Making the Band

MTV Plays Lou Pearlman

By Pamie | Aired on 03.29.2002

Becoming O-Town - "Five guys are fixin' to "earn the chance of a lifetime." Can you even stand it? The excitement! The glory! The chance at absolutely no fame? What I love best about Becoming is remembering that everybody who's on this...

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3-11 Recap	MTV Plays Lou Pearlman Becoming O-Town - And takes advantage of the saddest five boys ever.	03.29.2002	F	Pamie
Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
3-10 Recap	Five to One Band Of Brothers - The boys try their hardest to make Clive consider them better songwriters than Diane Warren. It doesn't work out exactly the way they planned it in their heads.	03.29.2002 04.01.2002	B	Pamie
3-9 Recap	O-No! Jacob's Hits…Or Misses - The members of O-Town try to write their own songs. It's just as pretentious as you might imagine.	03.15.2002 03.19.2002	B+	Pamie
3-8 Recap	"I'm Not Here. This Isn't Happening." A Furor In Germany - O-Town pretends to be in Germany with fake fans and fake hijinks.	03.08.2002 03.11.2002	B+	Pamie
3-7 Recap	Two Men Enter, Nobody Leaves Breaking The Band - Ashley tries to follow his real dream of stardom by auditioning for an independent film. Nobody will let Ashley audition, however, because they saw his work in a crappy workshop. Trevor sees what life would look like without O-Town, and it's pretty bleak.	03.01.2002 03.04.2002	B	Pamie
3-6 Recap	Me Recap-a Es You Re-Crap-a All For The Fans - The boys flirt awkwardly as whores are unleashed on them.	02.22.2002 02.25.2002	N/A	Pamie
3-5 Recap	Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be O-Town Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: Total Request Live - We are forced to see an entire episode of TRL just to see mostly-naked baby pictures of Erik.	02.15.2002 02.17.2002	N/A	Pamie
3-4 Recap	Nice Contest, Trash Going To The Chapel… - See just how low O-Town will go with Vegas hos.	02.08.2002 02.10.2002	N/A	Pamie
3-3 Recap	Trevor Wastes Our Time Time Off (Looking For Love) - In this episode, we get further proof that Trevor is a loser, and that nobody cares about Dan. In a totally fake plot, the boys get two days to spend in a cabin where they pretend to have sexual interest in females.	02.01.2002 02.03.2002	B-	Pamie
3-2 Recap	Boring! Take Off Your Shirts! Making The Singer - O-Town is forced to audition and then host a "friend" who wants "advice" from the "experienced" boys. They end up picking the personality-less J.D., who offers not one second of entertaining television. Oh, except that he gets fired.	01.25.2002 01.26.2002	N/A	Pamie
3-1 Recap	"Something, Something, Move, Move, Move!" The Britney Spears Tour - Renewing our faith in making the impossible possible, Making the Band gets another season. This time we're supposed to think they're "legit." Watch Britney Spears try to pretend she knows them as they open for Britney when the real opening artists get sick for a show or two.	01.18.2002 01.20.2002	B+	Pamie
2-13 Recap	Thank You, Boys The Concert Toll - We bid a fond farewell to the boys of O-Town at the end of season two. Don't worry -- Jacob gets his last hissyfit in.	07.12.2001 07.14.2001	C-	Pamie
2-12 Recap	Jacob's Ladder -- The Quest To Get Over Himself Return Home - Jacob fancies himself a songwriter as Ashley learns you can never go home again.	07.05.2001 07.12.2001	N/A	Pamie
2-11 Recap	"Mommy? Make The Bad Men Stop Singing!" National Tour - Jacob and Ashley become the musical equivalents of John and Paul. John Mahoney and Paul Reiser, that is. Lou pretends to be the soft pillow the boys can cuddle up to again. The whole episode is really that gross.	07.05.2001 07.08.2001	B-	Pamie
2-10 Recap	Erik's Family Matters Too Much Pressure - Erik decides to meet his birth father and siblings.	06.28.2001 07.03.2001	C-	Pamie
2-9 Recap	Talk Like a Dan Success? - Dan finally gets to say what's been on his mind all this time. Turns out it was absolutely nothing. Thanks for wasting our time, Dan.	06.28.2001 07.01.2001	C-	Pamie
2-8 Recap	Ashley and Trevor Cry Themselves to Sleep Relationships - The boys try to look like rock stars when they call up their high-school groupies. News flash: the girls aren't gonna lower themselves for just any boy band.	06.21.2001 06.26.2001	A	Pamie
2-7 Recap	Get, Get On the Mike. Get On the Mike, Mike! New Management - There ain't no dumber kids than the O-Town kids. Mike and Mike convince the boys that everyone's looking out for they boys' best interests. Man, they don't care. They just wanna sing!	06.21.2001 06.24.2001	C-	Pamie
