Five things I learned from ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,’ ep. 9: ‘Bingo is a sport!’
I’ve never quite seen a reality show where the story lines are this inchoate but maybe that’s the point of Georgia’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.”
Who needs story lines? Bring on the snot!
Here are the five things I learned from episode No. 9:
- Vision is overrated. June “Mama” Shannon has a hard time seeing at the tender age of 32. I doubt it’s because she spent too much time reading. Or doing makeup. Her efforts to redneckorate her daughter’s face were poor, to say the least. “I have to squint a lot,” she says.
- Bingo is a sport. Mama says so! And we believe everything Mama says, right? Can Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson actually win a game for $1,000? Nope. But at least she knows how to spell it.
- Miss Georgia knows etiquette. Honey Boo Boo? Not so much. Miss Georgia 2011 Michaela Lackey of Marietta swings by to give Honey Boo Boo advice. “Are you that tall in real life?” Honey Boo Boo asks Michaela. “It is real life,” Michaela responds in that “bless her heart” tone of voice. When Honey Boo Boo lets pieces of chocolate cake mass around her lips, Michaela tells her gently, “That’s not cute.” Then she tells TLC in the most polite way possible: “Alana’s manners, they could be worked on.”
Honey Boo Boo’s rationale for one of her bad habits: “If I don’t talk with my mouth full, when am I going to talk?” True that. Honey Boo Boo does spend a lot of her time eating so that is a challenge. Honey Boo Boo also farts in front of Miss Georgia, who just grins and bears it. “She is very pretty and I don’t think she farts,” Honey Boo Boo concludes.
- Mama and a slip and slide are not friends. During Alana’s 7th birthday party, Mama attempts to climb the slip and slide — while the editors throw in the “Jaws” theme. Mama is more whale like, than shark like. But hey, whatever works, TLC editors.
- TLC’s tissue budget is apparently zero. When Honey Boo Boo sneezes and snot pours out of her nose like the “Attack of the Blobs,” the crew just sits there for about 60 seconds while the little girl tries to snort it all back in, her hands over her mouth. Finally, Honey just walks away. The editors helpfully include a hashtag #booboosneeze. That’s how the episode ends. Seriously.
The 10th episode first-season finale is next week.
In Honey Boo Boo news:
- Sugar Bear got into a mud boggin’ accident.
- The family is asking for a raise from an estimated $4,000 per episode to $10,000 per episode, according to the Hollywood Reporter. I presume that’s a bargain if it’s for the entire family. The show is averaging more than 2 million viewers per episode and a 1.1 rating 18-49.
- And Children’s Healthcare is questioning the dietary habits of Mama & Co. What??? Cheese balls are on the redneck food triangle!
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66 comments Add your comment
Rickster
September 20th, 2012
8:31 am
The five things I learned by reading this review.
1. “You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, but you can’t take the honky tonk out of the girl.” (Brooks & Dunn)
2. Reading this review was bad enough. I can’t imagine how bad it was actually having to watch the show.
3. Some things are just too gross to be on TV. Just because you can show something, doesn’t mean you should.
4. Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a Redneck if…” routine isn’t just comedy – it’s true.
5. If ignorance is bliss…. this is one estatic family.
DC
September 20th, 2012
8:31 am
Wow….just wow!
What does...
September 20th, 2012
8:42 am
…”inchoate” mean? And you can bet Honey and family do not know either…
And, obviously, they are not as dumb as they seem since they are holding TLC hostage to double their pay for next year while adding a “location fee” for using their “home”….
Metro Coach
September 20th, 2012
8:43 am
Rickster: to your #4, that’s why its so funny. The truth is so much funnier than fiction.
Headache
September 20th, 2012
8:51 am
They deserve millions lol I love that kid and that show.
Rodney Ho
September 20th, 2012
8:56 am
@What does… “Inchoate” in context of how I was using it means, not organized in any tangible way.
cwilliams
September 20th, 2012
9:22 am
The ending was just nasty and should have not been shown or someone should have offered her a kleenex . Even Honey Boo Boo had the sense to be embarrassed to the point she didn’t know what to do.
Jubie
September 20th, 2012
9:32 am
That show is child abuse.
Mercedes S.
