MTV Mean to American Stoners

VS.

Feminist pop culture site Jezebel's resident stoners-turned-agony aunts Tracie and Rich posted this p.m. about their horrible experience at MTV Canada. Apparently someone named 'sheener' contacted them about doling out advice on air (though she, along with the hosts, didn't quite seem to know who they were), but the whole thing went down horribly and they got lost in the land of incommunicado – both because of technical problems (they were using Skype for video and a cell phone for audio... whaa?) and because of this odd mix of... I don't know... extreeeme '90s MTV in-your-faced-ness and not-quite-there-yet-but-I-hear-the-kids-are-down-with-it edgy cyber technology.

The whole thing was obviously a mess and the hosts did probably the most obnoxious thing possible in that situation – they made it seem like it was Tracie and Rich's fault (you know, 'cause they're stonnned), asking 'Are you on the moon right now?' They talked to them in an incredibly condescending manner, basically insulting the pair because they (the hosts) didn't read them out the questions properly. Not everyone's great patching over technical difficulties, but this came out petty and unprofessional. And all this after MTV asked them to appear on the show.


Anyway, Tracie's comments (below, bolding mine) prompted plenty of MTV Canada hate and apologies from Canadian Jezebel commenters. Could this be the start of a cross-border flame war?

We thought Canadians were supposed to to be polite, but they weren't gracious at all about all the stupid shit we had to do to make this happen. The guy told the audience that they'd never get those three minutes back, but thanks to the janky sound of MTV Canada, you didn't hear Rich say, "Neither will we." We were doing them a favor. They asked us to do this. We didn't get paid, but you can see in the video that they repeatedly mention something about $40. We'd like that $40 ($35.0665 USD) because the story we got out of it, as much as we so cherish it, is still kind of shitty compensation.

Anyway, what we've learned from all of this is that being rejected by MTV Canada is like being rejected by an ugly guy you never were interested in to begin with.

If Canadians keep feeding this jerky rep, I may have to change the descriptor of this site!