With six little words, one of the most popular television networks was launched in 1981. “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” shouted John Lack, the first Chief Operating Officer of MTV, according to Billboard.

This was nearly 40 years ago, and the once music-video-based network has become nearly unrecognizable. These days, television shows, mainly reality TV, has become MTV’s biggest money-maker. The domino-effect of junk TV began with an experiment to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real, also known as The Real World.

The quick success of that popular show inspired the music network to launch several other reality-based shows, some arguably better than others, and some clearly more real than others. From the obviously fake shows to the surprisingly real ones, every MTV show had something special to offer the world. But which ones were fake and which ones were actually real?

20 FAKE: Pimp My Ride Was All For Entertainment

Pimp My Ride was one of the coolest MTV shows of the 2000s. We got to see totally boring and sometimes run-down vehicles get the ultimate upgrade.

Unfortunately, the show was pretty much all fake. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a lot of the “pimped out” upgrades were removed after the show because they didn’t really work and/or were not safe or legal.

19 REAL: Rob & Big Was A True Story Of Friendship

Rob & Big was that show that none of us knew how much we needed in our lives. It was warm, funny, and actually real.

The show followed around professional skater, Rob Dyrdek and his best friend/bodyguard, Christopher “Big Black” Boykin. Rob & Big showed the duo engaging in some seriously unordinary antics and just having a really good time together.

18 FAKE: Teen Mom Isn’t All Reality

Teen Mom has easily become one of MTV’s most popular shows, and that didn’t happen by coincidence. MTV producers quickly learned what worked with the Teen Mom audience.

Drama sells and drama is what the network puts out, but more often than not, what we see on TV isn’t what actually happened in real life. A lot of it is edited and staged.

17 REAL: The Stunts On Jackass Were Unscripted

Jackass was the show for the wild child in all of us. It was totally insane and unbelievable, at times. But it was always real. The stunts the cast filmed were not staged in the slightest.

According to ScreenRant, over the years, the ridiculous stunts left behind real injuries of broken bones and brutal scars.

16 FAKE: Catfish Basically Catfished Us All

MTV and host, Nev Schulman made the term “catfish” what it is today. We hate to be the ones to lift the veil on this one, but Catfish isn’t what it seems.

According to Vulture, the catfisher is the person who gets cast on the show first, not the person being catfished. So basically, the whole mystery and search for the lying person is all pretend.

15 REAL: True Life Really Showed Real Stories

True Life was a really great documentary-styled show that provided the world with an honest look into people struggling with different life problems.

The show prided itself on documenting the various lifestyles and habits without interfering or falsely creating them. Some of the topics were totally ridiculous, but they weren’t meant to be normal. That would be boring.

14 FAKE: The Hills Was About As Real As Heidi’s Face

After the success of Laguna Beach, the network desperately wanted to keep up the pace. The Hills set out to follow Laguna Beach’s main star, Lauren Conrad during the next stage of her life.

However, after the first season, natural drama was lacking, so the show’s creators started constructing and pushing fake storylines to keep the show running, according to ABC News.

13 REAL: The Real World Stands True To Its Name

MTV’s first reality baby, The Real World is the longest-running program in MTV history, according to the network. It was a social experiment that couldn’t have gone any better.

Putting a group of strangers into a house and letting them live while we watched was simple and genius, and it happens to be one of MTV’s most real shows, too.

12 FAKE: The Osbournes Was Totally Wild And Totally Fake

Putting a camera in front of Ozzy Osbourne is the easiest way to find some entertainment. Adding in the rest of his family only makes things better. The Osbournes featured everyone’s favorite dysfunctional family for four seasons.

According to Independent, while the family is really that whacky, some of the crazier scenes were very much staged by MTV producers, though.

11 REAL: Laguna Beach Followed The Lives Of Real High Schoolers

Laguna Beach was one of MTV’s more popular reality television shows. It followed the lives of a group of elite high schoolers in Orange County.

According to a few of the show’s main cast members, in an interview with E! News, most of the juiciest drama and storylines from the series were 100 percent real and not scripted at all.