My Take Radio

As a woman, I pride myself on being able to hang “with the boys” in regards to my abil­ity to watch stuff most girls won’t even con­sider.  So, in keep­ing up with this, I decided to watch the pre­miere of Spike TV’s newest com­edy “Blue Moun­tain State”. About five min­utes in,  all I could muster was “Wow”.  I imme­di­ately likened it to the “Van Wilder” movies or “Var­sity Blues” on crack. This show takes every col­lege TV show and movie you have ever seen and bun­dles it into one half hour of  non­stop sex, drink­ing and foot­ball. (I assume I have your atten­tion now?)

Before I begin, a lit­tle back­ground for those of you who live under a rock and haven’t seen Spike’s heavy pro­mo­tion for Blue Moun­tain State. BMS fol­lows three col­lege fresh­men who attend Blue Moun­tain State Col­lege. Two of the three are on the BMS foot­ball team ”The Goats” — Alex (Darin Brooks) and Craig (Sam Jones III, you may remem­ber him as Pete from Smal­l­ville). Round­ing out the three is the trusty sidekick/Alex’s BFF Sammy (Roman­ski) whose goal is to become the Goat’s mascot.

The show revolves around these guys adapt­ing to col­lege life while jug­gling foot­ball, (mostly) naked girls, team haz­ing and maybe (at some point) classes. We quickly meet some of the sup­port­ing char­ac­ters, most importantly:

Team Cap­tain and Line­backer Thad (Alan Ritch­son):  the odd­est char­ac­ter on this show, and I can­not wait to see where they are going with him.  He heads the haz­ing rit­u­als, which is all “pretty gay” and is obvi­ously the lead bad guy to our three newbies.

Craig’s gold-digging “B” of a girl­friend Denise (Gabrielle Den­nis): eas­ily the most annoy­ing char­ac­ter to me, as you will all prob­a­bly agree after watch­ing. As her main goal is to get Craig to the NFL (to get that money, money, yeah, yeah), she has a no-sex pol­icy with Craig, as “all the testos­terone makes him play better.”

 We also meet Coach Marty Daniels (Ed Mari­naro) quickly, and he seems to have good one-liners that will be funny addi­tions to the show. I wanted to see more of him, as the coaches usu­ally have some of the best mate­r­ial in these kinds of shows.

Ok, now onto the short recap. We got two back to back episodes to sink our teeth into (or maybe I should say fin­gers – more later.) Episode 101 was enti­tled “It’s Called Haz­ing, Look It Up”. In this episode, we meet the char­ac­ters and get to watch some funny haz­ing that includes shav­ing other team­mates’ asses, and hold­ing a book of team­mates’ secrets with­out los­ing it under penalty of ass-whopping, and a Cookie Race – I won’t spoil that.

Episode 102 is called “Promise Ring”. When Craig loses the promise ring Denise gave him dur­ing a night out at a strip club, he goes on a hilar­i­ous search to find the ring, which he believes he lost in (yes, not a typo) a strip­per before she learns that he lost it. Much hilar­ity ensues, and it cul­mi­nates with a not-so-subtle “break-in”. I won’t ruin that either.

All in all, the show is a lit­tle over-the-top in terms of debauch­ery, but it is cable TV after all. While funny, there are some things I can live with­out per­son­ally, but I am sure a lot of you will love it just the way it is. I will prob­a­bly give it a few more episodes before mak­ing a final judgment.

Side Note – I also really like the BMS theme song, which is ‘Hell Yeah’ by Rev Theory.

For now: here are some quotes to get you interested:

Coach Daniels: “Where do we come from? FROM OUR FATHERS BALLS!” “Cham­pi­ons know they came from their father’s balls.”

“Once upon a time, some weak pathetic pussy coined the phrase “Win­ning isn’t every­thing”. For most peo­ple in most sit­u­a­tions, he was right. But I’m not one of those peo­ple and THIS is not one of those situations.”

Alex: “Your girl­friend sucks. She intro­duces you to account­ing majors and then gives you shit for drink­ing a beer?”

“There is no way that girl is a vir­gin. Vir­gins don’t go to state col­lege, man. Wake the fuck up!”

“Never date the strip­pers, you don’t take the paint­ing from the museums”

You can catch Blue Moun­tain State Tues­days on Spike TV at 10PM EST. Check your local list­ings, and find the first two episodes at http://www.spike.com/show/34560