AlexDS69
Dec 5, 2004 @ 6:47 pm
I don't know if there is an active Springer board here, so unless it comes up, then this will have to do.
Things that you'll find on a typical Jerry Springer show:
* infidelity of every kind imaginable
* "Whore! Whore! Whore!" (I always crack up every time the audience chants this word)
* audience members flashing themselves in the pursuit of Mardi Gras beads
* panelists who don't have but two teeth in their mouths (collectively)
* fun with sound effects (Ex. "I'm 42 years old!"/"I make $500 a day selling my ass!" (buzzer); "I/he/whoever just got out of jail..." (police siren); fat woman exposes herself (cow mooing))
* the KKK getting their asses whooped
* trannies
* the audience dancing onstage to selections from Jerry Springer's flop country album "Dr. Talk"
* a stripper's pole
Discuss the show here. And take care of yourself and each other. :-)
ChocolateCherry
Dec 5, 2004 @ 7:39 pm
I miss classic Jerry from 1998 and 1999, those were the good years. Back then the fights seemed to come out of nowhere, when people weilded chairs like swords and the audience was allowed to ask questions without being chanted down with "Go to Oprah". I'm mighty sick of the audience flashing and the fat ladies fighting naked and the fact that they don't even wait for the "secret" to stand up and get confrontational. Given this why do I continue to watch on a regular basis?
Maybe because Jerry has a fabulous collection of insta-weave ponytails in that backroom and I like to watch them get ripped out. Also the recycled clothing, has anyone else noticed the recurring maroon see-through shirt from K-Mart?
ETA: Angie, the pole dancer, SUCKS!
ladero
Dec 6, 2004 @ 3:46 am
Once upon a time, I was a serious Springer addict. The show was never of much quality, but it has gone so far down hill that it is now a parody of its former self. Yet like ChocolateCherry, I stil watch, not on a regular basis mind you, but I if I catch it while flipping channels, I can't turn away.
The flashing for Mardi Gras beads is just a new low for attention whore audience members. The people in the Springer audience don't even go for the show anymore. They just want to experience being part of the Jerry Springer audience with its group chants and proclivity for trying to make the most inane comments ever.
Edited because even though it has been quoted, I'm still anal like that.
Sarcastico
Dec 6, 2004 @ 10:24 am
I miss the classic Springer too. On Thanksgiving Friday they showed a classic epi from November 1997: "You'll Never Marry My Brother." And it was one I'd seen before!
I do have an unsubstantiated rumor to share about the show. Tell me if you've heard this or not.
For the past several years, I have heard that interns who have worked at the show say that very often people show up at the show's studios seeking to be on the show. It's almost like a cattle-call audition. Sometimes people show up with friends or family members; sometimes they show up alone. The producers then round up a small group of people, and say things like, "Tara, this is Amber. Amber, this is Tara. Here's the story: you're going to play sisters. Tara, you're sleeping with Amber's boyfriend, Dwayne. Dwayne, meet Tara and Amber."
And then the producers put them onstage and let them ad-lib a segment.
This sounds true because guests who are family members never seem to resemble each other. It would also account for the fact that so many guests are utterly tongue-tied and have that deer-in-the-headlights look when trying to tell their stories, because they're making it up as they go along.
I have heard that whole groups of people will get together and come up with stories and deliberately try to fool the show's staff, and sometimes the staff gets wise and doesn't allow them on, or doesn't show the segment. That's an old story. But this is an entirely new and different situation: the producers are fabricating guests and stories.
The flashing for Mardi Gras beads is just a new low for attention whore audience members. The people in the Springer audience don't even go for the show anymore. They just want to experience being part of the Jerry Springer audience with its group chants and proclivity for trying to may the most inane comments ever.
I also get the feeling that the show's writers are feeding lines to the audience members.
the KKK getting their asses whooped
Where do these talk show find KKK-ers? Any real member of the KKK would never appear on TV unless his identity was disguised.
dr gailey
Dec 6, 2004 @ 12:50 pm
Why the Fuck is this shit still on the air?
zunimedic
Dec 6, 2004 @ 1:50 pm
I agree with dr gailey about this show still being on the air. Not so much WHY it is still on the air...but WHY, WHY, WHY is anyone watching it?!
