This week MTV premiered Meet The Barkers, their new reality show starring the family of Travis Barker of Blink 182. Not sure where they're going with this one -- I mean, I could see a show about the frontman of a popular rock band, but the drummer? I'm a drummer and even I know where our place is in the grand scheme of things. The only drummer in the world who's truly a celebrity is Tommy Lee, and that's only because he also accidentally became a porn star. I think MTV is banking heavily on Travis's hot beauty queen/actress wife, and hoping for a dumb blonde dynamic now that Newlyweds is off the air. Travis is maybe my favorite drummer from a band I don't particularly like, although I'm not sure how I feel about a grown man who wears skater shorts and a mohawk. And the theme song (Blink covering "Another Girl, Another Planet") makes me cringe. But at any rate, it can't be as bad as that amazingly boring Dave Navarro/Carmen Electra reality show they tried to do, and the first episode showed some promise, especially in the following exchange, after Travis wakes Shanna up:
Shanna: "I had a dream about Justin Timberlake, and Usher was there too, and I had to pick between the two of them"
Travis: "who did you pick?"
Shanna: "I didn't, you woke me up"
Travis: "I'd pick Usher...he's a better dancer"
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