There goes Honey Boo Hoo

[wesw]

joe! you ve found the missing link! did you see the neandertal neck on that one guy?

[Big RR]

I agree with wes, to each his/her own. I'm sure we all watch crap at one time or another; it just bugs me that the channels they are on are called arts and entertainment, the learning channel, or bravo.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Upon reflection, I'm inclined to agree. The lowest common denominator need brainless rubbish to watch else they might either reproduce or shoot up malls for amusement. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be working - the dumbing down of Amerika continues apace

[wesw]

it seems to me that the watchers of honey boo boo must be people who like to laugh at others and bask in their own "superiority". I don t know anyone who has ever watched more than 2 minutes of the crap.

it would be just as easy to make a show about trashy city people. there were plenty of trashy people around when I lived in Plymouth mass.

[wesw]

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[wesw]

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[Econoline]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tlc-pr ... s-o,37282/

SILVER SPRING, MD—Saying that he didn’t “give two shits” if they had to knock on the door of every trailer and halfway house in the country, TLC producer and programming director Mark Livingston reportedly told his staffers Friday that he expects to see a list of at least 100 fucked-up families on his desk by the end of the workday. “We’re up shit creek right now, so I need each one of you assholes rooting through every gutter in the goddamn Ozarks to find me a household of inbreds, addicts, or fat-as-fuck morons that we can put in primetime,” a visibly aggravated Livingston said to his staff following the cancellation of the network’s popular Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, stressing that the new families had better be “borderline brain-dead” and “messed up as all fuck.” “If they have 20 dipshit kids, that’s great. If they only have one greasy dimwit kid who can barely string a sentence together, that’ll work too. Hell, you get me some snarl-toothed family of backwoods idiots who all call their dad Papa Pig or some shit like that, and I’ll sign them immediately. Just find me some family of sewer people I can throw in front of the goddamn camera, got it?” At press time, Livingston was angrily telling his staffers that they could all find a new job wiping asses at the Disney Channel if they brought him one more suggestion for a morbidly obese teen mother.

Hmmm...I wonder if this family is in the running for that replacement slot...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Sure fire hit....

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo's Gypsy Alligator Eating a Duck

[Big RR]

it seems to me that the watchers of honey boo boo must be people who like to laugh at others and bask in their own "superiority". I don t know anyone who has ever watched more than 2 minutes of the crap.

it would be just as easy to make a show about trashy city people. there were plenty of trashy people around when I lived in Plymouth mass.

You mean like Jersey Shore or any number of MTV series?

[Guinevere]

Bravo still makes 2 good shows: Inside the Actor's Studio (which was on a long hiatus but appears to be back), and Top Chef (which truly showcases and tests up and coming young chefs). The rest of their offerings though, are crap.