I am a paramedic, and I cannot tell you how many times we will get a 911 call to a nursing home in the middle of the day and as we roll down the hallways I see Springer on in patients rooms. If this is the main audience Springer has left....that is sad.
QuackAngel
Dec 6, 2004 @ 2:01 pm
Ahhh...I remember Springer. Used to watch it in High school and college cause it would come on at odd hours when i was writing papers. But to share my own 6 degrees of Springer story. Long story short, a girl i knew in High school came into my place of busness about 3 years ago all excited cause her and her boyfriend were going to chicago (where Springer is filmed) for free. Lo and behold during one of those late night term paper writing sessions i happen to her her voice on my TV on SPRINGER! oh the poor girl and her Boyfriend decided to "invite" a friend into their bedroom and in typical springer fashon her boyfriend wanted to leave her for the 300 lb chick. I turned it off then cause frankly it was already TMI.
Elrhino
Dec 6, 2004 @ 3:23 pm
A couple of years ago I was flying to Chicago via Southwest Airlines (damn corporate cutbacks) and had a layover in Nashville. I was sitting in the terminal by my awaiting departure gate trying to read a book, while the Royal Family of White Trashitan sat next to me "a'screamin', a'hollerin, a'fussin and a'feudin". As they noticed that I was becoming agitated, they apologized stating this was the first time a woman identified as "Mam-Maw" had ever been on on an airplane, and they had to get all liquored up for the occasion. I smiled and asked them what they were going to Chicago for.
Ah yes, Jerry Springer appearance, I should have guessed.
It was actually a rather warm and amusing family when they weren't screaming at the top of their lungs. There was a quiet mullet-headed gentleman in a NASCAR shirt sitting between two women. The family told me in detail that the two women were mother and daughter, and they going to fight it out over the man wearing the Achey-Breakey-Big-Mistakey haircut. I commented how casual and non-chalant they were in describing the whole scripted event, the two women didn't seem unfriendly to each other at all, but told me that they had been on the show a couple of times before ... this was old hat by now. Besides, they told me, they weren't really going to fight too hard. The mother was 3 months pregnant with the man's baby, afterall.
During the actual flight the attendant had to get on the intercom and request that passengers not loudly swear while aboard the plane, since there were small children on board. It wasn't just the expletives, but the sexually graphic details of the swears that were especially disconcerning.
I last saw them at the Chicago Airport as they were piling into a limo awaiting them. I stood there and smiled at the driver who was taking pictures of them hanging out of the sun roof.
PorkFat
Dec 7, 2004 @ 12:05 am
I loved this show during its late 90's peak. I have always been a night owl, and Jerry would usually come on twice a day. I would watch the daytime ones with my parents sometimes, and watch the ones that came on late by myself.
I still don't understand how those she-males could fool so many men. I mean, I can tell if a woman is really a man while looking at a T.V. screen half-asleep ( and occasionally with a slight hangover), why couldn't the man sitting right next to her tell? It's all in the neck and shoulders, man! Maybe my eyes are fine tuned to those things since I've been to so many of my uncle's drag shows. But seriously, most woman don't have adam's apples the size of small plums, or 5 o'clock shadows.
About a year and a half ago, I started feeling guilty whenever I watched Jerry Springer. It just isn't fun anymore. Some of the people on there seem truly sad and pathetic. I find it uncomfortable to watch now.
stacim
Dec 28, 2004 @ 1:07 pm
I am so glad somebody finally said something. I find it hard to watch the show because it seems so scripted, and I used to also watch it everytime it came on. You can see the people laughing after they get hit, or setting up an attack-I agree it is very difficult to watch now.
SeeeTeee
Dec 28, 2004 @ 4:35 pm
Hey...since when did they start letting people fight again? I saw a few episodes over the break and it was almost watchable.
ChocolateCherry
Dec 28, 2004 @ 8:30 pm
They only stopped the fights or did quick cuts for a few months about 4 years ago. My problem is with the bell. They play the fight bell and they fight, way to make me believe it's spontaneous, jackholes.
Sarcastico
Dec 29, 2004 @ 8:47 am
True, ChocolateCherry. IIRC, the show was under a lot of scrutiny circa 1997-99 and the producers cut down on the fisticuffs for a while; then they went back to their old ways when no one was paying attention.
