Trojan Should Support Greek (Vol.1)

...because, who doesn't appreciate clever advertising that relates ancient historical rivalry with safe sex? Seriously, that could really work, because then the audience would learn about different condom options AND legendary Hellenic battles. That would for sure qualify as an IntelligentBang (noun, referring to pop culture that doesn't use the lowest common denominator of intelligence to make an impact).



And it could further fuel the ridiculous battle between reality and the myth of "abstinence only" as a sure-fire way to eliminate STDs and teen pregnancy. Because, this show, "Greek," is on ABCFamily. And, people, who are on the show, have sex. Also; the people having sex are not all losing their virginity in a fit of angst and emo songs. They have sex the way normal people do in college, so sometimes its even wihout a soundtrack. Except Rusty. But he just got a girlfriend, so the show's only virgin is gonna start sooner than later--and its not unreasonable to expect that when he does lose it, some angst and emo songs will be involved. But its just the one, plus emo can be quite fitting for such occasions, according to my sources. So can Queen's "We are the Champions," but to each his own.

So I'm stoked that this show exists, pleasantly surprised about the relatively realistic, uncodemning depiction of college life (by which I mean, 7th Heaven this ain't) and I'm pretty sure that I haven't been drunk every time I've watched it, so I'm gonna stick to my current stance that the show is an IntelligentBang (a noun which sorta sounds like a drinking game now--apparently I'm thirsty). But man, I don't think ABCFamiliy (even though its cooler than I'd thought) and all the weird angry letter writing parents out there would quietly accept the support of a company that is directly related to SEX, even though thus far they've accepted: a nymphomaniac sort of campus slut, a Senator's daughter sort of evil girl who has sex with other people's boyfriends and DOESN'T FEEL BAD, a boyfriend having sex with not his girlfriend but also not a total schmuck that nice girls stay away from, a girl responding to boyfriend having sex with not her by being righteously angry and hurt and then smoothly coached into sleeping with another guy to make it even, a BOY having sex with a BOY, a super-awesome "My virginity is not a gift, its a burden, and I'm going to lose it tonight" speech delivered by the show's adorable moral compass character to a PURITY PLEDGE organization, an honest and interesting struggle for boyfriend and girlfriend to see each other sexually and have sex with each other after the cheating, a sex-tape on a cell phone with blackmail potential, nymphomaniac campus slut being pretty upbeat and bent on continuing said lifestyle including taking calls from her mother in the act, and, and some others, and like, a biblical sex joke, which went something like, "Yeah I know your sister...in the biblical sense." (Which I still think is funny as a line, and also the way the kid reacted was priceless...just reading it makes me giggle, but I think maybe you'd need to watch it...if you want, whatever, ABCFamily doesn't know who the hell I am. Yet. I just meant for the sake of the joke, anyway.) Now clearly, condoms would cross a line, right? I mean, condoms would make you think the sexual nature of the show is causing young people to have sex, and thats terrible, because they wouldn't even know what sex was unless they saw it on TV, and they wouldn't dare do it until they found out about the condom loophole, so young people are probably throwing their moral upbringings to the wind and having sex with abandon, thanks to Trojan and Greek. Or however the hell that logic works. So...that might be a better marketing scheme on a different network, one in which parents are not involved? Or I'm an idiot, who knows.

Anyway, "Greek," plain and simple, is awesome. The only way it could be more awesome would be the addition of more awesome, such as Paul Rudd, who could not be more awesome even if he fixed the air-conditioning in my apartment and explained "John from Cincinnati" to me. Wait. If he could explain "John from Cincinnati," I guess then his awesomeness would just surpass human understanding and approach godliness. Ah, Paul Rudd.