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[southernbella]

http://www.wetv.com/...fect/index.html

Kiddie beauty pageants....

[GeoBQn]

From the WEtv website:

Being a beauty queen takes long hours, hard work, and more than a little cash--especially when you're eight years old. Enter the compelling and controversial world of children's beauty pageants as Little Miss Perfect follows two families as they rush to prepare their daughter for competition in a pageant. Every mother-daughter relationship is unique, and each episode takes viewers deep inside the family to explore why they compete in pageants, how the family handles the pressures of competition, and what they do to score a win. Meet costume designers and see them create $2,000 dresses for six-year olds; see a makeup and photo session where contestants are primped and retouched to perfection; watch the parents or coaches rehearse and drill their daughters until the routines are flawless; and travel along with the families as they spend the weekend strutting and posing for the judges. Throughout the pageant, see the judges analyze and argue over who best represents their ideals--and who, in the end, wins the title Little Miss Perfect.

The sneak preview is already making me dry heave. I'm not quite sure what their angle is yet.

[tonkacat]

follows two families

I thought there were about 8 families?

[GeoBQn]

Maybe they mean two families per episode? The first episode shows two girls names. If they were only focusing on the two girls then I don't think they would name every episode after them.

[LadyMarmalade]

Just a reminder that this series starts tonight on WE! Looking forward to seeing Emily and Debbie Tye again...although maybe not on this episode?

[Ceri]

Any fellow canadians out there who know if this is picked up by any stations that we get? (I don't get WEtv)---or is this likely to be available online? This looks CRACK-tastic!

[shibori]

It looks like it's two girls per episode. TiVo shows next week as Jayne and Katelyn.

[Gizmola]

The dad is helping to blow his 9 year old daughter's dress up? That is all kinds of gross. And the brother being JFK to MM? I'm talking some major levels of disgust here.

I am sickened by the moms continually using the word "we." Stop living through your child, you freak.

I hate these moms with the strengths of a thousand suns. I want to bitch slap Ashley's mom.

That first judge looked like a tranny hooker, I swear.

Zachary, you're mom is whacked no matter if she's doing a pageant or not. Her crying over it? So over the top and ridiculous. Way to go in making your daughter feel like a failure.

BTW, for those in the know, I know where the mental mom can pick up a big ole case of Aquanet, eh, Jim Bob?

I wonder about the judges. Who takes this stuff this seriously and how do you get a job as a baby beauty pageant judge? I'd be embarrassed to tell anyone that's my job.

OMG - after the idiot singing I am now going to cut off my ears. That was atrocious. But then he said "these pageants change lives." Yeah, sure. So do herpes but no one would wish that upon someone else. And I would never wish these pageants upon any poor child.

[WhineandCheez]

SINGING??? The host is singing? Only Mr. Tim sings, and you Sir, are no Mr. Tim.

The editors are Masters of Snark--we needed about 20 more shots of the one judge's breast implants, and her tiny dog sitting right on top of her breast implants.

Mrs. Pipkin--you want your daughter to win, don't dye her hair one-color flat platinum blonde so that it looks like a 15 year old did it at home when her parents left the trailer and went out bowling.

Edited by WhineandCheez, Feb 18, 2009 @ 11:06 PM.

[GeoBQn]

The dad is helping to blow his 9 year old daughter's dress up? That is all kinds of gross. And the brother being JFK to MM? I'm talking some major levels of disgust here.

I felt like telling the mom one of my favorite Family Guy quotes: "Hold that thought, because when we get home I am going to tell you everything that is wrong with that statement."

Was this pageant created just for the show? Will the future episodes be about other pageants, or other girls in this pageant?

That host was just a poor man's Tim.

I want to find out about that girl who wore the WOW outfit with the hat that was taller than her body. What was she supposed to be, an Aztec priestess?

[RoadTrip]

That black judge had some major man-hands! The other girl looked plain stupid with that dog, and the bearded judge looked like he was a scientist or history professor.

[Arenal]

Oh my God...it was hard to remember that this wasn't a Christopher Guest movie, but "real" life.

Mrs Pipken is so pathetic; Mrs Ramkissoon mean and so clearly unhappy.

The judges--well, words fail me.

[Big Machine]

The judges--well, words fail me.

The voiceover said that their discussion didn't affect the score, so were they just trashing little girls' appearance for fun or just having some sort of creepy child- pageant-judging-intellectual circlejerk? Just wrong. All of this makes me feel dirty.

[Madmarsha]

Brandijean's mom: "Because I've never been a dancer so I don't know. But I've got music in my soul. I'm a person that loves music."

