Tommy Lee ponders how it's come to this.
NBC, in it’s never ending quest to produce the absolute worst in “reality” television, has enrolled Tommy Lee as it’s newest would be reality star. Now before I get to my so-called review of this so-called reality show, I am going to state for the record that Motley Crue’s “Shout at the Devil” album is a hard rock classic, and that I can be considered a “Crue-Head.” I’m also often referred to as a “dickhead,” but that really is irrelevant here.
My point is that I was actually looking forward to this show because I thought I’d be interested in watching Tommy take on this fish out of water story of rock star goes to school. However, after sitting through the back-to-back pap, I was tempted to call up Dr. Feelgood for help.
“Tommy Lee Goes to College” is such a wonderful concept of a show. Taking a tattooed, rehab alumni, Pam Anderson hubby, self made porn star who hasn’t seen a campus in over twenty years and throwing him into a real college sounded like fun. Obviously the producers of the show felt that a straight up documentary style program would risk being as boring as a calculus class, so instead they created one of these new “comedy series masked as a reality show” type “sitcoms” where we have real people in staged, often scripted scenarios.
Tommy Lee takes a peek at his script. For the "reality" show he's on.
I tried to just sit back and enjoy the program as mindless fun, but it was too difficult. There were too many things I found distracting.
Like: Why did Tommy seem to just start going to school in the middle of a semester? Couldn’t they have had him start in September with everyone else?
Why do we, as an audience, care if Tommy makes it on time to a class? Or if he reads his English assignment? What’s at stake? It’s not like he’s actually working towards a diploma.
Why would a reputable school like the University of Nebraska at Lincoln put up with any of this?
Why do they call them TV Sets, when you only get one TV?
I finished the second episode completely under whelmed and wondering why I just wasted an hour of my life watching Tommy fake his way through school. The only portion of the show I actually found interesting was Tommy’s struggle to join the marching band. Otherwise I just felt hoodwinked into watching 2 of the 6 episode promo campaign for Tommy’s new solo album due in stores soon. To the Principle’s Office “Tommy Lee!”
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