Bad TV

This past weekend I just happened to notice what my sister was watching on television. MTV. I usually don’t watch mtv, as I am typically not into the whole rap and R&B scene, but seeing as how I had nothing better to do on a Saturday morning, I sat down and joined my sister. It was an episode of “Yo Momma”. The show was quite pointless with two guys trying to top each other’s “Yo Momma’s” joke. To make it even worse was the audience: a group of people who responded to each joke with a predictable “Ohhh” or “Ahhh”. The majority of the jokes were quite bland, and not even my sister, who finds most things hilarious, laughed. Sadly, I felt that the show represented the twisted world we live in today. Although I do tell such jokes every once in a while, why turn it into a nationally broadcasted television show? I realize that I am part of MTV’s target demographic, but I found very little of the show entertaining, which led me to believe that our society is in a general decline. People gain fame through trashing other people’s mothers? No wonder other countries view Americans as ignorant. To top it off, a commercial for the show “My Sweet 16” appeared, depicting spoiled sixteen year olds driving away in a new Mercedes or crying about how their parents would only let them invite 250 people. Although I only watched a part of what MTV offers, I feel that they are conveying the wrong image to the demographic that they intend on appealing to. I guess I will go back to watching ESPN and Comedy Central, two stations that I consider to be amazingly great.