# Throwing Up Gotti **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507 "2005-01-13T04:50:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonzo_John_Blitz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/1 "2005-01-13T04:50:23Z")
Have to admit, never watched the show. So fuck me sideways, but the whole notion of these knuckle-dragging, ba-da-binging, mouth-breathing, shitheads having a show of their own makes me wanna puke. Fuck them! Fuck the network who thought they were a story. Your dad’s in prison? Fuck him too. Fuck the whole gangster thing. Fuck your love of _things_. Fuck your bling blings. Fuck you. That’s seven ‘fucks’. Let’s make it eight - fuck the viewers who watch this shit. Best regards, Alonzo John Blitz ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/2 "2005-01-13T05:27:43Z")
That’s nine. You missed one. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/3 "2005-01-13T05:48:14Z")
Fuck it, let’s make it an even fucking dozen. Is this show supposed to be actual Gotti members? I thought it was a dramatization. What the fuck ever.\* - OK, OK. A baker’s dozen 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/4 "2005-01-13T06:03:39Z")
No dramatization, as far as I know. The show revolves around Gotti’s daughter and three grandsons. No put-ons by my knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/5 "2005-01-13T07:39:31Z")
Never watched it, but wasn’t there a thread on this subject not long ago with this exact same title? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/6 "2005-01-13T08:25:24Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > No dramatization, as far as I know. The show revolves around Gotti’s daughter and three grandsons. No put-ons by my knowledge. Yeah, I’ve watched the show out of morbid curiosity. It’s about Victoria Gotti, (daughter of John Gotti, deceased) who is a successful journalist believe it or not. Her kids are complete and utter brats and thugs, though. She doesn’t see it either. She’s a divorced mother, who got a hefty divorce settlement, raising 3 sons who are spoiled rotten, and used to having anything they want. She wasn’t raised that way, but that’s how her boys have turned out. Or, at least that’s how the camera portrays them. Giving some benefit of the doubt, since there is heavy editing after all. Though I do believe they (her sons) recently had some fairly serious criminal charges pressed against them. I find myself watching snippets of it boggling from time to time if I’m late night channel surfing. It’s on A&E, and it re-airs late nights. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/7 "2005-01-13T08:31:33Z")
[Here](http://www.aetv.com/growingupgotti/) is A&E’s site about the show, you can see clips of it there. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/8 "2005-01-13T10:54:29Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > She’s a divorced mother, who got a hefty divorce settlement, . Yeah. How’d you like to be the lawyer representing her husband??? ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/9 "2005-01-13T13:52:44Z")
I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to catch the show now and then. It amazes me how ignorant and ill-bred they all come across, especially the boys. On the website linked above, it mentions how they’re all honor students, or something to that effect, however, I have to wonder if it’s because they’ve actually earned the grades, or if it’s easier for the school system to slap an A on their transcript than it is to deal with In-Your-Face-Victoria. My daughter says they’re poor white trash with money. Apparently money cannot buy class afterall. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/10 "2005-01-13T13:53:55Z")
And, by the way, where in the world is the boy’s father? He’s never been mentioned as far as I know. Can you imagine being their father, and watching the show, and seeing some of the stuff that’s shown? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/11 "2005-01-13T16:05:39Z")
Do you KNOW who Victoria Gotti’s father is? You people are all dead. I would just like to state for the record, that I love this show and the whole Gotti family and I think that it is beginning a fine tradition of rehabilitating the image of a proud family that has been brought into disrepute by anti-Italian-American mudslinging and overzealous prosecutors with similar ethnic prejudices. I love this show and all associated with it. You know who doesn’t? My ex-girlfriend. She hates it. I believe I heard her say, “Fuck the Gottis and fuck this show, fuckity-fuckity-fuck.” Oh, and her address is… **[deleted]** ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/12 "2005-01-13T16:20:50Z")
The first thing I thought of when I saw a pictorial ad was that somehow the [Icy Hot Stuntaz](http://www.icyhotstunta.com/) got their own show. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/13 "2005-01-13T23:14:43Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Never watched it, but wasn’t there a thread on this subject not long ago with this exact same title? [Throwing up Gotti](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269510&highlight=throwing+gotti) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/14 "2005-01-13T23:25:53Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > The first thing I thought of when I saw a pictorial ad was that somehow the [Icy Hot Stuntaz](http://www.icyhotstunta.com/) got their own show. Bwhahahah, I love those guys. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/15 "2005-01-14T02:04:29Z")
Sigh. I’m actually directly related to these people-blood, in fact. Thank God I’m not like that. John Gotti (before he died- obviously 😃 ) attended my grandfather’s funeral- escorted by two Secret Service agents since he was in prison at the time. My Mom hates Victoria. Apparently, as kids and through adulthood, they NEVER got along. To this day, my Mom calls her “That stupid, spoiled, little bitch.” Let me say, no one in my dark skinned, dark haired, Italian family should have BLEACH BLONDE hair. Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonzo_John_Blitz)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/16 "2005-01-14T02:51:14Z")
I humbly apologize for repeating **Dmark’s** thread title. Kindly regard it as a newbie’s inexperience. I have had a few phone calls … just hang ups … but, upon further consideration, [sub]reads from prepared script[/sub] I feel that ‘Growing Up Gotti’ is probably the pinnacle of television broadcasting, and presents the Gotti family as the wholesome, healthy American family it is. [sub]Alonzo hobbles off on broken legs[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/17 "2005-01-14T03:19:45Z")
> [@Alonzo John Blitz](#): > > I humbly apologize for repeating **Dmark’s** thread title. Kindly regard it as a newbie’s inexperience. > > I have had a few phone calls … just hang ups … but, upon further consideration, [sub]reads from prepared script[/sub] I feel that ‘Growing Up Gotti’ is probably the pinnacle of television broadcasting, and presents the Gotti family as the wholesome, healthy American family it is. > > [sub]Alonzo hobbles off on broken legs[/sub] Hey at least you just avoided joining Hoffa under the Giant’s endzone. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/18 "2005-01-15T01:10:44Z")
> [@phall0106](#): > > And, by the way, where in the world is the boy’s father? He’s never been mentioned as far as I know. Can you imagine being their father, and watching the show, and seeing some of the stuff that’s shown? Carmine Agnello is his name, and he’s in the can 'till 2008. Read about him here. [http://www.ganglandnews.com/column241.htm](http://www.ganglandnews.com/column241.htm) ---
**Author:** ![SallyCan\_tDance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@SallyCan\_tDance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallyCan_tDance)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwing-up-gotti/284507/19 "2005-01-15T01:16:14Z")
> [@phall0106](#): > > Apparently money cannot buy class afterall. It never could! Now I know where the costume designer on _ **The Sopranos** _ gets their inspiration for Carmela’s outfits and accessories…