Pirate TV

This short-lived MTV series was about a ship in international waters just off the United States, run by various weird, borderline social personalities, who broadcast bizarre TV shows to the U.S. My favorite characters were the engineers, the Wolfe Brothers, played by real-life brothers Greg and James Wolfe from Albany, NY, who I attended Albany High School with. I remember tuning into the show for the first time and seeing the both of them in their boxers whipping each other with towels, a bizarre and surreal moment to see two former classmates for the first time in years.

Yet, that was many years ago. Indeed, the show is a nearly 20-year old, and just about completely forgotten, relic from MTV's early period. Before MTV surrendered to a deluge of reality shows it made a real attempt at sketch comedy.