This is a promotional photo from TLC. I did not just pick the worst photo to use
Six year-old Honey Boo Boo Chile, one of the precocious stars of TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras,” has her own spin-off show on TLC. Honey Boo Boo’s co-star, Eden Wood, got a show on Logo this year called “Eden’s World” in which she and her family coached other tots in the competitive, bizarre world of child beauty pageants. So I guess this is the second spin off for a T&T castmember, featuring the one with the most colorful family to put it lightly.
Earlier this year we covered Honey Boo Boo and her mom, June, on Dr. Drew. June admitted that she regularly gives her daughter a mixture of Red Bull and Mountain Dew as part of her pageant prep, calling it “Go Go Juice.” No we can get a glimpse inside their fascinating family life, and the preview makes the show look as exploitative as a kiddie beauty pageant. Here’s more:
Get your go-go juice and tiara because it’s the Return of Honey Boo Boo! Toddlers & Tiaras’ breakout pageant superstar, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, is back, and this time she’s brought her entire family with her! Yee haw! And we have a sneak peek at all the hilarity in store for TLC’s August 8th premiere!
TLC introduced 6-year-old pageant princess Alana in January and she instantly became an internet sensation with her thick accent, go-go juice-imbibing ways, coupon-queen mom, and her signature catch phrase, “A dollah makes me hollah, honey boo boo.”
Each episode follows Alana, her stay-at-home mom June, chalk-mining dad “Sugar Bear,” sisters 12-year-old Lauryn, 15-year-old Jessica, and 17-year-old pregnant Anna. From four-wheeling through mud pits to picking up road kill for the family cookout and beauty pageants, viewers see more to the trials and tribulations of a family living in rural Georgia.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo premieres on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 on TLC with six half-hour episodes.
[From The Insider]
For those of you who watch The Simpsons – do you remember when Cletus’ kids got hired by Krusty the Clown to provide entertainment on his show, and made them play up being backwoods hicks? That’s what this show reminds me of. Only Lisa isn’t going to swoop in and save anyone from this mess.
Here’s the trailer for the show. There’s a 17 year-old sister who is pregnant, the family has a pig that seems to live in the house, and their recreational activities include four wheeling and jumping into mud. A commenter on YouTube mentions that the mother, June, is 32, which would have made her about 14 when her oldest daughter was conceived. (The 17 year-old that’s pregnant now.) Her husband is 40, which means he was about 22 at the time and it was statutory rape. I just hope June is lying about her age.
I can’t with this show. TLC should be ashamed, but you know that network has no capacity for shame. They regularly feature people who eat rocks and drink their own pee. Watching these clips makes me feel sick to my stomach, not because of this family but because a show like this even got made.
Here’s a clip where they go to an auction and bid on donuts or something. The mother sneezes multiple times during her interview segment and never says “excuse me.” There’s another clip available on Huffington Post where the pregnant 17 year-old gets an ultrasound and the technician makes the brilliant decision to perform one on six year-old Honey Boo Boo so she can see the chicken nuggets in her stomach. (Really.) I’ll say something nice – she’s a cute kid.
the mom is disgusting. Honey Boo Boo never stood a chance. ugh
She really is.. These kids looks horrible and so unhealthy! Not cute, nor funny.. These people should be protected from themselves!
This show is disgusting. I mean reallyy!! are you kidding. I am so repulsed at how they speak.How could TLC put a show on like this! They really should be ashamed of themselves.
I feel really bad for the teenaged girls, and the little one after she realizes her shtick is so unappealing as to ward off any positive attention.
People have been watching the Simpsons and loving it for years..
This is the same thing but with people and real American family’s
This show is nothing like the simpsons, this show is disgusting and promotes redneck behavior, I hope TLC gets sued over this.
That “real people” part is what makes it completely unlike the Simpsons! It is one thing to watch a show where you know that no living person was harmed. It is another to watch REAL children be treated like this.
It is horrifying.
There’s being fat, and then there’s being a fat, mustached, dirty, ill-mannered slob with no self-respect. I understand not everyone is thin and healthy, but to flaunt the fact that you’re a backwoods yokel with four chins, holes in your clothes, and a gunt that practically hits your knees when you sit down in your busted track pants… that’s revolting.
Ew! LOL.
Honey Boo Boo is ugly. There, I said it!
uh, i’m glad SOMEone said it. that kid is vile (as are the rest of em). altho i will say, i did enjoy those rascally Whites of West Virginia. i kaint lie!
@ stinky – you mean Jesco, don’t you? LOL
You are so right. That kid is ugly as sin,the sad thing is she’s the best looking one in the bunch. TLC is vile and evil. They have the worst shows on TV.
All of you saying how gross this family is but last week it matched ratings with the DNC…Don’t believe me? go look for yourself….We all know you are “Secret Watchers” of this show but don’t want your friends on there to think your not “Cool”…Your just jealous they got a TV show getting good money for it i might add while you sit in your hovel of an apartment wishing you could have your own show
This show is beyond wrong but to be fair there’s shit like it on tv already. I’m not gonna watch it. I don’t think I’ve watched TLC in a long long time. I’ve seen the promos once and I couldn’t understand a single thing any of them were saying and I’m an immigrant with a really good ear for accents.
I was watching “What Not To Wear” a couple weeks ago and a promo for this came on. My roommate just stared at the TV in horror, and kept saying, “WTF is this? Who are these people?” And we couldn’t understand half of what they were saying, either. smh
I sometimes imagine Clinton and Stacy squirming and covering their eyes whenever they are exposed to the other TLC shows or promos.
I love “WNTW.” It’s the only normal show on the entire channel.
I sincerely love What Not To Wear. Why can’t they have more shows like that on TLC, instead of just programs that showcase the worst of humanity?
I would love to see Clinton and Stacey do a makeover for boo boo’s mommy, now that I would watch just to see them stand side by side with her.
How do you know this show is Beyond wrong if you’ve never watched it?….You’ve watched it and every episode since just don’t want your friends to know so you pretend to hate it when in secret you love it
exploitation at its finest.
