At first glance, there was something so cerebrally offensive about VH1’s new show, “America’s Most Smartest Model,” co-hosted by former model Mary Alice Stephenson and BEN STEIN, that I instinctively flipped over to the Indians/Red Sox game when a rerun of the latest from smut TV came on at the gym last night, and I never instinctively flip over to baseball. But I did, and didn’t think twice about the great loss, only about Boston’s crushing defeat. Unfortunately, when no fewer than five of my friends who I’d never before thought of as having questionable taste and/or brain damage contacted me in various ways this morning to say “America’s Most Smartest Model, watch it,” I decided I had to give the show a chance before I rejected it. This pains me to say, but I think you should, too. The overwhelming feelings of sadness and depression and “Oh my god, what am I doing with my life” upon hearing Ben Stein deliver the intro, “Models: they’re sexy. They’re stylish. And if conventional wisdom holds true, they’re all dumber than a box of rocks,” is quickly displaced with joy and dare I say, a smile, upon realizing that old Ben has finally given up the charade of being “an economist” and submitted to his true calling: demeaning 14 mildly attractive and cartoonishly stupid contestants (the 7 male ones are referred to as “himbos,” the 7 female ones as “bimbos”) on a weekly basis and, in the process demeaning himself (which we mean in the best way possible). In one scene, Stein asks Himbo Gaston to “name things that smell bad.” Gaston (with some apparent difficulty), comes up with “shoes, socks, a dirty penis.” Ben characterizes these answers as “pretty obvious and simpleminded.” In another he asks Bimbo Rachel, “What is the official language of Australia.” In an “assessment” round, he tells one Bimbo, “I do not get this outfit,” agree with his co-host that a himbo “doesn’t have his cat walk down,” and dismisses a crying contestant’s tears by offering, “This show is not ‘America’s Most Nicest Model.’” If you do one thing today, get acquainted with this show. It puts Stein’s work shilling for Visine Clear Eyes to shame.
America’s Most Smartest Model [VH1]
America’s Most Smartest Model Spelling Bee [YouTube]
America’s Most Smartest Model Dirty Penis! [YouTube]
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NSFW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please get this off my screen. K THNX
Never question my taste in television again. I am so vindicated.
how NSFW can it be if it’s on youtube?
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that shot is misleading, it’s actually safe for work, fyi.
NSFW. Ha. What’s a harrassment suit cost to settle? Is it anywhere from $654 million to $6.0 BILLION?
If I-Banks hired as many financial risk protecting people as they do “IT cops” Wall Street would be making the most money ever in history.
IT Nazis scan your streams, email, IMs, word processing documents and spreadheets and they tell you they are going to do it. Then they tell you the penalties for violating company TOS.
But they let dipshit I-Bankers lose hundreds of millions and billions of investor dollars based on expected returns of their “models”. No published TOS for traders/investment bankers?
Big financial corporations are fighting the wrong bogeyman in the internet sphere and that bogeyman is costing them money because of it.
Wake up!
JEWS WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY????
WHO KNEW!!!!
You can read about this in my new book, “Kick and Think Big Ass…”
And yet, this is practically an uptick in the quality level of reality television.
Coming this fall: Jeffery Epstein is your host for “Are you tighter than a fifth grader?”
Ummm, Gawker called, they want their content back.
show us where gawker wrote about this show, idiot.
Pecrfet answer! That really gets to the heart of it!
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