Comments on: MTV peeks inside a Georgetown home

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:02:45 +0000

Oh yay! I’m glad I sparked some convo. I’m so special! And yes, the Johns family is super wealthy, and you all are jealous, and it seems ridiculous in every way, but don’t I have a right to stick up for some of my closest family friends? Does it make you all feel just a little bit bad about saying that I am defending my co-millionnaires when I tell you that I’m on financial aid at georgetown? hmmm…very interesting posts. You all hate rich people. Then why are you at georgetown? Why don’t you all sign up for UDC and mingle with people “just like you”? also, IT’S TEEN CRIBS YOU FUCKTARDS give it up and just let me be right already! Because I already am!

By: @Greg Monbro

@Greg Monbro — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:30:01 +0000

Actually none of them go to boarding school, nor “shitty” colleges. If you care that much, you can look it up yourself. This post is ridiculous. Anyone in Georgetown or people who know the family would know how generous they are, and how much they give back to the community. Teen Cribs was done as something fun to do, and nobody was trying to ‘flaunt’ anything, but rather do what the producers said to make a good TV show. This also happened MONTHS ago.. Where were you then Julie Patterson?!

By: Greg Monbro

Greg Monbro — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:19:21 +0000

WHY ARE YOU REPEATING THE SAME POSTS?

Those kids suck, probably more then their parents. Odds are they’ll get addicted to coke at boarding school, go to some shitty private school like Radford, get a job at some mid-level accounting firm and end up fat and lazy without ever accomplishing anything in life.

I have a sneaking suspicion my middle-class ass will get the last laugh.

By: @ jeff

@ jeff — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:43:27 +0000

Jeff, prefacing your comment as someone who knows the family makes me care so much less that you’ve got your panties all in a bunch about Vox critiquing annoying teenagers that make an ass of themselves on TV. They put themselves out in the public sphere for everyone to see, you moron. Now sites like Vox, and other sites that follow shows relevant to Georgetown and DC, aren’t supposed to talk about it? This family is on a television show broadcasting their stupidity across the nation. If they were so concerned with privacy they wouldn’t have opened their (gaudy) home to cameras, smart stuff. Furthermore, if the girl is ugly as sin she very well may look like a combo of a rugby player and Anne Coulter. That has nothing to do with her sexual orientation, yet everything to do with terrible, terrible genes.

By: shrug

shrug — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:29 +0000

I thought the post was funny. Maybe that’s because I think the show is funny (aka laughably idiotic).

By: Asuka

Asuka — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:22:56 +0000

“Teen Cribs” has got to be one of the most offensive, nefarious shows on television. I volunteer a lot of my time with kids on the other side of the Anacostia. They weren’t “blessed” with pool houses or two-acre backyards. Instead, they were (what would the Johns family consider the opposite of “blessed?” “Cursed?”) with a two-room section 8 apartment. They don’t get to sleep in bedrooms “designed to look like cabins”, they get one corner of a room and sleep on the floor. They don’t come home from a day at St. Albans and “chill” to their own jukebox, they run (for their lives) home from a temporary holding pen the DC government calls a school and and turn on the TV to watch this shit. I wonder what that does to a kid. Oh wait, no I don’t – it makes them seethe with rage and hopelessness. I don’t begrudge anyone’s wealth, but flaunting it is simply cruel. But hey, I bet it will make for great personal statement fodder when the Johns children apply to college. The kids I work with (the very, very few who dare to dream of college) will probably write about more mundane stuff like dodging bullets and being homeless. Its the bomb dot com!

By: grammar nazi

grammar nazi — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:16:40 +0000

“Gibson’s room is lined with sports trophies, and his family comes to all his games because they are in, in his words, ‘[The] bomb dot com.’”

Wait … you’re making fun of a kid because he’s grateful to his parents for showing an interest in his activities?

By: Asuka

Asuka — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:03:00 +0000

Including me, there are only four posters in these comments.

By: Chris Heller

Chris Heller — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:39:28 +0000

@Typical

Thanks for catching my (admittedly dumb) typo.

By: 0 for 1

0 for 1 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:37:09 +0000

So far so bad. Bring back Molly.