September 20th, 2012
9:36 am
“someone should have offered her a kleenex” – from that first and only episode I watched it looked like the Boo-Boo “home” was lined with toilet paper. No reason for Mama not to offer her darling a home-made “kleenex”.
Mikey
September 20th, 2012
9:50 am
Who really CARES??????
Doofy
September 20th, 2012
9:52 am
HAHAHA!!!!! LOOK AT THE DUMB FAT PEOPLE!!! POINT AND LAUGH!!!! MY LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THEIRS!!! LET US REJOICE WHILE TLC TAKES THESE ALREADY MENTALLY CHALLENGED AND UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE AND MAKES THEM APPEAR EVEN MORE BACKWARDS AND REPULSING THAN THEY ALREADY ARE!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA I AM SOOOO AMUSED!!!!!! LAUGH HEARTILY AT THE IDIOTIC THINGS THEY SAY AND TURN THEM INTO CATCHPHRASES!!!! HAHAHAHAHA THEY ARE SO FAT DUMB AND UGLY!!!!!!!
Laziness Isn't Pretty
September 20th, 2012
9:58 am
Use the hundreds of online dictionaries:
“in·cho·ate/inˈkō-it/
Adjective:
Just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary: “a still inchoate democracy”.
Sharon H
September 20th, 2012
10:06 am
Just when you think TV cannot sink to a new low, we get this disgusting show. The dumbing down continues. This is also the poster family for heart disease and diabetes. Even the kids…With the obesity epidemic in full swing this is the LAST thing that should be shown to a gullible public.
Southern Comfortable
September 20th, 2012
10:44 am
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the fact that this family sees nothing wrong with the way they act or that TLC actually created an entire show for them. As a native Georgian I am ashamed by their perpetuation of the Southern stereotype that most of us try to avoid (ignorant, undeducated, bad manners, etc ). My parents raised me to be respectful and act accordingly, especially in public, while still giving me an appreciation and pride for being a Southerner, and I’m trying to pass that on to my son as well. I guess you can say I’m an educated redneck or sophisticated redneck depending on how you look at it. While I “can skin a buck and run a trot line” to quote Hank Williams, Jr, I try to apply good grammar, manners and ediquette, especially when I’m in public. I like biscuits and gravy AND filet mignon, albeit not paired together, and I’ve enjoyed fine wine and fine SHINE
but I have NEVER acted the way they do in public. Heck, my parent’s grew up with no electricity or indoor toilets yet they both got an education, used good manners, etc so economic hardships aren’t an excuse. I’m just saying…….
Lou
September 20th, 2012
10:59 am
Relax; it’s funny, just go with it! We all do and say things in the privacy of our own home that our family thinks is hilarious and to be honest, some things are just gross. We would be mortified if we thought someone from the outside could actually see us. This family on the other hand just laughs and goes on.
Rickster
September 20th, 2012
11:03 am
@”What Does” – Rodney love his Thesarus. It’s autographed by both Funk AND Wagnall !
T.S.
September 20th, 2012
11:05 am
I agree with you totally Southern Comfortable!!!
Rosita
September 20th, 2012
11:07 am
This little town, McIntyre, is near where I used to live (Milledgeville) and I used to get my hair cut about a block from where these folks live. . . from a woman whose house had an add-on “beauty salon” on the side.
Watching this show is like gawking at a roadside accident. You know you shouldn’t, and you’re disgusted, but it’s fascinating in a horrific kind of way. Yet, lest we be judgmental, maybe they are happy (if not healthy). As Mama June put it, “We love our little life.”
Rosita
September 20th, 2012
11:09 am
The grossest thing of all about last night’s episode, to me, a foodie — was the sauce June made for the “sketti” — butter (actually margarine) and ketchup. Ewwwwww……………..
vinny
September 20th, 2012
11:27 am
This only difference between the House Wives show and Honey Boo Boo is MONEY.
I apologize for the ones that do have genuine class, on the House Wives, but there are far an few in between.
I am glad I am middle class.
daveinh
September 20th, 2012
11:34 am
WHO GIVE A RATS A@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dum-Bass
September 20th, 2012
12:08 pm
Read or heard (forget which and where now) last night that the state of GA is considering pulling their Medicaid health coverage due to the money TLC (The Lunatic Channel) is paying them. Guess they could if they wanted to. Everything does not have a “silver lining”.