Quag
Dec 30, 2004 @ 10:31 am
Unfortunately, I know two people who appeared on several talk shows (Jerry, Ricki, and Geraldo). They swore it was scripted. As soon as they arrived, they were paired up with people they weren't really related to and told to duke it out over some guy they didn't know.
So, yeah, it happens.
EvWill
Dec 31, 2004 @ 1:01 am
There is at least some fabrication for sure on Springer. A number of independent pro wrestlers have confirmed being hired over the years to portray characters on that show.
ChocolateCherry
Jan 13, 2005 @ 3:01 am
My affiliate has been showing oodles of Classic Jerry, the show was so much more enjoyable then. But this thought crossed my mind because of Sarcastico's post; is it possible that the audience isn't allowed to ask questions (gets chanted down with "Go To Oprah") because the guests no longer have a backstory and might screw up the whole show by not remembering their facts?
After reading Sarcastico's post I watch the newer shows with doubt in my mind about these people's authenticity with Classic Jerry I can keep believing in the craziness of it all. Thanks Sarcastico, I needed to move on to a new show, bring on Judge Mathis (and I'm not being sarcastic, I promise)
Sarcastico
Jan 13, 2005 @ 9:38 am
No, thank YOU, Chocolate Cherry!
Even back during the Golden Age of Springer, there were episodes where I knew right off the bat that the guests were faking it. Best example: a pretty young blonde in a slinky black dress comes out as the first guest. She's engaged to be married. She has a secret: she's having a lesbian affair, and she wants to continue it after she gets married. So they bring out the boyfriend, and I nearly fell off the sofa: he could have been a Calvin Klein or Giorgio Armani model. She told him her secret, out comes the girlfriend, and he ran the gamut of emotions from A to B. Obviously, he was an aspiring actor, and now he had an audition tape that he could show to casting directors, agents, whatever. Maybe the two women were aspiring actresses, too. Well, I hope it worked out for them.
discolash
Mar 25, 2005 @ 4:12 pm
Jerry Springer brit alert, and this is one is pretty odd.
21:10
Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes (Entertainment)
Cat Deeley hosts a special in which Nell McAndrew rocks out as Kim Wilde, Jeff Brazier turns into Ali Campbell of UB40, Victoria Bush becomes Mama Cass, Vickie Gates is Maria McKee, and Jerry Springer transforms himself into Elvis.
pinhead
Mar 25, 2005 @ 5:29 pm
Does anybody watch the uncensored/unleashed/just plain old batshit crazy Springer stuff on PPV? Near as I can tell, the story lines are the same, there's just lots more cursing (imagine!) and flesh ( if only it were only boobies....)
Yes, I realize that this would mean actually paying cash dollars to watch this trash, but.....
Just me?
ChocolateCherry
Mar 25, 2005 @ 6:07 pm
My Mom bought one once and it was a waste of 7 dollars. The fights were ok, pretty staged, but fun. The problem was that we weren't as fond of the strippers in whip cream tubs. Then in one segment they played some kind of lame stripping game with the audience.
Too much nudity, not enough violence.
pinhead
Mar 25, 2005 @ 7:27 pm
Too much nudity, not enough violence.
I hear that!! In today's world, one can see Der Boobies everywhere. Me? I want to see some Bitch Slappin' Fun. Wigs aflyin', teeth disappearin', flailing limbs! Bring on the inbreeds!
On a strange note, the last marketing package for a PPV episode came with a feather duster. I have no idea why.
sharina
Mar 26, 2005 @ 7:44 pm
Maybe this is my imagination but I seem to remember that Jerry used to have non-trashy stories and the only episode I remember is this one where he had these kids on that had AIDS. I seem to remember it was a white boy and a black girl and they became friends.
Please tell me I am not crazy in remembering this.
ghetto hood rat
Mar 27, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
I still don't understand how those she-males could fool so many men. I mean, I can tell if a woman is really a man while looking at a T.V. screen half-asleep ( and occasionally with a slight hangover), why couldn't the man sitting right next to her tell? It's all in the neck and shoulders, man! Maybe my eyes are fine tuned to those things since I've been to so many of my uncle's drag shows. But seriously, most woman don't have adam's apples the size of small plums, or 5 o'clock shadows.
