# Britney carted off to the crazy house. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267 "2008-01-04T14:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/141 "2008-01-06T05:08:01Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] BRITNEY, you’ve locked yourself in a RAGE CAGE! The only one with the key is YOU! [/QUOTE] Ok, that seriously made me LOL. My roommate is looking at me funny. Well played, sir. Well played, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/142 "2008-01-06T05:21:24Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] Ok, that seriously made me LOL. My roommate is looking at me funny. Well played, sir. Well played, indeed! [/QUOTE] Thank you. 😃 That was me doing Homer Simpson doing Dr Phil. Don’t get me started on _shame spirals_. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/143 "2008-01-07T13:18:34Z")
WAITAMINIT! The Dr. Phil stuff isn’t a joke? I thought for sure you guys were riffing on the absurdity of fishbowl living. Only it’s friggin _true_. Mama Spears is going to go on Dr. Phil’s show to help save her poor chile. What an uncaring biotch. Now we know where Brit-Brit got all her parenting skills from. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/144 "2008-01-07T13:35:08Z")
ah, biggirl, just when you thought the wreck couldn’t get any worse… dr phil comes along! yep, yep, no joke, dr phil is very concerned about brit and is going to toss himself into the fray. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/145 "2008-01-07T14:40:35Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] The Dr. Phil stuff isn’t a joke? I thought for sure you guys were riffing on the absurdity of fishbowl living. Only it’s friggin _true_. [/QUOTE] Word is they first tried to get Dr. Gregory House, but it turns out that unlike Dr. Phil, he’s a _completely_ fictional character. A team of the finest celebrity “experts” is being assembled, however. There was a sound bite from one of those counselors from “Intervention” (not the lady or that one guy… you know, the other guy) opining that Britney was in need of some sort of assistance. Suzanne Somers is reporting on the state of Britney’s thighs on the half hour or when news breaks. I watched an “Entertainment Tonight” reporter fall into a trance of religious ecstasy. Forget World War II, forget 9/11: this is the pivotal moment of the modern age. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/146 "2008-01-07T14:40:48Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Dr. Phil is undoubtedly the best doctor for her. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] No, you see. Here’s the problem. You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/147 "2008-01-07T14:47:06Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] No, you see. Here’s the problem. You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do. [/QUOTE] I thought that once he heard Britney might have post partum depression Tom Cruise would offer her some vitamins and auditing. But I guess Tom has enough concerns of his own right now with the unauthorized biography claiming he’s Number 2 in the Scientology hierarchy and Suri was conceived with L. Ron Hubbard sperm. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/148 "2008-01-07T15:22:20Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Dr. Phil McGraw in the North County Times: [North County – San Diego Union-Tribune](http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/01/06/backpage/1_5_0811_49_50.txt) Just a bunch of attention whores, feeding off of each other. [/QUOTE] Honestly, with Brittney’s attention whore needs, a very public treatment done very publicly by a very famous tv personality/psychiatrist (or whatever the hell he is) may be the only way she gets through the first few stages of becoming a healthy person. Her motivation seems to be getting public attention, Dr. Phil can get her public attention while they work on making her healthy. I personally have boundary issues with it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if later Brittney gets healthy enough to have boundary issues with it. And I don’t have any respect for Dr. Phil in that the man apparently doesn’t have boundary issues with it. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/149 "2008-01-07T15:51:44Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] I thought that once he heard Britney might have post partum depression Tom Cruise would offer her some vitamins and auditing. But I guess Tom has enough concerns of his own right now with the unauthorized biography claiming he’s Number 2 in the Scientology hierarchy and Suri was conceived with L. Ron Hubbard sperm. [/QUOTE] come again? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/150 "2008-01-07T16:16:20Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] come again? [/QUOTE] It was on the news last night. Andrew Morton of unauthorized Princess Di bio fame has taken on [Tom Cruise](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22538821/). But I suppose that a crazy topic for another thread. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/151 "2008-01-07T16:46:36Z")
it was a pun. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/152 "2008-01-07T17:22:42Z")
Leave Suri _ALONE_!!! \ ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267/153 "2008-01-07T18:08:19Z")
[QUOTE=Commonsense] Have you BEEN to Iowa? But yes, the kids need to be fostered and she needs to be spayed. And I doubt she’ll live long enough to think about what to do in the future, don’t you? [/QUOTE] Well, any Midwestern town where everyone knows everyone else, perhaps put the boys on a farm away from the H’wood hell. I think we’re going to witness another Anna Nicole out of this poor kid. She got out of the hospital long before the 72 hrs were up, so what does this tell us? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-carted-off-to-the-crazy-house/432267.md?page=7)