This is an
MTV reality show about teenagers' sweet 16 birthday parties, where insanely rich teenagers cry, scream, swear, berate their parents and act as if the world is ending because they didn't want to get their $65,000 Lexus
now, they wanted to get it
slightly later.
One commentator has
remarked
that it is almost certainly a portent of the complete collapse of our civilization, and excerpts have been used in
North Korean propaganda videos about the decadence of the West.
On a happier note, this show has spawned some decent
spinoffs. The first is
My Super Psycho Sweet 16, a series of
made-for-TV slasher movies in which the little twerps get what's coming to them, and
Exiled, another reality show in which the parents of former
Sweet 16 stars, fed up with their kids' behavior, send them off overseas so that they can find out what it's
really like to suffer.
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