Mtvs Pimp My Ride
 

I'm not a big Mtv watcher, but I gotta say I really love this show. I love watching stuff like Monster Garage and Monster House or the tlc programs like While You Were out or whatever... the idea of someone living with crappy beat down stuff (something i'm familiar with) and having a crew give their stuff ultimate makeovers just appeals to me (I know that's not what monster garage is about, but that show is worth mention cuz I like shows in a garage where they do crazy shit to normal vehicles). Pimp My Ride works because not only are the car transformations highly dramatic, the reactions from these kids are great. I wish someone had done this for me when I was in high school or college... too bad I'm too old for Mtv... I'd like my ride pimped. Anyone else watch this?

I watched my first episode the other night when that girl had her Honda pimped out. I was hesitant at first about watching this show but decided to give it a try because I was taping 3 episodes of Making the Band and it came on right after. I thought the show was pretty good and those guys do an excellent job with these cars. I will definitely be watching this show again. One question though? Is it a requirement that every car have a PS2? ;)

Yeh, I'm confused why they don't all have Xboxes.

I've caught a couple episodes. Those car owners are lucky as hell.

I think it is a pretty cool show because I am big fan of West Coast Customs work. Those guys are simply amazing.

Oh, right - Cars=Music. MTV=Music Television=Cars. Got it! How stupid of me.

I remember years ago when MTV played these things called "Music Videos". Oh, those were the good old days. . . .










Sorry. Those responsable for the thread crap have been sacked. And it still sucks that MTV doesnt play music anymore.

Sorry, those behind the sacking have just been sacked. Please continue.

You have to love the ep where they fixed up Wyatt's Daihatsu Hi-Jet miniature van. I still can't believe they squeezed 17" rims on that thing.

No car is big enough to hold an Xbox considering it's width and weight.....

The Hi-Jet and the Honda were the best...

As for the PS2 thing - I was wondering that myself... I figured they either had a deal with Sony or else they just figured it's more common for people to already have PS2 games. An Xbox would be sweet indeed. Maybe they pick the PS2 because it's the slimmest console between it and the xbox and it's front loading unlike the GC.

As for the Mtv playing music videos - that's what Mtv2 is for. I actually can't remember a time when all they played was music videos, but I've only been watching that channel for 19 years.

I wonder what they would do to a 1980 Volvo 240DL Wagon... I had one and it could be pretty sweet. If I was younger and my car was more busted, I'd send in a tape of me and my 93 Explorer.

Isn't it obvious? If snoopy dogg doesn't have a xbox in his pimp mobile, it sucks ass. Xbox is for little kids. Pimps ride w/ PS2, you heard?

When was the last time you watched MTV2, out of curiosity?

I caught the Honday episode and the 86' Cutlass. Very cool show. Those kids go crazy.

I watch MTV2 and MTVHits almost every day.

Too bad they don't show the part where the new pimped out ride is stolen by a brotha 10 minutes after it leaves the garage.

I thought the same thing when I saw the girl with the caddy from South Central that had to park it on the street.

I try not to think about the cars getting stolen afterwards. :/

OMG RACIST!!!!11!

OMG REALIST!!!!11!

What I meant was, I flipped around MTV2 frequently this weekend, and I rarely stumbled upon a music video. Beavis and Butthead, Making the Band II, Pimp My Ride, Diary, an onslaught of music-related-but-music-videoless countdowns, Cribs, Trishelle from the Real World and Pauly Shore playing poker or something, a magician...MTV2 is quickly approaching becoming as bad as MTV.

Unfortunately it's true :(

Someone's never been to South Central*



*not racist.

Or East St. Louis...or North St. Louis...




*again - not racist, just reality.

I was kidding, fellas. Read between the lines ;)

Though in your defense we've all played Vice City and know how easy it is to get car jacked...

:lol:

The only thing I don't like about this show is how they do Hondas and the like. Pimping a ride should be all about 70s and 80s American cars -- the bigger the car, the better.

That green Cutlass was my favorite so far, but I have only been watching since the Caddy a couple weeks back.

I've never played Vice City ;)

Funny, every time I turn it on it's videos. :confused:

best part is when the kid with the cutlass says "the rims dont spin, but its iight."

or SouthEast DC

^ I've been to DC before.

I actually prefer shows to music videos. I mean - a music video is 3 minutes tops... that means - assuming there's 10 minutes of commercials every half hour - they can fit about 12 music videos per hour when you include the VJ talking about it. So in a 24 hour period, you could be exposed to over 200 music videos... or something like 1500 music videos in a week. Now, the reality of this is that they only have about 10-20 videos in heavy rotation - which means having to see the same videos over and over and over and over and over. Even when Mtv was used for music videos over 50% of the time - watching it got far too repetitive and annoying. So basically, I'm glad they don't stick to just music on that channel. At least the news is typically music related and it seems they try to cater programming to an audience that is into music.

Be that as it may... :) ...I still don't think the "As for the Mtv playing music videos - that's what Mtv2 is for" bit is entirely accurate, since the presence of music videos has so greatly diminished on MTV2 as of late. With the long-overdue demise of Kung-Faux on Fuse, their programming...aside from infomercials...seems to be much more music-centric than MTV2, which is kinda scattershot. Fuse has a lot of dreck -- that awful, awful show where they divide the screen in four with part devoted to the music video and the rest showing extreme sports -- but at least if I turn on Fuse after 11 AM, I'm pretty much assured that I'll see something music-related. I also watch VH1 Classics a lot too, and they're almost 100% music videos. They have clear shows, not just random videos (like MTV Hits), but the shows are grouped music videos or live performances.

I'd rather MTV play shows than videos since most of the videos are pure shit anyway.

I'm from Southern California(where the show is based), and around here it's the Mexicans who do all the stealing....

Same could be said about their shows, but I'm a sucker for their shows, so I agree. :lol:

Careful - I caught a vacation from DVDTalk awhile ago for saying that my car was stolen by a "mexican"... apparently that's racist.

Well, according to the above posters it's being a "realist"....

great show, I was just wondering who pays for the work? they put in alot of money into these cars. best ep for me was the honda, loved when the girl told grandma that xzibit was going to pimp her ride, and zxibit was like fix, fix her ride :)

Because, of course - heavens forbid - we should play anything other than the top 40 mainstream music that Clearchannel or Viacom or the Record Companies dictate.

I'm pretty sure that there are more than 2000 music videos in existence.

(Sorry - about to veer WAY into tangent territory here)

The long and the short of it - every time I surf past one of the MTV's - which admittedly isn't all that often anymore - it's always seems to be Real World or one of the RW knockoffs. The only place I ever see videos anymore is VH1.

(Oh, how I long for the days of Night Flight - 3 solid hours of kick ass music videos, then a cult movie that wrapped up JUST in time for headbangers ball on MTV. . . . )

It's probably a combination of West Coast Customs donating the labor for the vehicle and MTV picking up the rest of the tab as part of the production costs. Outside of that I bet it's a very low budget show. :)

What's this week's car?