We don’t give a shit about your wife’s advice, or your son’s advice! And personally, I think HIS advice is BS. Just because he says “That dog don’t hunt” doesn’t make him a good psychologist.
For crying out loud… every time I watch this bozo, he’s hawking his own books, his son’s books, his website, or his freak-a-do Chucky-doll-eyes wife’s advice.
Yes, I vote with my remote. But occasionally, I stumble on this crap and watch. And he is ALWAYS trying to sell something.
I know it doesn’t matter. I know I’m pissing and moaning. But this is the pit. Lay into this snake oil salesman!
Actually, if I hear ONE more person say “Well, according to Dr. Phil, blah blah blah BLAH blach!”.
Guess what? I don’t GIVE a fuck what Dr. Phil says! Stop giving me his advice! You’d think he was the second coming of Christ the way these people talk. “Dr. Phil says…Dr. Phil says…Dr. Phil says…”. Shut UP! Shut the fuck up!
I almost started this rant several months ago. Thanks for starting it for real.
I find it incredible that his diet book is selling. Why yes, I’d love to look like a fat bald prick.
disclaimer: This is only aimed at Dr. Phil, not at anyone else. Bald heads are sexy and I’m a pervy hobbit fancier. But Dr. Phil is icky icky icky.
And who is responsible for foisting this lame-ass dude on the American public? Why, the most admired woman in America-Oprah. People who are taken in by schlockmeisters, and they’re ALL selling some kind of somethin’, deserve to be taken. It’s sad that so many of them, Dr. Phil included, acquire a miasma of respectability, but so much the better for reelin’ 'em in. Why don’t folks see the absolutely transparent bullshit in their spiels? Is it because they all want the quick, but dubious answers they receive from most talking heads, rather than taking control of their lives and figuring it out for themselves? Self-examination is not easy and can be painful, but at least it’s a growth experience. “Give a man a fish…”
I hate Dr. Laura but she really does have a real doctorate, a PhD in physiology. She also is a licensed therapist. I don’t agree with about half of her advice and almost all of her rants but she clearly has the credentials to do what she is doing.
His audience members creep me out. They’re the same types that can be found on “Oprah” or “Emeril LIVE!”. The camera pans out to these people with their large sheep eyes and remind me of a cult. I’ve seen clips of the Heaven Gate cult look less creepier than these audience members.
“I’d advise all of you guys in the audience to take the knives that are strapped underneath your chairs and stab each other!”
After wild applause and cheering. “Sure thing Dr. Phil! My, isn’t he a genius?”
My husband teases me when I watch Dr. Phil–he calls them “mah stooor-reees.” It’s fun, it’s trashy, and I take everything he says with a huge grain of salt (especially when it’s in relation to anything he’s trying to sell).
That being said, he does have the occasional good piece of advice. You just need to wade through all the crap to get to it.
He has some great advice. Sometimes he’s full of shit, but his overall philosophy of life, when applied to people who are fundamentally healthy (vs. seriously screwed up folks, who should be in real therapy) is excellent, because it boils down one thing: take responsibility for your life. Stop whining and blaming and being a victim. And I’m sure we can all agree that this is a good thing.
But he can certainly be grating, and the more popular he becomes, the more true that is.
And I think his wife is creepy and his son needs to get his own life.
pb[JavaMaven1**, care to share an example of a bit of Dr. Phil’s “good advice” that is anything more than simple common sense that anyone who isn’t a member of the brain dead Oprahfied sheeple demographic already knows?
That’s the brilliance of the show! These people don’t have any common sense! They’re complete fucking morons. It wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if these people had any clue, but they don’t, so it is. And then Dr. Phil yells at them—I think he secretly hates all of them–for being stupid and they think they’re cured.
I was watcihng yesterday and it was about kid’s idols. And one woman was freaking out because her 5 year old twins are obsessed with sports and she didn’t understand why–and then the camera pans over to her husband-decked out in a jersey, then they show a clip of their “daily lives” and of couse it’s obvious where the kid’s obsession comes from.
Hee!
My cousin loves Dr. Phil. But what’s even worse is she doesn’t even really understand the advice. (that or he gives alot of contradictory advice I dunno I never watch him) so it’s like this
“Dr. Phil says we should take our lives into our own hands and people should stop whining and being a victim” her
“hmm ok. But you have to admit that some people in the life are truly victimized and we shouldn’t be surprised when they have a harder struggle” Me
“Dr. Phil says who you are now is directly related to things that happened to you when you were a child” her
“So what if you were victimized as a child? You just said people should stop whining? Plus that’s just silly. We’re shaped by genetics, by learning, by growth, and by our current circumstances. I know I continued to change past the point of childhood.” me
“Oh I’m sure if you stopped and thought about it your problems came from childhood.” her
What? So all are problems come from childhood yet people shouldn’t be victims all their lives? Perhaps this is more of a rant about my cousin then the big P man. It just seems like some of the people I’ve met (well just my cousin and her friends) sort of take what they want from him and ignore anything that contradicts what they want to hear. Which says something about him if alot of his fans are like that.