Parental Control

I was innocently making a sandwich and watching my favorite guilty pleasure, My Super Sweet 16. And then the next show came on, MTV’s Parental Control It’s like Change of Heart, which I used to LOVE, only with parents, and slightly younger contestants.

Parents sit in a room interviewing potential dates for their children because they don’t approve of the current significant others. They show a long line outside, and clips of the Q & A.

I’m not paying much attention, and then I hear “I want to be a public li-bear-ian, because libraries change lives.” At least she didn’t say she wanted to be a librarian because she likes books.

She wasn’t unattractive, as far as librarians go. She was only a little mousy, but she could hardly compare to all the hot young things on MTV. And, she was auditioning for a reality show on MTV, she couldn’t have been that smart, even if she managed to pronounce her chosen profession correctly. What could she possibly have been thinking?

Obviously, since no one likes librarians, she wasn’t one of the chosen contestants to actually go on a date.

But, now I’m mildly interested in this show, even though it’s awful. The parents and the significant other sit together in the living room watching the date as it happens. And, my goodness is it boring. It suffers from the problems that all dating shows have. 1. 1st dates are boring, you’re just finding out stuff about the other person. Cool if you’re one of those people, but not so much otherwise. 2. The significant others are dumb as doornails. They make snarky comments about what’s happening, and the contestant, and even to the parents. But they’re not interesting, they’re just awful picking at physical flaws that the person doesn’t even have. One asshole boyfriend had nothing to say so these words came out of his mouth, “Chicks don’t dig being called females.”

At least the li-bear-ian hopeful wasn’t the lamest one on the show.