“Soted Out” in 30

Official clothes and flowers had no place when MTV entered dating shows.

on It was customized – which first appeared on June 5, 1995 – 50 young men and 50 girls from the corner to choose by two Lonlyhearts, who removed on the basis of shallow categories (for example, “wealth” or “legs”) and exciting WTF (one imitates the cow!).

The prize? The date of the day that does not require network window, for example, Catalina Island in California.

Intelligent Chris Hardwick Hosted it, while the stars are making Jenny McCarthy And then Carmen Electra The individual crashed. “When MTV started broadcasting it four times a day, it happened to me that we may have been on something!” Says Hardwick.

in the beginning

After hosting a short -term MTV show Shattered The Network’s Beach House, hardwick, is now 53 years old, a natural option. “Since I always wanted to host games shows and could not think about a good reason to say no and return to complete the testimony of philosophy, I accepted very quickly,” he says, he says we. This was not disturbed by a traditional hosting. He asked the role he played, Hardwick Spez: “It seems that Ringmaster covers it! But … a clown clown?

As for Makareth, MTV was not about to employ a Playboy Centerfold – Even if it has been just named a colleague to play this year! “I decided to take things in my hands,” says McCarthy, 52 now, we. “MTV was doing these giant livestock tests with hundreds of hope lined up, so I just … I got a line.” Its drainage was not discovered until she made the last six. She recalls, “I could hear,” my brother, “the collective … but according to the credit, they did not prevent me.”

Quite the opposite. They were sold on the way I ruined expectations: “He bowed all the way to the humor that saves the self, went to full football and made it clear that I was not frightened by men-I could take it as much as possible,” she says. “I think seeing a woman with confidence and edge can flip the scenario was refreshing to them. And such, I got the party.”

Not without strange restrictions, although: for season 1, she was told not to show her stomach. “They were strangely anti -anxiety peaks, perhaps because of my country Playboy “I think there was this calm fear that I suddenly made my clothes to make all my clothes or something like that!” She says.

One of the most fiercest memories of her first episode happened immediately before her first episode, when the show was shooting at the Havasu Lake, Arizona, which, uh, set fire by fire in the hotel room. She remembers: “It was a candle sitting on my hot rollers, which eventually melted, the fire caught and put the wall – then the ceiling – on the fire. “The Fire Department told me that I may have spent five minutes before my validity ended.” However, after two hours, she was raining, put on makeup and made on stage for the first time for her. “I came hot, in every possible way.”

How did you succeed

It was customized The ridicule was long before there was a presentation of this name. What elsewhere else will the losers be subject to the toilet seat around their neck because they were “thrown”? “People were ready to perform any ridiculous mission because they were on MTV,” says Hardwick. The viewers loved to see themselves in adolescents and twenties who wrote them – some of them chose them It was customized Van who was wandering in Venice, California, for talent!

In the first round, the convincing “players” (the main contestants) jumped on the throne, who hid the fifty -eager singles behind. While McCarthy collected the crowd (jumped on free candy and soda), Hardwick will reveal categories describing certain qualities, such as length or facial hair. Any possible date is not commensurate with the preferences of the consequences, its axis; All refusal will provide it – but in subsequent seasons, the convenience can offer a “golden ticket” and keep the Hottie to move to the next round.

No. 2 was a Dating game—Style Q & A, where possible matches are required to do incredibly ridiculous things to prove their value. Such as: imitating the sound of a “enthusiastic” car, persuading the employee who wears the cockroaches to check the Roach Hotel (leaving the vector who hates errors alone), cuts “hair” from a large nose or put a turban, look at a crystal ball and expect what will happen in its first history. Yes. Hardwick notes: “If the vector has told men,” I wear like bananas and jump to this giant bowl of atom’s actions! “Maybe they had done it without thinking twice.”

Finally, with three people staying, the lightning round will spend everything except for one, then it was revealed for the drop. It is not surprising, love was not always at first sight.

