But viewers of the first instalment in the show's new series, broadcast in June, had a slightly different experience.
Dave Sirulnick, MTV's executive producer for the event, said the idea was to add unusual moments to keep viewers of the first show coming back.
Viewers of the first productions are unlikely, though, to refrain from bragging to later admirers that the original casts were better.
"Isn't it cool to be that much closer to the viewers of the first and second century?" The findings were made possible using noninvasive spectrometry readings carried out on the arch this month.
They added that if viewers of the first three-hour showing were tallied up with viewers of the hourlong installments that followed during the week, an average of 7.8 million viewers tuned in.
To viewers of the first presidential debate who knew Mitt Romney only from the Republican primary season or Democratic advertising, the man on the stage on Wednesday night must have sounded surprisingly moderate.
Yet the bastions of power the corporate ziggurats of L.A., cliff-high and elephant gray, which viewers of the first film will recall with awe remain in place, unbreached, and the hordes at ground level seethe not with a lust for liberation but with a busy trade in high-tech assistance and lowly sexual favors.
Yet the bastions of power — the corporate ziggurats of L.A., cliff-high and elephant gray, which viewers of the first film will recall with awe — remain in place, unbreached, and the hordes at ground level seethe not with a lust for liberation but with a busy trade in high-tech assistance and lowly sexual favors.
Cloud delivery platform Akamai reports that viewers of the first round of Russia 2018 streamed 65% more data over the Akamai Intelligent Platform than they did during the whole of the Rio World Cup just four years earlier.
It's likely most viewers of the first presidential debate didn't ruminate on the subject, but I felt I had to dig deeper.
