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I love VIP! That show is so powerful... & Pam is hot! lol

I love when other posters take television so seriously- it gives me something to write about. These people that can't find any humor in a show like V.I.P. are probably the same people who have the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Larry King Live on their DVRS. The show was funny to me, but I had ulterior motives for watching the show. I watched for the scenes with Nikki. Or for a quick peek at the lovely Kay. But definitely for the two minutes of screen time for the gorgeous Angelle Brooks. Hot women + occasional comedy? V.I.P. created the mold. Of the spy/ detective comedic variety, Moonlighting will always be king for me. But if you want to see an example of how V.I.P. should have been done, go out and pick up the first season of She Spies. Out.

This is ultimately the worst excuse for a television show ever. The people involved in it's writing and production have wasted their lives and are the TV equivalent of pirate hookers.

I think VIP jts day one just because of its premise. I liked Quick, the hot italian chick, and the nerdy chick. I couldn't stand Valerie and the tall redhead chick. She tried too hard to be butch. I still don't know what happend to their previous boss. Somebody please fill me in. It doesn't make since that professional bodyguards would let Valerie tag along or own the company. Valerie never did anything so why would they name the company after her? The show seemed more about the ensemble than the star.

V.I.P. was a guilty pleasure (like Saved By The Bell). Although i'll admit I watched it for the eye candy more than anything else.

The show jumped the shark when people finally realized how untalented Pamela really was.

I loved this show and I even own the first season DVD boxset - what can I say? VIP was such a great show because it was just so over-the-top, campy and damn funny - and it wasn't trying to be anything else. It was perfect late night entertainment and highlighted Pamela's funny side.

My favourite episode is when Pamela is fighting her evil twin. Pammy pushes the evil twin into an electric fence and then sparks appear and her twin's hair turns into an afro - it was so fake and badly acted yet that is what made it good.

I recommened anyone who enjoyed this show purchase the DVD boxset.

This NEVER "jumped ths shark" as it was never intended to be anything more than a live cartoon. Funny...reading all of these postings. Just WHY is Ms. Anderson being singled out as the "hottie" on this show? She is probably the LEAST attractive, or sexy woman on this series. (even when you ignore her personality). What about Leah Lail? Isn't there anyone here who appreciates the fact that sensuality, eroticism, and sexiness are things that exist in the mind...and therefore "geeky, nerdy, INTELLIGENT Kay" is HOT?! And just why is Shaun Baker considererd a "hunk"? He is basically a thespian-skill-deficient, "Mini Me" version of the excellent Omar Epps. And Dustin Nguyen? Well...I guess when his acting career is over...he can retire to Japan and become a geisha...seeing as he is as effeminate as one. One question: why does everyone refer to Angelle Brook's "Maxine De La Cruz" as the "black girl". Is she African-American? Or is she Hispanic? (Remember...skin color is NOT what determines one's race/ethnicity.)

Pam Anderson is a bad actress. However, I just watch because of the exciting missions and cool metal music. Given a choice between Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and V.I.P. I will take V.I.P. At least this show is different.

I might be educated and into artsy-fartsy films, but this show was a campy, guilty pleasure that never took itself seriously. I especially like the intro with the narrator: "The beautiful and lethal Valery Irons - plucked from obscurity to head an elite Hollywood bodyguard agency. THEY know how to get things done.....eventually." And then it shows Pam with a hair dryer. GREAT STUFF! My favourite episode was the one guest starring Tommy Lee as some sort of gun-running terrorist. I loved the discourse between him and Val when she stumbled across his secret terrorist camp in the woods. Val (HOLDING A PISTOL): "Freeze! Or you're swiss cheese, mister!" Tommy (wielding a machine gun): "Size does matter!" Val (dropping the pistol and picking up a rocket launcher): "Well, you're coming up short!"

Awful,truly abysmal.The queen of HEP-C is an annoying airhead and ain't nearly as hot as she was in 1992 or`95(when her breasts,while fake,were not inflated to the ridiculous state they're in now)The show was horrible and did not deserve a second season.It was the nadir of Pam's career...until Striperella.That nursery-ryhme writing hack -PAUL MCCARTNEY-had a cameo.And Motley Crue's drummer's second wife always found a way to push her PETA-vegan agenda.Funny,ya know from the tapes I've seen-SHE EATS MEAT.

Okay, I agree that nobody watched this show for the plotlines. One thing this show had going for it was that the cast didn't really change much at all during it's run, (Johnny and Val's friend were on the show from day one but didn't become permanent cast members until the second season.) What is even scarier is that you can't even pin hair care on anyone as nobody's look really changed at all. In fact if you ignore the intro sequence at the beginning you wouldn't know what season you were watching half the time. However, all good things must come to a Shark and V.I.P. was no exception. The first jump was the fact that Pamela just couldn't accept that she wasn't aging very well. Over time it became obvious that looks wise she had become the weak link on the show yet she was still the one every man fawned over on the show. She still had the most screen time despite being the single most pointless character on the show from the get go and so on. (Every episode title had Val in it somewhere as well and that got old, FAST.) Another jump was when you realized that Nikki, (the real hottie on the show,) the bombs expert NEVER successfully defused a bomb on the show. (She always threw it in the water or narrowly escaped getting blown up but never actually defused a bomb.) Another almost jump was the on again/off again thing between Nikki and Johnny. It was never properly addressed at anytime during the series but always teased. Hence it always looked contrived and unbelievable. I don't count this as a total jump because had they committed the 'they did it' sin with those two we would have been subjected to Angel/Buffy crap from that point on and that would have been a massive jump in itself. Another mini-jump was Kay's hair got nerdier and nerdier with each passing episode. The final and fatal jump though was the episode where Val and Johnny took on the "Knights of Chaos". In that one Val and Johnny infiltrate a biker gang that like like it's the dark ages and their leader speaks in Shakespearian phrases all the time and they joust and use midlevel weapons for fun. This one crossed the line from escapism to just plain stupid and it became unwatchable from that point on. That said, this show has always been a great guilty pleasure and the closest this generation is ever going to get to Charlie's Angels. (The movies don't count because they were a joke.)

This show is GENIUS. The secret I think is the fact that, apart from Pammy, and maybe the secretary/computer geek, they all play it so straight that it takes you a while to work out that it's satire. It's one of the funniest shows on at the moment and I'd watch it just to laugh at Pam's costumes - I think her silicon boobs are hideous but you have to have brains to play a bimbo of the Valerie Irons variety.

This is a weird show, for many reasons, including the fact that it seldom has a script, direction, or acting -- but also because it has only two real stars: Pamela Anderson's heaving, silicon implanted breasts. The show also has the two weirdest men on action tv--two weird looking, ultra-short guys who are supposed to be studs but instead are dorks. The producers could at least have cast men who were bigger than the aforementioned breasts.

The show is just plain awful. I thought I might watch it because it's obviously meant to be a campy dumbass show, but I was expecting sort of a satire of campy dumbass shows...this just goes way over the line (that, or it's satire is so sophisticated that it went way over my head). Still, boobs are boobs. But I just can't sit and watch a show in which they portray some of these women smarter than they could ever possibly be. Operating a helicopter, "hacking" into computers, quantum physics?! Oh come on, they'll be lucky if they can spell out their entire names right. But what really pushed me over the edge is the fast motion. God, I hate fast motion. I recall one scene in which one of the skanks was going to jump off her gyrocopter onto a moving truck, but of course the truck and gyrocopter were in reality moving about a mile an hour, and the fast motion just looked ridiculous. Satire or not, that was just plain dumb. This show is an insult to everyone's intelligence.