# Most tasteless Springer episode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878 "2003-05-13T04:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/21 "2003-05-13T19:44:20Z")
What’s funny is that Jerry said in an interview that he didn’t have to look for these idiot trailer trash. They call up, and ask to be on a show that allows them to admit to millions of people what complete losers they are. As for what the most tasteless is, my pick would be one episode I saw while waiting for The Simpsons to come on where these two identical twins admitted to making porn with each other. One of the twins told her boyfriend this. He got pissed, even more so when she asked if he wanted to join them. I still laugh when I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/22 "2003-05-13T20:00:41Z")
**ALL OF THEM.** ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/23 "2003-05-13T20:23:47Z")
Inevitable reference to the current hot National Theatre hit in London - [Jerry Springer: The Opera](http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=3114). ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/24 "2003-05-13T20:48:09Z")
By “sweater guy” I meant Maury Povich. ---
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/25 "2003-05-13T22:01:06Z")
Well for this show to keep up with the “shock value”, as another doper put it, it just gets worse and worse. I used to watch it once in a rare while for some funny entertainment, but now I just think it is rediculous. Also the guest are weird people looking to get some air time at any cost. I would guess that most of the stories and the people are completly fake and they are people that just like attention and think it is funny. I do know that a freind went to see the show and before the show some of the audience members were given index cards with questions on it. So at the very least, the audience questions are fake. IMHO I think that the show is a pathetic showing of what our entertainment as a society has come too, I mean seriosly, what has this world come to?? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/26 "2003-05-13T22:37:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Faerie Nuff \* > \*\*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. \*\* I nearly wet my pants laughing at this! Thank you very much! * * * Never kiss an animal that can lick its own butt. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/27 "2003-05-14T01:39:17Z")
“I’m Pimping My Teenage Sister!” Steve! Steve! Steve! ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/28 "2003-05-14T01:49:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Faerie Nuff \* > \*\*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. \*\* Not to mention, if you haven’t seen your girlfriend’s nethers, and she takes you on the Springer show, it should come as no shock to you that Jenny is really “Johnny.” ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/29 "2003-05-14T02:13:10Z")
I’ll vote for the one in which Jerry ‘got serious’ and sat down one on one with David Duke a few years back. Duke mainly was there to plug his book “My Awakening” (a sort of Mein Kampf for the gun show set). For the same reason, I find Jerry’s “Final Thought” segment more cringe-inducing than any of the cousin-screwing, chair tossings antics that precede it. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/30 "2003-05-14T02:21:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Faerie Nuff \* > \*\*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. \*\* I’m just waiting for an episode where the boyfriend says “Oh, that? I knew all along. It’s no big deal.” Wouldn’t _that_ be a big letdown for the producers! > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Faerie Nuff \*\*\* > As for what the most tasteless is, my pick would be one episode I saw while waiting for The Simpsons to come on where these two identical twins admitted to making porn with each other. One of the twins told her boyfriend this. He got pissed, even more so when she asked if he wanted to join them._\* I know some guys for whom this qould be the worst emotional quandry of their lives. 😛 I don’t have that much respect for Springer myself. I met him once when he came to my University to speak. (The Student Council actually _paid_ for him to do this!) He made his show out to be just a big 'ole joke, a “cartoon,” as he put it. Call me a moralist, but I happen to think the only thing worse than someone who humiliates themselves in public is somebody making money off the humiliation. Springer tries to pretend he’s not involved, it’s all just a big game, nobody gets hurt, he’s not to blame if anyone is, etc. etc. But last time I checked, _he’s_ the one the show is named after, the one standing there with a big microphone, grinning while the crowd chants _his_ name, chuckling all the way to the bank. His false modesty doesn’t fool me. He’s as pathetic as the people he exploits. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/31 "2003-05-14T02:24:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by syncrolecyne \* > \*\*Duke mainly was there to plug his book “My Awakening” (a sort of Mein Kampf for the gun show set). \*\* Better watch those all-encompassing libelous comments, bub. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/32 "2003-05-14T02:25:44Z")
I still can’t believe that Springer was the mayor of friggin Cleveland or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/33 "2003-05-14T02:37:48Z")
The worst episode has probably the one set in the 1970’s and 1980’s in which Jerry kept getting elected to the Cincinnati City Council, including the loving moment when the Dems and Charter (why you, Charter?) Party members on the City Council made him Mayor for two years, and the great moment when Jerry finished 2nd in the Democratic primary for Governor of Ohio… Wait a minute! That sounds too silly! ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/34 "2003-05-14T02:43:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*Better watch those all-encompassing libelous comments, bub. \*\* I am not saying the ‘gun show set’ would support this book, but I meant that this Klansman…ok [cough]former Klansman[/cough]…was trying to peddle himself and his racist book as ‘conservatism’ to a wider right wing audience. See how readily I clarify things when I realize you may be packin’ heat. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/35 "2003-05-14T02:52:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by syncrolecyne \* > \*\*I am not saying the ‘gun show set’ would support this book, but I meant that this Klansman…ok [cough]former Klansman[/cough]…was trying to peddle himself and his racist book as ‘conservatism’ to a wider right wing audience. > > See how readily I clarify things when I realize you may be packin’ heat. \*\* Aaah, precision. The enemy of . . . imprecision. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878/36 "2003-05-14T03:49:30Z")
I saw a few minutes of a Springer show a couple of days ago–the first time I’ve seen it in years. The females on the show kept pulling their shirts up to expose their breasts. Is this a common practice on the show? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-springer-episode/174878.md?page=1)