Santana Moss Talks TV Shows

Santana Moss is one of those pop-culture guys, always singing the theme song to some eighties cartoon or repurposing the melody to a current radio hit to suit his own Santana-centric lyrics. It's just the way he is, and not something I ever really discussed with him. Until today, when he was sitting in one of the ice tubs, shouting lines from South Park.

"I'm not a huge fan," Moss said of the Comedy Central show, "but when I broke my jaw in college, they called me Kenny." This was followed by an amusing but pretty much un-transcribe-able imitation of the parka-muffled South Park character. For the sake of completeness, it was something roughly along the lines of : "Mmmmmmmmmmmmm! MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!"

The conversation eventually wound its way to a fairly detailed discussion of reality TV -- and more on that in just a few minutes -- but before then, Moss offered recommendations of a few of his favorite shows, and at least one of them came as a substantial surprise to me.

"I enjoy everything, man. I watch a lot of TV," Moss told me. "My favorite show that comes on on the regular is Dirty Sexy Money. And Gossip Girl! I love Gossip Girl."

Me: "Gossip Girl?"

"Man, I like stuff that's got a real plot to it. If something's very entertaining, I like to watch it."

Me: "But ... but ... Gossip Girl?"

"That's something that I ain't ashamed about," Moss said. "I mean, at the end of the day, I've gotta be in the house at night, so if it's on, I'm tuning in."

Moss was sharing the ice tub with a couple other guys, so I asked if any of them were Gossip Girl fans, to general head-shaking and looks of confusion. "I don't even know what that is," Justin Tryon said.

Moss shook his head. "Man, if they watch it, they'll be glued just like I am. See, I started 'cause my wife was watching it. I'm in the house and we're in the room together, and I don't wanna change the channel to what I want to watch. So I started watching it a little bit, and one show just caught me, and I was waiting to see what happened. So the next week, I was like, 'Hey, did you watch that Gossip Girl last night? What happened?' and she was like, 'Yeah, I TiVOed it for you.' And from then I was always looking forward to it. I never really catch it when it first comes on, but she TiVOs it for me."

So if you want to be prepared to make small talk with Santana Moss, Gossip Girl is your show. New season apparently starts September 14. For my part, I'm unconvinced.



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