If anyone is so outraged about this show, and its exploitation of children, here is a link where you can contact parent company Discovery about their network TLC and their programing:
http://corporate.discovery.com/contact/viewer-relations/
..Except after choosing TLC thru the myriad menu selections, “Eden’s World” or anything related to “Honey Boo Boo” aren’t even listed as programs about which you can lodge comments. Yet, i guess.
Oh law. You know, I live in Georgia and don’t know one person like this. Ive seen them at Walmart when I drive by one, but that’s it. My people are smart, clean, and polite.
THIS, from a native Alabamian and current GA resident. Without fail, TV producers only feature the most redneck, cringeworthy Southerners and never show the rest of us in the majority, who are educated, use proper grammar and don’t look like we just stepped out of the “People of Wal-Mart” website. Major pet peeve of mine. This show sounds like a trainwreck.
Welcome to my world, where everyone thinks the residents of NJ are some variation of Jersey Shore cast members : /
I don’t have cable and never knew shows like this even existed but after reading this, the first thing I thought was: sucks that they’re portraying a really stereoypical impression of a part of the country that is likely as diverse as anywhere else. Shame on them.
I hear ya, Mort. If it makes you feel better we have plenty of “Jersey Shore types” that are native Bostonians so that kind of personality is def. not unique to Jersey!
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I live in NJ right now too. We moved here the summer that Jersey Shore came out. We didnt give the stereotype much thought though as we are both originally from the midwest, which has plenty of its own stereotypes. Almost all of which are wrong. NJ is beautiful, with some of the best public schools in the nation. I havent met a single person who was remotely Jersey Shore-ish.
My big complaints about this state are the way people drive (good lord!) and taxes being insanely high.
Now one knows how it feels to be black and watch ratchetness on T.V., that is viewed as representation of Black folk. I don’t know or have anyone near my circle that acts like some of the ish I’ve seen on T.V.
Bottom line normal folks, black or white and everything in between, is not considered entertaining…Sad what T.V. has become.
I’m from Georgia, mom and dad are from Georgia, and I can’t understand a word of what they are saying, especially the mother.
I’m from WV, so I empathize. Have you seen the episodes of My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding??? They purposefully sought out the most rednecky areas to film in, and then play it off like that’s the norm. Then there’s the Wild Wonderful Whites of WV. That’s the example people have of WV. It’s horrifying.
@moxy, Of the 10 counties with the highest property taxes in the United States, all are in New Jersey and New York. Taxes are terrible here, but the schools ARE great in most areas.
@kitten, too funny that you have the jersey shore types there. I didn’t know you were from Boston. Hear it’s wonderful there.
I lived in WV for a long, long time – nice to see another one of us on Celebitchy!
I currently live in WV and when I saw this preview all I could think was: ” please, please, please don’t let these people be from WV!!!”.
I’m cringing even just reading about this show! Born and raised in Georgia, and while I know that there are, sadly, plenty of families like this one in my state, I also just spent a decade in Indiana. Where I found PLENTY of people like this (and look, it’s probably only fair that we recognize that, yes, these folks are as trashy as they come, but they’re also a result of generational, systemic poverty with no real sense of broader horizons. I feel sorry for the kids, who may never escape).
Los Angeles. It is a complete deal breaker when I meet someone that categorizes LA as Hollywood.
Blacks complain about horrible ghetto presentations all the time but no one cares. People just point and laugh and give it great ratings. When the shoe is on the other foot people want to complain and sue TLC. Why don’t we protest against all shows that present the worst of society for sport?
Remember once upon a time when TLC was known as The Learning Channel? Yeah, me neither.
Exactly what I was thinking.
THIS. All those channels and nothing to watch… (which is why I am here ;0)
Now it’s an acronym for Total Lack of Class
it’s a scumbag network, I can’t imagine working there. I would want to shower every 15 minutes
Hush now Mia 4s.. we are showing are ages LOL!
It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I DON’T feel fine…
SIGH…
This reminds me of one of the most disturbing movies I’ve EVER seen…”Gummo”…which I thought could be a documentary…
Alas…this show is the answer to THAT question…
Gummo! A seriously f-cked up movie and it haunts me to this day. The scene with the kid lifting “weights” to Madonna scarred my brain.
I’ll see your f-ed up and raise you dysfunctional. Watch the documentary “American Juggalo” at americanjuggalo.com.
OMG GUMMO!! I have been trying to remember the name of that movie for over a year!!
That was the worse head trip ever!
Now, I have to tell my girlfiend to rent it so she can endure the 8 years of nightmares it causes.
Thanks!!
I’m not a genius but if she is 32 and has a 17 year old that means she got pregnant at 14! Why isn’t Sugar Bear in jail for being 22 and getting a 14 year old pregnant?
In some states, if her parents agree to the marriage, they can sign a waiver for her to “get hitched”. Of course, it’s the South. Yikes! That means they were married on 1994???
“Of course, it’s the South.”
Um, what am I supposed to infer from that statement– that we’re all pedophiles or all married at 14? Sorry to disappoint, but we still look down at pedophilia… and at marriage at such an early age due to the obvious psychological, emotional, and developmental issues.
Being from SC, I have noticed the rampant (and often dismissed) hostility focused towards the South. Yeah, we may have a different accent than you, but I promise, there are just as many Honey Boo Boo types in my backyard as there are in yours (which is to say, hopefully very few, as this entire show is a travesty).
Be a bit more careful next time you make over generalizations–more often than not, they aren’t true.
I completely agree with islandgirl2161’s comment. I’m from sc, too, and there’s a lot more to the south than the negative stereotypes so often touted as reality. Frankly, if a person chooses to write off “the south” as a one dimensional train wreck of civilization, then that is their loss.
Which, of course, means that we all dropped out of school at age 13 to marry our cousin/uncles and have two-headed babies, right?
Ignorant.
I’m from south Texas, and I am NOT offended (live in Nebraska now, which has its own set of stereotypes). Life is easier if you can laugh those things off.
Last time I looked 32 – 17 = 15 (not that a year makes a difference). This show is so wrong on so many different levels. Why do we reward stupidity in this country (and I don’t mean the 17 year old being pregnant – that happens in the best of families)? This poor child is being exploited and it doesn’t look, from the picture, that any of them except the mother are excited about the show.
