The TV Zone

The thing I like best about the MTV Movie Awards is...WAIT! There's nothing I like best about them! They're crude -- oh, really, really, really crude -- and POISON YOUNG MINDS to the evil ways of Hollywood. They're full of self-promotional flatulence, too, and rival the Golden Globes for high-minded (ir)relevance. Plus, what's the deal with that Golden Popcorn? Does anyone really think that Ellen Page is gonna go home and put hers right in the spot where she thinks her Oscar should have gone?

Otherwise, I think they're kind of amusing.

If you missed last night, there was at least one water-cooler-type jaw-flapping moment -- arguably others, though I'm sure I missed them -- that would offend a few million parents if they knew that THIS was what their just-graduated high school senior (going to Harvard) was screaming with laughter about last night up in his bedroom. ("It's NOTHING mom! Go away...")

Ya gotta be warned ahead of time that the big thing in Movie Award land is the exhibition -- for comic purposes only, I suppose -- of the physical assault of the male genitalia (honestly, I don't know how else to put this.) So if this following clip (of a spoof of "Kung Fu Panda," featuring the now tight threesome of Black, Stiller, and Downey Jr.) is deeply offensive, I apologize, but keep in mind, this is what this major awards show is, after all, all about: