# The Anna Nicole Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211 "2002-08-03T20:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/1 "2002-08-03T20:29:02Z")
Sunday night at 10 on **E**. Yeah, yeah, I **know** it’s not thought provoking television, and it sure as hell ain’t the **Discovery Channel** (Well, maybe in a _surreal_ kinda way it **could** be.;)), but I just wanted to pass along this little progamming tip as a pubic service. Now I gotta figure out how to program my VCR! 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/2 "2002-08-03T20:54:20Z")
Not only does it look like a moron fest, they kept putting a logo of it in the corner of the screen during Mysteries and Scandals, with a loud kissing noise every few minutes to draw attention. It was quite loud, and was disturbing as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/3 "2002-08-03T21:11:18Z")
If I want to see a fat, disgusting slob of a person, I’ll watch _Roseanne_ reruns. The end of television draws ever closer. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/4 "2002-08-03T21:32:31Z")
If you look at the clips, she looks REALLY wacked out. Is this woman on drugs? It’s not so much that she’s saying idiotic nonsense, it’s the way she says it, in this slow, far out type voice-like she’s stoned. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/5 "2002-08-03T22:06:36Z")
I think **E** is trying to get on **The Osbournes** bandwagon. I have nothing against fat people. As a matter of fact, I **am** a fat people. Whether or not she’s a slob, I have no idea. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/6 "2002-08-03T22:18:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*If you look at the clips, she looks REALLY wacked out. Is this woman on drugs? It’s not so much that she’s saying idiotic nonsense, it’s the way she says it, in this slow, far out type voice-like she’s stoned. \*\* I have to agee. She’s _gotta_ be on something. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/7 "2002-08-03T22:19:36Z")
The promos for this show just highlight what disgusts me about “reality TV”. In another thread I was disgusted by people talking smack about a woman on _Trading Spaces_; it just seems crass and tacky to laugh _at_ real people. I get the feeling that some people think of them as “characters” on a show, and some of these shows probably are fake, but promoting a show with the tagline “it’s not supposed to be funny, it just is” seems mean. She may _be_ an ignorant bimbo, but it seems mean spirited to laugh at her. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/8 "2002-08-03T22:23:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\*I think **E** is trying to get on **The Osbournes** bandwagon. I have nothing against fat people. As a matter of fact, I **am** a fat people. Whether or not she’s a slob, I have no idea. > > Quasi \*\* I have nothing against fat people. I saw the clip of her crawling around on the floor doing who knows what. This has all the makings of a freak show. She can’t possibly think we’re at all interested in her daily life other than to make fun of her. Even she doesn’t know why she’s on this mess. I do agree with the Osbourne bandwagon thing. Isn’t MTV doing the same with Pamela Anderson? ---
**Author:** ![TVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@TVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVS)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/9 "2002-08-04T14:18:06Z")
Kelly Osborne gets a music video? Anna Nicole gets a tv show? This will always be remembered as ‘the summer of the talentless ho’ ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/10 "2002-08-04T14:50:04Z")
She is a bizarre chick! I don’t know if anyone followed the trial for her late husband’s estate, but WOW her testimony was CRAZY! It got covered more here (I live in Houston), but if you saw any of it, you’ll know this chick can just fly into a rant that has nothing to do with the questions. She would start yelling at her son-in-law from the witness stand. There should be no lack of fire works for this show. I think the show’s motto, while somewhat tragic, is appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/11 "2002-08-04T16:39:16Z")
Is it closed captioned? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/12 "2002-08-04T18:16:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*If I want to see a fat, disgusting slob of a person, I’ll watch _Roseanne_ reruns. The end of television draws ever closer. \*\* And this would be bad how? We, as a society, are clearly not lucky enough to see and end to television. ---
**Author:** ![Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook_of_the_North_Shore)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/13 "2002-08-04T18:45:44Z")
I heard her on the Howard Stern show the other day, promoting this show. Howard said it was the greatest show ever made, but considering the source take it with a massive rock of salt. She talked about the way she talks, and sweared up and down its not drugs, its just her normal Texas twang. As for why she’s doing it? She was quite up front that she’s doing it for the money mostly. Since the court case about her late husband is still being litagated, she’s in need of cash, hence the show. She also said that the other reason she’s doing it is she wanted to DO something. Apparently she hasn’t been getting out much the last year or so, and this gave her the chance to do new things. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/14 "2002-08-04T18:50:37Z")
She kinda reminds me of the character **Bette Midler** played onstage when she was just a singer. Only thing is, Bette was **acting** and I think **Anna Nicole** is the genuine article! 😃 This is probably gonna shatter y’all’s image of me, but I have always had a place in my heart (and elsewhere) for a bit of decadence, and I wouldn’t mind a romp with Ms. Smith. 😉 So there! 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/15 "2002-08-04T19:26:58Z")
This show will last two, maybe three episodes before it gets canceled. I have absolute KNOWLEDGE that this show will bomb big time, and I will enjoy every minute of mediocrity tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/16 "2002-08-05T01:30:05Z")
Why are they hyping this so much? She looks stoned, sort of chubby, and her makeup is kind of caked on. Plus her speach is slurred. Is this some kind of sick joke? ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/17 "2002-08-05T01:40:04Z")
This show holds the same morbid fascination for me as driving by a bad car accident and craning to see what happened. Mr. Elf and I have had the TV tuned to **E!** since 8pm watching the E True Hollywood Story, in preparation for the jiggle-fest at 10. And **TVS** , why did you call Kelly Osbourne a talentless ho? From watching the show it didn’t seem like she sleeps around. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/18 "2002-08-05T02:11:33Z")
(5 minutes to the first commercial break? Must be a new record.) She makes Ozzy seem articulate. She makes Tardy (on Greg the Bunny) seem intelligent. She makes crack whores seem sexy. I think I went out with her in the 80’s. Or woke up with her. She is soooo stoned. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/19 "2002-08-05T03:55:50Z")
"She kinda reminds me of the character Bette Midler played onstage when she was just a singer. " The Rose? I LOVE that movie… ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211/20 "2002-08-05T04:28:25Z")
I have seen my share of stoned ladies in my line of work, and there is no way she was sober. I’m at work, but some of the guys who work in the ER with me were watching it inbetween patients, and we all agree that she was out of it. Too bad. Oh well. I’m forced to agree with **Blalron**. It’s not going to last any longer than 2-3 episodes. Made me very uncomfortable to watch her being led around by people and trying to talk to her son on the phone. Quasi [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anna-nicole-show/122211.md?page=2)