Yes but the 9-10 month gestation period before the girl was born would put the mom around 14 years old when she got pregnant.
@Masque – not necessarily – she could have been 15 when she conceived and still had the baby at 15. Teenagers tend not to go full term especially the younger ones.
Maybe the oldest one is not his child? Maybe June got pregnant from someone closer to her own age like a boyfriend at the time and then, years later, got married to this Sugar Bear person.
I mean, that’s just one option, no need to assume the worst!
If they locked up every white trash hubby that got a 14 year old pregnant the entire Mud party industry would go belly-up. NASCAR would also be devastated
Quick! Choose: Honey Boo Boo’s family or the Kardashians?
I’d choose a punch in the face.
I knew I should have hitched a ride on the Curiosity Rover.
You both win!
Rednecks. Disgusting. Poor kid.
Mouth-breathing white trash at its finest >:(
I thought they banned for racism around here? If this was a black family and someone called them “black trash”, they’d be banned but I guess it’s only OK if you’re white. And please don’t anyone give me that horseshiat about how only whites can be racist because that’s BS. Racism is racism and when you use someone’s race as an insult that seems pretty straightforward. Of course I don’t expect anything but excuses and more anti-white racism but I felt compelled to point out the hypocrisy.
These are the people who live UNDER the trailer, not in it.
@sunmoonstars
as a person of color.. I don’t use the phrase White trash. but I know many of my white friends that do. So not sure how that fits into the racism arguement. I don’t like the term.
These people are trashy and color has nothing to do with it. .
Sorry, this reply is for Sunmoonstars: I think the most important consideration is whether the target is still in a position of privilege in their country and this vile family is white in the south so it’s not really racist at all.
Oh dear and people complain about piratet movies.
Who the hell chooses to watch this hell of television, when you can watch all kind of acclaimed A++++ stuff on the net *baffled*
I have nothing nice to say & just came here with the observation that little boo boo looks just like Hayden Panettier.
except chubbier.
I was thinking the same thing! Mini-me version of Hayden P.!! Weird.
Haha Yes indeed…I actually thought it was her until I looked closer and realised it was a little girl.
Wow. Just…wow.
She is NOT a cute kid ( and i feel ok saying this since they are pimping her in pageants and tv like she is) Homely at best, the sassy gross “black Gurl” act is even more offensive than her gross ass family at large.
I agree..totally not cute. And totally unhealthy looking (through no fault of her on). So sad. And annoying.
she is ugly!
They are the biggest hick family ever. And they seriously gave the nickname “Chubbs” to one of the girls?
I dont mind the little piggie. Pig’s are actually quite clean animals.
The pig is the most attractive and articulate family member.
Yeah, that was bitchy. And I don’t even feel bad about it.
Ya the pig is looking at them and shaking its head in shame.
*BARFS*
I don’t have cable or hardly watch tv. I can’t believe this even exists …… I gave up on tv in 2006. And I’m much happier. I watch what I want through Netflix mostly educational documentaries when I do catch shows at others houses like this I feel BARFY also.
If we don’t watch it…
It will go…away…
We have the POWER…LET’S USE IT PEOPLE!!!
LOL!!!
I just thought the exact same thing wow….just wow and so not in a good way. So will the pregnant teen get to be on Tenn Mom? Honey Boo Boo just doesn’t stand a chance.
They can do a reality show cross-over!
O___o
they will give anyone a show, and it’s truly disgusting..
Not anyone, only the worst ones. These days it’s really hard to find a show centered around normal, intelligent people with something clever or at least not flat out moronic to say. But it’s not an American thing (as some posters above worried), I’m from Europe and I’ve seen shows about equally horrible people in Poland, Germany and the UK. I’d love to visit the USA (it’s one of my biggest dreams, actually), preferably to go on a road trip across the South and I doubt anyone with half a brain could think that this family is the representation of people from Georgia or the Southerners in general. The only thing they might represent is the universal stupidity.
*Sorry for any language mistakes.
That kid is not cute. She is deranged.
And what”s with the mom’s evil face that she keeps making?
Unfortunately, I see no need for subtitles. I speak redneck. Bless their hearts. I don’t know about all y’all; but I’m thinking as far as pageant families go. .. ..
Yeah, in leaving that thought unfinished.
This show is going to be a hit because most people like to watch shows with dysfunctional families, I guess it makes their own family look normal.
Yes! And a lot of people watch this stuff to make them remember their problems could be worse.
I’ll stick with “Raising Hope,” my fantasy version of this train wreck. Better acting, better writing and for sure a much happier outcome for all involved.
Raising hope is like the disney version of this trainwreck family. You just reminded me I’m way behind in that show though.
I watch What Not To Wear and TLC has been promoting this every 5 minutes. TLC really has no shame, nor does any adult who consented to this abomination.
Love LOVE the caption under the first photo! That has to be a purposely bad promo shot.
I even hate to point this out… but the age of consent used to be a lot lower than it is now.
And I suspect no one was upset when our girl here… the future Mother of the Year… got pregnant at 14/15 years old. (I believe Georgia’s age of consent currently is 16.)
And it seems like when I was in school in the 80’s… that most southern states had it set lower, like 14.
“Pregnantest” and “testerosterone” are my two faves, I think.
Are the parents married? Not that it makes a difference when those stunning genetics are combined, just curious…
And were the tp-ing their OWN yard?
That child needs a speech therapist. How does a woman grow so many chins in only 32 years? I just can’t with these under-read, over-fed knuckle dragging mouth breathing troglodytes. Honey DooDoo’s parents must have met at a family reunion. Wait…what?? Do they actually eat roadkil?
She’s like a tree, but instead of rings she grows a chin for every year she is alive. That’s how you can tell how old she is.
Nearly spit out my coffee!
Haha!!
Can’t stop LAUGHING!
That’s hilarious!
To be fair, she really only has two chins. One is her actual chin, and the other is just sagging fat melted together so it forms one giant chin
OMG you guys are killing me. Can’t breathe……
When I say “some people should not be allowed to reproduce”, it is definitely meant for people like this. They should rename this show, “Honey Boo Boo’s Road to Heart Disease, Stroke and Teen Pregnancy”. It is sad and alarming that people exploit their own children like this, make money off of being disgusting, uneducated slobs and networks like TLC prey on it.
