Toddlers and Tiaras

[grantcart]

At our house the Republican convention is so reviled that mrs grantcart has turned the TV to this astonishingly creepy show which is not nearly as creepy as the convention.

[alphafemale]

1. Look for Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

I think they are in on the joke as they fully play their parts as the butt of it.

[grantcart]

2. I won't be able to take more than a couple of minutes.

The T & T thing last 4 minutes.

Can't wait for Rachel and the rest to return.

[Fridays Child]

3. They probably have no idea how mind-numbingly stupid they are.

I doubt that the "Boo Boo" family's collective IQ exceeds 80.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. But there are memorable lines.

"This room smells of hairspray and desperation."

The editing is going out of their way to make them come across as hillbillies. I just hope there's a Grand Supreme win for Alana by the end of the series, this year. It shouldn't go longer than this year.

[alphafemale]

20. Oh I think they are amping up the stupid on purpose.

Nobody is going to tune in for "surprisingly ordinary."

[OriginalGeek]

4. My wife recently came back from Indiana with a terrible habit

and she shared it with me tonight - it was that Honey Boo Boo show.


I...just...I...I don't even...


after that was over we watched T&T. I said it should be renamed "How to Create a Stripper".

I don't think there was one single non-mentally-ill person involved with any of it.

Yes I am judging harshly.

Probably not harshly enough.

[zen_bohemian]

5. I have watched TT off and on over the years

So much money spent on dresses, fake nails, fake hair, fake teeth, fake tans, hotels, entry fees....all for a the chance to win a little money and a metal tiara. Money that could have been put away in a bank account and paid for some college for these kids.

Not all pageants or pageant parents are like the ones on the show, I don't know where they find these people

[seabeyond]

6. it would be interesting if they took a pretty little girl, do no fake, just a little girl

and put her out to compete, drastically showing the contrast between the fake and the real.

all the fake had me imagining.

i no. i would not want any girl, dressed in fake or real self doing this.

[HopeHoops]

7. There's also a switch on the TV called "power" that can be activated to put something intelligent on

... like a book.

[grantcart]

9. and after 3 minutes of T/T that's what we did.

It did take us 10 min before we realized that the book we had di
dn't have a switch.

Who knew?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. There was only one toddler that was so worth watching.

MaKenzie. If you only have sixty seconds to devote to watching her, go to minute four to four and thirty seconds; and five and five and thirty seconds. She was described as a forty year old woman trapped in a four year old's body.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. The possibilities of 200 channels of TV and yet....

....we get Toddlers and Tiaras, reruns of Cops, Pawn Porn, Dumpster Divers, Repo Reality, and Ice Swamp Duck Boaters.

ETA: And Supernatural Searchers.

[HappyMe]

12. I would rather watch the weather channel.

Or grass grow.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. Grass grow....that would be The Golf Channel.

Watching golf or heaven forbid, pond fishing, is just pointless to me.

[HappyMe]

14. Yeah, golf is awful.

I don't watch tennis either.

I would rather go fishing than watch it on tv.

[Mopar151]

15. I reccomend the Mike Holmes shows

I learned about soundproofing last night.

[whistler162]

23. I enjoy Holmes on Homes...

[hifiguy]

16. Futurama had a double-episode season finale last night

That is what I was watching.

Even the commercials I have inadvertently seen for T&T make my stomach queasy. Geez, Louise, I remember when James Burke was a mainstay of TLC.

[OriginalGeek]

17. ARGH! My DVR cut off the last 30 seconds or so

was there anything important after revealing the reject walruses kinder?

[hifiguy]

18. Nope. And it was elephant seals.

There were baby seals that looked just like the Professor, Hermes and Fry. Scruffy was the walrus. Then just a Mutual of Omicron wrap in the same style as the opening.

[Jennicut]

19. Try Dance Moms for annoying shows.

Abby Lee Miller is so vile as a dance teacher to young children. Almost as bad as Honey Boo Boo and Toddlers and Tiaras.

[zen_bohemian]

21. That show is nothing but a train wreck LOL

Abby Lee screaming, the mothers screaming, those poor girls look embarrassed. I was a dance mom for years, and thank goodness we never acted like the mothers on the show do, our coach would have never put up with that.....

[Baitball Blogger]

22. I think they have to know they're putting on a show.

Yes, it can get that ugly at times, but this is constant. My least favorite moms are Christi and Kelly. I had compassion for Christi and Chloe in the first season, but, come on. Chloe is getting her good share of successes with the Joffrey school and the movie video. Christi criticizes the situation EVERY show. Whether Maddie has a solo or not. If Chloe gets favoritism and gets a solo when Maddie doesn't have one, Christi suddenly complains that puts too much pressure on Chloe.

Kelly is a mess. I can't even count the number of times she shoots herself in the foot.

Dance teacher, Abby Miller, would not be someone I would subject my children to, but, in the end, it's all about the wins, and they're winning.

And finally, Holly. Holly is the reason that I know it's all a put on. That is one intelligent woman, and yet, she decided to quit her job and play the dance moms game. They're probably laughing over Margaritas after the shoot. She said something in this last show that wrapped it all for me. She said they were raising their children on their own terms. I thought to myself, now that's living the dream.

[zen_bohemian]

24. Kelly and Christi are a big mess and Jill is beyond help

Actually, I think technique-wise, Chloe is a better dancer than Maddie. And I won't even go into how outer limits Candy Apple Cathy is, but she is amusing to watch ha. Dr. Holly should have kept her day job, this isn't going to last forever.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Maddie, in my opinion, is more expressive as a dancer.

But I suspect that Chloe's career in ballad, as in Joffrey, is more assured because of her slender build. The same crazy selection process happens in athletic sports. You just sit there while other parents sell your kids out because they feel they don't have the right build.

I love watching them all dance. If I watch it twice, I tend to rewind to the dance section and skip the drama.

[madinmaryland]

26. I'm watching "How It's Made" on the Science Channel. Interesting seeing stuff made

by American workers.