This is one of my pet peeves, people with no music background (I.E., playing it, singing it, writing it, performing to it) except for listening to it (which is not a skill. Everyone who is not hearing impaired has the ability to listen to music and dance or sing along however badly) who talk about how important music is to them (her statement didn't quite go that far bu she was clearly trying to state a case for her "qualifications"). I come from a family who is known to be "musical" in our community. It's the source of livelihoods and pastimes and interests and family bonding so, therefore, "music" would be considered to be very important to each of us. NEVER has ANY of us felt the need to state out loud how "musical" we are. I've never heard this kind of a statement from someone who has ever taken any kind of musical lesson whatsoever. It just bugs. Clearly, most people have a song or songs that "take" them to a time or memory in their life that's nostalgic to them so that does make music important but that's a pretty universal feeling.

Mrs Ramkissoon mean and so clearly unhappy

Is she the one who said "I guess maybe you would think we're doing something wrong if you have an ugly child"? If I follow the logic, only people who have ugly children think it's not okay to tart your daughter up letting her "hiney" hang out and find any difference between putting pads on your children for football. So out comes the time honored Great Defense of reality show famewhores everyone, EVERYBODY ELSE IS JUST JEALOUS!

Edited by Madmarsha, Feb 19, 2009 @ 12:03 AM.

[Lonegunchick]

The "Hey Big Spender Rift" is making me want to (i) vomit and (ii) call the feds. Apparently this is for a second show, as I now see called Painted Babies. WTF?

[JingerCat]

Sweet Sparkling Eyeliner! Someone please tell me that this is all a joke. I really expected to spotJennifer Coolidge and Parker Posey in the audience. But, I was sorely disappointed when I realized that this is NOT actually a mockumentary.

WTF on Captain Fancypants Pageant Host?! Did he sing something about rainbows and magic carpet rides? Yikes.

[mlynnr]

Ok, that part where Mr. Michael describes his role in the pageant as 'the Queen of Everything'? First words out of my mouth were: 'Queen' being the operative word! Good Lord, what a hot, hot mess... do I have room for this on my TiFaux queue?

[JazzieCazzie]

Sadness ... I finally start a thread on a can't miss snarkfest (Emily! Tye!) and it gets buried and a shiny new thread with flippers and spray tan takes its place ... that's OK ... I'll take my plastic flower and go somewhere that I can dream about citrus-colored rainbows ...

Edited by JazzieCazzie, Feb 19, 2009 @ 12:10 AM.

[Galloways Cave]

The judges--well, words fail me.

Words fail me for the whole mess. Well, except I do have one word- twunt. I would like to apply that to both moms AND that freak of a pagent director.

Those moms give Debbie Tye a run for her money. Everything is in absolutes- practice or don't do the pagent, concentrate or go back to the room, look perfect or look perfect. In fact, the word perfect was used way too many times when they discussed their daughters. So sick.

Tranny Judge was something, trashing those little girls. Wonder if the male judge was found wandering in the hardware store in a suit (a la Toddlers and Tiaras).

[TedHinD]

The judges weren't going to let the disillusioned, hormonal and desperate moms steal THEIR thunder, were they? Where's the camera?! Oh and "Emulating Paris Hilton Twenty Years Too Late"? If you're going to tote around a pooch to cover up your age spots, forget the Chihuaha and get a Bull Mastiff.

[WhineandCheez]

Ramkissoon girl--her formal portrait was very pretty but what was that stupid curlicue of beads to the left of her head? And the whole thing looked to me like a little Middle Eastern girl being tarted up and photographed in order to get some 45 year old man to marry her and supply a bride price. It looked like she was in some belly dance get-up.

Oh I forgot to mention. Beyonce?? Beyonce? Yeah, that name won't be dated at all. Just ask all the 27 year olds out there named "Krystle." (from "Dynasty")

[Trojangirldance]

Beyonce was placed as high as she was to suck a newbie in and get them to spend more money on pageants. That child stuck out like a sore thumb. No glitz h/m for a glitz pageant? An outdated (by a couple of years!) dress? Yet she beats out the other more seasoned girls. Yeah, right.

Oh and tranny judge. She has the nerve to talk about someone's hair being fake (when that could have been a natural color, I've seen lots of kids with hair that white blonde) while she sits there with her fake boobs, fake ass wig, and fake lips. Then the way she kept posing during the crowning photos. What a skank.

[skittl3862]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one addicted to these shows.

I couldn't believe BrandiJean's mom was that stupid. People who put their daughters in pageants are all a little dense but that Marilyn Monroe routine was above and beyond. "Diamonds IS a Girl's Best Friend." Highlighting MM's drunken performance for the president with whom she had an affair. Blowing up the skirt of their 8 year old daughter. Dressing her in that awful highlighter yellow dress when she's peroxide blonde. And MamaJean was shocked and upset such a performance wasn't enough to win. Forget winning, that performance should have made them call child protective services!

Ashley's mom was kind of a bitch, but I think of the two girls, she'll turn out better. Probably because I got a "meal ticket" vibe from BrandiJean's parents whereas Ashley's family seems really well-off and this is more of a hobby than an obsession. She is a very pretty girl; a nice change from the blonde haired, blue eyed Southern girls who dominated in the past.