+1^ I find it very disturbing that they’re sitting in an auction house, bidding on old donuts and cakes. Step away from the cakes, ladies!
This is going to be a HUGE hit. Its sad but it will be watched.
Ugh.. but this is obviously what people want to see.. I don’t understand it but there you go.
@ lisa2
Yep…it will be watched & then everyone will pat themselves on the back & feel so superior.
The little girl really says “A dollar will make me holla?”
Isn’t this similar to the Tone Loc song about prostitution “I need 50 dollars to make me holla, I get paid to do the Wild Thang.”
I don’t doubt for a second this is where they got her catch phrase.
I was thinking the same thin Honey boo boo saying a “A dollar will make me holla?”. Makes her sound like a prostitute that shit is not cute or funny and her parents should be ashamed but we all knw there not.
Dipshidiots. All of them. Shame on TLC.
You can kvetch all you want, but the show got made because they KNOW people will watch it. Don’t yell at TLC, yell at the audience.
Why do you think there’s been like 35 seasons of The Bachelor?
And Jon and Kate Plus 8…and 50 Kids and Counting…and Sister Wives…all disturbing. All with a (at one point) big following.
UGH! Why are these shows even on the air? Disgusting.
Exploitation is unattractive. Exploiting people this unattractive is revolting.
My husband who has a giant disdain for reality TV actually wants to see this. Go figure.
They all need Weight Watchers.
NO no no…
people are always knocking skinny/thin
they are just curvy.
No, the mother is straight up fat and unhealthy. And it baffles me why she insists on speaking in that “accent”? (and I’m not referring to the southern accent; I mean the put-on one – I am from Georgia and do not know anyone who talks like that). It’s not cute at all.
People like this exist, even up North, and sadly I’m related to some. My cousin just traded a goat for a tattoo. Fortunately for me I live far away and have nothing to do with that side of the family.
Comment WIN !
LOL! A goat for a tattoo? Now that’s some bartering…
“A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”
These people represent a part of family which I believe is the reason my husband wants to watch this. He is a New York City boy and I am country hick at heart so there it is folks.
ha ha ha.. I have a cousin who got a “free” tattoo of his kids initials across his back, which is fine until you see it. The initials spell “skank” and he never realized it.Unfortunately I’m related to some of them too..
No, no & no.
I love how the mom refers to their diet. Does it LOOK like anyone is on a diet? Poor Honey BooBoo is already overweight. I think she is cute, and I want to take her away. Give her a bath, feed her properly, and spend evenings practicing reading with her, cuddled up in a calm environment. I want to save Honey BooBoo from the inevitable!!
She could be your very own Eliza Doolittle
Imagine what she’ll be like in high school. If she goes to school…..
Well, maybe you can start by calling her by her real name instead of Honey Boo Boo. 🙂
Good point rumbleseat! I wonder if someone can sue TLC for turning this little girl into a joke character with a joke name.
This is why we can’t find good programs on tv. It’s cheaper and easier to produce this garbage. Somebody is watching I guess….
This is disgusting. What trash. I feel sorry for those kids.
“A dollah makes me hollah” sounds more like a catch phrase for a prostitute, not a little girl. I come from hicks and these ppl are beyond that, they look/talk like carny. Its disgusting how important money is. I’m seriously considering giving up TLC.
I think it’s meant to be that way – she’s being her (mother’s) version of “precocious”, because she obviously got it from her mom. Of course they don’t really get that getting their daughter to act like an adult prossie when she’s a little girl borders on sexual abuse.
“A dollah makes me hollah” sounds more like a catch phrase for a prostitute, not a little girl. I come from hicks and these ppl are beyond that. Its disgusting how important money is. I’m seriously considering giving up TLC.
They bid on groceries? Where is this place? Do they have running water and electricity? ..The videos are so disturbing. These people are disgusting and out of control…People love to watch a train wreck, unfortunately.
Some auctions sell off food. For instance my dad got a big box filled with packages of blockbuster popcorn from an auction. Obviously the auctioneer (or whomever) bought some of the boxes (since Blockbuster is going out of business) and decided to sell them. I’ve also seen stuff like jam get sold at an auction. I don’t think it’s THAT unusual.
No, it’s not unusual at all. They have them all over the country. For example they might also auction off cases of food that would typically go to waste–like, when canned goods are accidentally mislabeled, instead of being given to the cannery employees or a food shelf, they go to auction.
I assume the food is expired. What’s worst, expired potato chips or expired Little Debbie cake???
And just noticed, the father bear has no teeth and he is young. Could it be from all those donuts, etc.? Extra nice, ya’ll.
I have to recant part of my post – the father does have teeth; you just can’t see them because his mouth is crammed so full of chewin tabaccy.
There is a family that rents houses in my are-N.C. and they are pretty much inbred and illbred but they are from Rochester, N.Y. They are like a can of roaches so at any given time there could be as many as 20 adults and 30 kids living in a 2 bedroom house. They know how to use the system so they always have food, clothing and housing.
Once they distroyed a floor joist in a house and had zoning rule the house unsafe so they managed to get out of paying 3 months back rent.
Someone who once lived in the Rochester/Buffalo area told me that upstate NY has the highest number of inbred families in the US. Don’t know if it is true but I’m sure those 50 people are cousins/siblings/married especially if they’re all living together. WE ARE ANIMALS!
The caption under the headlining photo is hilarious.
This is beyond horrifying. Words almost fail me. The mother scared the hell out of me when I saw them on Anderson Cooper, where she & Honey Boo Boo appeared in matching outfits. She said she gave her daughter “Go-go juice…to help her get UP for the judges.” That kid is up all right, probably for days.
I really don’t understand how TLC is still on the air.
Vile, just vile.
Why isn’t she in jail? Red Bull & Mt. Dew is basically setting her up for Diabetes before she reaches the age of ten. I don’t think her setup is endearing, or funny. It’s sad and pathetic. Poor kid never stood a chance.