I think those guys can tell-they are just in denial about their sexuality (this is predicated on the idea that these guys are real- I know, yeah right. But let's just pretend). They think if they just date a guy that looks like a girl and are the one on top, then they aren't really gay. They are just happily fooling themselves to keep their self-image up.
clarimon
May 7, 2005 @ 2:11 am
Maybe this is my imagination but I seem to remember that Jerry used to have non-trashy stories and the only episode I remember is this one where he had these kids on that had AIDS. I seem to remember it was a white boy and a black girl and they became friends.
Please tell me I am not crazy in remembering this.
Was one of them a teen girl pretending to be a guy? And the girl being heartbroken about it? I remember this episode to be a particularly touching one.
Jerry Springer started out as a serious talk show (with poor ratings). Then one time a fight broke out on a KKK episode and the rest is history!
Remember the guy who cut off his own penis? Was he the real deal, or a fake guest?
I used to watch Jerry Springer years ago, but stopped watching it when they had a guy having sex with his mother. Fake or not, that went too far for me.
mini-mart
May 27, 2005 @ 7:17 pm
Maybe this is my imagination but I seem to remember that Jerry used to have non-trashy stories and the only episode I remember is this one where he had these kids on that had AIDS. I seem to remember it was a white boy and a black girl and they became friends.
Please tell me I am not crazy in remembering this.
I remember this. They must have been around 10 years old and had a pretend wedding promising to be friends forever. It was very sweet; no scandals, no strippers, no fighting, just a lovely moment between two children. I also remember that her favorite singing group surprised them on stage and got the girl to dance.
There was another one where a man and his blind daughter were treated to toys and food for the Holidays.
This show used to make me cry at times, now it's just cringe-inducing.
deejoy
May 28, 2005 @ 5:30 pm
I remember this. They must have been around 10 years old and had a pretend wedding promising to be friends forever. It was very sweet; no scandals, no strippers, no fighting, just a lovely moment between two children. I also remember that her favorite singing group surprised them on stage and got the girl to dance.
Oh yes her name was Hydeia.I have that episode on tape.I loved Naughty by Nature's peformance too.
Roobear
May 29, 2005 @ 10:19 am
My god, I remembered that episode about the black kid & the white kid that has AIDS & they both became friends for life. That was the first & only time that I actually cried while watching Jerry Springer. That was absolutely beautiful.
Whatever happen to them?
I used to really love watching the Jerry Springer Show a long time ago. Now, I don't watch it anymore. Its not fun nor it is funny anymore. I don't need to see women showing their breasts all the time, fat people taking off their clothes, Jerry throwing out beads to the audience, stupid sound effects, & endless chanting. Who is that idiot that always starts these chants? Its like I heard the same voice everytime a chant starts. Its very irritating. Its crap like Jerry that makes me appreciate Ricki, Jenny, Sally, & Maury Povich.
At least Maury still makes me laugh to this day.
Watermelon
May 29, 2005 @ 12:12 pm
The one who starts the chants would be Todd(why do I know that?)
He stands on the side of the stage--at least he used to--and he wears a headset. He's also the one that throws the beads.
Roobear
May 29, 2005 @ 5:30 pm
So that's the idiot who starts those chants. God, he is such a bastard. Why does he that all the time? They need to get rid of him. He sucks. I really don't like that & its one the main reasons why I don't watch Jerry Springer anymore.
jackiecarr
Jun 2, 2005 @ 1:18 pm
I noticed they got rid of the 9 a.m. Springer in the NYC region (UPN 9).
Has anyone seen the "When Jerry Springer Ruled the World" episode on VH1? It's quite entertaining if you're a fan. They start with his political career and show clips from the early show when he was a serious Donahue knockoff interviewing people like Jesse Jackson.
I guess around 1995 the trash and fighting became big.
