Garrett explains it all

Dear Puff Daddy, please stop.

First off, I'm not going to call you by your nickname because the only way I will remember it is if you have recently contributed something to society, and Mr. Puff, you have not.

For those who are uninformed, anyone who happens to catch MTV after 10:30 p.m. is sure to find the latest episode of Making the Band 4 on any given night. Don't people understand that this has to stop?

During the huge boy band explosion in the late nineties, Lou Pearlman decided it was in his best interest (after turning N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys into pre-teen superstars) to go on national television and show the world how easy it would be to make a boy band better than 98 Degrees.

The show premiered on a prime real estate T.G.I.F. lineup, between such classic TV shows as The Hughleys.

First mistake: never, ever air a show near, or around, D.L.Hughley. I'd rather spend my Friday night online in my basement with black lights and glow sticks watching Battlefield Earth, blowin' up my e-meter, than watch anything involving D.L.Hughley.

After auditioning all across America for the next pop superstars, Pearlman announced his cast...err...his band. O-Town.

Second mistake: casting. There were two members of the band people could care about, Ashley Parker Angel and Jacob Underwood's pet monkey. Rumor has it the monkey was cast in order to grab the lacking Captain Planet demographic.

With his group now in place, the only thing left to do was make some music.

Third mistake: talent. There wasn't any. Besides Parker, and Underwood, everyone else in the band was useless. Imagine N*Sync if it was just five Joey Fatones; then you would have O-Town.

Somehow they were able to muster out two gems; "Liquid Dreams," which despite its overly sexual undertones, was actually about Parker's inevitable quest to find the comfiest waterbed, and the smash high school prom single "All or Nothing."

As cheesy as "All or Nothing" is/was, there may not be a person in the universe who doesn't know the words to that song.

After that though, there was a whole lotta nothing and not much to speak of. The only thing the pretty boys did after the first season was record the theme song to Pikachu's Big Rescue. Vanilla Ice and his V.I.P. just kicked it... and laughed (go Ninja go Ninja GO!).

Making the Band, after four seasons of following the boating dramatics of O-Town, should have ended. Without our ragtag group of hooligan pop musicians, who else could we care about watching?

But NO. Someone who is really greedy decided that it would be a good idea to make a second band with none other than Sean "Puffy" Combs running the show.

Let me ask you something. Besides clear skin and Ma$e, what has Puff Daddy brought us?

Anyways, "Puffy" decided it was in the world's best interests to make a hip-hop super-group, but as the show trudged along, it became common knowledge that this was a horrible idea.

The idea might have been bad, but the comedy was great. It featured such hip-hop heavyweights as Wyclef Jean (and his Spiderman jacket) arguing with newcomer Dylan (Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan) John. Little did anyone know that Jean was on HGH and ready or not, he would have ended his reggae rival's life quicker than ended The Fugee's career.

Puff Daddy's brainchild super-group, Da Band, proved to be an ultimate failure, despite having a music video in which Puffy does what he does best: act like an idiot dancing while the band tries to remain serious. Nice job, Puff.

Yet, after Da Band was disbanded, for some awful reason, the show is still on with another new group, this time made up of all females, Danity Kane.

Nobody knows what their name means.

Danity Kane is a band so terrible that I would rather listen to a Michael Buble cover of the Spin Doctor's "Two Princes."

My biggest question is that even though the show has yet to produce a single superstar, why do people still audition? Maybe I should break down the careers of former Making the Band artists.

The lone benefactor proves to be Ashley Parker Angel, who is now on Broadway, while fellow band mate Jacob Underwood now has reached the same amount of success as a professional hobo. Also reaching slightly less success was Trevor Penick who is the head cashier at a Daytona Beach Dairy Queen.

For Da Band, Chopper a.k.a. Young City now sells his own brand of corn chips. Imagine some gangsta Fritos; while Fred is preparing to release his solo Gospel album "Tru Miami Heat," which is apparently the beloved religious story about Shaquille'O'Neal and Dwayne Wade leading the Heat to their first NBA Championship.

Much like Ashley Parker Angel, MTV refuses to let this show go but it's about time they wised up and finally ended Puffy's reign of terror.