Wow, what’s with all the shows where some celebrity drops an insane amount of cash to have a TV stuck in his SUV?

MTV has one. Discovery has some. The Learning Channel, too.

Last night I watched “rides” which had one of the Beverly Hills guys (I think) as narrator/host. They showed them modify a brand new Hummer 2 for a football player. New paint, chromed all the plastic bits, stuck TV’s and huge bass speakers everywhere. They also showed a “basic” SUV; they said it (a Suburban) cost $45,000 and they put $110,000 in options on it. Huh? What they didn’t say is you lose half the value to depreciation as soon as you drive it off the lot (and does your insurance cover $100,000 worth of chrome and electronics?)

Why?

I guess the dude’s got enough money to not only fuel but repair an H2, but jeez.

I’ve never been bitten by the ‘customize my car and make it look like a Hot Wheels character’ bug. Never. I just drive the damn thing. I’ll admit to about six months when I decided I should wash/wax/polish the hell out of it and boy was it a shiny car but it still had 90,000 miles on it. Now if I have spare money it needs to go to the kids college fund or to pay my spiraling property taxes and health insurance costs (don’t get me started on that shit), I’m surely not busy putting DVD players an multiple plasma screens in the fucking car. If I ever get a free morning maybe I’ll figure out why the left stereo speaker doesn’t work.

But, hey, I was having a hard time going to sleep, so if they wanna do all that and put it on TV, I guess more power to ’em…