Success … and change

It was customized It was a blow. Hardwick was offered an increase after this first season, and it was learned that this was not given: “My agent said at that time,” They are not used to submitting money, so I will take this as a sign that the offer is working well. “

McCarthy did not fully realize a sensation of the width until it was asked to be on the cover Traded stone. “I have already said,” Why does the rock music magazine want to attach its mistake? “I had no idea about the extent of this,” she says, as she says we. “I worked in a Polish grocery store for seven years – I was not completely keeping up with the media features. But as soon as the problem appeared, I was like,” oh … it’s it. It was the door that opened all the doors. “

One of those doors led to McCarthy’s exit: In 1997, her comic play fell, NBC’s Genetic. (House of Heather Beige Kent was in the future Heather Dobro!) Already a fan of show, Electra, now 53, tested. “Before I went, I realized that I would have to be very shy and go to it – I pray that I am with my friends, not strangers,” I told. we. It is a lane, and the mccarthy pass the stick in one special loop. “I thought she was very cold,” the best energy, girls girl, “Electra recall.

Hardwick found “very cool”, regardless of his position in the industry when they arrived. “Jenny became a star while playing the show,” he says.

Burning question: Have you exposed the players of single players? “All the time,” says Electra, but she was dating someone at that time and did not say yes to the contestant, “Electra says.

In the McCarthy era, things did not reach the stage of the question. “Most of the men felt terrified of me,” she says we. “Perhaps in the first season, they were trying a whistle or raising a cheese line, but by the second season, they knew better. I was a pioneer with them. I used to deal with them – difficult – in his face regularly on the camera. I was there to enter quickly if necessary.

As with McCarthy, great opportunities came to Electra. “One day, a group of men appeared in black suits.” It was very dangerous but really wonderful. “These agents fell – not to mention a small offer called BaywatchThat I launched on the days of the week, with four episodes of the game’s display on weekends. Photographers could not get enough of them, and children will come in the commercial center “running to run to reach”.

the It was customized Experience, though, was a complete pleasure for her. “It was like a college,” says Electra. “We were just a nuts and completely deviated from our minds with fashion, dancing and the way we were spent. Every week, we were going to a bar, celebrating and drinking our donkeys. Like a lot.”

Before the show ended in 1998, other familiar faces appeared now: Stacy.VergFerguson (with her wild band orchid) then –Five Party star Jennifer Loew Hoyette Both were completed, and Vince von She acted in a few graphics for $ 150 a day.

Why do we remember that

The show went further than MTV, especially in 1996, when he inspired an episode of The boy meets the world And many satirical simulations: on SNLand Molly ShannonCatholic student Mary Catherine Gallag was a meeting. On Dana Carvi offerand Stephen Colbert Hardwick was intimidated with his brand “hair curtains” (those explosions!), While Carvi – fashion as fashion as fashion Ted Kakzhenski – It was the vector. Boy: Salma Blair As an optimistic slave! And in the 1997 comedy It did not include Rumi and Michel High Schooland Mira SurvinoROMY applies to the show, just to be told that it is very large and “VH1 experience”.

To Hardwick, that diverse indicates this It was customized They became a cultural test, and they were also the sky of self -described comedies. “The presence of many legendary artists who were found in the drawings detonated my mind in the best way.” As for the record, I think the curtains were “very cold” at that time!

antiquities

Two attempts to repeat It was customized Ask for two failures. A copy of YouTube came only and went in 2018 after seven episodes. In 2020, Quibi flow service (which also came and went) Restart Display with Palmer cake and Joel Kim supporter As hosts.

A new perspective

Call It was customized “Tuttle Trailblazer”, he was definitely a wild animal – noisy, messy and completely apologize – but he paved the way for many dating competitions that came after it, “McCarthy says. Bachelor’s degree We had roses and romance, but we had 50 young centuries in tank tops trying to win a date in less than 30 minutes. It was messy, ridiculous and a kind of genius in its own way. “

The remind of Hardwick repeats the storm: “Everything has happened very quickly, and at one time, it seems that the show sometimes seems to be this dream that was extending to the high lightning of the octane, root materials, and the long -being of the super -saturated color that I had, and I wonder whether or not even real!”

However, he enjoys his time on MTV during its peak period. “After I came from the chess club, computer camps and D&D groups, I really fought to feel comfortable about” wonderful children “, and this job helped me realize that perhaps I could.”

For Electra, it ended very early. “I wanted more!”

Where are they now?

McCarthy, a member of the team Convincing singer And her two Beauty without shape line. Electra, also, in the beauty space with its new brand Electra skin care. (The two appeared together in a Skims Campaign.) Hardwick works steadily as a host (The hadith is deadand WallAnd comedy stand. McCarthy says she is preparing for It was customized Reviving, though – and “soon, before we need Chris, I need a remote size!”