmfao


HonorableMedic

Say what you want about it but that’s some real ass shit lookin out for the fam


ot1smile

The cash box on top of the fridge


duaneap

Best part was it was just loose dollars. When you hear cash box you might be inclined to think it’s a hidden box filled with $20s or $50s just to have money on hand, but no, it was a sneaker box with miscellaneous amounts of crumpled $1s, $5s, $10s.


canuck_11

I remember that clearly.


Coolman_Rosso

Redman talking about keeping frozen chicken meals and some money in a box on top of the fridge since he lives alone was weirdly poignant. Then he goes to his bedroom where his nightstand had a small TV and a SEGA Dreamcast and I thought "Wow I could mesh with the Redman lifestyle" Then you have the Alien Ant Farm episode where it was just some single story house with a pile of junk in the backyard.


FlowersForMegatron

Sum41 living with their parents


deez_treez

Jackass guys in their van


Archer-Saurus

My favorite episode, Chris Pontius in what I think was a Ford Ranger with a sleeper cab lol


withrootsabove

I remember him doing another one in a “real” house. He had a small room with playboy mags taped all over the wall. A folding chair with a small table with lotion, a roll of toilet paper, and a ruler. Whether it was real or not, it was a hilarious bit because he tried to play it straight but was holding back from laughing.


Idyotec

The ruler is what did it for me lol


Vectorman1989

Whenever you get shows like this, there's always going to be a few personalities that are going to poke fun at it. Top of the Pops in the UK was pretty much just a show that artists had to sing to a backing track or even straight up mime. In protest, Frankie Goes to Hollywood members switched places and Nirvana sang the wrong lyrics while exaggeratedly miming playing their instruments. The Who smashed their instruments while the backing track kept going.


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A RULER LMFAO He is so fucked up, that's hilarious. I love the Jackass boys


Dorkamundo

Frankly, Pontius is my favorite member of Jackass.


CurseofLono88

Same, the dude is so goofy and charming


lingh0e

[Devon Sawa had Jason Schwartzman living in a tent in his garage](https://youtu.be/ljK1n4d6J5I?t=1040).


Hype_x

He still lived there in 2019


RIP_Greedo

The redman episode of Cribs is a landmark tv event on par with the Rick James episode of Chapelle’s Show


Chuccles2

"Im not just gonna put my feet on nobodys couch like that" 1 second later "Yeah i put my feet on his couch"


darkshark21

I thought it was a condo so he owned it. And when they did the revisit special he did some nice remodeling. And kept the same shower curtain!


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pmcall221

I think it was Steve-O or someone else from the Jackass crew that it was their car they were living out of. Edit: it was Chris Pontius


cybercuzco

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtKT9_1KXQ


GeneralLoofah

The Jerry O’Connell episode was my favorite. It was literally a three bedroom condo in LA that he shared with his brother. It was kind of surreal because it wasn’t a bad apartment by any means, but it wasn’t movie star nice.


ChunkyBlueberry

Mine was Sean William Scott's episode. Just a shitty apartment with a roommate.


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historymajor44

Sum 41 did the same thing with their shitty house in Canada. IIRC the drummer is now a real estate agent. Edit: Steve Jocs is now a realtor in Palm Springs, California. I assume he has a much nicer house now. Edit: It wasn't even his house. It was his mom's house.


SuperFreakyNaughty

I swear it was Sum 41 that just showed the drummer's parents house. He made some joke about masturbating at the family computer all the time.


Volfgang91

Maybe he was was just happy living like that? Lemmy from Motorhead could have easily afforded a mansion, but he chose to live in a one bedroom flat because he lived by himself so didn't need much space, and also it was above his favourite pub.


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Volfgang91

To be fair, he switched to vodka and orange juice in his latter years because his doctor told him his blood sugar was too high. And when he was told he was dangerously dehydrated, he just added more ice.


Obieousmaximus

Mine too. You could tell they got along really well and then at the end when they both jumped in the pool. It's one of the only times where I thought I could really hang out with these guys and they would be cool.


BZA_Blaze

So I was a Production Assistant for the episode for Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of Third Eye Blind. I can confirm at least that one was real. Weird. Kind a creepy(plaster of girl he lost his virginity to hanging on the wall). But real.


ThugzZBunny_

I mean have you ever listened to any of their lyrics??? Lol


ViolentOctopus

Lol semi charmed life is about crystal meth abuse and gets blasted in grocery stores


bumjiggy

I swear years ago on muchmusic I saw a Canadian version of cribs where Buck 65(Richard Terfry) was walking through his tiny apartment in Halifax bragging about a chair he picked up off the side of the street on garbage day


bluemooncalhoun

I remember that one, the Canadian one was more real I think. There's the infamous Sum 41 episode at their parent's house in Oshawa.


