Another staple feature of the Springer show is the word disrespect used as a verb.
“you disrespected ma momma”
“well she disrespected me first”
“She never disrespected you until you became a ho”
“Don’t you be disrespectin’ me”
etc
I think one of the most surreal things I ever saw on that show was a conflict between two guys who had been best friends. One of them had been feeling sorry for the other, as said other one wasn’t gettin’ any; so the first started letting the second “borrow” his girlfriend. Predictably, the friendship disintegrated when the second guy became too attatched to the female in question, and didn’t want to give her back. The predictable row ensued, wherein each manly man argued over who could satisfy her better, who she loved more, who she was coming home from the show with, etc.
To settle the dilemma, they finally brought the object of their mutual adoration out to make her choice between them…which, of course, she couldn’t do…being a RealDoll[sup]TM[/sup], and all. There transpired further scuffling, with the two gentlemen fighting for a liplock with the poor thing. Made me feel much better about myself, I can tell you.
There was an article in The Stranger (a weekly paper in Seattle) a couple years ago; the writer claimed to have gone on the show with one of his friends as a lark, and faked the whole thing. It was pretty amusing.
One of the most disgusting episodes I’ve seen involved a 500 pound guy who hadn’t bathed in six months(or was it a year?) because his girlfriend had broken up with him.
When Steve went to see him, the guy was in a trailor with no airconditioning and the temperature must have been a hundred degress. Needless to say, the big guy stank. How Steve managed to get out alive is beyond me.
Another disgusting episode was the man who married his horse. He kept interrupting the interview to engage in long, wet tongue kisses with the steed.
You may not have seen the program, since it was only offered as a Too Hot For TV videotape.
Yes I ordered the tape, in a package with salacious stripper Springer videos. Also the video of death caught on tape, complete with a commuter getting hit by a train. Why do you ask?
Well, I’ve known two people who went on as “guests” and both of them completely made their story up.
Friend X went on with a female friend and her boyfriend. Their story was that chickie was over her boyfriend, had been boffing X, and wanted to tell him off. JS flew out the girl and X for a two night stay, complete with hotel goodies and spending $. Soon-to-be-dumped boyfriend was flown in and out the same day as the taping.
Friend Y went on for a “My boyfriend controls me” storyline, only when they arrived there was apparantly some problems gathering enough “guests” to cover that topic. Friend Y and her boyfriend were asked by the producers if they could talk about being the black sheep of the family instead.
So yeah, it’s pretty much a large amount of crapdoody
bella
They once had this concept-your ex dumped you, what outrageous thing will you do to get them back?
One guy came on, slobby, going bald and what hair he had was unwashed and uncombed, etc. Unwashed clothes-you get the idea.
To get the girl back, what does he do? Buy her big expensive gifts, write bad poetry, compose a song?
Nay.
He eats worms. Live worms. On tv.
He didn’t get her back.