Anyone else watch this?
Wow, what a nutcase. How nice that nutso lady had a change of heart and decided to accept the money after all. I’m sure that was a hard decision for her to make. If I was alloting the money, I’d set aside some so that the teenage daughter could move out when she turned eighteen. I feel so sorry for her and the rest of her family.
Insane. I couldn’t help but chuckle upon learning she had accepted the prize when it turned out to be allotted towards her weight loss surgery.
The $15,000 was for Ashley and (the other daughter) to move out? Were there just two daughters? The second mom daughter and the dancer? (She was a good dancer.) They need to take the littlest one with them. She looked scared to death.
Anyone wanna bet that marriage doesn’t last another year? When dad sees this on TV, he’s gonna take the kids and go. I hope.
What brand of Christianity does Margaret practice? All I saw her do was be afraid.
Margaret looks a bit like Elvis Presley’s mom, just before she died. She can’t be healthy, but maybe those dark circles and the drawn face was due to the strain she was under, from spending a week with what, normal people?
Her family seems not to have been too damaged by her craziness. Yet.
I’m glad I watched, but I wanna go get that littlest girl.
What religion was the fat lady? I only got the last few minutes. Said something about a Catholic church. Was she Catholic? I thought Catholics were fairly averse to flipping out like maniacs.
The little one was Ashley’s daughter. The moving out money was just for those two. Poor Brooke (the teenager) has to stay. Margaret’s family did seem very nice in spite of her behavior though. So maybe it’s not common.
I watched the first part last week, and I was pissed at Fox until I saw this week’s. I really was under the impression that poor Margaret was schizophrenic, and Fox was really scraping the bottom for using a mentally ill person’s delusions as entertainment.
After tonight’s, I don’t know if she so much is schizophrenic. Maybe just weird. Funny how her family looked so shocked when she flipped out at the end. It seems like she acts like this all the time, and is very used to getting her way.
I did have to chuckle when I saw that she changed her mind about the money. She’s like a nightmare parody of some fundamentalists I’ve known. On crack.
My girlfriend and I had a riot watching this episode. We kept adding MST3k-esque lines among all of JesusBlimp’s rants. (my tasteless comments in italics)
“You need to have Jesus/god (can’t remember) inside you”
Lady, from the looks of things, it appears you already consumed far more than your RDA allowance of Jesus/God/etc
I think it was “You need to give God a try.” to which I replied “C’mon, the first hit’s free!”
I missed the part where the other family (the New Agers) prize was revealed; how did Margaret divide up their 50K?
She screwed over the new ager’s daughter- only gave her $1800 but gave the sons at least twice that much.
God is using me as a tool here…
Well, lady, you certainly are a tool…
That’s exactly what I thought.
And what’s up with Margaret allocating 1800 bucks for New Age Mom to spend on her daughter when the boys got $3000 for dirt bikes? I didn’t see the girl acting any more cooly toward Margaret than the boys.
I loved how each of the kids just looked at her when she asked for a good-bye hug. I wouldn’t want to hug that chaotic nutjob either.
I wish they had shown more interraction between Jeannie and Barry. All we got was his passive disapproval of her profession & lack of a degree in the beginning.
At the Mom meeting, I just wanted to jump through the TV and smack God Warrior when she totally blamed Chris for her harrowing week. Ugh! I’m glad Jeannie saw through that at the reading of Margaret’s letter.
Does anyone think that Margaret’s family or friends (especially her bitchy blond friend) is ashamed of her/their behavior now that the show has aired?
$400 for a new drier (one that makes less noise is mentioned in the letter)
$3000 for one son for a new dirt bike
$3000 for the other son for whatever he wanted
$1800 for the daughter
New bibles for each person in the family, engraved with their names and dates (lots of roll eyes here)
The rest to be used as the family saw fit.
I was surprised to see a mandatory tithe wasn’t in there, or an allowance to make sure a full ham is in the fridge in case Margaret decided to visit again.
Oh, come on now. That’s just mean. Be nice to the cuckoo banana nuts whackjob criminally insane batshit crazy looney toons moron. She’d be tolerant of your lifestyle.
You’re only saying that because you’re dark-sided. I, like, rebuke you in the name of the lord and stuff.
Take his money!
That was easily the best hour of television we’ve seen in a long time. Talk about entertainment. We laughed so hard at that nutter we were both in tears. We had to pause and rewind so many times because we were laughing so hard. Holy crap, that bitch was crazy.
We saved it so we can watch it again tonight.
We could not believe anyone would be married to (and spawn with). . .that.
I’m also torn here. On the one hand that was FANTASTIC television. 
But on the other hand I really think that woman may be in need of psychiatric counseling, or at least a good regularly administered dose of Prozac (or maybe lithium?).
“Yur DORK sided!” :eek:
“I am a WARRIOR!” :eek:
And BTW - I’m Catholic and I can tell you that I don’t know ANYONE that nuts. I watched it with my 8yo daughter, who is in parochial school, and it was interesting to discuss the fact that the seemingly “religious” wife was in fact demonstrating far less of the good old “love your neighbor as you love yourself” credo we teach and aspire to. We had a nice little talk about what really makes you a good person.
It saddened me that she equated “dark-sidedness” with being educated.
“I was being educated!”
She is a witch. She may believe that her incantations are being answered by Jesus, but the King of Peace would not be instructing her like that. She is an open conduit to Satan, fear and ignorance; by allowing herself to be exhibited on that freakshow she has set back the reputations of real Christians by an unmeasurable amount.
I rebuke her hatred and drive out her fear with a grandiose hand gesture…
I can. I’ve seen it. Years ago I was in a hardware store where another customer was every bit as batshit insane. When she left, she got in the car with her husband. And all I could think of was “Wow, poor husband.” In fact, I shared that sentiment with the store clerk, who then went from near tears to almost laughter.