Trashy 2000s VH1 Shows

I loved most of them; especially the dating ones. Best hag fights ever.

Whoa. Blast from the past.

[quote]Best Week Ever

[quote]I love the X0s

I loved these! A bunch of C-list comic sand cult personalities talking about the past. Wasn't Joel McHale involved with these?

...comics and*

They're all on YouTube.

Add Anna Nicole Smith’s reality TV series to OP’s list. And Being Bobby Brown, feat. a drug-addled Whitney Houston and hubby. Both kind of tragic in retrospect but great TV.

Kind of amazing Danny Bonaduce is still alive.

R5 The Anna Nicole Smith show was on E!. VH1 shows were like E! shows but with an even lower budget.

The Surreal Life is on YouTube as well. It's kind of amazing that they could get all these hasbeens in a house together. A show like that wouldn't work anymore because of how vicious social media has become. I mean just look at the cast and these antics. It's like it was scripted by DLers.

[quote]The first season of The Surreal Life began airing on January 9, 2003, and starred Gabrielle Carteris, MC Hammer, Corey Feldman, Emmanuel Lewis, Jerri Manthey, Vince Neil, and Brande Roderick. Throughout the two-week production, the cast participated in a Survivor-inspired camping trip, a trip to Las Vegas, and a drama-creating Corey Feldman, who married his girlfriend in the season finale. Mindy Cohn was scheduled to be a cast member, but dropped out before taping began.[3][4] Robin Givens was also offered a slot on the cast, but declined

[quote]The second season of The Surreal Life began airing on January 11, 2004, and starred Traci Bingham, Trishelle Cannatella, Erik Estrada, Tammy Faye Messner, Ron Jeremy, and Vanilla Ice.[6] Some episode plots involved Ron Jeremy's topless porn-star pool party and Tammy Faye's book signing with members of the gay and transgender community. In one episode, the cast works at a local retro diner under the management, Vanilla Ice hoists Gary Coleman above the deep fryer, and insists on having the former child star say his catchphrase, "What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?" in public after Coleman's Strokes co-star Todd Bridges shows up. These acts led the former sitcom star to "fire" Ice and then quit. The season also introduced "Dirty Laundry," The Surreal Life talk show hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael. Raphael focused on Cannatella, making several unflattering remarks about her drinking problem, including that she acted "like a slut." Other moments included a surprise stop at the Desert Shadows Inn, a nudist resort (from which Tammy Faye fled in tears), and the production of a children's play.

[quote]The third season of The Surreal Life began airing on September 5, 2004, and starred Charo, Dave Coulier, Flavor Flav, Jordan Knight, Brigitte Nielsen, and Ryan Starr.[7][8] Memorable moments included Date Night, an agonizing recording session for the group to produce an original song, and Flavor's insistence that he drive the group's RV despite not having a license. Flavor also caused a brief disconnection with the cast, when it was revealed during "Dirty Laundry" that he had hit The Surreal Life puppy. The Surreal Life puppy, now age 11, lives in Long Beach, California, after being given to friends of Dave Coulier after the show. The puppy's name is Winger after the Detroit Red Wings. Throughout the two weeks, Nielsen and Flav began a relationship which would have a dramatic influence on VH1's programming over the next five years, as it indirectly spawned 14 spinoffs and sequels to date. The romance first continued in Strange Love and snowballed from there, after the success of the Flavor of Love series.

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kick my ass

Most of the shows in the OP are on Pluto TV, including [italic]The Surreal Life.[/italic]

It was Flava of Love, and it took Rock of Love to new depths.

Charm School and Celebrity Fit Club were my favorites.

I liked The Surreal Life and Celebrity Rehab. I’m surprised Dr. Phil doesn’t have one.

I really enjoyed Tammy Faye Bakker on The Surreal Life.

Several of the people who were on Celeb Rehab and the Surreal Life are dead. That’s the dark side of using these trainwrecks for entertainment.

You forgot: The Starlet

The Starlet was WB

That was on the WB, R15. Now, don't call us... We'll call you.

Ha! R16

What was that one show where a skank from Rock of Love was looking for her one true love? They quickly cancelled it after one of the contestants was a suspect in a murder. He wound up killing himself soon after.

Meghan Wants a Millionaire

R14 or was it the upside?

R11 perfectly shows why I'm glad he's dead.

I missed the "VH1" in the title.

R19 That was "Megan Wants a Millionaire". I don't know what they thinking giving her a show. She wasn't remotely likable or entertaining.

I miss this genre. :(

So NoTORIous was a great show not trashy.

I watched "Operation: Man Band" (former members of N Sync, Color Me Badd, LFO and 98 Degrees trying to form a new group) just to see how incredibly fat the guy from Color Me Badd had gotten. He was so huge, he was unrecognizable from his early 90's heyday.

The Flava Flav and Bridgette Neilson romance was trashy love for the ages. The 2000s were peak trashy and I miss it.

I never thought I would be so nostalgic for that era.

I watched Rock of Love last year and it was hilarious