[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Oct 26 2003, 02:06 AM\'][quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Oct 26 2003, 01:11 AM\'] Not enough men were pleasuring themselves to Kari Wuhrer, and the rest of the show was, sadly, a joke...
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Sadly? It was supposed to be a joke. Everything about it was a joke. I'm glad it was. It made me laugh from "Beat the Bishop" to "Brady Physics" to "Dead or Canadian?".[/quote]
"GO POPE GO! GO POPE GO!"
As already pointed out, "Remote Control" had a good run for an MTV show (except for "Real World" and "Road Rules," most shows on that channel have a short shelf life by definition). The fact that the weekly syndicated version bombed didn't help it stay on MTV--and the fact that Ober and Quinn were obviously sick and tired of the whole thing in the last series probably sealed it. Of course, if you'd taped 65 MTV shows and 13 syndicated shows over the course of a month, immediately left for a two-month live college "Remote Control" tour where you were doing the same material every night, and then come back to tape another 65 MTV episodes over a three-week period only a couple of weeks later, you'd be sick and tired of it too.
For those of you with memories of the days of live television, where the host had to do the show every day, and saying "What's their complaint?", the host in the live days was done in a half-hour in the morning with no retakes or pickups and then off to the track, Yankee Stadium or the bar in the afternoon, not taping five episodes in a day with possible retakes or pickups and then coming back the next day and doing it all over again for several days straight.
