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.
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??
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.”
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.
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!
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.
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…
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.
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?
