Blue Mountain State on Spike

Episode Summary

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

The cable industry is engaged in a massive fraud against American consumers. Most cable and satellite subscribers regularly watch and enjoy fewer than a dozen channels; yet the industry charges exorbitant monthly fees for “bundles” of channels, thereby forcing them to pay for hundreds of channels they don’t watch and don’t want. In some cases, the programming on these channels is downright perverse; yet viewers are forced to subsidize it, just to get the entertainment they want. One example of such programming is that shown on Spike.

This past week, Spike – the so-called “network for men” – concluded its first season of the disgusting “comedy” Blue Mountain State (Tuesdays, 10:00 p.m. ET). Focusing on the moronic, sex-crazed members of a college football team, BMS revels in scenes of drug use, drinking, vomiting, bizarre violence, and nearly non-stop sex. In the first season alone, BMS featured:

• The entire team sharing Todd’s “pocket p****” sex toy – because of which, the entire team contracts syphilis;

• A transvestite prostitute desperate to perform oral sex on Craig;

• A mass orgy of third-string players with women, during which one player flings his freshly-used condom into Alex’s face;

• A “drug Olympics,” with each player forced to ingest a different mixture of illegal drugs;

• An entire episode devoted to players trying to outdo each other in finding the most bizarre experience to have while masturbating;

• A high-school girl agreeing to have sex with the entire lacrosse and football teams;

• The team forcing a professor to give them passing grades by threatening to have sex with the professor’s mother, while forcing him to watch;

• A father who pimps his two daughters to the football team;

• The team members passing a drug test by filling their bladders with clean urine from elementary-school children

Americans should not be forced to pay for the soft-core pornography, constant profanity, extreme violence, sexism and crude humor prevalent on programs like Spike’s Blue Mountain State or MANswers, Comedy Central’s South Park and Ugly Americans, or FX’s Sons of Anarchy and Archer. They shouldn’t be – but they are. And the cable and satellite industry will continue to force every subscriber to subsidize vile programming…until viewers stand up for their rights, by demanding that Congress require the industry to offer Cable Choice.