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Hosts
Jay Mohr (1992-1993)
John Ales (1993-1994)
DJs
T-Money
Monie Love
Spinderella (Dee Dee Roper)
Announcer
Laurie Allen
Broadcast
Lip Service
Lip Service alt
MTV: 2/22/1992 – 1/3/1993, 5/10/1993 – 12/17/1994
Packager
MTV Networks

Lip Service featured college students lip-syncing to popular songs.

Gameplay[]

Two teams of three members each, representing colleges and universities in the United States, competed in a lip syncing contest to win an appearance in an MTV music video at the end of the season. The game was played in three musical rounds. After each team's performance, they would get scored by a panel of three celebrity judges, on accuracy, body mechanics (later renamed "Sass") and overall performance. In early episodes, a toss-up music video determined who got control of the first song.

The three rounds were as follows:

Round 1: Deadly Medley[]

Each team member took a turn lip syncing to an excerpt from a different song, but none of them knew what song had been assigned to them until their turn came. Teams were scored on a scale of 1-10 by each judge, for a potential maximum score of 30.

Round 2: Flip-Sync[]

Each team was assigned a different song and given its lyrics shortly before the start of this round. As the video of the song was played with the vocal track muted, one team member at a time had to supply the vocals. Again, each judge scored the teams on a scale of 1-10.

Final Round: Scratch Factor[]

Each team took a turn to put on a lip-sync performance of a song that had been previously chosen for them to rehearse and choreograph. As they did so, the show's DJ would try to throw them off by altering the music (scratching, changing the playback speed, running the record backwards, etc.), and the team had to react accordingly. Each judge scored the teams on a scale of 1-20 (later 10-20), for a maximum of 60 points per team.


After each of the first two rounds, the higher-scoring team in that round won a prize. After the third round, the team with the higher overall score won the day's grand prize and advanced in a season-long tournament. If the final scores were tied, a toss-up music video determined the winner.

The grand prize in the tournament was a chance to be featured in an MTV music video.

Music[]

Anton Delano & Peter Balogh

Studio[]

MTI Television City, New York City, NY

Similar Shows[]

Puttin' on the Hits
Puttin' on the Kids
Great Pretenders
Lip Sync Battle

YouTube Link[]

A Full Episode from 1993

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