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Abstrakt 
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 11:28 |
The Jerry Springer show just makes me laugh.
I find it very hilarious, anyone agree?
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Padraic
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 12:40 |
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I just never got the appeal of those types of shows. I can see why people think it's funny and stupid - I laughed at the antics the first couple times I saw it, but it soon became apparent that the whole thing was contrived and formulaic, and thus became boring rather quickly.
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 13:19 |
I find it very sad, truly, that such a show exists on broadcast television whose mission is to serve the public interest. So much of television celebrates ignorance and perpetuates societal ills in more ways than i have the time to get into. We could have television to enlighten and teach, instead we offer the public sensationalized filth, to sell products, and create the next generation of morons. It's a vicious cycle.
It doesn't make me laugh. It makes me furious.
I should point out, I'm not calling anybody here names. I'm talking about the people who are frequently guests on those shows, and the losers in the audience who clap and cheer while the people onstage talk about who they're cheating on, whose baby they're having, etc.
Edited by Finnforest - October 16 2007 at 13:24
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 13:22 |
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It can always be worse....witness WWE wrestling....
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 18:02 |
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I enjoyed Jerry Springer for a short while when it was first shown on UK TV but I got bored with it pretty quickly. Watching the hard of thinking hitting each other soon loses its novelty value, as funny as it can be when you first see it on mainstream TV.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 18:44 |
I did do quite a good Jerry Springer imitation on a wedding party. There wasn't a slapstick cake fight so maybe it was not as convincing as I thought it would be  .
I liked it for a while, but after some time... it's still hilarious, even if I don't want to admit it  It's so obvious and over the top that it becomes funny again.
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Arsillus
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:05 |
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What I don't get is why there are so many people willing to go on there and look like complete fools. Sure that stuff happens, but why the need to go on TV about it? Frankly, if I was invovled in some crap that would fit on the show, I wouldn't want to go on and make a spectacle of myself.
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:10 |
 Arsillus wrote:
What I don't get is why there are so many people willing to go on there and look like complete fools. Sure that stuff happens, but why the need to go on TV about it? Frankly, if I was invovled in some crap that would fit on the show, I wouldn't want to go on and make a spectacle of myself. |
You know, I was thinking something similar. The first season I can understand, maybe some people were caught by surprise. But after the first season, most people had to know they were in for something bad when they appeared on the show. If I ever got a call from the Jerry Springer show I would come on the show, but when Jerry said "Chester, I have a surprise for you", I would say "No Jerry, I have a surprise for you, after I got the call from your show, I went out and killed all of my family and anyone I've ever known. There will be no show today." 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:13 |
The Doctor wrote:
Arsillus wrote:
What I don't get is why there are so many people willing to go on there and look like complete fools. Sure that stuff happens, but why the need to go on TV about it? Frankly, if I was invovled in some crap that would fit on the show, I wouldn't want to go on and make a spectacle of myself. |
You know, I was thinking something similar. The first season I can understand, maybe some people were caught by surprise. But after the first season, most people had to know they were in for something bad when they appeared on the show. If I ever got a call from the Jerry Springer show I would come on the show, but when Jerry said "Chester, I have a surprise for you", I would say "No Jerry, I have a surprise for you, after I got the call from your show, I went out and killed all of my family and anyone I've ever known. There will be no show today." |
Strange as it may sound, I don't think the show would be cancelled... on the contrary, I think it would bring in masses of viewers.  Not exactly what you want to achieve. By the way, Jim Garten is my father, my mother and my gay lover and he especially likes to be called Shirley. 
Edited by Geck0 - October 16 2007 at 23:15
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Arsillus
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Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:16 |
The Doctor wrote:
Arsillus wrote:
What I don't get is why there are so many people willing to go on there and look like complete fools. Sure that stuff happens, but why the need to go on TV about it? Frankly, if I was invovled in some crap that would fit on the show, I wouldn't want to go on and make a spectacle of myself. |
You know, I was thinking something similar. The first season I can understand, maybe some people were caught by surprise. But after the first season, most people had to know they were in for something bad when they appeared on the show. If I ever got a call from the Jerry Springer show I would come on the show, but when Jerry said "Chester, I have a surprise for you", I would say "No Jerry, I have a surprise for you, after I got the call from your show, I went out and killed all of my family and anyone I've ever known. There will be no show today." |
Well I guess that's one way of dealing with your problems. 
Edited by Arsillus - October 16 2007 at 23:17
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 08:17 |
wetton fan wrote:
It can always be worse....witness WWE wrestling.... |
I used to laugh at that too, but i got bored of it pretty fast.
I'll get bored of Springer soon, too.
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 08:42 |
Crap, redneck, lowest common denominator (and that's woefully low) sensationalistic TV that celebrates dysfunction in American society, and panders to the low-brow tastes of modern neanderthals, while providing a far-reaching public platform for the most screwed up, evil and ugly (not just outwardly) among us. 
Absolute mind-numbing, idiotic garbage -- I'd rather watch paint peel than watch Springer and his pathetic ilk. A total waste of time.  I deserve far better from any given half hour of my (limited) lifespan.
And I don't watch Survivor, reality cop chase or car crash shows, or suscribe to celebrity pain magazines, or the Weekly World News, either.
Dumb and more dumberer....
Edited by Peter - October 17 2007 at 09:18
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:15 |
No offense though, if you're watching it in the clinical, detatched manner of a scientist dispassionately taking notes, as he observes the rats tearing each other apart in the overcrowded cage. Hey, it's a kind of anthropological study.... 
Of course that's the case -- you're not really like the dumb-as-posts guests, or the rabid, foaming, hooting and bellowing studio audience, are you? You don't actually encourage stupidity, and the continuing degradation of TV and art by watching that stuff, right? A steady intake of such visual bile, violence and verbal excrement won't affect you, will it? 
Edited by Peter - October 17 2007 at 09:17
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Abstrakt
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:18 |
It's just my humor, i can't help it
I'm not in the mood for Jerry Springer now, but it's good for when you're really bored.
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Peter
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:23 |
Abstrakt wrote:
It's just my humor, i can't help it
I'm not in the mood for Jerry Springer now, but it's good for when you're really bored. |
No sweat -- just don't OD on the stuff, or start to take it seriously. 
I can't stomach it, though I admit that Weekly World News headlines can make me chuckle in the checkout line.
(It's that smug, superior "anthropologist" thing, doncha know!)
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:37 |
I just realized when i watched it last night, that it's gotta be scripted theater, and not real.
Because, i mean... People doesn't act like that, do they? If they do, it's sad!
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:07 |
Abstrakt wrote:
I just realized when i watched it last night, that it's gotta be scripted theater, and not real.
Because, i mean... People doesn't act like that, do they? If they do, it's sad! |
Speaking as a U.S.er, I'm afraid they really do and it is really sad. 
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:10 |
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Dude, welcome to the real world. 95% of raelity shows are scripted. Every talk show was filmed a lot earlier before broadcasting. All provoking is planned, and made sure it doesn't offend anyone. It's all just crap entertainment.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:14 |
Passionist wrote:
Dude, welcome to the real world. 95% of raelity shows are scripted. Every talk show was filmed a lot earlier before broadcasting. All provoking is planned, and made sure it doesn't offend anyone. It's all just crap entertainment. |
Hmm, raelty shows? And a lamb...lies down...on Broadway....
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Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:59 |
It's a complete waste of time, just like reading every reply to this thread.
Although I never bought it, I found the WWN amusing; it was supposed to be absurd, and it succeeded.
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