Pen Pal: MTV

November 15th, 2007

Dear MTV,

What the hell. Now, I’m not going to go into some walk five miles in the snow rant about how you never play videos anymore, because that ship sailed long ago and honestly I don’t feel any worse off missing out on the genius of Nickleback. Your VJs are so fantastically boring that I can’t even differentiate them enough from the television commercials in between to say something negative about them. And it’s fairly clear that you’ve pretty much given up on trying to make your current programming halfway decent (The Hills is only good because it goes so far past terrible that it breaks the time space continuum and arrives back at wonderful). But once upon a time you had one of the best sketch comedy shows ever in existence. Like other glimmers of genius (see Freaks and Geeks) it didn’t last long, and after something like 25 episodes The State went away. No one’s asking to you to part the seas of bad television and bring it back, but what is up with announcing the release of the long anticipated dvd, then not delivering? You said this Fall. You PROMISED. We know it’s completed and even packaged, so what the hell is the hold-up? Give us Barry and Levon. We want Doug and his Dad, Old-Fashioned Guy and good old Louie. Just take five minutes from perpetrating the rape and dissolution of our youth culture, and give us the goddamn DVD. And remember. Bbbbring, bbbring… Hello, cheese? NO! Cheese can’t dial a phone.

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