Worst reality TV show ever starts tonight

[TexasTowelie]

Last edited Mon Aug 19, 2013, 07:28 PM - Edit history (2)

There are only two things you need to know about this new TV show on TLC, which airs tonight at 8 p.m.:

1. The picture above.

2. The title: The Man with the 132 lb. Scrotum.

Honey Boo-Boo, we never thought you’d be the classiest thing on TLC. We were wrong.

http://www.dallasvoice.com/worst-reality-tv-show-10154391.html

[LearningCurve]

1. Worst?

I think you meant BEST THING EVER!

[TexasTowelie]

5. I doubt that if you're the person getting squashed.

The video clip shows him racking his balls getting into a van. He also has diificulty walking so I don't that he feels so fortunate.

[reflection]

2. That's nuts! n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. No. It's the nads!

[unblock]

3. they got a lotta balls airing that!

[scheming daemons]

4. nobody ever told that guy to "grow a set"

It takes balls for him to appear on that program.

[Electric Monk]

6. ...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. TLC has become the television version of a supermarket tabloid.

[City Lights]

25. Agreed.

I never watch that channel.

[Politicalboi]

8. It's been done before

[Bosonic]

9. A spin-off from the SouthPark documentary?

[Warpy]

10. I remember seeing this one in the news

and the whole story was really very sad. The guy resisted surgery for a long time, he was proud of that grotesquery. He thought he was being admired for it and maybe he was.

It's like the sex workers who keep getting bigger and bigger implants until you wonder how they can walk without a wheelbarrow.

Body image, it can be really weird.

[RedRocco]

24. you remember wrong

it was an accident and he couldn't afford care
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Warren_Jr.

[geek tragedy]

11. Until the RNC 2016 primary debates begin, nt

[TexasTowelie]

13. Yes, I agree with that statement. nt

[quinnox]

12. damn, should have a 'graphic warning' attached!

Holy smokes, some of us have to eat lunch and dinner today.

[TexasTowelie]

15. I'll step out on a limb

and guess that Rocky Mountain Oysters aren't on the menu?

[quinnox]

20. lol, that is for sure now!

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. he's already had them removed. Thank goodness. I wish him good health

[Whisp]

16. yep, that's what I want from The Learning Channel...

we dropped our cable this week and it feels like a boil being lanced - the relief!

so sick of shit like this and Storage wars and all the ultra ridiculous mind rotting Crap! even National Geographic has gone bezerk with their stupid Hillbilly hand fishing and whatever else Crap they have.

Got a Roku and tons of free channels and Netflix and are much happier now. And way cheaper too.

[Eleanors38]

22. Yep, I may be close behind...

I've got a very long length of pipe and an unused T.V. antenna from Radio Snack. And the cable service I have now is a backed-up toilet -- and I have to pay for it. Time to cut it off.

[petronius]

26. We just went that route as well, when we realized just how little we

were actually watching and craptastic was the stuff we were watching. I'm sure I'll feel a bit of a twinge when football season comes around, but that will quickly evaporate when I discover that it's actually possible to be off the couch on a Fall Sunday afternoon...

[liberalhistorian]

18. Good gravy, and I thought

that their upcoming "My Teen is Pregnant and so Am I", and the just-concluded first season of WE's "Pregnant and Dating" were the worst! Here, "reality" tv has REALLY jumped the shark now, beyond what it did years ago. Wow.

[FSogol]

19. Thanks for posting. Now I know what to be for Halloween!

[TexasTowelie]

21. You're welcome,

I think?

I guess that you'll be shopping for some beach balls and extra large pants.

[SoCalDem]

23. A true testament to shitty medical care

How does any self-respecting physician allow this to happen..?

Or did no one in this guy's life care enough to drag his ass to the doctor before he was in such distress?

[cthulu2016]

27. Will they use that AC/DC song?

[Boom Sound 416]

28. That dude has gotta lotta...

Well, you know

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. Think he's a Teabagger?

[TexasTowelie]

30. Thanks for the image.

I'll need some brain bleach now.

[Initech]

31. TLC = the freak show network!

[typeviic]

32. Duck Dynasty is the worst

A bunch of vain, high-headed, full-of themselves red-neck conservatives.

[AsahinaKimi]

33. Years ago I threw away my TV set...

It almost makes me wish I would have dropped it in a dumpster 5 stories down... after seeing this. I am so glad I don't have a TV set anymore.

[Jamaal510]

34. TLC

now gives Jerry Springer and Bill Cunningham a run for their money when it comes to trash TV. Totally ironic for a network that is called "The Learning Channel".

[MadrasT]

35. Wow, really? This man had a serious medical problem and DU's reaction is to wisecrack?

This makes me feel sad for him. It's not something to joke about.

[TexasTowelie]

36. First, I forgot to include the link to the story.

Second, I don't believe that anybody has shown a lack of compassion or sympathy towards the man. Please read post #5 for my reaction to the story.

Yes, there are wisecracks about the man's plight because it is such an unusual condition and the condition was satirized on South Park a few years ago (I remember when it was shown). IIRC, in that episode there was no mention about the condition to any actual people so people thought it was a farce. Lo and behold, the condition actually does exists.

What is in question here is the dubious taste of the TLC to turn this into a reality show. Based upon the clip of the show that is at the TLC link, I believe that people will actually learn about his medical condition and he probably will receive a lot of sympathy for his plight. I understand that he has had an operation to alleviate his condition and hopefully he will receive some financial help to pay for the medical procedures so that he can move ahead from this condition to lead a more normal life.

I've found DU to be a very caring community when people are in need, but at the same time we also show some levity on individual stories. We aren't perfect, but we aren't monsters either.

[rustydog]

37. I heard they've changed the channel's name

Now it's" The Larnin' channel

[RudynJack]

38. Thanks for the heads-up!

Just set the recorder.