Steve was a Chicago cop (he retired in 2002 according to IMDB) who would get called to the studio to break up fights, so they kept him on as security. He would do Springer during the day and work his police shift from 4 p.m. - midnight, so people would call for some domestic violence issue or whatever and then be surprised and excited to see him show up at their house. Heh.
nicepebbles
Jul 13, 2005 @ 3:08 pm
Jackiecarr, yeah I have seen When JS Ruled the World. I loved it. It reminded me of the good old days. Before I went to college, I used to watch Jerry when I was home from school. I loved it b/c it was entertaining although it was truly sad that the shit that was going on was entertaining. **hangs head** Then I continued to watch in college between classes. This time I had comrades. We would all gather in the room of one of my dormmates and laugh our asses off. Then we stopped watching b/c they took out the fights and we realized just how fake it was. Before we stopped watching though, another dormmate got the tape of all the stuff they can't show on TV. IIRC, it was kind of a disappointment.
Now I know the show comes on during the day. When I first saw it, I was like "This? Is still on?" I was so sure that it had been cancelled.
Lastly, like last year sometime Mr. Nice and I are driving through Old City Phila on our way to this club. We are stuck in traffic. We are looking out the windows and who do we see? Steve. He was chilling outside some club. It was so random. There were people coming up to him for his autograph and taking pictures. If we could have pullled over and whatnot, trust me we would've been doing the same thing.
KittyK
Aug 16, 2005 @ 10:03 am
Steve lives near me and I see he and his wife at the park a couple times of week. He is a very down to earth pleasant guy who dotes on his daughter. He said that the people on the show are even more nasty in person since "you cannot smell them through the television". He said most guests are happy to be supplied with free smokes.
AlexDS69
Nov 2, 2005 @ 7:39 pm
From what I've heard, they axed Jerry's traditional "Final Thought".
But the whores, the inbreeding, the infidelity, and the Mardi Gras beads continue their prominence on the show.
nicepebbles
Nov 11, 2005 @ 11:49 am
I didn't know that TJSS was still on the air. It comes on at 9am where I'm at. Isn't that a little early for that kind of craziness? The audience is vicious. Man, they've gotten worse. And now they are flashing. EW!
Canadian Tyler
Nov 11, 2005 @ 3:38 pm
Once in a while, this show is a hoot to watch, in small doses. But it gets so repetitive after that. I was channel surfing the other day and Steve was hosting...anyone know what's up with that? Is he JS's successor once he leaves the show?
So Sue Me
Dec 24, 2005 @ 9:53 pm
RE: the upthread question about what happened to Hydeia, the child with AIDS...
She was adopted by a woman who also adopted several other kids with AIDS, all of whom were featured in an episode of Home Makeover. Although ALL the kids are doing great, sadly, the mother has what appears to be terminal CA. Her attitude is wonderfully positive, and even if she dies soon, those kids will have gotten more from her than many of us get from parents who are around for...much too long. But it was proof that life is sooooooo not fair.
Ambrosefolly1
Dec 25, 2005 @ 12:07 am
Maybe this is my imagination but I seem to remember that Jerry used to have non-trashy stories and the only episode I remember is this one where he had these kids on that had AIDS. I seem to remember it was a white boy and a black girl and they became friends.
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Dude, I can tell you the exact episode that TJSS went from non trash to trash.Jerry was doing a show about a woman how had no arms or legs and how she dealt with her (her husband, raising her son) and on the air, her husband told her that he was leaving her. That is the exact moment.
I used to love when the audience members would tell the cheater what a liar/whore that person was and hated it when that changed. I just wanted those people to be told off, it was half the fun.
NJ Kef
Feb 7, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
A DAD, TACOS, AND THE KUNG FU KID!
Joe thinks his girlfriend Patty is screwing his good friend David. Joe became good buddies with David about 8 months ago, envied his ’87 Camaro, and invited David to move in when he found out he was homeless.
Joe: “So I bring this guy into my home and now I find out he’s probably doing something with my girl. That’s not right. And if he thinks I’m gonna turn tail like a little bitch and run, he’s got another thing coming! You know, Jerry I’ve been training for this my whole life. I’ve been training in karate and martial arts since I was like seven or eight years old. This guy doesn’t know it. He thinks I’m a little bitch.”
Joe strips down to blue plaid boxers. His body is soft and undefined. Tattoo on his arm. He performs some clumsy kicks and punches for the audience.
Jerry asks Joe if there was a particular reason he chose those shorts.
Joe: “I’m a colorful guy! This just works with my personality!”
Jerry: “You are Mr. Plaid! Kung Fu Plaid!”
