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30 Years Later, Stars Remember the Horny Lunacy of MTV's 'Singled Out'
On the 30th anniversary of 'Singled Out,' Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra and Chris Hardwick share memories of the outrageous MTV dating show
On Singled Out — which debuted June 5, 1995 — 50 guys and 50 girls angled to be chosen by two lonelyhearts, who made eliminations based on shallow categories (say, “Wealth” or “Legs”) and WTF stunts (one hopeful imitated a cow giving birth! Everett CollectionThe show went way beyond MTV, especially in 1996, when it inspired an episode of Boy Meets World and many a parody: On SNL, Molly Shannon ’s Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher was a picker. Reminiscing for Hardwick brings back the whirlwind: “It all happened so fast and all at once that the show sometimes just feels like this lightning-fast, high-octane, grunge-guitar-power-chord, super-saturated-color blur of a dream I had, and I question whether or not it was even real!”
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