Folks, this is Darwinian selection taking place before our very eyes.
In reverse. Haha!
No, I mean to its inevitable conclusion. You eat yourself into a giant ball, you will expire young, to put it nicely.
OK sorry, but earlier when i watched this I thought i’d be sick…terrible
but, just now, well, i’m started like this little kid…..kind a like to hang out with these guys. lololo
Oh my god, I am probably the only person that thinks this is funny. I think honey boo boo is a character!! And as for her family, I don’t really judge them…they are what they are, it is what it is! people are different, I don’t think they are harming anyone. they seem to stick together and love each other
If this is the type of show getting Nielsen ratings, they need to ban the current owners of Nielsen systems and reissue them. I can’t believe people willingly watch this stuff.
Before too long, the go-go juice will be bathtub crank and she’ll be shooting it instead of drinking it. This is not my wish, but my fear.
It’s the Idiocracy in action-seriously that movie gives me chills at how accurate it is. But to make any of you Americans feel better…I’m Canadian and the area I went to high school in was full of these types. It’s not just you.
On the other hand I’m the same age as Momma Bear there…makes me think I should keep her picture on hand to remind myself that I’m actually aging well.
This family could have made a cameo in Idiocracy… they are proof it’s really happening–that movie is coming TRUE. Seriously, last night on the news here, there was a story on how gatorade isn’t as good for you as WATER. My hand to god! LOL!
Idiocracy should be required viewing in every school in this country–and, it should win an honorary oscar this year.
I feel bad for honey boo boo. I feel like her parents are going to milk her for all shes worth and leave her a very troubled person.
Oh TLC, you make me feel so crappy when you put things like this on and I cant just enjoy my “Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding*,” in my own bubble of guilt.
*WARNING* watching this lead to harder things, like more shows on TLC, i may or may not have also gotten roped into Cheer Perfection and some miniseries abotu competitive Irish Dancing.
Also I notice you didn’t put up the video where she tries out her new catchphrase;
“YOU BETTER RED-NECK-COGNIZE,”
ugh, i cant with these people.
I’ve watched some really terrible television but this crosses the line for me. There’s something about the unhealthy state of that mother that makes me feel ill.
Lindsay Lohan 2.0
It just gets me that the majority of these comments are negative. What gives you the right to judge someone by your standards. What makes you think your life is better than these people. So they make fun of themselves, if it helps you get through the day then go for it. I’m from rural Georgia in fact the exact same area. I ride four wheelers in the mud, rain, sleet and snow. I go to auctions and sometimes buy things. I dance in the rain. I swim in the lake and ride jet skis. I ride motorcycles down mainstreet Daytona Fl, and I’ve seen alot worse on that street than I’ve seen in my town. Don’t judge people until you know who they really are. Mike “Sugarbear” is a volunteer fireman and first responder, who Thank God was there with my son, He responds to almost every emergency call and works his ass off to support that family, so don’t you judge him from what you see. Its entertainment folks and thats all it is. And June coupons to save a dollar, so what’s so wrong with that, and please this over weight thing, well you better be looking all around, because the majority of American Citizens are over weight. By the way I graduated high school and college and I don’t think for one minute I’m better than them or you, I just want to get through this life the best way I know how, just like you.
I agree with some of this. My major problem with them is, after seeing Toddlers and Tiaras I just CAN’T like June. From the little clips I’ve seen Mike seems like a pretty cool guy.
June however, had her daughter sticking her chubby gut out for some strange reason while practicing her routines. The woman belched loudly and I don’t recall any ‘excuse me’ or anything following it. She lacks class. I have nothing against couponing, or auctions or 4-wheeling, or a country lifestyle. Hell, I love 4-Wheeling in the woods.
I have a problem with them pushing their daughter to be a ‘character’. When that kid gets older acting like a bossy little brat is not going to get her anywhere in life. I don’t expect them to be prim and proper by any means, but they could at least attempt to teach the little girl how to behave in a way that isn’t setting her up for disaster. And they need to cut out the redbull and mountain dew.
I think they probably have a lot of fun, and seem to really care about eachother, but there is a point where you have to pull yourself in and assess ‘is this behavior helping my kids?’.
When that little girl is giggling and genuinely having fun I can like her. I think she seems like a sweet kid. But this whole ‘honey boo boo child hollah for a dollah I’m a beauty diva’ schtick isn’t good. When she is grabbing her stomach and talking about showing it to the judges also isn’t good. I think there ARE good things about this family, but there are a lot of things that just aren’t good. I’m sure other families are the same- mine wasn’t perfect but they also didn’t pimp me out to tv and pageants.
Just as you have the right to think they are good people , others have the right to think they are not. Its funny you say not to judge but they chose to put their life on TV and to hype their child up on red bull and mountain dew and also to let her say and act the way she does and not to mention the rest of them. No one is saying they are trash because they go to auctions or 4 wheeling they say it because of the way they present themselves. So get off your soap box, because I guarantee just like the rest of us you judge people as well.
Eh, I get what she is saying. Lord knows what people would judge about my family, and I think were imperfect but decent people. I think it’s not fair to judge people based on their socio-economic status. As long as they aren’t PHD joker-loving mass murderers, I see this as a funky family doing their best. I think people should lighten up about this family. Just because they aren’t as “smart” as you, or are as “classy” as you,or have a lot of money in the bank, still doesn’t mean they should have their children taken away or be looked at as bad people! We’re all different and if you are trying your best to do good with what you’ve got, I’m cool with that! Honey Boo Boo looks she she enjoys the pageants anyways
The sad part of this whole thing, the part I am critical of, isn’t the family – it’s that the Hollywood TV-making people are putting this show on as a freakshow: the producers will encourage it and edit it that way. These negative comments about the family itself are misdirected. As Celebitchy wrote, she didn’t pick the most unflattering photo, TLC did. On purpose. Remember you are criticizing a family based on heavily-edited footage by a shameless company with an agenda to exploit these people.
ITA. TLC doesn’t have this family on because it thinks they’re a paragon of family values and love – it’s going to gouge them of every last strip of dignity and hang them out to dry.
