“I’m Pregnant By My Brother” is on right now. If this wasn’t the first show I’ve seen in years, I’d try to make a judgment.
Tell me, what has this evil man been doing with his show?
As far as shock value, I’d say his worst are the bizarre sexual fetish ones…there’s a reason people do that stuff in private normally. Of course, I never saw any furries on those shows, so I was spared the pure and absolute torment of having to see people in anthropomorphic animal costumes humping each other, and for that I thank him.
I also thought the thanksgiving episode where they had the big food fight was just disgusting.
I remeber seeing an episode with a guy named “Il Duce” who was “pro-rape”. At one point, he got into an argument with an audience member who was a rape vicitim saying “You were asking for it.” to which she replied “I was ten years old!”. His retort? “Well you got to start sooner or later.” After the show, a follow up reported “Il Duce” to be hit and killed by a train. This was in 1996 or so and was probably the first and last episode I ever watched in entirety.
Comparing Springer shows is like comparing venereal sores. One is about as bad as another. His show proves that there is nothing so disgusting that some people won’t watch it.
Well, my vote would have to go to the one that was so bad they decided not to air it. When his video came out a few years ago- what was it- “Too shocking for TV” or something like that? They had a book about the show out at the same time.
We declined to buy it, but my SO and I thumbed through it at the bookstore for a laugh.
One of the chapters (unfortunately with pictures) was about a show they did about a man in love with and having an “affair” with a horse. Apparently they brought the horse in and the dude had a makeout session with the horse on stage- needless to say, the audience was not amused by the lipsmacking “couple”…
::shudders::
Anyway, they decided to let that episode go unwatched.
Christmas with the Klan, complete with Klanta Klaus!
The ultimate Springer episode would be- I’m interracially cheating on my Klan lesbian lover.
Remember when Springer’s show actually touched on normalcy way back in the day?
Yeah, I used to be a fan of those shows back in high school, would watch alot of them during summer break. Springer used to have semi-normal shows and make an occasionally insightful “Final Thought.” But then he found the path to real money. Probably for the best. Still, he was far less phony than people like Montel or that Sweater Guy, who just pretend to care about the same stupid pregnant teenagers every day.
I wonder why he even bothered to keep doing the “Final Thought”. When every show is about sexual misbehaviour and cheating spouses, you run out of things to say quickly. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from Springer, it’s that anything other than sane and responsible monogamy is doomed to bring unmanageable and annoying amounts of drama into your life, and/or get ceramic miniatures tossed around your trailer that will be a bitch to clean up.
How much of it is all made up, again?
How many guests were actually on the show that claimed to be knocked up by their brothers?
I’m just amazed that every time I happen to flip by Springer on TV it’s a show about people revealing their true genders to their recent mates. I mean, I’ve heard of being bad at foreplay, but how do you miss the fact that your girlfriend’s got a wang? If that little detail escapes your attention, I think your’e doing it wrong.
RexDart:
Mister Rogers? Boy, just when I thought this world couldn’t get any more cynical…
Oddly, none of the stations in my area carry the program anymore.
Every now and then when I feel the need to boost my self-esteem I turn on this show. I have to wonder where the heck they find these people (besides the trailer park).
I would have to say the one episode that totally blew me away (I don’t know the title) included this lady who had cuts of raw meat strapped to her body. She started peeling off clothes and all you could see was nasty red raw meat. YUCK. I think that show also had a “human taco”. YUCK. If I remember correctly, it may have been some sexual fetish thing. YUCK.
… who is my sister, with a man who used to be a woman.
Mom? Is that you?
Regards,
Shodan
The most tasteless Springer episode? The one with the bad actors performing a script with fake “Southern” white-trash accents and pretending that it was all real and expecting the audience to be stupid enough to believe it.
Well, I once saw a pretty disturbing episode that had a woman (with no teeth, I think “crack whore” would be an apt description") carrying on a sordid affair with her father.
I haven’t bothered to watch theshow since then.
I haven’t seen the show but I want to see the episode with Il Duce! He was the leader of a performance art/ rock band called The Mentors. They were somewhat in the vein of G.G. Allin with more of a sense of humor. Towards the end of his life he was trying to get publicity in any weird/offensive way he could. He claimed that Courtney Love tried to hire him to kill Kurt, too, if I IIRC.
Must have been the same one with the guy wearing fish. The fish clip made it onto the episode of “Whose Line” that Jerry visited.
Which is the most tasteless Springer episode? Isn’t that like asking which ocean is the wettest?