I’ve always been attracted to the sound women make when they’re feeling particularly small and ineffectual, but I didn’t have a name for it. MTV came to my rescue ten years ago, during a scene on Laguna Beach where two of the hotter, meaner girls were shopping, and one of them was making a kind of whimpering, whiny, squeak as she struggled to grasp an item on a high shelf.
“You’re making the Reaching Noise,” the other one noted.
I am all about the Reaching Noise.
Is there no television you won’t consume?
Laguna Beach was spectacularly trashy and delightful. They’re bringing it back because everything old is new again
They’re… what? You mean someone actually found another big batch of affluent teenagers with bad parents willing to allow their offspring to look that stupid/slutty on telev— wait, of course they did, what am I saying?
@greedyagain : Let’s see… I only watched a few episodes of The Hills. I won’t watch American Horror Story without Jessica Lange. I’ve never watched Teen Mom or any of its derivatives. I have thus far resisted This Is Us. I’ve never seen a full episode of any Kardashian-based show, and never will. I only knew a lot of the D-list reality shows (Dance Moms, Duck Dynasty, Honey Boo Boo) existed because Joel McHale summarized them for me every week. (RIP, The Soup and The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.) So there are definitely things I won’t consume.
FYI, for someone interested in the production side of TV, LB was very interesting. Their hyper-produced “reality” was technically impressive and almost as influential as The Real World was in its day.
Also, an 18 year old Kristin Cavallari strutting down the street to “We Got More Bounce (In California)” was a sight that needed to be preserved for the ages.