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In 1984, a man named Kurt Jefferis nearly partied to death with Van Halen. Jefferis was the winner of MTV’s “Lost Weekend” contest and his prize was a few days of debauchery on the road with the Eighties metal legends. The promotion was a massive success for MTV, which aired …

On the surface – and “surfacey” is probably what MTV‘s producers were going for – Floribama Shore was marketed as trash TV in the vein of Jersey Shore: attractive millennials getting smashed and smashing things. It’s a winning formula that has worked countless times for the network, going back to …