Don't question anything about this show as I binge watch this in one sitting.

Surf Girls is a forgotten reality show about 14 girls trying to make it as a big-time professional surfer.

It only lasted for one season back in the Summer of 2003 on MTV and it was promptly forgotten about for a very long time. There never was a season two.

The show itself was largely "lost media" for a very long time until but, a 6-hour VHS marathon session of the show leaked on YouTube just recently and I haven't seen it in 20+ years.

So here we go. Pictures of the girls as usual will be provided and I'll try to do a recap of one episode per day. Let's do this. Sadly, the finale of the show wasn't recorded but, I'll get to that when the time comes.

The actual project will start in the following posts. Pick your favorite and hope for the best that she can win it all.

Episode 1

Each episode I believe is 30 minutes long.

We start the classic show off with a partial recording of Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday" song.



Now that epitomizes 2003 in a nutshell.



We move on to the actual show.



Danielle Beck: My job is to travel around the world and find surfers around the world that want to go pro. MTV has partnered up with us to make one of these 14 girls go pro. These are the 14 girls we chosen.

All the girls will meet up in Australia. And Koalas.



Molli: I competed in surfing competitions before, and I want to show that I can beat the other girls.



Mary: I was always wanted to learn how to surf, because I wanted to be better than the boys.



Katie: I'm from Athens, Georgia (and she has a VERY southern belle accent)




Heidi: I'm from Cocoa Beach.



Heidi: I've been around surfing my entire life. Without surfing I wouldn't even know who I was.



"Gotta Get Thru This" by Daniel Bedingfield blares in the background.

Robyn: I'm financially independent. I could go surfing whenever I wanted since I was 14.



Katie: The only traveling I've ever done outside of the U.S. was to Costa Rica. There's so much for me to learn.



Bonnie: I'm from Glendora, California. We're getting a lot opportunities that other girls won't get.

Now we're finally getting to the first real drama of the season.



Neva: I'm not here to make friends. I'm going there to surf.



Jen: When I was younger, I wished I had competed. I never competed because I thought I was never good enough.

Yeah, that's real insightful, Jen.



Lauren: My name is Laurie (???) and I'm from Surfside, California and you are either going to support me or not.

I've NEVER heard someone named Lauren nickname themselves as Laurie before in my life.



Jenna: I had to compete for waves so much. 'Cuz guys are not going to give me a wave out there because I'm a girl, I have to earn it.

That 'cuz is important to note about. Jenna was called a "farm girl" as she gave Danielle a hug. The host of the show if you already have forgotten about her.



Well, Jenna's probably my favorite so far. You know she's not holding punches.

Jen: We're loading the boards at the airport, and it's became a total escapade.



Mild spoiler alert. That'll probably be the only semi-decent confessional Jen will ever have on this show.



Neva: Just try to make it longer on that side.

Jenna: How much longer though?

Neva: Just keep pulling it.



Jenna: And you know Neva, says some smartass comment about "taking so long or why don't you do it this way?"

Neva: I kind of sense something between our two personalities was a clash.



Jenna: Whatever.

The girls head off to the coast somewhere in Australia for the first surfing competition of the program.

The girls proceed to talk shop about Australian culture.



Bonnie: What's vegemite?

Jen: It's salty. (that really helped a lot Jen.)



Neva: No! It's Kangaroo $H!T!!! Cuz' only Kangaroos eat vegetables right? RIGHT!?!



It gets utterly quiet in the car, as Jen awkwardly giggles in the background.

Neva: I didn't really care about Jenna. She has a need for trying to get the other girls to fit in with her.

Commercial Break (yes, it looks like there is commercials breaks included on these recordings of the show.

No real noteworthy commercials. I'll say something when I have to.

We come back to the show with "Clocks" by Coldplay playing in the background. It REALLY doesn't fit a surfing show at all.

There's a crap ton of licensed songs that play throughout these episodes. That might explain why it's taken so long for someone to get a hand on these episodes.



April: I like longboarding because my mom was a long boarder.



