Jerry Springer
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Topic: Jerry Springer
Posted By: Abstrakt
Subject: Jerry Springer
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 11:28
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The Jerry Springer show just makes me laugh.
I find it very hilarious, anyone agree?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQej27tSpY0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQej27tSpY0
 I seriously laugh my ass off!
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 12:40
| 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. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 13:19
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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. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: wetton fan
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 13:22
| It can always be worse....witness WWE wrestling.... |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date 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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 18:44
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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. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:05
| 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. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:10
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." ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Arsillus wrote:Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:13
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.  -------------   
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 23:16
Well I guess that's one way of dealing with your problems.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 08:17
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 By: Peter
Date 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....  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date 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?  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:18
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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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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:23
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!) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 09:37
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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 By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:07
Speaking as a U.S.er, I'm afraid they really do and it is really sad.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:10
| 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. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:14
Hmm, raelty shows? And a lamb...lies down...on Broadway.... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 10:59
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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. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 11:09
| The Jerry Springer show is the highest cultural achievement ever. It even beats mud wrestling. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 16:01
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Sometimes it makes me vomit and sometimes makes me laugh,what annoys the hell out of me is the audience egging these obviously insane people (thats is if its not scripted) i saw this fat women come out and the crowd shouted for her to get naked and when she did they were like EWWWWW!!! and laughed at her.
But a really intresting show is the GG Allin one search for it on youtube and discuss (sorry to highjack thread but its easily the weirdest one i've seen) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 16:05
| Give any quantity, bigger than a dollar, of money and/or fame to certain people and they will do anything. It's disgusting. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 16:31
Yes it is!
 By the way, does anyone have a fiver? I'll do anything for it. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 16:35
To quote your favorite singer of all time Peter, "you took the words right out of my mouth" - Jerry Springer: scum f' scum! And James - I may be your father, mother & gay lover, and yes, I like to be called Shirley (you don't usually have a problem with that  ), but you'll never have as good a relationship with me as I do with my alien pals  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 16:59
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Do you think Springer weighs his studio audience before tbey come in? Perhaps he stipulates a minimum weight of 25 stone..
Sorry, I dont mean to fat bash, but I watched JS the other night on cable, and the guest was this enormous white rapper, who was trying to kick the crap out of his equally huge bodyguard, for sleeping with his obese girlfriend. Springer invited his hamburger stuffed audience to share their wisdom, which they did, in the form of little raps..  Gems such as:
"I see it all the time, A lady taking crap Listen up mother 
You aint all that!" I paraphrase, of course.. Springer is a nasty piece of work who cashes in on Americas intellectually disadvantaged trailer park population. That said, I cant bring myself to hate him. Perhaps because his intention is so blatant and brazen, unlike hapless UK talk show pr!ck Jeremy Kyle, who actually believes his own bullsh!t. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 16:59
What?! You're scum, Garten... fight me a like a man! *cue Steve* Audience: Steve Steve Steve Steve Jim: of fer f**ks sake, shut up guys! James: yeah, all is forgiven and forgotten Jim, I take it all back, fancy a pint of Theakstons? *both walk off stage* Audience: Steve Steve Steve Steve! -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 03:24
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You do watch Jerry Springer, don't you! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 20:59
I find nothing funny about it,it literally makes me want to vomit.
I think it's a steaming pile of crap and pretty much exemplifies what's wrong with the media and the way we as people entertain ourselves. -------------  |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 13:04
 we have a version in the UK....it's called the Jeremy Kyle show, and in one sense, its even worse than the Jerry Springer show.... although the message is essentially the same, its more understated (in a typically British kind of way) and not as over the top....
...because of this, I actually find it more disturbing and incidious....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |