I admit it, I watched a marathon of that toddlers and tiara’s break out star Alana, honey boo boo child, and her family.
Much more likeable than the Kardashians, funnier than snooki on vodka, the Thompson family made me laugh, and oh lord, the euphemisms, smexy, forklift foot and biscuit (!)…crazy, gross, funny and…wait for it…normal?!. family exchanges were a little rude, but they obviously love each other and get along well.
Don’t know how long they can milk it but now with a the three thumbed grandbaby in the house, the show’s gotta have some legs.
I had heard about the show from coworkers, but hadn’t watched it myself until I recently was visiting someone and caught an episode. It was the forklift foot episode.
It is laughable. They are complete rednecks, joining the other laughable redneck reality shows I ignore.
Still, I was surprised to find myself jealous of how Honey Boo Boo’s family all seem to be so comfortable in their own skin. In the episode I saw, the family was weighing in, and Mom was happy to weigh 300+ pounds. Then to celebrate the fact that one of them lost a pound or two, and to make the family feel better after returning their pig, they went to a water park. So there is obese mom with a gross foot she keeps under socks at all times, happily sporting around a water park. No embarrassment, not a you-go-ahead-I’ll watch-from-under-this-blanket standing by. Just mom putting her butt in an inner tube. I wish I could be so free from self-awareness.
I was born in Georgia, so I can understand what the family says without needing the subtitles.
But… I can certainly understand why many people would need the subtitles, that family has a very strong Southern accent.
And if anyone would like to actually re-edit the Sarah McLachlan abused dog commercial with a “Yakety Sax” soundtrack, I would forever be your best friend.
Seeing the ads for this during the Hensel twins show, I thought it had been invented for torturing people at Guantanamo. No way would I watch it short of being strapped down like Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
Bat shit crazy, but insane? No! In the episode at the watering hole where there is a big sign warning about high levels off flesh eating bacteria in the water, does June let her kids go swimming even though it’s 109 degree? She does not, stands firm and no one goes in. But they do taunt and tease the regular folk goofing off in the water.
And they really do live in that house that is arm’s length from the RR track!
The teenage mom just turned 18 according to People mag, June was 15 yo when she had her first kid…