I don't have high hopes for this girl.



Kula: I can't believe I'm here!

Danielle: Kula got hurt during casting but, she toughen it up to make it here.



Aimee: I'm from Hawaii. (and she has a big smile)



Aimee: About a year ago, my dad has cancer and this is something that a lot of girls are dreaming for and this is a once in a lifetime situation.

Vivian: I'm 22 and I live in Hawaii but, I'm from Jersey.



And the song thankfully changes to "My Friends Over You" from New Found Glory.



Vivian: Girls can stab you in the back. You can't trust anyone.

Vivian: I always wanted to drive on the right side of the road.



A temporary house to stay in ala Big Brother.




Robyn: I don't have to work for a few months and not have to worry about money! It feels good!



Her shirt says "If found please return to the nearest beach" Oh that's not it at all.

Bonnie: I never shared rooms with girls before.

Danielle walks into the house and Heidi immediately is the first to give her a hug.



Jenna: You need to tell us right now what's going on, because we're amped.




Danielle: You want to know the deal?

Girls: YEAHH!!!

Danielle: One of you can win it all (more or less)



Jen: Oh my lord. Oh $h!t!

Jen provides nothing of value to that confessional.

Danielle: See you guys tomorrow.

Heidi: I want this so bad.

Not much else going on for the next 2-3 minutes.






Danielle: Our first competition is a workout competition.



I have no idea who this is with her blowing up her face with her cheeks like that. Who even does that? Even as a worry wart?

I think it was Molli?

I'll get around to sharing more of these girls's faces in the future.

Four of these girls are getting eliminated this week. (it's never specified if one episode takes place during just one day, two days, six days, etc.)

Immediate commercial break.



Some scruffy guy promoting that 1,200 people die a day from drugs. The commercial is almost shot entirety in black and white. So vague.



We get a commercial of some hot guy shirtless promoting speed stick deodorant. I don't think that brand exists anymore.




We proceed to get a close-up shot of a man's butt/ass promoting Starburst.




Starburst keeps your butt company. That is a real commercial. Alright.



The next commercial is a "Smoking while pregnant will cause 18,925 miscarriages this year."



With the girl in the car throwing the cigarette away while going outside at the beach with the 5 badly scratched off with a 4 with red paint.

Details, details but hey that's 2003 for you.

Time to get back to the show.

Back to the show.



Heidi looks gorgeous.



Neva: I don't have my sports bra.

Jen: Neither do I.

Neva: Shut up.

Neva: We're going to do physical training. I'm going to enjoy doing this because everyone needs to be pushed. I need to be pushed. Everyone does.

Yeah....



I'm starting to get used to the girls's faces. Bonnie has blonde curly streaks in her hair wearing the black top.



50 push-ups and a 1 mile run around the beach.

I won't mind showing screen caps but, the music is very unfitting for this first episode.



Jen: I've always been the bridesmaid and never the bride.

-100/10 confessional. Please don't quote the great Cirie Fields like that ever again.

Bonnie: This is pretty hard.



Lauren: If I get eliminated, it's just going to prove to myself that I can work that much harder and be good as I can get.

So...you don't mind getting eliminated at all and you're paraphrasing that for the future?





Aimee and Kula get a "relate to each other the most" typical confessional for about a 1 minute.

Robyn: I'm living with 13 other girls and we only have 2 bathrooms.



Vivian is cooking food for the girls.

Vivian: Everyone likes vegetables, right?

And there is a cute little turtle on her shirt.



We get a generic amends prayer circle with the girls inside the house as they eat dinner.



Vivian has cute little pigtails.

Vivian: I only have 3 girlfriends to surf with at home.



Neva looks spaced out and hates everyone.

Neva: If I met these girls under different circumstances, I don't think I want anything to do with them. I'm just on a different level than they are.



Molli: She's put up a wall against herself.

Lauren: Neva's so negative. She needs to learn to get over the deal she's on.



The episode comes to a close when the girls turn the lights off to the house/cabin they are staying in.



