Another fine specimen from Toddlers & Tiaras, 18-month-old Kendyl is being raised to understand the importance of both beauty and money simultaneously (see how she likes bills and how her mom Jessica asks her, "You want some money?" as a very Anna Nicole means of prompting). So she's already doing great, as evidenced…
Viewers of The Learning Channel who were looking forward to watching staff members at John Beckwith's Golden Gate Funeral Home put together wacky themed funerals for their dearly departed patrons will have to wait a while longer.
Last night while we were laughing at Lindsay Lohan, TLC aired Extreme Cougar Wives, which sounds like a fake show some savvy sitcom would invent to skewer network that brought you Extreme Couponing and Sister Wives. But it was real, and so were its cougar wives to whatever extent people are real when they go on…
On the first episode of TLC's latest good-natured freak show, Extreme Cheapskates, we were introduced to Kate Hashimoto, a woman so cheap that she thinks nothing of serving friends food that she picked out of the trash. The premiere's 30 minutes was devoted to Kate's incredibly odd ways, and its format was basically a…
The Screen Junkies Show is riding high on the success of last week's episode, which featured Seven Psychopaths stars Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, and Sam Rockwell reciting lines from TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, so they decided to "flip the script" and give Here Comes Honey Boo Boo stars Honey Boo Boo Child…
Steve Harvey took the weirdest break from being a sanctimonious blowhard when he had some kids from Toddlers & Tiaras (and their parents) on his talk show today and handled everyone gently. He spoke to everyone without admonishing them, had little Kayla recreate her Shirley Temple crumping (I'll never tire of…
TLC's reality series about the conjoined Hensel twins, Abby & Brittany, ended its first-season run last night. Over the course of its slow, uneventful yet riveting eight episodes, Abby & Brittany gently shaded in the characters the best-known living conjoined twins. My favorite of their quirks is their tendency to…
On last night's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo season finale, 17-year-old Anna gave birth to her daughter Kaitlyn. We've known about Kaitlyn for a while now, mostly because she has an extra thumb on her right hand. The family was just as fascinated and amused as their audience — Alana joked about coveting the extra thumb…
Somewhere on the brief walk from the Macon Mall's Spencer Gifts to rue21, a bright discount store glittering with pageant-level tackiness but no pretensions of refinement, somebody farted. Loudly. It was in the potential earshot of the staring kiosk workers in the Georgia mall, the mass of people who were trailing the…
On last night's episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, 7-year-old Alana served Leaky Lindsay (the Garbage Pail Kid) when she sneezed, shot snot out of both nostrils and then held her hand over it for a minute. This aired unedited — televised vérité at its rawest. I wonder what Frederick Wiseman thinks of this show.
Hantavirus is back and bigger than ever: first the Yosemite outbreak, and now a new case on the set of a reality show filming in Texas.
TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a show about class, and one thing people talk about regarding the Thompson clan (when they aren't cursing them for existing) is whether fame and fortune will spoil their appeal of being trashy beyond belief. If a piece in The Hollywood Reporter is to be believed, there's little risk…
TLC's Abby & Brittany continues to gently tease out the privates lives of the conjoined Hensel twins by showing how they have adapted to performing the most common of tasks. On one of last night's episodes, they ate Chicago deep-dish pizza (stomachaches resulted), rode a Segway (balancing issues ensued) and drove a…
The controversy was immediate. People were on TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo like flies on pig shit. Or maybe our collective revelry in the show's trashiness resembled a pig in shit. Whatever it was, a metaphor involving pigs and shit is apt for a show that featured a rented pet teacup pig Glitzy pooping on a kitchen…
"We're just like everyone else!" proclaim 22-year-old conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel during the intro to their TLC show, Abby & Brittany, which premiered in back-to-back 30-minute episodes last night.
When it was announced earlier this month that the Hensel Twins, Abby & Brittany, had been given their own TLC series (premiering tonight) people who watch TV all the time were like, "FINALLY" and people who occasionally make time for other pursuits were like, "WHAT IS HAPPENING?"
It's a case of the pot calling the kettle a bad parent: Lindsay Jackson, who is best known for appearing alongside her daughter Maddy on the controversial TLC show Toddlers & Tiaras, has been accused of exploitation by the little girl's father.
Last night, TLC premiered its first Toddlers & Tiaras spin-off, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. It is a show that reinforces what its source has been trying to tell us all along: the families of those who enter their children into beauty pageants are way more fascinating than the pageants themselves. The show's resulting …
Wesley and his giant ball sac (160 lbs., 6 feet in circumference), which he likens to a "very, very juicy Thanksgiving turkey" were featured on last night's episode of TLC's Strange Sex. This segment bummed me the fuck out. See how far you can make it through the segment above, in which the origin and then…