2-6 Recap	Ditching Lou Breaking Away - The boys film a video and try to write Lou out of their contract. Two very bad decisions in a row.	06.14.2001 06.21.2001	B-	Pamie
2-5 Recap	My Aching Ears! Reunion - Ashley's girlie returns to remind us all why we don't date girls from Florida. Puking, grinding, titties, and Ashley butt inside. Best. Episode. Ever.	06.14.2001 06.20.2001	A+	Pamie
2-4 Recap	Erik + Ashley = Non-Gay Love 4 Eva! Radio Play - Erik suffers family heartbreak but finds solace in the naked arms of O-Town's finest.	06.07.2001 06.13.2001	B-	Pamie
2-3 Recap	Is That Sideshow Bob? Resentment - Pamie's never seen an episode of Making the Band before. Like that's going to stop her from recapping.	06.07.2001 06.11.2001	C-	Pamie
2-2 Recap	Trevor Chest Old Flame - A little happiness, a little sadness, one or two pretty good upper-body close-ups, and a lot of bloated narrative about a relationship even the people in it don't want to talk about that much. And nine cumulative seconds of music. It's very unbelievable fun for your whole very unbelievable family.	04.19.2001 04.23.2001	D+	Djb
2-1 Recap	Death Takes a Holliday Recap - Never having actually lived in this century, an incredulous Clive Davis can't seem to figure out why five random young men put on a stage in front of a national audience fail to kill. He deploys a brand-new management team and vocal coach to threaten the five boys with obscurity and public humiliation. Hi. This show airs on Friday night and this band sucks. Don't they already have both of those things?	04.12.2001 04.15.2001	N/A	Djb
1-24 Recap	Erik, O Erik, Why Does Your Hair Grow? O-Town: The Video - O-Town premieres the video for its first single, "Liquid Dreams," and Erik-Michael perpetrates two cranial offenses. Ashley looks pretty. Jacob looks like TyJuan. Trevor has muscles. Oh, and Dan's there, too.	12.05.2000 12.05.2000	C	Heathen
1-23 Recap	O-Town Meets Miss America O-Town Meets Miss America - O-Town's lousy performance makes the Miss America wannabes look like superhuman musical geniuses. In a snappy bit of synergy, Miss Hawaii wins the contest.	10.13.2000 10.13.2000	D	Heathen
1-22 Recap	O-Town on All My Children O-Town on All My Children - Firing up those Emmy campaigns, Ashley makes his acting debut and Susan Lucci single-handedly earns the statuette by pretending -- badly, but that's okay -- that O-Town is a hot new talent in the music industry. Singing ensues.	09.20.2000 09.20.2000	D	Heathen
1-21 Recap	This is The End MTV Concert - Lou penetrates the O-Zone lair and zeroes in on his favorite room -- the kitchen. He's got a surprise for O-Town. Apparently, the band will travel to New York City for a so-called showcase.	09.07.2000 09.07.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-20 Recap	The Crying Game The Vacation - A few weeks ago, Jay dared the guys to sustain a healthy relationship during the upcoming years, and something tells me -- it's a radical idea -- that someone's girlfriend gets jettisoned in the next half hour.	08.31.2000 08.31.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-19 Recap	Ich Bin Ein Ridiculous Germany - If Erik doesn't take care of himself, Ashley posits, then he'll never be cured of his virus and the recording trip to Germany will be a wash.	08.24.2000 08.24.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-18 Recap	In Dan We Trust The Replacement - Ikaika's still in the credits. Dan isn't there yet, because of course no one knows whether he makes it. It's a mystery. Really.	08.17.2000 08.17.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-17 Recap	Dan in the Man Van? Four-Member Group - Jay encourages them to work on Ikaika one final time, and the trio heads inside. Wow, all that trouble just to alter the inevitable -- don't they get it? Well, maybe brainy Erik told the gang that "inevitable" means "reversible."	08.10.2000 08.10.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-16 Recap	Lights... Camera... Extraction Press Tour - Chapter the First: Something's Rotten in the State of Hawaii. And apparently, it's migrating stateside -- Haku has arrived in L.A.	08.03.2000 08.03.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-15 Recap	House of Boos House Of Blues - Performance time nears. "The fact that makeup and hair came…I was like, 'This feels like a real performance,'" Trevor says in confessional. Okay, I know it's only the Orlando House of Blues and not the Chicago version, but it still looks pretty damn real to me.	07.27.2000 07.27.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-14 Recap	Jacob and his Amazing Technicolor Ego Dress Rehearsal - We'll dedicate this episode to TyJuan's passion, sacrifice and determination, since he's a stud and his career's in the incapable hands of five lackluster singers.	