End of Episode 1

This is an unprecedented level of autism.

Confessional Count For Episode 1 (it's not going to be perfect, some will be excluded if I find it, too dull to recap about in the photos):

6 - Neva
5 - Molli and Jenna
4 - Robyn, Bonnie, Jen, Lauren and Vivian
3 - Kula and Aimee
2 - Heidi and Katie
1 - Mary and April

The more screen time, the more likely you are to win.

Then again, maybe not.

Where’s the diversity l!?!??

I miss those old MTV shows where they just put a bunch a hot young co-eds together, juiced em up and just watch them go at it.


There was a movie called Blue Crush with Kate Bosworth and Michelle Rodriguez that came out in 2002. It was heavily marketed but ended up being a huge bomb.

You can kinda tell MtV came out with this reality show to ride on the back of that movie’s hype, and it sounds like both bombed.

Preston, pls

Normally I find you odd, but I'm in Antarctica right now and my TV options are quite limited. So I find myself already heavily invested in this "Surf Girls" show thread. I'm rooting for these 2 hotties so far.


I miss these days, you think they'd have a commercial like this anymore trying to prevent baby deaths?

team jenna

A very thourough nostalgia thrad. Why is it tagged NSFW?

wtf is going on lol

which one wood you boink preston?

Vivian, for me. I like Vivian. :)

Episode 2



Danielle recapping basically the last two minutes of the previous episode.



Danielle: This is a competition.



Katie: I've never being in many competitions myself. These people need to take me seriously.

The next 2-3 minutes is just generic banter hyping up the first competition. It's not worth going into extend of discussing any further.



Kula: This is competition day and I have the meanest butterflies in my stomach.

See what I mean?

Danielle is wearing a hot white shirt showing skin, trying to tell everyone to get ready right away.



Molli: All the girls are scared, and I can see in their faces.

Robyn: I'm so excited.

Bonnie: We all have the same goal.



Very crafty transitional scene switch as we focus on Aimee and her sick dad briefly mentioned from Episode 1.



Aimee: I was talking to my dad on the phone, he's not doing well and I want to leave.



Jen: I only did two contests because I never thought I was good enough.

You seriously did not just do the exact same confessional from just one episode ago. God Jen is terrible.

The first surfing competition is finally about to kick off.

Commercial Break

You can win two tickets to be on TRL!



And you can win these two new digital cameras to "relive the memories forever"



And you can be at the 2004 MTV Music Awards! And someone goofed at production as they clearly show a 2003 logo of the event instead. But that's okay!

You can win it all! Visit the website link on your screen!



A commercial for American Wedding is shown.



"The longer the marriage is, the longer you can go without sex."



That movie got a theatrical release? I thought it went straight to DVD at Blockbuster back in the 2003 days.

A Carrot Top commercial is shown. Only in 2003 would he still get screen time.

i like Jen a lot any bikini pics Preston ?

Back to the show.



Danielle: Tell the girls why you are leaving.



Aimee: My dad has lung cancer. I have to go.



Robyn: I wouldn't want to go home if I were in her shoes.



April: This is an awesome opportunity but, she knows she may never see her father again.




Aah. Poor Aimee.

Jen: It's nice that Aimee will still be able to watch us in the competition. And she gets to see a little bit of it.

Shut up Jen.




I think that's Molli in the green bra. She's pretty.

All the girls will be graded on a scale of 1-10.



Jenna: It's the first competition and it is stressful and all the other girls are sizing you up.



Heidi: I want to win really bad.





Jen: The pressure is kind of on you to prove you...you can actually surf.

And you continue to give some of the most monotonous confessionals I've ever seen in a reality show.



First round is Heidi, Jenna, Mary, Jen and Katie.



Mary walks the nose.




Jenna: Mary is going to be my biggest competition.



Heidi bails out badly.



Katie struggles to find a wave, and gets a zero score.



Vivian, Kula, April and Neva are next to try.



Vivian: The tail on my board is broken and I plead Jenna if I could borrow your board.

