On the televisonal box right now is the mtv show date my mom, if you happen to be anywhere near me when this show is on I am pretty sure you have been subjected to my old man tirade about how this show is just vapid and useless. Now I have to preface this by saying that if I did run my own television channel I would include dating shows on it. From 2am till 6 am I would put a mixture of music and dating shows on for people coming back from the club and insomniacs. Date my mom is a simple show, one guys dates three mothers and then chooses to date her daughter afterwards. Now this does seem innocuous but the way that the show comes across it just agitates me. I admit I don’t watch it but since it’s always on fucking Music Television I always catch a glimpse. All the time its cringe worthy bad, parents trying to act hip, daughters with suspicious pasts, often sub par jokes and terrible date situations. You are going out on a date with the mother of your potential future girlfriend where do you take her? A)Paintball B) Golf (strictly golf, no meanderings to the club house) C) Basketball. Answer non of them, take them all to places they would feel comfortable ; dinner every fucking time. The only thing I can think of most of the time I see the show is why? Why? Why? What possess you to go on television and get your mother to do a J-Lo booty dance? Have none of the guys heard the rule that if you want to know what you girlfriend will look like in the future look at the mother? With gossip magazines everywhere why can’t a mother correctly describe her daughter? I know this is harder for black and other ethnic minorities since there aren’t a lot of them but if I hear the word Beyonce one more time I might scream. The mothers inevitably come across as liars and slightly creepy in their own sense. The mother in law is supposed to be the biggest hurdle in your life or at least it is in England. I would go ahead and use the statistic that 60% of Americans think that they can become famous but that seems slightly irrelevant since reality television shows have become the staple of today’s television. However Myspace, youtube and mobile phones can give everyone their fifteen minutes of fame. Now lets get to the guys, to be honest I can’t blame them, it’s a male dream three women fighting over one man. Granted its three mothers whose daughters they believe to be perfect but may just be very very wrong. The guys have the power but never seem to ask the right questions. Just like when a friend describes a person that you have to meet, if the person doesn’t mention something about looks early on it isn’t going to work out. It always something stupid like is she high maintenance? To me this doesn’t seem like a problem, I believe everyone is high maintenance, people just need to learn to walk away when it pisses them off. Really high maintenance girls often fall by the wayside pretty quickly with me, let’s say maybe an hour. My final point is this though why hasn’t there been a date my dad, because the dad would seriously try and hit on the female. Forget my son, he’s a loser, wanna take a ride in my lambo? Come on baby, I know Bob Saget?