When David comes on stage, he immediately gets in Joe’s face and says, “You’re acting like a little bitch!” Joe shoves David away. David springs back and throws several punches. Joe goes down. David is on top of him with flailing fists.
The security team separates the combatants. David doffs his shirt. His body is better toned and he has several tattoos.
Joe gestures “bring it on.” David springs across the stage. Joe goes down. Again and again. David takes off his pants. Jerry asks David why would he sleep with his friend’s girlfriend. David: “Because he isn’t giving it to her right!” Joe gets his ass kicked and then Patty comes out and gives Joe a tongue-lashing. There’s another skirmish. David nearly loses his drawers and his ass crack gets pixellated.
It broke my HoYay meter.
I totally crack up when they play the national anthem. Love seeing the patriotic whores, pimps, and cuckolds standing at attention with hands over their hearts. You might be a freakazoid screwing your sister’s gay boyfriend, but goddammit, you ARE an American!!!
Edited to add another comment on 2-22-06.
SlinkyKat
Mar 30, 2006 @ 3:15 pm
From what I've heard, they axed Jerry's traditional "Final Thought".
Nay, the vile "Final Thought" (or the "Justification of the Past Hour of Self-Induced Exploitation") is alive & well! I DVR "Jerry" & "Maury" to use as background fodder while I play the Sims (or at least that's how I justify watching such bad TV to myself!). The show is nowhere as much trashy fun as it used to be, but I still watch, hoping against hope that someone will brain their hillbilly Uncle Daddy upside the head with a chair....and no one ever does....*sob*
Frankiesvixen
Mar 30, 2006 @ 3:59 pm
Steve lives near me and I see he and his wife at the park a couple times of week. He is a very down to earth pleasant guy who dotes on his daughter.
I didn't know Steve was married.
I had the biggest crush on Todd....still do, even though I believe he recently got married (sob!).
SlinkyKat
Mar 30, 2006 @ 9:50 pm
Today's 9-10am (CST) topic: "I'm in Love, But Not With You!"
For our first segment, we open on a haggard, rotund, extremely short* man. This is Joseph, the older brother of Jubil. Jubil is equally haggard, but scrawny, with one of those creepy, wispy, flavor-savor mustaches & a little fuzz on the chin. Joseph, meanwhile, sports a full auburn beard, culminating in a billy-goat puff at end of his chin, bringing to mind that weird chain email that goes around each Christmas about "Bubba Claus." Or the main character in the "Leprechaun" movies. He is sleeping with Marci, Jubil's "purty girl" (description courtesy of Joseph). Apparently Joseph's M.O. was to approach a crying Marci, post-fight-with-Jubil, suggesting that she have sex with him (Joseph). Why? It will make her feel better! This rather unique approach is confirmed by Marci, who might be pretty if she weren't so obviously a vapid piece of common trailer-trash.
Little brother Jubil is clearly worked into a rage. He calls Joseph a "pig farming troll." After an initial, "You make me sick," when Marci comes out, the language gets more colloquial: "Why you want stewed meat when you got prime beef?" But the big favorite quote from Jubil to Marci is: "If a tree fell in the forest and no one heard it, you'd still bitch about it."
Marci is sorry and wants Jubil back. After telling her something like, "This is a tough piece of meat to chew on," or words to that effect (my brain's refusing to absorb any more Jubilisms at this point, most likely in self-defense), Jubil takes his trailer-park queen in his arms and all is forgiven. And in horns Jerry, asking Jubil where this band of winners are from. The answer? Tennessee. Cue that horrible country song about talk shows ; the producers and audience scamper onstage for an "impromptu hoedown" (pun most definitely intended).
The end of that segment! Now I must rest my poor mind a bit before journeying on through this episode....
*edited because I didn't look up often enough to notice that this man was only 4 feet tall at best*
Grinnellian99
Apr 23, 2006 @ 2:51 am
The "Best of Soup" showed endless clips tonight, as it is wont to do, of Jerry, and one was beyond disgusting--when the guy who's aroused by vomit actually throws up on his lover in front of everyone. I was on the comp at the time, and whipped my head toward the TV just in time to see the green bilious shit all over them--but did they actually show him *vomiting*?? It was the most disturbing thing I've seen in a very long time.
