Mike Judge said in an interview that MTV's old contracts with record labels granted them unlimited use of their music videos, basically for free. And when the station was even more broke than it is now, that was pretty much all they could afford to play. But post-Napster, labels wanted MTV to pay for videos (or…

Anyone else annoyed by the 4:3 presentation of the show? It's in HD, but not widescreen… and the videos & shows they mock have bars on all four sides. Even on my SD channel, it is still pillarboxed and letterboxed. Not sure why they did this (I'm also not sure when I became such an aspect ratio snob).