Those are the two feelings sloshing back and forth inside my head tonight. It started with a voice mail message from a friend in Orlando: she was watching MTV and saw a shot of Scarlet and me sitting on a bed. Huh?! Like from Beauty and the Geek?! Upon arriving home this afternoon, I checked my e-mail and found a message from Cher (from Season 2)—she forwarded a PDF file that was five pages long. In the San Fernando TV Guide, there are two MTV channels that had 90 listings for Beauty and the Geek. That’s right, 90.
I haven’t the slightest idea which episodes of which season are playing at what time, given that the regular episodes are listed as “Beauty and the Geek, ” but they’ve also scattered the Casting Special 10 times and The Aftermath 12 times throughout the mix. Regardless, it’s playing at various times between today (the 19th) through Dec. 1st. For some reason, my Myspace page became really popular this afternoon.
So you may be asking yourself, “Why isn’t he jumping up and down with glee, giddy because he’s regained his B (or C or D)-level celebrity status?” Well, for one thing, I’m sitting in bed while writing this on my laptop and it’s very difficult to jump up and down while resting on my butt and typing. (Don’t think I haven’t tried…) For another thing, it’s on MTV. I could handle being associated with Smallville and Gilmore Girls, but now the show is gonna get lumped in with reality TV garbage like The Real World! THE REAL WORLD!!!
Yeah, MTV has a much larger fan base than the WB (“the CW,” now that they merged with UPN), so many, many more younger people who fit the show’s target audience will bother to watch it. Also, even thought it’s on cable, it’s not buried in the abyss known as the crappy UHF stations! Yay! But… but… THE REAL WORLD!!! So now I’m torn about how to feel. Yay for expanding further into the mainstream media, but… but… well, you get the idea.
(Incidentally, I wonder how MTV got the rights to the show. The first season started last June, so it’s been on the air for less than a year and a half. Did the WB lose the contract when it merged with UPN? Did they sell the rights for a couple bucks and a box of Cracker Jacks? Did Ashton Kutcher blackmail the CEO of the WB because the dude slept with Demi Moore? How did he manage to pack up his Beautiful and Geeky bags and move elsewhere? Well, however it happened, that’s not my primary concern: I’m busy waiting for the DVDs for Season 1 to hit stores nation-wide. Now that will garner some activity on my Myspace page…)
