“…and at the memorial service his estranged half-brother from a different mother stormed out from behind the mourning crowd, flipped over the casket, and screamed, ‘Gimme ma goddamn money!’”
Jerry Springer has died
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#12Watched this on TV in Europe back in the day, and thought that this was depicting typical average American life.
It was. Just about twenty years early…
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#13Without The Jerry Springer show I doubt we would have got Idiocracy.
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#14He had the foresight to see, the true core of America.
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#15Watched this on TV in Europe back in the day, and thought that this was depicting typical average American life.
To be honest, it's extremely common wherever the impoverished are located in the U.S. I've witnessed so much chaos from inner-city venturing, to growing up with some households that absolutely belonged on that show.
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#17The first half of this obit goes harder than you may guess.
> There is nothing about “The Jerry Springer Show” to be applauded — after all, his guests, representing an enormous variety of lifestyles deviating from what is perceived as the norm, were packaged as freaks and brought onstage to be mocked by the audience, and to be (at least seemingly) sternly judged by Springer.
There's a lot of interesting lines to be studied between this show and media in the current era, from Fox News to TikTok to politics to the comment sections. Something about intentionally rallying the worst emotions we can conjure up out of vulnerable people for the ratings.
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#18> Sorry, this content is not available in your region. *sigh* It's sad he passed away, though. Even I knew the "The Jerry Springer Show" . Trash TV at its finest.
Ah crap, my bad. It was either link to the local Cincinnati news station owned by a conglomerate, or TMZ
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#19After watching Jerry Springer: The Opera a few years back I looked up some interviews with Springer; I was curious what he thought of it. He seemed like a pretty nice guy with some fairly down to earth views of his show and its participants.
The Have I Got News For You episode he did a bunch of years ago is pretty good as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luYG9uWnVDY
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#20Watched this on TV in Europe back in the day, and thought that this was depicting typical average American life.
While these shows in the 90s were the beginning of the scripted reality TV genre, these talk shows were an interesting blend of scripted situations concocted by the producers and real world situations that were greatly exaggerated for drama purposes. People were encouraged to call in with their situations (whether they were real or not on your end was up to you) and producers would work with you to get the best angle for maximum drama.