Maury: Another Culture Shock!!

What kind of freaking show is this??! I’m supposed to be chilling and taking a break right now but I couldn’t help it. I had to blog about this today rather than blog after 2 days. I can’t believe such shows exist! A guest comes out accusing her lover he got her pregnant and he denies that the already born child is his. He’ll be like “look at her she ain’t got ma nose ain’t got my eyes ain’t got ma mouth. NOTHING! That girl ain’t mine. You stupid hoe been busy. This little girl ain’t mine and I got nothing to do with her. You ain’t getting a single dollar from me hoe. Child support my ass!” The lovers/couples/ex-lovers/one night “flingers”/whatever you want to call them then fight and the DNA results come out live in front of the audience proving the child does actually belong to the angry guy and that the girl is right. They both run backstage crying like babies and start fighting more. I mean seriously I don’t want to start cursing on this blog but what kind of damn show is this??!! SHOCKING!!! And someone told me a show called Jerry Springer is much worse! Seriously WTFish?! The best part is that the girl’s mother will be usually present and demanding child support too. What kind of mother is that?! It’s as if her daughter getting pregnant like that isn’t a big deal. Sheeesh. Teach your daughter how to keep her legs closed damn it. Random BooM BooM is not good especially when it’s unsafe! Do people actually watch such shows?! SHOCKING!!

10 Responses to “Maury: Another Culture Shock!!”

1. Finnpundit on July 13th, 2006 5:35 am

   Hah! Welcome to America.

   Seriously, these kinds of shows are known as schlock shows. They tend to receive the highest condemnation from critics, but the fact is that the general public has a sordid fascination for them, which generates revenues for the (privately-owned) television stations.

   Do they have any socially redeemable factors? Well, they do depict the trials and tribulations of, - mostly - lower income people, with low educational levels. And for many people, this is as close as they will ever get to see and understand what many of these people are dealing with. And they do reinforce the notion that certain values must be upheld by our society. The general message is that we must take personal responsibility for our actions on an individual basis, and that society is not the cause of the problems people create for themselves.

   Yet there’s no denying that they also pander to the more base instincts of society: the desire for spectacle, the trade in gossip and personal drama, and the predilection to simplify and objectify the problems of those that we would not consider our social equals.

   All in all, it’s sometimes amusing to watch these shows, keeping in mind that by watching the show, you participate in these kinds of base pleasures.

2. Leilouta on July 13th, 2006 5:53 am

   hahaha…I felt the same way during my first year in the USA and I owe a lot of my bad language to that kind of show.I remember one show in particular, The Jenny Jones show, where the subject was ” Too fat to wears sexy clothes”, and for a whole hour you saw huge girls wearing tiny bras and skirts. THey were acting crazy in front of their friends and families who went on how fat those woman were and shouldn’t dress like that.
   Many of those shows are fake by the way and hire actors sometimes. It is silly and I can’t believe people can be addicted to such absurdity.

3. Finnpundit on July 13th, 2006 9:39 am

   By the way, another useful way to understand why these schlock shows exist is to see them as a product of American societal openness. Out of all countries in the world, America has the most open society. True, it does result in displays of such crudity that arguments can be made as to whether all of this openness is worthwhile.

   Yet we could look at this from another angle: the same easy American openness that leads individuals to discuss their human failings on national television… also led Americans to bare the truth on Abu Ghraib (and it was Americans themselves who exposed it all). No other nation in the world would have been able to deal with such self-criticism: most would do their utmost to hide the truth.

   The schlock shows are a phenomenon of an open society, and a preferable phenomenon than those that try to proscribe free speech in the interests of taste, “good breeding”, and religious beliefs.

4. Drima on July 13th, 2006 9:56 am

   Finnpundit,

   You’re defintely right in your third comment. That is one of the reasons I have respect for the American people. It was just so shocking witnessing such a crude show and such openess you know…

5. Drima on July 13th, 2006 9:57 am

   Sorry I meant second comment… LOL

6. jodetoad on July 13th, 2006 11:31 am

   Those shows shock me too, Drima. I no longer have a TV in my house, because there is so little worth watching.

   If you look at TV as a medium for selling advertising, it has products(shows) addressed to different markets. With 100’s of cable channels breaking the market into small segments, some are bound to be pretty tacky. Just like you can’t look at porn as a reflection of a whole society, TV isn’t either. There are some people who want to watch that stuff, and other folks want to sell them things.

7. Drewcatt on July 13th, 2006 12:06 pm

   Drima, you have no idea just how retarded TV can get over here. Springer, Howard Stern, Maury…. just avert your eyes my friend.

   It’s what the rest of us do, even if your sensibilities aren’t necessarily offended.

   The sad thing though is that while you may be shocked that that kind of behavior is on tv, that very behavior is going on in homes, trailer parks, shopping centers, schools, hospitals, clubs, etc all across the country.

   Sometimes you just have to keep on reminding yourself that the good comes along with the bad.

8. Anonymous on July 14th, 2006 9:26 am

   LOL funnny post! Those ARE stupid shows by the way and the only people who watch them are stupid Americans…

9. Anonymous on July 16th, 2006 8:06 am

   *Admits to staring at those “who’s the daddy” shows with morbid fascination*

   I just cant believe a woman would get up there after 7 or 8 or 13 or 14 previous attempts to find her baby’s daddy and ARGUE yet again that she is 1000% (Huh?)sure that THIS guy is THE guy. They always get shot down again and suffer “shock” that they were wrong again. I was born and raised in the USA and so am used to these type shows but they still shock me too
   O.O

   I wont even turn on Jerry Springer

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