My Super Sweet 16

My Super Sweet 16
Starring	N/A
Opening theme	"Sweet Sixteen" sung by Hilary Duff.
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	61
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Original release
Network	MTV
Release	January 18, 2005

For the 2007 Movie, see Super Sweet 16: The Movie

My Super Sweet 16 is an MTV reality series documenting the lives of wealthy teenagers preparing and celebrating their coming-of-age birthday parties. Parties include the quinceañera (a sweet 15), the sweet 16, and other birthdays including a My Super Sweet 21 special aired during MTV's Spring Break. The show premiered on January 18, 2005. Adolescents featured on the program are often portrayed as spoiled, extremely materialistic, selfish, demanding, temperamental, and ungrateful, due to the superficial lifestyle their parents afford them, and are constantly boastful of the things they have been given, offering viewers a look at the first step to laziness and arrogance. The opening theme is "Sweet Sixteen" sung by Hilary Duff.

A UK version of the program was also produced.

In 2008, MTV announced that they will launch a new series called Exiled. A number of parents of participants on My Super Sweet 16 will banish their teens to a remote dangerous countries in order to see if their offspring will survive the primitive conditions . The big twist occurs when the parents show their apathetic attitudes about their child's wellbeing.

Exiled

Exiled is a spinoff of My Super Sweet 16 the show features eight former Sweet Sixteeners, whose parents are fed up with their entitled behavior. They are sent on trips to places inclduing Thailand, Africa, and the Amazon to see how others live without the luxuries they take for granted.[1]. The show currently airs on MTV [[2]] with new episodes airing Monday nights at 10:30.

Exiled Sweet Sixteeners [3]

• Amanda (Season 2)
• Ava (Season 1)
• Bjorn (Season 2)
• Sierra (Season 1)
• Chelsi (Season 3)
• Alex (Season 3)
• Meleny (Season 3)
• Marissa (Season 3)

Usage in pop culture

My Super Sweet 16 has also covered a number of celebrity coming of age parties. Bow Wow, Sean Kingston, Aly and AJ, and Chris Brown have all had their parties featured on the show. [4]

Usage in pop culture

• The show was mentioned on an episode of Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh ("Battle of Panthatar") aired April 15, 2007. Both Drake and Josh were intent on crashing a sweet sixteen in their area that is to be featured on the fictional MTV program "Dude, I'm Sixteen!"

• The show was mentioned on an episode of CW's Veronica Mars ("Un-American Graffiti") aired May 1, 2007. Both Logan and Parker are such fans of the program that Logan even throws Parker a somewhat high-profile sweet sixteen.

• In the movie Bratz, a character named Meredith throws a Super Sweet 16 Party, and has MTV film it.

• British satirist Charlie Brooker compared the show to an "Al Qaeda recruitment film" on his T.V. show Screenwipe.

Parodies

• The show was parodied on the January 14, 2006 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live hosted by Scarlett Johansson. In the sketch, sweet 16er Crystal, reflected that of the usual sweet 16er in which she longs for perfection and gets frustrated when things don't go her way. In the end, even when her own father takes drastic measures in order to pay for all the costs, Crystal gets neither her choice car nor choice performer.

• The show was parodied on the September 16, 2006 episode of FOX's MADtv hosted by Dwayne Johnson. In the sketch, cast member Ike Barinholtz threw a super sweet 30th for fellow cast member Bobby Lee. However, Lee's parents refused to fund more than $300, and the party turned into a disaster.

• The show was parodied on an episode of Comedy Central's South Park ("Hell on Earth 2006") aired October 25, 2006. Satan was intent on throwing an over-the-top Halloween bash. His behavior reflected that of the sweet 16ers preparing for their coming-of-age birthdays. In the end, when Satan realizes his folly, the audience considers the sweet 16ers to be "worse than Satan."

• Janet Jackson also parodied the program in early of 2008, during MTV's Artist of the week. She was seen wearing a tiara and complaining because she received her car 4 hours too early.

• The Disney Channel television series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody has an episode parodying My Sweet 16 in an episode where London and Maddie compete to see who will have the better party.

• The Disney Channel television series Cory in the House has an episode parodying My Sweet 16, called "My Party Is Better Than Yours" in an episode where Meena has her own Sweet Sixteen party, and begins acting like a brat.

See also

• List of My Super Sweet 16 episodes
• Super Sweet 16: The Movie
• List of programs broadcast by MTV

External links

• My Super Sweet 16 Online Social Network
• My Super Sweet 16 at MTV.com
• My Super Sweet 16 at IMDb
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• My Super Sweet Sixteen: Seasons 1 & 2 on DVD