The Hollywood Reporter relayed Friday that MTV has canceled another of its rude programs aimed at teenagers. Despite record ratings for its second-season premiere, MTV has opted not to move forward with its comedy "The Hard Times of R.J. Berger."
MRC President Brent Bozell mocked a particularly gross episode of "Berger" in April that dwelled on a female teacher seducing Berger's portly high-school buddy:
The April 18 episode was titled "Deadliest Crotch." Berger's overweight friend Miles is kept after class by Mrs. Kay, a beautiful blonde substitute math teacher. She quickly kisses him and wraps her legs around him, expressing her desire for intercourse -- "You're like a teddy bear made out of marshmallows!" -- and tells him to meet her for sex after lunch the next day. Miles is delighted. "I love this! I have six pornos where exactly this happens!" Since the teacher has a fetish for fat boys, she insists he "eat hearty" and "have seconds" for lunch....
This lurid storyline just isn't enough of a grossout for MTV. Within seconds of boasting to R.J. about his prowess, Miles starts itching and pulling pubic lice out of his pants. Next comes the most absurd plot twist of all: Miles asks R.J. to help him hold his pants open so he can shave his pubic hair, which is something that in reality has occurred about, oh, zero times in the history of man.
But it's merely a setup for a sick "Popeye"-twisting cartoon sequence. [See here. --Ed.] After the two boys stare down into a camera apparently inside the pants, viewers are transported into the cartoon, wherein the two boys are now microscopic in size, floating on a boat in a sea of pubic hair with a captain screaming at them to wipe out the menacing lice. Cartoon R.J. pronounces the whole scene disgusting, and then falls overboard into the diseased mess.
The affair ends with the student breaking it off. In a line that will never earn the script writer an Emmy, Miles announces, "Lady, a trip to your patch turned my crotch into a shrimp shack. Happens once, crabs on me. Happens twice -- totally gross." After he leaves, the teacher wistfully says, "You'll always be my ice cream man."
The paper noted "The comedy, which starred Paul Iacono as a well-endowed high school student, premiered strong in March following the Jersey Shore finale, drawing a series-high 3.1 million total viewers. Ultimately, the ratings dropped to less than 1 million viewers per episode." The series opened wiht the slogan "The meek shall inherit the girth."
Earlier, MTV also canceled its spinoff of the scuzzy British series "Skins." Bozell also described that crude attempt at a series here.
