# Honey boo boo child **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105 "2012-09-08T17:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/1 "2012-09-08T17:54:44Z")
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. sshhhh! it’s a wig 😉 ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/2 "2012-09-08T17:56:20Z")
I thought this thing was a joke, shocked to find out it is a real show! ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/3 "2012-09-08T18:02:18Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I thought this thing was a joke, shocked to find out it is a real show! Wait, Honey Boo Boo shocked _you_? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/4 "2012-09-08T18:04:51Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Wait, Honey Boo Boo shocked _you_? I thought the title was too stupid to be real, sounded like a parody. Turns out there is no difference in reality TV. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/5 "2012-09-08T20:17:25Z")
Today’s [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) includes [4 Ways Honey Boo Boo Redeemed Reality TV](http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-honey-boo-boo-redeemed-reality-tv_p2/). Thought y’all would want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Gabing\_Gaboing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b38774/32.png) [@Gabing\_Gaboing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabing_Gaboing)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/6 "2012-09-08T20:23:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/7 "2012-09-08T20:24:43Z")
Isn’t it cancelled? ---
**Author:** ![simple\_homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@simple\_homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simple_homer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/8 "2012-09-08T20:32:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/9 "2012-09-08T21:40:08Z")
You know, I try to keep track of popular culture… but sometimes, I just say “fuck it” and wait for things to blow over. This is one of those times. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/10 "2012-09-08T22:03:38Z")
I… After reading the cracked article and this thread I feel the need to seek out and watch this show. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/11 "2012-09-09T00:20:10Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Isn’t it cancelled? I thought it was popular. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/12 "2012-09-09T00:24:46Z")
Best line from the article is the last one: > [@](#): > > It’s a Sarah McLachlan abused dog commercial with a “Yakety Sax” soundtrack. You should watch it. You’ll never see anything more stunning on TV ever. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/13 "2012-09-09T01:58:47Z")
Fuck, now I have to watch this show. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/14 "2012-09-09T02:56:42Z")
Never heard about this until now. I am 99.9% sure that lady is Kevin from the office wearing a wig. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/15 "2012-09-09T03:10:46Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Isn’t it cancelled? Well, the show tied Clinton’s DNC speech in the ratings, so I’m going to say, “No.” ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/16 "2012-09-09T03:42:58Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I thought this thing was a joke, shocked to find out it is a real show! 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_. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/17 "2012-09-09T13:41:05Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/18 "2012-09-09T17:48:34Z")
> [@Shamozzle](#): > > Well, the show tied Clinton’s DNC speech in the ratings, so I’m going to say, “No.” False. 2.4 million people watched Honey Boo Boo. More than 20 million watched Bill Clinton. The closest Honey Boo Boo came to “beating” Clinton’s speech was on CNN, [where viewership numbers were basically tied.](http://www.inquisitr.com/323801/honey-boo-boo-show-equals-tv-ratings-for-bill-clintons-dnc-speech/) ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/19 "2012-09-09T20:18:28Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > False. > > 2.4 million people watched Honey Boo Boo. More than 20 million watched Bill Clinton. > > The closest Honey Boo Boo came to “beating” Clinton’s speech was on CNN, [where viewership numbers were basically tied.](http://www.inquisitr.com/323801/honey-boo-boo-show-equals-tv-ratings-for-bill-clintons-dnc-speech/) Ah. That’s what I read then. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105/20 "2012-09-09T20:39:59Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > False. > > 2.4 million people watched Honey Boo Boo. More than 20 million watched Bill Clinton. > > The closest Honey Boo Boo came to “beating” Clinton’s speech was on CNN, [where viewership numbers were basically tied.](http://www.inquisitr.com/323801/honey-boo-boo-show-equals-tv-ratings-for-bill-clintons-dnc-speech/) It was the RNC it beat in ratings. [http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/honey-boo-boo-beat-the-first-night-of-rnc/?iref=allsearch](http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/honey-boo-boo-beat-the-first-night-of-rnc/?iref=allsearch) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-boo-boo-child/634105.md?page=2)