A show called The Bedford Stop with the tagline ‘A reality show about Brookyn girls avoiding reality’ has made its way to YouTube for all of your hate watching needs. Unfortunately it appears to that this show is not a parody. I say this is unfortunate because as a parody it would hit home more than most any other Williamsburg parody I’ve seen. There are no outdated references to the hipsters with handlebar mustaches aesthetic that you don’t see much of anymore (yet your parents and anyone outside of NYC still think define the neighborhood). Instead there are the wealthy recent college grads living in luxury buildings, trying to improve their Tinder profiles, and feeling cool by thrift shopping (yet being grossed out that someone previously wore the clothing) that hit much closer to what a Williamsburg parody should be in 2015. Here are a few highlights you can skip to (if you dare) from the below pilot episode:
– Taking phone calls in bed of a luxury building on North 6th to decide where to go to brunch (1:08)
– Recap of a date at The Charleston (4:01)
– Going thrift shopping yet being grossed out that someone else once wore the clothing (8:13)
– Getting professional photographer Max Schwartz to take headshots for a new Tinder picture (8:55)
– Coming up with a wild idea to go to Brooklyn Bowl (10:59)
– Getting furious that your friend didn’t say hi yet at Brooklyn Bowl (8:27)
Update The pilot has been removed from YouTube but a copy still exists on Vimeo:
Please please MTV pick this up and make it a full series. This is the parody Williamsburg needs right now.
YES!!!!! Williamsburg has been a lame campus for a loooong time now. This show was inevitable. Sad but true.
this neighborhood is so over. I hope there’s an episode where they’re hanging out on Havemeyer and like South 2nd late at night
SO OVER! why can’t my generation do the cool drugs and not be so lame?
We are sending drone strikes to the wrong places.
For real.
After five years of post high school education, amassing 40,000 plus in student loans, pursuing several jobs while maintaining a full school schedule, going days without sleep in order to obtain a suitable GPA that would qualify me for an ENTRY level internship within the entertainment industry; that I am undermined by several seemingly incoherent, inarticulate, un-evolved, below average looking girls (I won’t say women) whose only means of mental stimulation is paying for tinder headshots. All while myself and thousands of others are struggling to find work that will provide the necessary funds to simply pay their bills on time or without financial assistance. Companies want to know why our generation seems underdeveloped in terms producing successful graduates who are capable holding a job? It’s because shit like this is being produced and approved for mass consumption by people who are old enough to KNOW better, in an attempt to produce a quick turn over rate. What kind of message does this send our posterity? For all the people who complain about quality of culture that is coming out with the current generation; you deserve everything you get if content like this continues to be not only permitted, but encouraged.
” a suitable GPA that would qualify me for an ENTRY level internship within the entertainment industry” – whoa, whoa, whoa there. I don’t mean to be harsh, but the “entertainment industry” doesn’t care about your academic performance for an internship. If you want your academic record to be respected, I don’t think the “entertainment industry” is where you want to go.
Pa is a bit right, the entertainment industry could give two Sh*ts how your GPA is. They want to know how well you work with others…. do you know what gaffers tape is, and do you coil correctly…. especially for entry jobs.
I work in television production and when i was first hired my whole motivation was show up early, leave late, and do everything i desperately could to move up.
These woman will not get anywhere in Production….. unless is marketing or being a publisist.. which the majority of below the line workers laugh at because monkeys can do it.
Please run for president. We don’t need Lena Dunham, we need you.
Wait, I thought there’s already a shitty ass show about four busted transplant chicks airing on HBO? There’s another on youtube? Jesus Christ, won’t these people just go away and fucking die already. Can’t believe this is what my Borough has become. We’ve been over run with an epidemic of rich, transient Ken and Barbie dolls along with their bearded lumberjack / civil war looking, man bun wearing cousins. These scumbags are a plague.
Brittany’s real mad.
Why is some YouTube thing getting this attention tho? There’s plenty of dumb shit online, wake me up when this gets greenlit for cable
What’s cable?
Exactly.
I saw the promo video on youtube
i assumed it was a parody?
if it is not a parody it reminds me of that rebecca black “friday” song – so bad that 85 million people clicked on it to see how bad it was
Williamsburg is over. I’m moving into the city.
If you can afford to move to the city, Williamsburg was over when you first moved here.
These bitches are just white flab. I love how they’ve all moved east, yet if you were to ask someone of their same ilk about Brooklyn 10-15 years ago they would have said something like “eww never.” Please stop embarrassing yourselves and your neighbors, and be gone!