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* HarsherInHindsight: Watching the Chrissy and Clay dating scenes in ''Newport Harbor'' is more difficult since 2017, as the latter was DrivenToSuicide a decade after the show's airing.

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* HarsherInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight:
** The numerous scenes of characters getting drunk is much harder to take seriously, when at least one participant (Jason Wahler) admitted years later that the show was to blame for his subsequent struggles with alcoholism, due to MTV plying the cast with drinks in order to get "better performances" out of them.
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Watching the Chrissy and Clay dating scenes in ''Newport Harbor'' is more difficult since 2017, as the latter was DrivenToSuicide a decade after the show's airing.



* OvershadowedByControversy: ''Newport Harbor'' became this years later when lead cast member Clay Adler shot and killed himself years later during practice at a shooting range. Bringing up the show often results in the actor's death being brought up.

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* OvershadowedByControversy: OvershadowedByControversy:
** The show's first season ignited a firestorm of controversy upon airing, due to claims that Kristin was underage during the spring break trip to Cabo, particularly when she danced on a pole at a club.
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''Newport Harbor'' became this years later when lead cast member Clay Adler shot and killed himself years later during practice at a shooting range. Bringing up the show often results in the actor's death being brought up.



* SelfParody: The writers of the Creator/{{MTV}} Canada ''Laguna Beach Aftershow'' clearly knew when it launched that the series was a target of derision from viewers, and so they mocked the worst elements of the episodes (including the teenagers' stupidity and the questionable decisions made by the show's writers to beef up the drama) in every episode, as well as produced a series of VoiceClipSong videos that ridiculed foolish comments made by the cast.

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* SelfParody: The writers of the Creator/{{MTV}} Canada ''Laguna Beach Aftershow'' (coinciding with the airing of the third season) clearly knew when it launched that the series was a target of derision from viewers, and so they mocked the worst elements of the episodes (including the teenagers' stupidity and the questionable decisions made by the show's writers to beef up the drama) in every episode, as well as episode. They also produced a series of VoiceClipSong videos that ridiculed foolish comments made by the cast.



* ValuesDissonance: the SlutShaming of Kristin, especially in the Cabo episode, definitely comes off poorly nowadays, especially [[DoubleStandard when many of the guys were acting similar in Cabo]].

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* ValuesDissonance: the The SlutShaming of Kristin, especially in the Cabo episode, definitely comes off poorly nowadays, especially [[DoubleStandard when many of the guys were acting similar in Cabo]].

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* SelfParody: The writers of the Creator/{{MTV}} Canada ''Laguna Beach Aftershow'' clearly knew when it launched that the series was a target of derision from viewers, and so they mocked the worst elements of the episodes (including the teenagers' stupidity and the questionable decisions made by the show's writers to beef up the drama) in every episode, as well as produced a series of StupidStatementDanceMix videos that ridiculed foolish comments made by the cast.

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* SelfParody: The writers of the Creator/{{MTV}} Canada ''Laguna Beach Aftershow'' clearly knew when it launched that the series was a target of derision from viewers, and so they mocked the worst elements of the episodes (including the teenagers' stupidity and the questionable decisions made by the show's writers to beef up the drama) in every episode, as well as produced a series of StupidStatementDanceMix VoiceClipSong videos that ridiculed foolish comments made by the cast.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The stock footage of Didsbury in Greater Manchester and the M60 motorway in U.K. versions of the show.

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