Vivian I think that gets me DQ'ed and gets a zero as well.



Lauren and Bonnie fail at surfing poorly in the round as well.



April gets a nice wave.

Molli, Kula and Robyn get waves I don't want to bothering recapping.

Neva gets a bad wave.



Neva: I don't see myself being a professional surfer. And I don't really want it. It's something that I don't think of as a goal in my life.

Neva gives a defeatist attitude confessional that I don't feel like recapping so, let's show some of her skin instead.















Danielle doesn't look happy that Neva is practically quitting.

The girls immediately drive back to where they are staying at for the night.



Neva gives a blank ice cold stare at the camera. Bleh.



We immediately cut to Jen breaking down in tears. It comes out of nowhere.




The next 2-3 minutes is basically just Jen crying.

No one gives her a death glare, roll their eyes, get irritated by her, comfort her, nothing.

Heidi: I understand what she's going through.

Danielle: Aimee wants to go home.

Neva: Aimee wants to go home because all of us want to go home.

Shots fired.



Neva: No, Aimee should go home.



Danielle: Neva, every day is a blessing and you should accept being here.

Jenna chimes in and doesn't want any of it.



Jenna: Okay when else are you ever coming to Australia again and surf with other girls? It's what you make it.

Neva: That's what you make it.

Jenna: We are in paradise. Girls would give in to anything to be where we are right now. She can hack it.





Meanwhile back at the girls' house Vivian is the sole person vacuuming, while she is practically wearing nothing.



Danielle tells Aimee and Neva to pack their bags.



Neva: I don't feel like I'm bailing. I just want to be happy.



Lauren: She's being stubborn and selfish. If she had some BALLS she would try to make it past the first round.



Heidi: If she wants to go, then go. That means I won't get cut in her spot.



The girls pray for Aimee as she leaves.

Jenna: I think all the girls really want to be here and stay kaput here.




Heidi: How many more people are going home tomorrow?

Danielle: Two more people.

Commercial Break

The duplicates of the commercials are starting to stack up.

Nothing of significant value to speak of.

The show comes back on.

Daybreak comes. A basic surfing rundown for 10 minutes.



One of the girls proceeds to dance and shake her heinie while wearing a towel on her head.



The most under the radar girl of the season, Mary, then does a headstand while surfing and she crashes into the water.



Mary dives underwater for a very cool waterproof camera shot.

Katie struggles in the water.







Robyn looks good.




Robyn uses a payphone calling her loved ones that she wants to stay and is worried about going home.



Robyn is the most casual laid-back confessional giver ever. Still 10x better than Jen.



Jenna: We're just sitting down, waiting for them to tell us who's going home.



Danielle comes in the house where the girls are at.

Bonnie: I'm scared.

Robyn: WE'RE ALL SCARED!

Danielle then finally is about to tell everyone what 2 girls are going home.

Wrong.

A cliffhanger.



The credits immediately start playing with "Breathe" by Telepopmusik playing in the background.



The episode concludes on a somber note with a memoriam message for Aimee's father.

He dies from cancer while Aimee was away on the show. That got dark. I'm done. I'll see you guys tomorrow for Episode 3.

Confessional Count For Episode 2

7 - Robyn and Jen
5 - Molli and Jenna
4 - Katie, Heidi, Aimee and Vivian
3 - Bonnie, Neva, Mary and Kula
2 - Lauren and April

Neva and Aimee are eliminated.

MTV didn't want to pay for the licensing fees for all the music they played in these episodes and that's why there's no DVD's of this.

Did Aimee leave the show or not? You said she was leaving but also said dad died while she was on the show.

I wonder what Robyn’s last name is, she looks Jewish.

Negged for putting zero effort into your thread.

She left. She was shown getting into a van for 2 seconds and the girls waved her goodbye. This was about as good of screencap I got of her leaving in the episode.

Damn you MTV editing.

I'm not reading this shit.

Do the hottest celeb polls again

Posting Episode 3 on the next page.