PJ, I agree with you except for the atv part. Those things are seriously dangerous and unless you ride them only on your own land, really obnoxious to your neighbors.
Why would you need couponing if you’re getting food stamps?
Who the hell is going to watch this garbage?! White trash, rednecks, hillbillies. This family is a bunch of obese, uneducated, trashy slobs. And I never say that about anyone, but I just can’t deal with this family.
This is just straight up disgusting. The mom is hard to look at and I feel sorry for all those children. She has the manners and grace of a feral alley cat. What a pig of a woman.
I don’t watch TLC because I think all of their shows are exploitive and hard to watch.
Honey Boo there is going to have nothing but problems in later years. Diabetes, early pregnancy the list goes on.
This whole show should be used as a cautionary tale and those two are not fit to be parents. Gross.
I think you are being a little harsh!! We’re all humans, and they may be redneck but rednecks are humans too. they deserve to have their own family unit just like you and me. Classy/rich/affluent people get diabetes/heart problems (hello bill clintion), have monsters for children(helloooo the kennedys) and have teenage pregnancies too (helloo the palins). Just because they’re different , everyone wants to be condescending I think. They have every right to go down to the auction to buy food and goodies! why NOT? Honey Boo Boo wants to do pageants. why NOT? the girl got pregnant at 17? shit HAPPENS. Just my imo
I don’t think anyone considers Bill Clinton or the Palins “classy”. And members of the Kennedy family have been involved in shady, undignified and criminal dealings since the 1920s.
I understand the point you are trying to make mela, but I think you need to find some better examples.
Money and success don’t always equal good breeding and behavior; and the reverse is true as well.
Thank you, you prove my point. Palin did run for VP of the free world, love her or hate her, Bill Clinton was president of the free world. The rich and affluent, no matter how imperfect they are, are rewared with fame, fans and money but they are no better than people like the honey boo-boo’s so why hate on them so much! it’s hypocrisy. The Honey Boo Boo’s aren’t doing any harm. If anything, they might get some money and a foot up on the economic ladder. Besides, they look like they are having a good time with their family! And the dad is a firefighter apparently, which is a respectable profession. All I see with this show is a good laugh and absolutely nothing to take serious
This show is a study in human dynamics and details the results of swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool without a life preserver. In 6 weeks when the study is over they will become the poster family for spay and neuter!!!
People have been watching the simpsons and loving it for years.. this is just with real people.
I see Honey Boo Boo’s Mommy is a Honey Boo Blob.
So sick of these effed up Mom’s trying to live through their children and the lowlife networks who give them reality shows. Enough with the disgusting child exploitation!!
OMG! This is going to be awesome!!!!
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Just when you thought reality TV couldn’t get anymore ridiculous. I love it!
Whew! Me, too. I was starting to feel like a puppy kicker because I was amused by the show and not outraged by it. Jeez-you’d think they’d organized a mass murder or something. Yes, there is a lack of manners, a lack of class if you will. But I came away from watching this show thinking, “Here’s a family that really cares about each other, watches out for each other, takes what life gives them, and has fun with it.” I have a graduate degree, have never been arrested, and don’t show my belly or boobs in public and I thought them jumping in the mud pit looked kinda fun.
I gotta give it to hardworking generally decent people like the Honey Boo Boo’s who wave their freak flags high and give the proverbial middle finger to the critics.
You only live on this planet once, might as well enjoy the life you were given, your situation in life and embrace and love yourself. I don’t know, am I totally crazy?! totally way off???
I don’t believe for a minute that this family “embrace and love themselves’ and are ‘celebrating waving their freak flag high’. Give me a break. I bet that mother is a mean nasty piece of work who exploits her daughter for her own gain and is a miserable wreck off camera and is more judgmental than all of Celebitchy combined. And the Dad? How together can he be continuing to put up with his wife’s behavior and letting her raise the kids so unhealthy and undisciplined? Fail.
He may be a fire fighter, which I think is awesome. It’s hard and heroic job.
However, his judgement is skewed completely. He was 22 and she was 14 when she got pregnant for the first time.
This is the biggest collection of recessive genes that I have ever seen.
LOL!
Let’s be real. They are choosing to exploit themselves for money in order to gain a better life later on. Look at the Jersey cast, Kate Gosselin, geez even Kardashian – each raking in more than they were prior to their reality life.
ALL of whom make my skin itch, but hey, I get it.
They aren’t doing it to make their live better, thier doing it for attention.
Really how did the money make Jersey cast, Kate Gosselin, geez even Kardashian lives any better? Most if not all of these people would have been better off with out it but greed is a green eye moster and once they got the attention they can’t seem to let it go.
All of them are the exact same complexion of a pot bellied pig.
Why do people want to watch this? TLC is profiting on misfortune and stereotypes. The people who agree to ‘star’ in these programs are especially unfortunate for making a spectacle out of their situation. I don’t think it’s amusing or funny to put yourself out there to be ridiculed in exchange for money, wherever you’re from. These people should be ashamed.
just watched the videos.
oh my god. there is absolutely nothing appealing about that child. she better enjoy these pageant days, cause by the time she’s 10, she’s going to weigh 500 lbs.
and that food auction… ay yi yi..
Since when can pageants be referred to as “a sport”?
TLC has sunk to a new low. Rewarding idiocy like Honey Boo Boo has become the norm in our society, and TLC has lost a viewer in me. I’m sure they couldn’t give a rat’s ass.
I’ve never watched any of these shows, so I have to ask: does Honey Boo Boo have a real name, or…is that it?
It’s the most horrible family I have ever seen! Disgusting and FAT! Trailer trash,and the way they speak can’t even understand them at times. Whole family is FAT & disgusting. I for sure will not waste my time. And the poor little girl a couponer..get real Child please go get adopted. Her MOM has 3 chins, poor child I hope she doesn’t look like her mother when she grows up
please don’t insult people who live in trailers. if you cant tell from the footage, they live in a house. My husband grew up in trailers and he is a fine upstanding individual in the military and finishing his Masters degree. Trailers are just homes built on land you already own for less than 50K. Most people who live in Trailers that I know are the most debt free people I’ve ever met. So call them what they are, rednecks lol
Wow..
