"Undressed" (1999) TV series 1999-2002

Directors:

Jamie Babbit
Arthur Borman

Writers:

Dina Marie Chapman (writer) (season 1)
Tom Crehan (writer) (seasons 1, 2)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown

Release Date:

26 July 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Anthology series examines the diverse sexual relationships involving the different genders, races, sexual orientations and fetishes of high schoolers, college students and post-college roommates.

Plot Keywords:

Anthology | Interracial Relationship | Bisexual | Lesbian | Pornography

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Gina May	...	Elyse (28 episodes, 2000)
Sommer Knight	...	Kiki (13 episodes, 1999)
Ryan Scott	...	Daryl (12 episodes, 2002)

Also Known As:

MTV's Undressed (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

30 min (222 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Tele-Cinema Taurus Inc.

Trivia:

Several episodes into the sixth season, the show changed from film to videotape broadcast format. Later in the season, it moved back to film.

Quotes:

Lois: As far as I'm concerned, men are like razors. After you use them once, they start to get dull.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Undergrads: Work Study (#1.11)" (2001)

The Young and the Horny

The phrase "guilty pleasure" doesn't even begin to describe the late-night MTV show "Undressed", a glossy and very kinky show about young, hot and very horny character's various sexual escapades. Given, as a basic-cable program nothing got too explicit, but the show crammed in as many bizarre sexual situations and fresh young flesh as legally possible.

In some ways I can't say the show was bad. The glossy look showed technical professionalism, and it did have some unusually creative set-ups to it's strictly libido-minded agenda. It was also more diverse than other like-minded shows, with some topics dealing with the modern homosexual plight and the troubles of inter-racial dating. Though not they really dealt with those issues in a honest or realistic fashion. "Lord of the Rings" was closer to real-life than this. For all it's seriousness (a joke was almost never cracked on the show), it was ultimately extremely exploitive and very juvenile, busy but completely empty. None of it's elaborate scenarios led to any insight or meaningful conclusion.

However, you can't say it didn't know it's target demographic well. the show was solely populated by people in the sixteen-to-twenty-five age range, all extremely nubile and with only one thing on the mind: sex, sex and more sex, in all it's various forms. Even the class geeks and mousy bookworms we're very attractive and well-sexed. And it certainly bridged the gender gap by having both it's hunks and babes frequently strip down to their skivvies. From that quasi-glorification of teenage sexuality (nothing about STD's or the serious emotional complications of youthful sexuality we're explored here) to it's numerous gay couplings, the show could please and offend everybody.

Perhaps it would've worked better on the stage. Since the outside world didn't seem to exist (this young sexual bubble seemed to shield off any outside authority) and considering how labored and drawn-out the situations and dialogue got there was something uncomfortably histrionic about this show. On film it seemed too glib and just a little ridiculous. Then again I don't see a market for an all-MTV theater.

All in all, it was a pointless and exploitive experiment, essentially PG-13 porn playing serious, but not surprisingly it was remarkably addictive. You might have never gone out of your way to watch one of it's frequent marathons, but when you did come across it late one night you never changed the channel.