Why would anybody watch a scum show like Viva La Bam? Why did you watch it?
I person watched it because I was 13. Actually I don't remember my age at the time. I watched it mostly from DVD box sets, not from it airing. It was approximately 13 though. When you're a kid that shit is funny.
Back then it is also worth remembering we all still lived in fear because the world was still fucked up because of 9/11. It was on the TV, in kids shows, radio, news, all the adults around you talking about it. It was an era of fear that we seem to pretend never happened now, an era when freedom died to fear. An era when authority seemed to tighten the chains.
Viva La Bam was a ray of fucking sunshine and a good escape from it all, not only that but it felt like it was rebelling against it all. Bam was fucking with his parents, individuals who represent authority, like it's no big deal. Flaunting the rules whenever he felt like it. He did whatever he wanted without consequences. You kinda wanted to live through him as a kid.
I don't think something so trashy and stupid could thrive today though, as now we got the internet and places like to farms to provide that stuff. Watching it now, it's nostalgic, but nothing more than a group of idiots being idiots beyond that. It clearly was made to appeal to dumb rebellious kids with no sense of consequences who were mad they had to give into authority figures.