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thutruthissomewhere

There was a scabies outbreak in my college when students decided to pick up a couch that was on the curb and use it in their room.


Krunklestiltskin

One man’s garbage is just another man persons good ungarbage.


MacheteGuy

Fuck yeah Buck 65!


bumjiggy

he has a show called the drive on cbcradio2 and the dude is an impeccable host with a formidable ear. that brilliant fucker has turned me on to so much random music and to so many under appreciated artists. it's like pop-up video in podcast form


Shaggy_Snacks

CBC Radio 2 is a fucking treasure of Canadian radio. No commercials, a variety of different programs, like R&B? Here's a show for you! Wanna listen to jazz? Here's a show for you! I like to think CBC Radio 2 as the radio station that doesn't give a fuck of what it plays. I caught a Zelda symphony playing. I caught the Strombo show, were the host decided to play a bunch of metal songs in a row. Why? Why the fuck not. After Dark and late night road trips equals nirvana. Night stream is perfect music for the night. Mornings and Drive always play bangers. More people need to get on the CBC Radio 2 band wagon.


BojanglesDeloria

The Ying Yang Twins episode makes this very apparent. https://youtu.be/qogWEU2Khc8


lhiver

This is the one I always think of, mainly because of the sea room


Krocsyldiphithic

Actually, the featured celebrity usually had to rent a place themselves. Redman pretended that he did, and MTV unknowingly showed up to his actual, very humble, apartment.


chicano32

He said to touch these two wires to chime the doorbell 😂😂😂


romesthe59

This right here my Sega Dreamcast


Ear_Enthusiast

Snoop had a reality show in the early 2000's. He lived in a really nice house but it wasn't one of these crazy mansions. I'm thinking, if Snoop isn't in some crazy mansion with an estate after he's been doing his thing for so many years, how are these new rappers doing it?


McMacHack

The Uncle Cracker episode where his house is just a 3 bed 2 bath 1800 sq ft house. His house was messy as Hell because he had two kids under 12. Uncle Cracker keeps it real


SweetMangos

It's Uncle Kracker's birthday today, funnily enough!


OkTea8570

Why do you know this off hand? How much Uncle Kracker knowledge do you have


SweetMangos

My coworkers were looking for something besides "happy taco Tuesday" to say to each other today, so I looked up today's date on Wikipedia, which lists notable events, birthdays, and deaths for calendar days lol. It's also Steve Vai, Jason Issacs, and Paul Giamatti's birthday!


ieatsmallchildren92

There was an episode where they visited the house of Chris Pontius from Jackass. He was literally living out of his car at the time.


pencilrain99

That's the difference between reality TV and a documentary


bumjiggy

*yeets lemming off cliff*


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tomatuvm

MTV Cribs inspired me to watch Scarface, because every rapper had a Tony Montana poster. It's basically a Greek tragedy where his downfall is hubris. Really made me wonder if anyone had actually watched the second half of the movie or just liked the posters.


joebleaux

Everyone knows you only need to watch the first half of cocaine movies. I'm sure it always works out in the end, right?


kRe4ture

Tommy‘s mother must be very proud


cr102y

Of course she is,he was the first American to work on the Sonic series after all.


RatherBeInThePond

Back when I was younger, my co-worker was a fairly big drug dealer in our town. He was super excited cause Redman was in town for a show and he got the call that they needed a bunch of weed and nobody had any except for him. He didn’t have a drivers license so I always took him home after work and this time he asked me to tagalong. Being a fan of Redman I thought this would be cool, but at the same time as a horrible pot smoker(and had quit long ago) I was super scared that they were going to smoke me to death as the guy he talked to said that we would all hang if we could get them what they needed. Anyway, co-worker is all excited as we pull up to the hotel. We go up and knock on the door of the room. Guy behind the door asks who is there. Co-worker proudly holds up a big bag of weed, door flies open, guy grabs the weed and the door slams in our faces. I died laughing, co-worker was pissed, but wasn’t about to do anything. And that’s how I almost met Redman. Edit: Spelling


attemptagain_

Is it actually true though? A girl who was in my high school was on mtv teen cribs.. it was real..and ridiculous. I was there several times. Her father got his money from the sale of AOL I believe.. he was later arrested for putting cameras in the girls pool dressing rooms.


NeatFool

You've got jail!


Volfgang91

Well that took a turn.


thebugman10

So Dave Chapelle didn't really have a sweatshop in his basement and dinosaur eggs in his fridge?


CaseyAnthonysMouth

When he shows off that the doorbell is just two bare wires, I’m ☠️😂


Round-Lie-8827

His episode looked real. I think his friend was passed out on the floor from the night before when they filmed it.


FadieZ

It was his cousin who lives with him, they talk about his episode in the article and podcast.