American TV and subtitled :/
TLC has become the trash channel. Just the fact that they believe people want to see these people is insulting. As for the family, this is what happens when people interbreed.
I am a fan. I will watch this show. Honey Boo Boo and her family will make for some good television. Yes, I used to work for NPR and PBS. Produced local news at the ABC affiliate in Philly. Yes, I am an eastern intellectual snob. I just know compelling television.
People like you are the reason why they air this trash.
Pollo, you sound like a “Do as we believe” Christian, in that you think everyone should like/accept only what you like, and despise everything you hate.
We all have different tastes. Some people like Country music some can’t stand it. Some people like Horror films some can’t stand it.
This show is Country and Horror all wrapped in one and it looks delightfully entertaining to me.
I too will be watching this show if only for the sheer hilarity that is promises.
As some have mentioned before many of you haven’t been in such an uproar when offensive depictions of African-Americans were broadcasted on these stupid reality shows, but now that it hits a little closer to home you’re up in arms? Hmmm…..
Whether it is filmed or not these hillbillies would still be rubbing mud on their bellies and belching while cutting coupons. It’s funny.
Funny as hell!!!!
Get over yourself and your self-righteousness to b**tch at people because they like something you don’t approve of.
@ Sarah-
Wow, unbelievable. I don’t even know where to start with nasty comments like this. You’re assuming an awful lot about this person, don’t you think????
And I don’t think there is a show about a black family anything like this — it would never get aired!
I cannot believe that anyone would think this is ‘compelling’. You’re joking right?
Then don’t watch it. I know I won’t!!!!
TLC – ‘The Learning Channel’ – ya right. Learn how to be trash. They should change the name to Trash Loving Channel.
You know, this is the real face of poverty in America. intellectual poverty. Now im not saying everyone has to be a braniac because thats not fair to those who are content with simplicity but the fact there are people like this who probably have I-Phones, spend thousands on pageants for their 5 year olds and yet collect EBT (food stamps) irritates me. Hopefully they use the show to save up for Honey Boo’s college fund and with a pregnant teen in the house, they’ll need all the money they can get
well said, i agree and damn smart outlook…”intellectual poverty”…oh. snap.
Ew what a bunch of rednecks. Who the heck else would name their kid Honey Boo Boo. Canyou imagine her applying for her first job in ten years with that name?
It’s not her real name. It’s her nickname. Her name is Alana,
I didn’t know that. I’ve never actually heard of this family until yesterday. Still pretty bad though.
The truth is, it’s normal to be shocked and disgusted by this behavior. It is frightening to have such little respect for yourself that you purposefully and publicly feed your children unhealthy food, drive recklessly and dangerously on atvs, and think playing in mud is a perfectly acceptable entertainment for children AND adults.
Many people are understandably repulsed by behavior like this because generally speaking, if a person doesn’t have respect for himself; he probably doesn’t have respect for anyone else either.
Nope. People with low self-esteem and/or lack of self respect do not initiate feelings of “disgust” in me. Some beautiful people in my life taught me empathy skills.
This family reminds me of the “Bacon is Good for me” little boy that was on Wife Swap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9NMu4R_S8
What a classic!
Maybe that kid and his family will get their own show. It would be just as entertaining.
Good grief, that’s a promotional photo? An intentional one?
As a Southern girl born and bred, I have a serious problem with the “characters” portrayed on this show. There seems to be a trend on television of glamorizing (or perhaps exploiting is a better word) ‘rednecks’. Maybe it started with Larry the Cable Guy. The problem is that most of us who grew up in the country (aka the rural south in this case) have manners, respect, decorum, and a healthy fear of God and our Mommas. These people display NONE of these traits! My Granny would say they are just plain “uncouth”! Will NOT be watching!
I feel for you. I have alot of friends in the South and they are nothing like these assholes but sadly these are the only southerns you see on TV and it pushes this stupid stereotype that I do think is kind of vile that it’s accepted.
To think TLC actually stands for “The Learning Channel”.
and clearly by the looks of them…they are still in the uhhmm….’early’ learning stages!
like…the ice age, early, learning stage!
These people remind me of some of the neighbors I have living around me.
and…CUE THE BANJO!!!
deer deer deer deer durrr durrr durrr deee durr…deer deer deer deer durrr durrr durrr deee durr…
God damn honey boo boo you play a mean banjo! I bet you can squeal like a pig!
their necks could not be any redder if they had a necklace of empty bud beer cans draped around them…
LOL too funny!! I was totally thinking “holy Deliverance!” when I first checked out this story. Thanks for the giggle 😀
LOL @ the first picture caption
“This is a promotional photo from TLC. I did not just pick the worst photo to use”
That is an ugly looking kid.
Oh who am I kidding? I’m gonna watch the sh*t out of this show!
DISGUSTING!
About the early marriage: it’s partly due to circumstances where further education doesn’t seem useful since jobs available don’t require it and there is no family tradition for it, especially for girls. Plus they may avoid abortion and may or may not have access to (and education in) various forms of birth control.
But also certain cultures expect marriage when a baby is on the way- or even expect early marriage before having sex, then early divorce may be just as acceptable so a very young person may already have been married more than once. Basically, when the relationship gets to the “having sex” part, instead of heading for the back seat of a car they just go ahead and get married. One famous example was the Great Balls of Fire guy, Jerry Lee Lewis, who got blasted for marrying his 13 year old 2nd cousin – not a big deal and very normal in their isolated community, but a shocker to the more “sophisticated” urban crowd. His wife couldn’t understand the fuss, since one of her sisters got married at 12 and the other at 14. Lewis was about 19 at the time and already had been married at least once. Elvis Presley also came from a culture that was comfortable with early marriage for women – his relationship with his future wife started when she was quite young, in her early teens, although they waited to get married.
I knew a woman from a nearby state who married at the age of 12 (her husband was 19) to get away from her abusive father. (I also knew two young women in my college who married while still freshmen for the same reason. ) But when abuse is not a problem, often the young married couple lives with the wife’s parents for quite a while. The guy is expected to be older so he can get a paying job. So the reasons for such patterns may be more complicated and actually more understandable than you might think if you come from a culture that encourages women to delay marriage and pregnancy until they’re in their twenties and thirties, and also has more things for young people ( especially girls and young women) to do.
