MTV’s new reality series Douchebag IslandJersey Shore certainly wouldn’t be the first to depict Italian-Americans in a less than ideal light, but it’s pissing people off more than your warm and fuzzy Sopranos and it hasn’t even aired yet. The show presents a setup similar to The Real World in that a group of young, nubile attention whores move into a summer share and things get “real”, except this time the lens is fixed firmly on “guidos” in Seaside Heights, NJ.
All of the usual guido stereotypes are in place and they are resplendent–the obnoxious tans, pointed gelled hair and crass narcissism. A Google query for “douchebag” will typically yield these kind of images, basically. This sounds like par for the course for MTV, but now that they’ve gotten around to Italian-Americans, UNICO is pissed. Haha. The president of the Italian-American service organization, in fact, calls it “trash television” and wants the show pulled.
We open on a dimly-lit, cavernous nightclub on straight night. In the midst of this bacchanalian decadence is national treasure and Taylor Swift-interrupting cyborg Kanye West, who is sporting a convoluted mullet and has gone on a ravenous cocaine binge. After belligerently insisting on paying for a champagne delivery, wastefully gifted upon him by the nightclub owner’s vampire brides, the cyborg realizes that the deejay is playing one of his own songs. The audience, regretfully, also realizes this as the cyborg makes his way through the crowd, interrupting otherwise peaceful club-goers in strict accordance to his M.O. He then bumps into Fonzworth Bentley, who mistakenly doesn’t realize this is straight night. The cyborg suddenly finds himself in a mysterious room where he begins to have sexual intercourse with a woman that has neither watched TV, listened to the radio, logged on to the Internet or subscribes to Tiger Beat, or she would know who this cyborg is and would not be having sex with him. Cut to: The cyborg is back in the V.I.P. area, waking up from a deep sleep on the couch with his pants around his ankles because it really isn’t straight night. He then stumbles to the bathroom and vomits an entire sink’s worth of rose petals. When he crashes to the floor like a pussy, he notices the Aztec hunting knife used to kill Jason Voorhees in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. As he screams like a pussy, he slices himself open and more rose petals spew forth from his abdomen, revealing an umbilical cord. Attached to the umbilical cord is a disgusting little furry hellbeast that resembles Pat Sajak. The cyborg releases it, setting the Pat Sajak mutant on the sink. They look into each other’s eyes and have a tender moment of unspoken words. Then the cyborg detaches a mini-hunting knife from the hunting knife he just used and hands it to the disgusting Pat Sajak bastard, who then slices open his own abdomen and dies on the sink like a pussy. The End.
It stands to reason that I probably missed this back in May because I saw the words “Tru Life” in my RSS feeds and just kept-a scrollin’ as I am wont to do. So the other day, VanitySnob presented me with this video, that exceeds the highest heights of fucktacious douchery. I’ve never seen something so spectacularly mind-numbing in all my days! Watch as Mr. Life pours Rosé into a bowl of Fruity Pebbles and proceeds to feast. Listen as he utters enraging words like “Swaggarian” and brags about his unreleased classic records. This video is a collection of things that should not exist on our modern Earth. Watching this is like witnessing the birth of a child because of how frightening it is, yet you will continue to watch. And re-watch! (Not for nothing, but he got in a bit of trouble with the law over the summer, as in, he was arrested for stabbing someone to death. Yikes. Any updates?)
What do we think about when we think about douchebags? The definition can be broad in the midst of applying it indiscriminately to average buttholes we dislike. But there are a few tried and true characteristics of douchebags particularly in Hip-Hop, a culture that has become a sanctified bosom within which rabid douchery can cultivate and at once thrive. Let’s rundown a few shining examples of douchery in Hip-Hop with these infamous Hip-Hop douchebags, rated by your requisite and handy vinegar-to-water ratio. Haha. Fun happens now.