You're Cut Off...and also, a total moron.

So last night, I was watching one of my favorites, the lovely "Best of the" series on VH1 (this happened to be "The 90's", which was a walk through my formative years), and stayed on the channel after it was over. On comes this show I'd never heard of, called "You're Cut Off!". The premise is that a bunch of rich bitches, who are used to having money supplied to them on an un-ending basis, are now being cut off financially by those that supply said funds. From the VH1 website:

"But for these nine spoiled rotten princesses, life has never been anything but a non-stop party, filled with power shopping, mani-pedis and bottle service. All thanks to their rich mommies, daddies and other benefactors who've indulged their every whim.

Well no more.

Their benefactors have decided that in these tough times, enough is enough. They think it's high time their princesses learn how to become productive members of society--not a endless drain on their finances. They've reached out to VH1 for help."

So I think to myself, "Hmm, interesting." I'm not a fan of reality television, as a rule. I watched both MTV's "Fresh Meat II" and this CBS's "Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villans", only because that was what my girlfriend was watching (bewteen this and the NBA Finals are we seeing a theme with my tv "choices"?). I will admit that I kind of got into both. Fresh Meat more than Survivor, but both had similar premises (physical and mental challenges that are required to stay in a game that ends in a monetary reward). I wasn't sure what to make of the short teaser, except that these women were rich and spoiled and would probably bug me.

And bug me they do. As I watched, I was horrified. These women...are insane. They are in money rehab, and acting like they are dying. In the first two episodes (the only two that have been on - both are available for viewing at vh1.com), they are forced to take only one bag of belongings into a standard, normal person, middle-class single-family home (upon arrival, one girl even remarked, "my housekeepers don't even live in houses like this"), make food for themselves, clean their house, work for a cleaning service - cleaning a rich lady's house, and basically just live with eachother. For a few, this is far too difficult to even fathom, let alone cooperate with.

With the help of a Life Coach (Laura Baron, who is awesome), and group therapy sessions, the girls are going to be evaluated each week on their willingness to try to live this new life they are being forced into. They pass or fail, and everything they do gets them closer, or further away, to getting "back into the good graces of their benefactors."

A few of them are genuinely trying. They obviously aren't liking it, and they'd rather be at home being pampered, but this is what they're being dealt, and they want to get back to their old lives so they are being good. I like these girls. They are the least catty, and the most likeable - both to me, the viewer, and eachother.

Some, on the other hand, have no intention of trying and fight with everyone about everything, every second of the show. Gia is probably the worst of the bunch. Out of the 9 girls, she's fought with more girls and refused to do more work than everyone put together. Her benefactor is her husband, who is sick of her not doing anything but sleeping and getting groomed. She has an 18-month old baby and refuses to clean up after her, change her diaper, and even told the group that she didn't breast feed because she didn't want to have to wake up in the middle of the night (she had a nanny for that).

When the girls had to clean their house, she blatantly blew it off. And when they worked for a high-end company, cleaning celebrity diva Amarosa's house, she was the first to say she would NOT do it. Her reasoning? "These hands were not made to clean, they were made to wear diamonds." Not only that, when confronted about it by Amarosa, she got in her face, talked back to her, and told her she had stinky breath.

I was watching, thinking, "These bitches are out of their minds." That's pretty much all that goes through your head when watching this show. It's absolutely unbelievable how conceited and basically retarded some of them are. Most of them have no regard for eachother, or for anyone but themselves. It's insane how there are actually people who live like this, thinking that everything is owed to them and that they should be able to live a life of luxury just because.

Sucks for us poor schmucks that have to live that life every day...oh, wait, no it doesn't. :)

-R.