Edited by skittl3862, Feb 19, 2009 @ 11:32 AM.

[Arenal]

Unattractive mothers + passive fathers + ignored sons = "Pageant family."

[VaVaVoom]

There were so many astonishingly awesome things about this episode:

Diamonds IS a girls best friend
Fake boob judge bringing her dog to the pageant. If there was a movie made about this show, Mo Collins would be awesome for that judge's role.
Mrs. Ramkissoon's "ugly child" statement and Mrs. Ramkissoon ugliness and nastiness in general. I thought she was gonna knock her daughter's head off when she was trying to put on her makeup!
Ashley's glamour shots in which she looked like a 22-yeard-old at least
The host!!! I was squealing like a little girl when he said that the moms bow down to him!
Beyonce's 1982 dress. She was cute, but that dress was like a mother of the bride dress to me
BrandiJean dressed up as Marilyn Monroe. How appropriate for a 9-year-old! I can't wait til next week when a little girl does a Jenna Jameson WOW routine.
Mama Pipken crying about how she didn't get to do stuff like pageants when she was a little girl AND crying when BrandiJean didn't win.

Edited by VaVaVoom, Feb 19, 2009 @ 10:57 AM.

[shibori]

Those moms give Debbie Tye a run for her money.

Since Ms. Tye herself will be appearing in a later episode, we'll all be granted our wish to see that head to head battle!

[kira28]

Wow, what a show! I've never seen kiddie beauty pagents, but I figured the majority of the mother were probably former pagent girls/beauty queens themselves and that is why they got their daughters involved. Never have I been so wrong! Most of the mothers were overweight, sloppily dressed and not attractive at all. Living vicariously through their children, I see. And I seriously thought Brandi Jean's mother was her grandmother or something. That woman looked rough. What a way to teach little girls about beauty- everything was fake- flipper, hair pieces, orange spray tans. How are these pagents even judged? By whoever has the best hairpiece? Even the pictures were air brushed "we'll make her eyes darker, fill in her teeth" etc. And what was up with the kids being taught strippper moves? Some of these poor girls are going to be really messed up when they become teenagers.

[missdavenport]

Tranny Judge was something, trashing those little girls.

Oh and tranny judge. She has the nerve to talk about someone's hair being fake (when that could have been a natural color, I've seen lots of kids with hair that white blonde) while she sits there with her fake boobs, fake ass wig, and fake lips. Then the way she kept posing during the crowning photos. What a skank.

Nailed it!! Yikes she was Fugly. WTH. She really pissed me off talking about BrandiJean's hair color. I've seen towheaded girls with white blond hair. And really?...that's what she snarks about? Fake-ass bitch better check herself.

This might have been one of the hardest of these shows to watch. My heart just ached for BrandiJean when she lost. Not because I wanted her to win, but the way her Mother cried and behaved in front of her. There is no way her Mother's sense of loss and disappointment will not have lasting affects on BrandiJean. Standing in the hall, wailing and flapping her arms, crying, "what more do they want from us?" Make no mistake, that crazy lady is doing some long term damage to her kid. I know, we were given a nice little sound bite with Brandi telling us that it "doesn't matter if you win or lose, all that matters is I had a good time, and I did my best" blah, blah, party line, blah, blah, blah. Except that her Mother is a basket case. No 9 year old can come away from that with a healthy attitude and a feeling of self esteem and poise.

Please, Please, Please....stop pissing away money on this crap and stop allowing those scuzzy fug-ass losers to judge your beautiful child!!

I know my daughter is beautiful and I don't need validation from other people.

Sing it Sister!

Edited by missdavenport, Feb 19, 2009 @ 5:25 PM.

[eminwf]

Quote of the night was from BrandiJean's mom: I don't know how long I can go on paying for other people's opinions.

That pretty much sums up why I dislike the pageants so much. I know my daughter is beautiful and I don't need validation from other people.

[Trojangirldance]

I wonder if Brandi Jean's mom was always so manly and as a result got picked on by the "pretty" girls at school. So she has in turn found this obsession through her reasonably cute daughter? I will say though that her son looked a bit more feminine in the face than Brandi Jean did. The way mom cried when talking about how she didn't do things like dance or pageants, then all the emotion at the pageant and when she lost the hair spray?

Also I'd love to just smack the ever loving shit out of Rimmiskoon or whatever her name was. That lady was just a nasty bitch, who had an average looking kid. She wasn't a fan of the "glitz" yet had totally retouched photos? And her kid was mean too, she kept hitting the other little girl with the noodle in the pool and it was obvious from the girl's face she wasn't enjoying it.

Edited by Trojangirldance, Feb 19, 2009 @ 5:27 PM.