MTV Is Bringing Back "Spring Break", So Lets Relive Some Of The Shows Greatest Moments
Deadline- MTV Spring Break is coming back. The youth-focused cable net is reviving another classic franchise as it continues its live-event push. The new Spring Break event will be held March 19-21 at the Grand Oasis Hotel in Cancún, Mexico with its signature music performances and celebrity guests. For the first time, MTV will also concurrently host alternative Spring Break events for young activists who use their free time to give back.
So this news came across my timeline and I was all ready to pop off another nostalgia blog about how great it is to see an oldie but goodie show from MTV pop out of the casket like Undertaker so the youth of America could grow up with the another classic that I did. But then I wondered if the target audience of Spring Break even watches TV anymore considering I barely even watch it outside of sports and I’m washed as fuck.
When I was a teenager and in the target demo of Spring Break, it was a goddamn event because it meant summer was coming and was also an easy way to watch whoever was the hottest musician at the time while your hormonal ass perved a dish while also promising yourself you would never miss a Spring Break once you were old enough to go. But that was during the early days of the internet where you waited minutes for a picture of a girl in a bikini to load and battled against the squiggly lines of scrambled porn. The amount of damage you could hypothetically do to yourself if MTV’s Spring Break lined up with your school Spring Break was devastating. All hypothetically speaking of course.
However in 2018, you can watch a concert or a bunch of young coeds get crazy in various states of undress on a billion different websites in HD for free, potentially even some where you can interact with the performer. I personally wouldn’t know of such a thing because I am a happily married man. But I’m sure they are out there. Which is why I am skeptical that Spring Break will be the hit it was back in the 90s. Sure Cancun is probably still full of young lunatics looking to exchange bodily fluids and STDs. But I’m not sure if it will have the same pop as it did in the 90s and 2000s since anything slightly risque will probably trigger some group of people in 2018. Shit, even the reveal of the Spring Break house was a big deal because it was 1000 times cooler than even the rich kid in school’s house. But HGTV and all those other renovation shows would probably make the Spring Break house look like a crackden. So instead of wasting any time waxing poetic about a show that may or may not still be around in a year, here are some of the best moments from MTV Spring Break’s glory days.
Obviously gotta start this off with Biggie since footage of live Notorious B.I.G. concert isn’t always easy to come by since he died right as the internet took off
Kevin Nash going at a guy that threw a rock at his head made the nWo somehow even more badass
Three words: Whipped. Cream. Bikinis
The Grind which was pretty much the slutty white peoples version of Soul Train that is infinitely more boring and to be honest kinda weird to watch years later
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Then you have Fashionably Loud, which they used as an excuse to have people parade around in bikinis while some of the biggest names in music performed live like Shaggy
Some white rapper that I was absolutely certain would be a one hit wonder Vanilla Ice ripoff
Carmen Electra in a bikini + “My Own Worst Enemy” playing = The most 2000s clip ever
And you can’t talk about the 90s/2000s without having a Limp Bizkit performance
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Who can forget that spectacular asshole (in a good way) Tom Green?
A Hall of Fame cast member of The Challenge made her debut on the Spring Break version of The Challenge that I still don’t believe actually happened outside of this indisputable video proof
And of course, the GOAT Spring Break clip and the reason you clicked this blog, the girl that lathered herself with honey and rolled around in feathers on Springer Break, causing millions of youngsters to vault into puberty at lightspeed.
I’m sure there is a ton I missed, so here is the old Spring Break Uncensored for shit they probably couldn’t show back in the day that would probably get a G rating in 2018 (including the most cringeworthy moment in TV history when a couple went on Jerry Springer’s show and the chick revealed she cheated on the dude a bunch of times including that weekend, which thankfully all turned out to be fake. As I type this, I realize how lame it sounds, but that was as scandalous as TV got back in the day. Anyway it’s at 18:00 of the first video).