07.20.2000 07.20.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-13 Recap	Jammin' For Jailbait Insecurities Arise - We're treated to a sampling of what's to come: Southwest Middle School. The group's first performance will be to a bunch of screaming, wailing pubescent girls who think any guy with hair on his legs is an erotic fantasy.	07.13.2000 07.13.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-12 Recap	O-Town Doesn't Practice Anymore Getting Ready - The time is now 11:15 AM, and they're clearly late for something, as the guys are debating what web of deceit to spin today. "We'll say we woke up late," Erik says. Someone points out that it's bad to tell that to an interviewer.	07.06.2000 07.06.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-11 Recap	Two Winners, Five Losers? Goodbye Friends - Bryan tearfully tells the camera, "If someone came up and offered one million dollars in exchange for this experience, I wouldn't take it." The mind boggles. If someone offered me a million dollars in exchange for sharing their experience, I'd be on it like Jacob to a mirror. And so it ends for Mike and Bryan.	06.29.2000 06.29.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-10 Recap	All For Naught, Baby O-Town Members Announced - Ashley and Erik-Michael gather later in Jacob and Trevor's bedroom. Trying to become the group's spiritual core, Erik's lips point out that it's all predestined -- he's here because he's supposed to be there, and the same goes for everyone else in the room.	06.22.2000 06.22.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-9 Recap	Celebrity Deathmatch: Jacob Underwood vs. Ikaika Kahoano Decision Time - We see Bryan dialing Ikaika in Hawaii, but he reaches an answering machine and informs us he's called every day and failed to reach his friend. Jacob finally reminds us that Ikaika left no word as to the date of his return.	06.15.2000 06.15.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-8 Recap	Mr. Pearlman and the Rats of N.I.M.H. New Year's Eve - The moral of today's tale: Give up your passion for partying and sacrifice your identity in your determination to be a successful boy-band. This is a healthy message indeed.	06.08.2000 06.08.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-7 Recap	Bye Bye Bye Goodbye Paul - In its triumphant return, this week's show is about Lou's passion for swindling people, Paul's decision to sacrifice a spot in O-Town, and Ikaika's determination to behave like a flaky wimp who doesn't know his own mind -- which makes sense, because he lacks one.	06.01.2000 06.01.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-6 Recap	Daddy Dearest Record Contracts - As usual, the pre-credits sequence tips us off that this will be an episode centering on Ikaika and Ashley, juxtaposing two dissimilar family situations. There are social morals here, folks, brewed fresh and Bunim-Murray style -- so, laced with arsenic.	04.27.2000 04.27.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-5 Recap	Obsession Is Nine-Tenths Of The Law Finalists Practice - Erik says he sees a conflict between having a personal life and embarking on this career. It's time to prioritize, he can't have a relationship right now, and damn his fishy, boyish looks for luring ladies to his lips like vultures to a cadaver.	04.20.2000 04.20.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-4 Recap	For Whom The Loin Roils Girlfriends Visit - This show is less about eight guys, and more about Paul's passion (for girls), Paul's sacrifice (staying celibate for two episodes) and Paul's dreams (of nubile young female groupies).	04.13.2000 04.13.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-3 Recap	Big Lou Is Watching You The Joint Venture - In a nutshell, Trevor thinks the position is his to lose, but that he's not an automatic "in" like some others. Making air-quotes, Trev says Jacob is "in" for sure.	04.06.2000 04.06.2000	N/A	Heathen
1-2 Recap	Orlando Blues Orlando Blues - Ikaika. That about sums it up. Because he's from Hawaii and no one else is, Ikaika eschews diversity and instead complains about how he's different from everyone else. Paul flirts with anything breasted.	03.30.2000 03.30.2000	D	Heathen
1-1 Recap	Pilot Pilot - It's Episode I: A New Hope, and a booming voice reads the scroll: "This real-life series chronicles the creation of a band....There are no actors, no script -- just raw talent, a dream, and a camera recording every step of the journey."	03.23.2000 03.23.2000	D	Heathen