Are you one of the fifteen people who watch this show? Do you confuse Egypt with Sukanya? Wonder why the previews are repeated so much before the story is presented? Post here.

I'm 2/15! (As opposed to Seven of Nine, but that's another thread). I HAAAATE this show, because of the maudlin nature of their "interventions" as well as the fact that there's only 20% original footage per episode - that's endless minutes of deja vu, over and over again.

Heh heh heh. Main reason this show caught my eye when I was changing channels was ex-MTV VJ John Sencio.

This show is responsible for one of my many "I'm hellbound" moments. They did a segment with a little girl who was being teased at school. She said that she would come home every afternoon, throw herself on her bed, and cry and cry and cry. Then they showed her, in the most stagey way, rolling on her bed, clutching a stuffed toy, and crying, crying, crying. She also consoled herself by singing, and IIRC, she was shown before her mirror belting out a song into a hairbrush or bottle of something. I felt bad for the poor kid, but that didn't keep me from finding the segment funny.

I have not seen this ep, but I can assume with 99% confidence that she got a makeover. And some cheap-ass new furniture in her bedroom. And if her mother weighed 720 pounds and didn't want to go to her older sister's wedding, I think I've just recapped the entire season.

She did indeed get a makeover. The other kids made fun of her because of her ratty clothes and unkempt hair.



Ha! Did you catch the one with the woman with stained, broken teeth whose husband emotionally abused her? They fixed her teeth, which apparently fixed her marriage as well. I think I'd have left him if I were her.

Yes to all of the above, and I'm not (too) ashamed to admit it. I'm surprised more TWoPpers don't watch this, since there's some prime snarking material. I think it may be canceled, though, because Egypt has returned to the local NY morning show.

My favorite episode? The one with the woman who had a fear of fish. Even the HD "team" didn't believe it, so they brought a goldfish when they came to meet the woman, and the woman absolutely freaked out. The woman knew they brought the fish on purpose, but Sukanya kept denying it.

Close second would be the one where a mother was angry at her daughter because she (the daughter) had a wedding the same time as she (the mother) was going to have it. The mother canceled her own wedding just because her daughter had hers first. "She stole my time! It was MY time! MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME!"


Au contraire: it's endless deja vu in lovely shades of purple, grey, and orange.



Was that the Puerto Rican albino girl?

No, this girl was black. I've seen the episode with the albino girl, though.

After I saw the episode that you speak of shdwrlm, I came to TWoP searching for a thread for this show. That woman with the fish phobia? Was hilarious. Wish I would have recorded it.

I watch the show sometimes, when I'm home, and it makes me laugh most of the time, but I have seen one or two touching stories. Yesterday one was one with a little boy who had no arms or legs, and they took him to do things other kids his age could do and also to meet the Detroit Lions which was very special to him.

Most of it just makes me laugh.

Wow, this show sucks. I mean, it really, really sucks. Yet, it's so unintentionally funny, I have to watch. I also cannot tell Egypt and Sukanya apart.

One of the last shows I remember watching featured this mousy-looking little girl who was afraid of dogs and who, quite honestly, seemed a bit slow. It was hilarious.

The one that was on today featured an old, bug-eyed (think runaway bride) woman who sa-sa-sabotaged, sabotaged, sabotaged her daughter-in-law's wedding because she hated her and thought her to be lower class, lower class, lo-lo-lower class. She just laughed, she just laughed, she just laughed when she ruined her wedding. So, she gave her daughter-in-law a wedding and all is forgiven.

Is it just me or this show just filled with Maury rejects?

I cannot tell which is which when they just show their faces, but Sukanya is a bit thicker than Egypt. I do think Egypt is really, really beautiful as is Sukanya.



Was that it?! I thought the daughter did something a lot worse than that and I caught the last minute of this story. Good lawd, woman...

Heh, I just realized that I said Sukanya did the fish phobia story, but I think it was actually Egypt. Anyone curious what their ethnicities are, though? I believe Sukanya Krishnan is Southeast Asian, but I think Egypt (does she even have a last name?) is black.

I also just found this article:
http://www.abcdlady.com/09-2004/art1.html

Funniest part: Despite reality TV aspects, Krishnan notes, “it’s not contrived in any way.”

Yeah, sure.



Yup, that's all the daughter did. The way the mother was acting, you would've thought that the daughter stole her fiance or something. The worst part was that Stephanie didn't try to knock some sense into the mother.

I got sucked into one last night that really was quite nice. A little girl had lost her older brother to some disease, lost all of her own hair (I missed why), and was terrified that she was going to die just like him, and unhappy because other kids made fun of her. She got an expensive hairpiece, a shopping spree, and a party. At the party she had two friends her own age, one of whom was crying for her, she was so happy. It was sweet. And the mom seemed like a good woman. I ran away from the TV before the next segment because it looked like typical HD trash.

I've been waiting a whole year for someone to start a thread on this show! I wanted to, but I wasn't sure what kind of show it was considered (talk show or candid reality or what)

Ok, so I watch this show every day at lunch. Do they ever show new episodes? All I ever catch are reruns. And I always have to miss the last 15 minutes, because I have to leave to go back to work. :-(

The originalshow thread is actually in How-To, but no one has seen it since September.

This show is entirely too repetitive. They take 8 minute segments and stretch them out to 22. They don't even take enough footage.

I think they stopped production a few months ago.

Well, now what will I watch on my lunch breaks? I guess I'll have to switch over to Divorce Court. Damnit.

Oh, I HATE it when they do a "Coming Up" and show footage that they literally just showed right before the "Coming Up!" And then when they come back from the break they show the same exact footage AGAIN.

And the way they do the reenactments is at once cruel and hilarious. How the hell did they get the overweight little girl's own sisters to reenact how they tease her? Oh, and then there's the time they reenacted the time a little girl burned herself and lost an eye when she accidentally tipped over a pan of hot butter.

I just realized that the exec producer for HD is the one and only Amy Rosenblum of "Maury" fame. Funniest thing I saw yesterday was when Sukanya and/or Egypt was doing a DNA test and said, very Maury-like, "You are the father."

Whoa! Did anyone catch the show today about the grandma that dresses "sexy" and how embarrassed her family is about it. This grandma looks anything but sexy. She looks absolutely RIDICULOUS. Wearing what she calls "booty shorts" and little bras for tops and saying she has been dressing this way since she was 12 and she will dress this way until she is 90 probably. Her daughter and son and grandchildren are so embarrassed they can't stand it. What women need to realize is that trying to stay young looking doesn't mean you keep the look you had when you were 18 when you are now 30, 40, 50, 60 or older. It makes you look ridiculous and aged and sad. Women can still be attractive and sexy no matter what their age is but they have to adjust their appearance as time goes on and not try to dress exactly like girls in their teens and 20's. It doesn't work anymore.