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How does this silly lame show still attract an audience?

posted 15 years ago by gargantuaboy
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Who exactly is the target audience here? Who watches this? Every now and then when I am channel surfing, for about one second I pass The Jerry Springer Show and I will see one of two things. It's either a fat woman screaming at somebody or it's a bunch of people on stage having a fake fight. I just change the channel as if it were a weather report or something, or an infomercial about a new kind of blender that can make guacamole in under six seconds without even using a knife! How does this nonsense interest anybody anymore? I understand if the viewer is very young and doesn't realize most of the show is staged and phony, But I have a feeling many people have been watching for years. Do the viewers actually think that there just "happens" to be a fight on EVERY SINGLE SHOW? The people on the show are obviously told to make fights and scream and it's all sort of like watching a not very good improv group with really bad actors. And Jerry's entire contribution seems to be to stand there with his arms folded with a smug smile on his face as the people on stage do their stupid fake fight. I guess what I can't seem to understand is, with the internet there are just so many weird and freaky things to watch on Youtube, the thought of turning on The Jerry Springer Show to watch some fat housewife scream at her step daughter in what is obviously a fake and rehearsed "argument", just doesn't seem all that compelling.

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

Well, there will always be an audience for garbage. Look at the stupid reality shows like Survivor, Amazing Race, Hell's Kitchen, and American Idol. People like to watch other people suffer. The only problem with Springer is that the guards break up the fights. Let them fight each other for an hour and run it out. That would be more interesting. I don't care for this show either. It is one thing to have a fight break out once in a blue moon, like on Geraldo. But to do it every day makes it boring. Also, the audience saying *beep* like "Go to Oprah!" is stupid too. She is just a fat jerk.

[–] Charlie_Runkle69 9 years ago

So you think Survivor and TAR are garbage, yet watch Geraldo and Springer. That makes alot of sense.

Those two are actually better than almost any network comedy this decade BTW, apart from community/parks and rec.

[–] Cobrabites 15 years ago

I can tell you who watches this from my own experience. Broke ass potheads. Honestly this show is ridiculous, but when I was broke, young and didn't have cable I use to watch this sh!t all the time. It made me and my friends laugh a lot when we were younger. But yeah I can't imagine watching ot now either.

[–] willydoe71 14 years ago

Well, I'm 38, not a pothead, and have a great paying job that I've been working for almost 14 years now, and I watch this show everyday when I get home from work. It's pure comedy to me.

[–] tbx5959 11 years ago

it is incredibly funny. it's on the ironic comedy mt rushmore

[–] BetaKappaZata 15 years ago

if you hate it so much why are you even here?? get a life already

[–] Shaftaire_of_Astora 14 years ago

It's really just about the novelty of going to a Jerry Springer show. The tickets are in free, so it's just something short to do when you're in town to burn an hour. Probably even make you feel better about yourself after the show. Obviously everyone goes for the "unintentional" humor of the show, because lets face it - Rednecks say the darndest things. But like I said, from what I can tell it's just the novelty experience of going to a Springer show.

[–] rp69 11 years ago

I used to watch this at work in my early twenties(1996) because we had no cable. I could not sit through it today as a fully functional adult though. This show is multi-generational now. There will always be another generation of teens to mid twenties that will find this amusing. The topics are timeless trash that they continually recycle for the next wave(It's new to them).

I seriously doubt that anyone watching in the 1990s is still watching today.
I'm only here because I'm home from work, and also surprised that it's still on in the exact same form. But it makes sense when you stop and think about it.

[–] hodie 10 years ago

I used to watch if when I had a day off from work. Now I'm retired and watch it more often. I find it pure escapism. The catfights are just so fake-looking. I assume that the guests are in collusion with each other and with the show.

Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!

[–] PuddinTaine 9 years ago

I occasionally get high and watch this show. Let's be real, I'm probably the target audience.

How do you like them apples?

[–] BHt88 8 years ago

Lame a$: ppl have always been around so..

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[–] Strannger (2007) 7 years ago

It's entaining, but the topics are repetitive lately with cheating.