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After last year's Celebrity Rehab, my Celebrity Crush, Dr. Drew, returns with: Sex...With Mom and Dad, an MTV show where f'd-up teens try talking with their parents about sex-using Dr. Drew's flair for frankness. First up? Jersey Shore resident Greg, a "Junior Gotti", extolling the virtues of sleeping around. A lot. Under the same roof as Mom, Grandma and little brother. Mom? Over it. Ditto Grandma. Greg? Incredulous!
We "meet" Dr. Drew through a disconcerting montage of him on his call-in show, Loveline, gleefully spinning in his chair wearing headphones and a black tee that is a pec's best friend. Yet, I'm ambivalent. He should dress like "Professor Encyclopedia", the term the boys' school bullies' used for poety nerds. Having sensed my consternation, in the next scene, Dr. Drew wears regulation Prof Encyclopedia garb to his meeting with Greg, Mom and Greg's grey tank top and diamond diamonique earring.
With chin-on-hand concern, Dr. Drew takes in Mom's comments about Greg's "cattin' around". With elbows-on-slightly-parted-knees, Prof Encyclopedia then hears Greg defend bonking forty different girls a year, and his LOVE of being a girl's first. We learn that Dad left, Greg (erroneously) thinks he's satisfied all of his conquests and Mom didn't orgasm until her 30's-which makes me put a BIG, RED, X on the image of my Mexican Catholic Mother that pops into my head.
Dr. Drew points out (by actually pointing) that Greg should be tested for STD's and is on a sexual high, oblivious to others' feelings. He's sent off with Dr. Drew's ice-breaker exercise, hidden in a spooky, black "open at home" envelope. Even this mystery's better than the hour lost watching David Blaine last week. Now his pecs are appropriate.
So Greg heads home with Mom, admitting that the doc's remarks gave him pause. His orders? "The Bonk Tour". Greg must tour Mom through the spots in their little hamlet where he's had sex-yet another definition of "community leader". Greg is giggly. Mom? Uh, no. First on the list-the roof of the gym where Greg and Mom both work. Greg blamed the sexual encounter on the "lovely view" below. I will concede that the parking lot below seemed very well planned. Heady parking lot designers can forget function! After presenting the wall, the AC unit, and the pole that all supplied back support during the romance, he discloses that he got too sore to continue. No need to detail every location where he did it, OK, except for the back seat of the car (where his little brother sits) parked next to a dumpster-a dumpster obviously engineered with romance in mind. Repulsed and bemused Mom does her best to take it all in.
Mom shows Greg a bed where she had loving, committed relations. Uncomfortable, he claims that "sex in the shed" can be intimate too. Drew applauds the bonk thing, but Greg's still dubious. Another Blaineish envelope shows up telling him that he has to invite ex-girlfriends over for dinner to learn whether he was: a) a good lay and b) a good guy. Only two show up, and as Mom and Grandma look on, he learns that he tore them to shreds emotionally and didn't satisfy them physically. Even his sideways ball cap looks bummed. At the wrap up meeting with Dr. Drew and Mom, Greg finds that while he's got some unresolved hatred towards women, he would rather be tender than a hater. His earring is one step ahead of him.
His cuteness aside, Dr. Drew has dressed up potentially deadly topics to look like any other MTV wack-fest with hot, lascivious Spring breakers followed around by coy voice overs saying things like, "What till you see what happens next?!" And God bless him for it. With a national increase in teen pregnancy, and the slow disappearance of girls' self-esteems in this hyper sexualized environment (explored in books like Female Chauvinist Pigs) someone has to use the tools of young, sexy TV culture to not just send a flat anti-drug message like Nancy Reagan on Different Strokes, but really wrestle these issues to the ground before they win. I guess a buff Professor is what we need after all.
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