# Sarah Palin's Alaska \[spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759 "2010-11-15T18:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/41 "2010-11-22T18:07:11Z")
Is she a momma grizzly because she grizzles a lot? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/42 "2010-11-22T18:10:14Z")
Didn’t Palin get criticized for getting way [too close to the bears](http://jezebel.com/5691359/sarah-palin-called-out-for-fishing-with-mama-bears)? I’m tempted to start watching, just for the, “Man, politics just got hella surreal” factor. Gotta wonder if stuff like this and the Bristol Palin/Dancing with the Stars scandal will make footnotes in history textbooks years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/43 "2010-11-22T18:42:33Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Didn’t Palin get criticized for getting way [too close to the bears](http://jezebel.com/5691359/sarah-palin-called-out-for-fishing-with-mama-bears)? > > … She wasn’t in any danger, she made sure to put her kid between her and the bear. ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/44 "2010-11-22T19:41:20Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > “Now, watch me and my unwed teen mom daughter club a fish to death with a billy club!” The second show **Sarah Palin’s Alaska** was even better than the first! Great for Alaska, Great for Sarah, Great for TLC, Great for the viewers! Great for America! ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/45 "2010-11-22T19:41:42Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I’m tempted to start watching, just for the, “Man, politics just got hella surreal” factor. This is basically why I watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/46 "2010-11-22T19:49:59Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > Sarah Palin is a very real person, and I cannot think of any other politician who would so fearlessly put themselves out there and say “This is who I am, this is my family, this is where I live.” I find it incredibly refreshing. No, she _used_ to be a very real person. She is now a caricature and an object of ridicule to all but a deluded few. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/47 "2010-11-22T19:52:33Z")
What day/time does it come on, incidentally? Gotta make sure I’ve got enough bizarre reality TV stars for every weekday. Now, Monday and Thursday are Real Housewives (Atlanta and Beverly Hills, respectively), and Tuesdays are for the Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger (or as I like to call her, the female TV version of Howard Stern). I’m pretty sure old Sarah can keep up with the Grammers, Maloofs, and Leakeses… ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/48 "2010-11-22T20:04:53Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What day/time does it come on, incidentally? Gotta make sure I’ve got enough bizarre reality TV stars for every weekday. Now, Monday and Thursday are Real Housewives (Atlanta and Beverly Hills, respectively), and Tuesdays are for the Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger (or as I like to call her, the female TV version of Howard Stern). I’m pretty sure old Sarah can keep up with the Grammers, Maloofs, and Leakeses… Sunday night! Which I do believe is a free night for trash tv, since it appears we’re on the same trash TV schedule :p. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/49 "2010-11-22T20:16:14Z")
Although…I think they did move Real Housewives of Atlanta to Sunday along with a bonus Watch What Happens. Though to be honest, I was never that invested in the Atlanta gals. Real grizzly moms of Wasilla it is! ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/50 "2010-11-22T20:19:03Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > “Now, watch me and my unwed teen mom daughter club a fish to death with a billy club!” hahahaha. I still haven’t theoretically found the show! But I’m working on it. > [@Susanann](#): > > I find it incredibly refreshing. I find proud ignorance refreshing too. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/51 "2010-11-22T20:34:06Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Although…I think they did move Real Housewives of Atlanta to Sunday along with a bonus Watch What Happens. Though to be honest, I was never that invested in the Atlanta gals. Real grizzly moms of Wasilla it is! I liked Atlanta before, but it’s just sort of a hot mess now. Needs moar Dwight. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/52 "2010-11-22T20:40:42Z")
I had it on last night while folding laundry. It was like a train wreck, I couldn’t look away. I can’t stand her folksy vocal affectations, her voice really bugs the crap out of me. Just to remain non-partisan, I find that Obama does this to me also. I have especially noticed it when he pronounces the word “to” or “too”, he says, “tuh”. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/53 "2010-11-22T20:51:41Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Speaking of mama grizzlies, how many times did she say that last night? I’m considering doing a drinking game next week, but I’d be trashed within 5 minutes. I have to say though: I’m tremendously impressed that they found a way to work in _actual mama grizzly bears_. Nice touch, TLC. Torture. Did she actually call herself that? Please know that It’s from the most impartial stance I possess when I say that this the tackiest thing I’ve ever heard. I’d _need_ to be trashed. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/54 "2010-11-22T20:59:22Z")
> [@Walmarticus](#): > > Torture. Did she actually call herself that? > > Please know that It’s from the most impartial stance I possess when I say that this the tackiest thing I’ve ever heard. > > I’d _need_ to be trashed. She srsly says it about a million times in that first episode— less than half of which were in reference to actual bears. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/55 "2010-11-23T18:29:00Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > Originally Posted by Susanann > It also set some kind of record for TLC. The first episode of the eight-part series was the most-watched program launch in TLC’s history, over 5 million viewers. > > How many people could stomach 8 weeks of watching the daily life of the Mitt Romney family? …or 8 weeks of the David Kucinich family? The show’s ratings plummeted in its second week. > **[‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ Ratings Plummet](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/sarah-palins-alaska-ratings-plummet-48403/)** > > After setting a TLC record last week, the second episode of Sarah Palin's reality show plummeted in the ratings. > [@](#): > > Sarah Palin’s Alaska fell 40% on Sunday night to 3 million viewers. > > Not many were in the key adult demo either. Only 885,000 viewers were ages 18-49, dropping 44% from last week. > > In fact, the median age of the show is 57 – that’s 15 years older than TLC’s average. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/56 "2010-11-23T18:42:15Z")
That is pretty understandable - the ones that will hold on are the Tea Party types, and they skew extremely old. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/57 "2010-12-05T22:18:21Z")
Well, it’s official. Kate Gosselin is to appear on the show next week. > **[Sarah Palin Plus Eight Debuts Next Week](https://www.gawker.com/5706631/sarah-palin-plus-eight-debuts-next-week)** > > Reality star Sarah Palin and former governor of Alaska Kate Gosselin will be co-starring on Sarah Palin's Alaska next week. This may be the point at which Palin just gives up, gets a funny nickname and goes full-bore reality TV. Am I the only one who fears that the space time continuum will collapse in on itself when these two massive egos come together? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/58 "2010-12-05T22:33:50Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Well, it’s official. Kate Gosselin is to appear on the show next week. > > [http://gawker.com/5706631/sarah-palin-plus-eight-debuts-next-week](http://gawker.com/5706631/sarah-palin-plus-eight-debuts-next-week) > > Am I the only one who fears that the space time continuum will collapse in on itself when these two massive egos come together? Somebody need to create some reality show where they invite all these sorts of people together. Tell them it’s all the biggest reality show starts in one place and it’ll be huge! Then drop a fucking bomb on them. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759/59 "2010-12-06T05:45:31Z")
For being an “avid hunter” all her life, she really fucking sucks at hunting. How many shot did she miss? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palins-alaska-spoilers/560759.md?page=2)