My high school as reality show

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/newport-beach-laguna-1781409-mtv-new

Sadly they are not going to film at my alma mater, although the show is going to be called "Newport Harbor." There goes my chance to point out earthquake damage and places where people peed on things or did drugs.

The new cast of "Newport Harbor" will feature Chrissy, a smart, pretty high school senior with three top colleges to pick from; Allie, the girl whom all the boys want and all the girls want to be; Clay, a shy, good-looking junior who turns to his gregarious best friend Grant for confidence; Grant, a bad-boy junior who's the life of the party; Chase, a senior who has a way with the girls; and Taylor, a sophomore who's the youngest of the group and who is dating Chase.

I'm not sure where the geekulous nerds in the "inner quad" fit in, here. Oh wait, we didn't.

The official site is at http://www.newportharbor.mtv.com/

What's even "better" is that MTV's Second Life clone, http://www.vmtv.com/ is going to have a "virtual Newport Harbor" which I hope includes a first-person shooter segment.

Okay, now I'm *REALLY* going back to bed.

PS: The actual reality show about this town is called "Arrested Development."

PPS: The actual REAL real Orange County has a lot more tweakers, corrupt cops, toxic dumps, lower middle class suburban despair, brush fires, exhausted Mexican laborers, and skin problems.

Comments

[vanmojo.livejournal.com]

Oh what in the nine-million-hells is this?!

I guess what gets me is the meta-discussion, or subtext that I'm not quite catching... I mean, they wouldn't make it if they didn't think they could get the kids to watch. (witness the exclusion of the inner quad gang)

So I guess what I am asking is that is there really a market of desparate, deluded children out there, who are not only rubber-necking to see the firey crash, but actually aspiring to be part of the callow, selfish, substance-addicted, false, solipsistic, Wannabe-Lord-of-the-Flies-training camp, train wreck that was/is the society encompassing Newport Harbor High?

It's a wonder we're sane...

mojo sends

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So I guess what I am asking is that is there really a market of desparate, deluded children out there, who are not only rubber-necking to see the firey crash, but actually aspiring to be part of the callow, selfish, substance-addicted, false, solipsistic, Wannabe-Lord-of-the-Flies-training camp, train wreck that was/is the society encompassing Newport Harbor High?

it's called a 'TV audience.'

you're welcome! haw haw haw dead

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

(witness the exclusion of the inner quad gang)

Sssh. If the writers of this horrible show knew what magical things happened in the Inner Quad in those years between [at least] 1980 and 1985, they might be tempted to track some of us down and interview us. The result: they would only fuck up our story even worse by trying to characterize it in a television program. Be thankful that the worst we will have to endure is the occasional stupid question from distant acquaintances when they learn where we went to high school.