to drop out of the sky in the fall of 2000, like a billiard ball hurtling toward a guy’s testicles. The MTV series appeared hell-bent on disappearing just as suddenly: Four months after the show debuted, Senator Joe Lieberman was calling for its cancellation, citing its “exploitative and degrading” influence on teens who’d in 2001, frustrated by the network’s censorship, it had eked out only 24 episodes—too fast to live, too young to syndicate.