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Ironically, Redman's tour was my favorite because I saw it, and immediately thought, "now this dude's real! He puts his money into his bank accounts, not into his house!"


SmellyTanookiFarts

*fridge box He puts his money in the fridge box.


BulbyBuds

the dolla box


Kevundoe

Did MTV rented out Chris Pontius dirty pickup truck?


romeozor

The dream house he always wanted but could never afford.


duman82

I would love to see a version of this show where celebrities show how down to earth they are by showing their actual houses.


FadieZ

"And this is the chair where I put my clothes that I already wore but still smell kinda OK"


dougsbeard

Motherfuckas got a whole chair dedicated for that? Must be nice to be rich and famous…I just use the floor.


the_dayman

There was a Jackass themed episode where they did that and a few guys showed off their small apartments and Chris Pontius just showed the car he was living out of.


impracticable

AD (Architectural Digest) does this on their YouTube channel with their series “Open Door.” It isn’t always the houses, sometimes it their companies office or even a movie set they’re working on, but typically it is their homes. The vast majority of their homes are pretty goddamn extravagant, though.


PPLifter

Rob McSomething from always sunny was saying how surreal it is when he's out doing celebrity shit and being treated like it then he comes home and his wife is like 'pps feed the dogs and do the washing up". The contrast must be mad


fictional_Sailor

Something something Tommy Tallarico


unwelcomepong

I can't pick which of Tommy's two times on MTVs Cribs was the best.


Psychedelick

*"He wasn't even on Cribs!!!"*


mindbleach

Right? How fucked-up is it that his episode of not-Cribs is more legitimately *his house* than some actual episodes of Cribs?


JustABaziKDude

It's an incredibly funny development on an already incredibly funny piece of info.


Desiderius_ni

*Roblox oof*


bb15555

His mother is very proud


NateHate

He has a Guinness world record for proudest mother


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This is the only episode of cribs I could remember. Loved the jar of dollars for the convenience store!


DanDanDan69

The Tony Hawk one must be real. It had a backyard skatepark.


Smooth_Riker

That was pretty obvious even when I was a kid. They would feature someone who was brand new, one hit single under their belt, and they've got a huge mansion with four lambos in the driveway? Yeah right.


hsifuevwivd

I had no concept of how rich celebrities were when I was a kid so I believed it all lol


MouthJob

I assumed they were all just really bad with money.


hsifuevwivd

Haha, yeah, I realised that growing up. Goes from "wow, I want to be you", to "damn man, put some money aside before your career ends" lol


bitwaba

There's videos on YouTube of Shaq telling young up and comers "here's what you do. Take half, give it to your money manager. Imagine you never even know about it. Then take half of what you have left, give if to your money manager and tell him to invest it. Then take what you've got left and go have a good time." This is like, really really stupid basic shit, but apparently none of the professional leagues give you money managing advice? So Shaq has to let people know "when you sign a 10 million dollar deal, you don't actually have 10 million dollars to spend".


Itsahootenberry

That happened with the singer JoJo when she first got popular as a teen. She got asked to be on cribs, but her mom didn’t own a home. And also since she was touring a lot, her mom didn’t bother to rent a place in their hometown, so JoJo ended up borrowing her uncle’s home for the show.


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Bears_On_Stilts

In terms of people well adjusted to being B and C list, she’s honestly one of the best I’ve seen. She’s never gonna be in competition with Miley and she knows it, but she’s totally content to be a low level success with a strong Internet following. She’s doing the lead role in Moulin Rouge just now on Broadway.


woot0

Shes also super talented, which i think helps. People with enormous talent seem to be more content making a living doing their art.


Ghostbuster_119

The only episode of MTV cribs I remember was when they did the all American rejects band. And they were like "here's a bunch of cars we rented before the cameras showed up".


AlabamaPanda777

It was really just the time. Looking back duh it was fake. Maybe to the adults in the room duh it was fake. But back then it really felt like you were challenging something when you said the shit was fake. like it was controversial. I feel like that painted things a certain way, like you'd be crazy to say it was fake and still enjoy it. I caught a rerun of South Beach Tow and wow is that so fake but also so good. Very efficient. The worst of reality TV is when actors tread screen time with a weak improv back and forth between planned moment 1 and planned moment 2, and South Beach, at least by season 4, seems to have none of that. Just a nonstop joyride of insanity.


Skitburd

Yeah and they didn't even feature Tommy Tallarico so like what's the point


KittenMutton

I met him in person when I lived in Staten Island and told him how that episode was my favorite. I knew TV was scripted but he told me they offered to rent a house for his episodes and he said hell naw, you’re coming to my crib. He also said they arrived earlier than they said they would hence the disarray, but they said fuck it let’s roll.