SlinkyKat
Apr 24, 2006 @ 1:30 pm
I remember the puke-fetish guy! He left his girl for a chick who would let him vomit on her, right? Yeah, I never did see any actual hurling going on, and the green stuff looked like the new generation of Nickelodeon slime.
LadyKenobi
May 8, 2006 @ 12:08 am
I am deeply ashamed to say that this show started in my hometown, Cincinnati. When I was growing up, Springer was best known as a carpetbagging news anchor whose mayorial career was somewhat marred when he paid for a prostitute with a check. (So he's not only a cheating asshole, he's also an idiot.) At the time, IIRC, he was married with an 8-year-old blind daughter.
When the show started, Jenny Jones and Rikki Lake were very popular, and I remember him very explicitly saying, "You won't see the Chippendale dancers." The producers moved the show to Chicago because we horrible Ohio hicks kept making local references, and as we all know, people vomiting on one another for sexual pleasure is OK, but to name-check I-275? That is right out. Then like 8 months later the Chippendales showed up, and then the chairs started flying.
This show was a late-night staple when I was in college. Best Audience Line Ever? Spoken to an extremely obese woman dressed in red: "Hey, when you walk down the street, do people shout 'Hey Kool-Aid'?" Followed by a nice round of "HEY KOOL-AID! HEY KOOL-AID!"
Now he's garbaging up the local airways with a radio show and attempting to get back into politics. I'm guessing Jerry is our punishment for inflicting the '89-'04 Bengals upon the Earth, but otherwise I seriously don't know what we did to deserve his maggoty ass.
SlinkyKat
May 9, 2006 @ 2:41 pm
Did anyone catch the episode last week entitled, "Bizarre Fetishes"? OMG! Tackiness ensues when a man reveals to his wife that she no longer turns him on after losing a lot of weight. Now he pays a very large black woman named Kabani (sp?) to wade in a tub of mashed potatoes and gravy while eating chicken and/or turkey legs. The security guys actually carted the large woman on stage while she wallowed in a kiddie pool of mashed potatoes and gravy, poultry legs in each hand! Scary! It killed my appetite and my sex drive at once.
SnowDog
May 10, 2006 @ 3:05 pm
Caught it? I had the misfortune of eating dinner when it came on. You know what's really bad? I was eating fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
SlinkyKat
May 10, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
SnowDog: Caught it? I had the misfortune of eating dinner when it came on. You know what's really bad? I was eating fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
NOOOO!!! Dear God, how did you
cope?! Were you able to finish eating? And, most importantly, are you OK now?
I caught a glimpse of today's episode when I went home for my lunch break. It was called something like, "Steve, Help Me Stop Prostituting!" Meh....I guess Steve gets a weekly soap-box episode now. What makes the Jerry Springer Show producers think we need that? I want to see gigantic trannies throwing chairs at toothless rednecks, damn it!!!
KittyK
May 10, 2006 @ 4:02 pm
[What makes the Jerry Springer Show producers think we need that? ]
That may be since his wife is one of the producers.
SnowDog
May 11, 2006 @ 12:08 am
I survived, but I'm not going back to Church's anytime soon.
Yeah, I miss the chair throwing. That was the best part. And you knew shit was about to go down when someone took off their shoes.
SlinkyKat
May 12, 2006 @ 8:35 am
Poor Church's. They're losing business and it's all the fault of some guy with a fetish for fat women in pools of side dishes.
Have you noticed that the people on Maury (if you watch that too, like I do) also remove their shoes, but they never physically fight? It's like they're just going through the motions before engaging in more repetitive sceaming.
I sat through Jerry's 2,999th show yesterday, and I am ashamed to admit out of all the clips, the only ones I hadn't seen were the clowns he had on (
very early show - Jerry's hair had no grey at all!) and the fat guy with Jerry's face tattooed on his left butt-cheek. That made me think: I've been watching Jerry Springer since it came on when I was 13. I'll be 28 next month. That means I've been subjecting myself to this show for over half my life. It gave me pause.
KittyK: [What makes the Jerry Springer Show producers think we need that? ]
That may be since his wife is one of the producers.
Whose wife? Steve's, or Jerry's? That would be interesting either way.
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