If MTV's new fascination with the "spoiled rich girl" reality genre annoys as many viewers as it attracts, tonight's premiere of Exiled attempts to satisfy both audiences. In the new series, several of the worst teenage offenders from My Super Sweet 16 are sent by their parents (one of whom, it appears, is Tracey Ullman doing her Arianna Huffington impression) to remote locations where they must learn to get along with third world villagers and perform back-breaking labor, much of it involving animal feces. While a lot of ink could be spilled dissecting MTV's habit of building pretty girls up and then tearing them down, we'll quote instead from one of the kindly villagers, who stares at an Exiled cast member and says, "Sometimes you say stupid things." Villager, that's how she got her own show. [MTV]

If you liked watching the My Super Sweet 16 MTV reality brats throwing tantrums about their stupid mom giving them their fancy car at the wrong fucking moment or their beleaguered dads wearily canceling their credit cards, then you're going to love Exiled, in which the same shitty kids learn things about dark people and muck around in cow poop. Or at least MTV hopes so! And they hope everyone will learn from the experience. Something good about difference and poverty, yo:

A new Fox reality show called Secret Millionaire is in the works, in which rich folks infiltrate poor neighborhoods undercover, see what it's like to live as the other half, and at the end give out at least $100,000. Well isn't that nice! Charity is on an upswing. Oprah's Big Give, American Idol Gives Back, and even that new MTV show Exiled (where some brats from My Super Sweet 16 travel to impoverished places and learn life lessons), are all about "selflessly" doing penance for one's own privilege. What's going on here? Why are these types of shows suddenly so ubiquitous?