My Super Sweet, Ignorant of Reality Sixteen

            Today I was watching My Super Sweet Sixteen, in my opinion, one of the most insane shows on MTV. Every time I watch an episode, I cannot believe what I’m seeing. On one episode, a girl expects her parents to get her a custom car for her birthday, and on another, a boy orders his dad to get him a $30,000 watch just because “it’s fly.” The kids on this show are so ignorant of reality it’s sickening sometimes. In case you’ve never seen the show before, here’s a clip that basically sums the show up:

            Here we see a spoiled teenager upset because her mom gave her a car at the wrong time and apparently, it wasn’t even the right car. This mom is obviously depriving her child… (note the sarcasm). What I don’t understand though is why. Why do parents allow their kids to get this way, and more importantly, why is this nonsense then put on television? Most of the time, the characters on TV shows are relatable, but the kids on this show in particular have nothing in common with most of the kids in America watching the show. It’s even been discovered that approximately every 1 in 5 children in America live below the poverty line. And even for kids like me living in a very privileged area of the United States, none of the things these kids get on the show would most kids here expect the get in their wildest imaginations. According to an article I read, these parties can cost as much as $200,000. There’s no way my parents would ever pay that much for anything in my life besides perhaps for college, (and honestly I don’t really know how much college costs so I don’t know how much they’d pay).

            This show is completely ignorant of reality in the United States. Most birthday parties are spent in someone’s basement drinking soda and watching movies, yet it’s been projected to us through shows like these that having a huge birthday bash is a must. Why, though? I just can’t understand why these shows are on TV. I watch them from time to time just to see how crazy people are, but then I always ask myself, what kind of value does a show like this have? Does anybody have sanity, or am I the only one who thinks shows like these are crazy?