Hats off to the parents who refused to allow their kids to be filmed for this soulless program, or to allow the cameras into the REAL real Orange County at Laguna Beach High School.
mendacity | synonyms: arise, artificial, beat, betrayal, bogus, carry, caviling, chicanery, compress, corruption, deceit, deceitful, deceitfulness, deception, deceptive, deceptiveness, delusion, devise, dishonest, dishonesty, dishonorable, dodging, duplicity, elevate, empty, erroneous, exaggeration, fable, fabrication, faithless, fakery, fallacy, false, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, faulty, feigned, fib, fiction, fill, flimflam, forgery, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulent ...
Adj. 1. prodigious-so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;  colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple ; has a colossal nerve ; a prodigious storm ; a stupendous field of grass ;  stupendous demand . Synonyms: colossal, stupendous.