This is a pattern seen elsewhere also, especially in low-tech societies, but the pattern tends to linger quite a while after getting higher tech. You’re just sneering at these people because they live too close to you and have a little too much in common with you for comfort, rather than far, far away where you might not be so bothered by it and might actually respect their “traditional way of life”… That said- best of luck to little Honey Boo Boo.
Lol I live in South Africa one of our cable network (we call it pay tv) just picked up TLC and E channel and now we are bombarded by trash reality tv for the first time. I just hope they will save the money for the kid therapy later on
Some people should not be allowed to breed.
TLC used to stand for “The Learning Channel.” My, have times changed. Glorifying this behavior, this lifestyle just goes to show what is wrong with America today.
I’ll get flack, but this little girl better enjoy what she earns because she IS NOT beauty pageant material…she’s got future fat slob written all over her…
TLC should be ashamed to pay these disgusting people and give them their own show. TLC should get sued for this one. And doesn’t help that shows like extra and E news are promoting her even more by doing interviews with this disgusting child. Just another family thats making money for being over the top like the kardashians! Whats wrong with us America? Give a girl a show for doing a sex tape now giving a little child for being pathetic disgusting and obnoxious. Thanks TLC will no longer be watching your network. Give the money to people who deserve it like positive role models perhaps? Oh and btw I’m from GA this is not how we act!
I am from the south and i do consider myself redneck. but im clean, i have manners, and im not ignorant. those nasty people set a bad example for people like me.
I think some of you people should be ashamed of yourselves! Step out of your comfort zone and quit judging. Just because they act and live different than you, what gives you any room to say anything negative about others. They are a very happy family snd truly live o e another. Have you ever seen those other children that do that the pageants? They all wear make-up, they all dress the same and every parent has a concoction they give their child to hype them up. Their home is clean and their fed. The father works to support them. It just makes me nauseated to hear grown women comment so negatively about this child. Remember God is watching you and I’d bet none of you are as perfect as you think you are!
Dear Holly,
This is celebitchy not a knitting circle. if you dont like the snark there is the door go home. As for me these people are the lowest of the low as far as over fed and inbred and are truely revolting examples of humanity. BUT, this is the society we live in….we are now living in the glorification of the degenerate.
So just because there are a whole raft of these pageant tots that are fed caffeine and sugar as a drug to help them “perform”, and their mothers (and some dads) do their hair and tons of makeup that make them look like 25-year-old hookers, and they compete for who looks basically the most like a sleazy adult, that makes it all okay, then, does it? No. I am very much opposed to these pageants and don’t understand how anybody can condone this. They are exploitative and the adults teach these kids to be sexual, which is WRONG in my book. The “dances” they do onstage that I have seen embarrass me – they are sexualized, and most of them haven’t even reached the first grade! This is nothing less than fodder for pedophiles. See: Jon Benet Ramsay, and what happened to her, for pete’s sake.
I only hope that, after hearing all the inevitable criticism and backlash from this show, somebody steps out of the woodwork and talks to them and they decide to improve their lives, live more healthily, and clean up. Even tanning mom got a makeover and she looks great now.
I think some of you should be ashamed of yourselves! Step out of your comfort zone and quit judging. Just because they act and live different than you, what gives you any room to say anything negative about others. They are a very happy family snd truly live o e another. Have you ever seen those other children that do that the pageants? They all wear make-up, they all dress the same and every parent has a concoction they give their child to hype them up. Their home is clean and their fed. The father works to support them. It just makes me nauseated to hear grown women comment so negatively about this child. Remember God is watching you and I’d bet none of you are as perfect as you think you are!
I guarantee you, God does not condone these sexualized children’s pageants.
I think some of you should be ashamed of yourselves! Step out of your comfort zone and quit judging. Just because they act and live different than you, what gives you any room to say anything negative about others. They are a very happy family and truly love one another. Have you ever seen those other children that do that the pageants? They all wear make-up, they all dress the same and every parent has a concoction they give their child to hype them up. Their home is clean and their fed. The father works to support them. It just makes me nauseated to hear grown women comment so negatively about this child. Remember God is watching you and I’d bet none of you are as perfect as you think you are!
uh no…..no one I know gives their children a sugary caffeine drink to hype them up, I know of no one who prides themselves of obesity, and I know of no one who thinks that ghetto-speak in a normal and dignified mode of communication. And Honey Boo Boo is just symbolic of entire pageantier movement that the few intelligent and spiritually conscience people are sickened by.
People watch it and that is why it will stay on. This family is beyond disgusting and I pray this show is cancelled before they become filthy rich off being filthy people. Really America? Is this what you want to waste your time watching?
Honey Boo Boo is not any show family want to watch, it’s full of rudeness and plain ridiculous. Bad manners and acts are not something we want our children to watch.
And to reward anyone with this behavior is as ridiculous. I thought TLC was a learning channel, but this is not about learning anything our children need to learn, it’s plain gross.
all these people want to say how disgusting it is, but are you watching it? If you are watching it at all then you are part of the problem and they will keep making this sickening shit. TLC has been making this type of white trash crap for a very long time now. ever since kate and jon came along, it has been their mission to exploit ignorant attention starved bottom feeders BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING IT. White trash and immigrants love anything fat and loud mouthed, Charo-esque, or designer label doused. It is so embarrassing to even be on this planet. Waiting for the zombie apocolypse.
TLC= The Loser Channel
Let me just say that, that little baby (the one whos mother is the 17 year old) should be taken away from these losers.
I can only hope someone calls social services.
june sneezing and spiting all over… has anyone ever offered her a box of klneex… Then honey boo spiting and sneezing in the new babies clothes. babby has the allerg .chubbes and Punkin lay around braindead. Volcabulary farts, piss, shit, stinky breathe, crusty body. Oh, and MOMs forklift toe with the green worms comming ouy of it, Mama this is real educational…You are respoNsible for your babbies. What in the HELL ARE YOU THINKING BE SIDES MONEY AND YOUR OWN GREED….