I Want To Be Made

AKA: I want to watch this episode of MADE so I can feel better about my own minor achievements in the world. Lucky for me MTV has put up a ton of episodes online of some of their finer programming (The Hills, True Life, Made) so I now have more fun things to watch and waste time with.

MADE, if you did not know was a show where a teenager (usually around Junior or Senior in High School) requests to the gods at MTV to be made into something else. What you end up getting is the opposite spectrum changes for most of those involved. Fat Kid Becomes Football Star, Girly Girl Becomes Skateboarder, Nerdy Girl becomes Prom Queen. Completely formulaic, trite, and sometimes insulting....yet oddly entertaining. The best parts are when their "MADE" coach clearly doesn't give a shit about helping the person because said person has completely given up. Often tears are shed.


I want MADE for adults. And by adults I don't mean the 47 year old mother of two in River Falls, Wisconsin who thinks she could be the next Roseanne. I am essentially asking for short term wish fulfillment for able bodied citizens in their early thirties or so. Let me put it this way. I'm a lazy lump of shit most of the time, but if I could have a person trainer (Preferably an angry ex-Vietnam Veteran) who woke me up at 6am and threatened me with bodily harm if I ate that ice cream cone then I think I could get in pretty good shape and or become good at some sport. This would all lead up to me trying out for some really shitty low league Amateur baseball team or something. I just need to someone to pay me for 6 months while I do all this. I think this show would rock. Its Made + Extreme Makeover Home Edition - The Home!!!