Engaged and Underage

Uh...has anybody caught this latest gem on MTV? I missed the premiere on Monday, but if I know MTV, they will helpfully rerun it about 46 times between now and dinner. We'll just have to make do with the train wreck of a trailer for "Engaged and Underage."

Oh good lord.

When I was 18 I was "pre-engaged" to my high school boyfriend. It's an extremely embarrassing thing to admit now, but you try telling an 18 year old with a spray of tiny diamonds on her left hand and the promise of sex all the time with her high school husband that marriage might not be such a stellar idea. I'm not even sure what pre-engaged means. It sounds like the lawaway program at Wet Seal, where you make occasional $15 payments toward that sparkly floral minidress with the side cutouts. Fortunately, because we were high schoolers, we fought about everything and never made it pass the "pre" part, making our parents just about the happiest folks on the planet. Looks like these parents might not be so lucky.