Oh, and “Southern Comfortable” you were sailing along doing good until you got to the end, then you lost all credibility. When you said “I’m just saying”, you blew it completely That’s about a -9 on the Intelligence Quotient. It’s almost as bad as using profanity in normal conversation(almost, I said).
Southern Comfortable
September 20th, 2012
12:28 pm
Dum-Bass you have obviously never heard of an ellipsis. Look it up. At least I didn’t say, ” I’m just sayin’” and correctly spelled the word “saying”. I do get points for that. In addition, my user ID uses complete and correctly spelled words unlike yours, though your ID does explain things.
im_so_fly
September 20th, 2012
12:45 pm
Say what you want about Honey Boo Boo and her family – at least they are keeping it 100! Their lifestyle is no different from anyone else..c’mon! who doesn’t act silly, sneeze with snot coming out the nose and fart around their immediate family members??! #GOTTALOVEIT
Ackshun
September 20th, 2012
12:47 pm
HAWT-DAMN I GLAD YOU WHITE FOLKS HAVE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE EMBARRASSMENT WE FEEL WHEN WE WATCH “REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA”
#DEATH2REALITYTV
tentativly
September 20th, 2012
1:01 pm
And we thought Jeff Foxworthy was just joking all these years…now we know better and why would the family still need medicaid or any federal assistance. The word is eTiquette by the way. Alana may be embarassed when she grows up and moves away to college. This is all she knows from the household in which she’s being raised. How would she know what having good manners is.
Mitt Romney
September 20th, 2012
1:02 pm
Hey, that’s my base you’re talking about. Be nice!
mateo
September 20th, 2012
1:11 pm
Bet she does not go to Agnes Scott nor
Wesleyan!
Dean Wormer
September 20th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Fat, dumb, and stupid is no way to get thru life.”
A_Jo
September 20th, 2012
1:19 pm
LOL @ Ackshun – I was kinda thinkin’ the same thing!!!
Reverie
September 20th, 2012
1:20 pm
Hey, fake Mitt Romney. Look at them. Fat, stupid, ignorant, exploitive, and blissfully ignorant of how destructive they are to themselves and others. That, my friend is the very personification of all things Democrat. Unlike little BooBoo, the Democrat will never understand how badly they have been played as a fool.
Oh Boy is this great!
September 20th, 2012
1:22 pm
I left Sfla where I can’t understand anyone to this. lol
Sailaway
September 20th, 2012
1:28 pm
Southern Comfortable – I too am a native Georgian. But the Thompson family is NOT an exception to the norm. They ARE the norm. Check out the people of Wal-Mart. I do believe that “sophisticated redneck” is an oxymoron. I believe the Thompsons are smart for their ingenious way to earn more money! 2 million viewers can’t be wrong. I believe the show is redneckilicious. Can’t wait for next season!
Jeff
September 20th, 2012
1:35 pm
People should be ashamed to even watch this increibly gross fat ass!!!! She is NOT a celeb, and should not gain national media attention for the entire family being fat, lazy, uneducated rednecks.
Not So Fast
September 20th, 2012
1:48 pm
There are parts of how they live that I’ve seen in waaaay too many actual southern homes. So we know the Boo-Boo Family is not making all this up entirely. But you have to wonder…how much is amped up for the cameras? Carefully calculated to create as much shock value as possible = more ratings = more money?
After 30+ years in the south, I’ve long since realized not all rednecks are as dumb as they sound. Yes, some are.
But never assume you’re not being played, especially by a reality TV show.
Dum-Bass
September 20th, 2012
2:00 pm
SOUTHERN COMFORTABLE, I don’t need to look up a word that obviously describes when the moon gets in the earth’s shadow. I too am edumucated like you. BTW, I take offense to anyone who denigrates my given family name. South GA is full of “BASS’s” and we are proud of our name. That particular version came from a friend in high school and it stuck with me for years after that. I gave a stupid answer to a physical science teacher’s question one day, and he was sitting behind me. He said, “you really are a “Dumb-Bass” aren’t you? I thought it was rather cute and innovative!
Peachy
September 20th, 2012
2:06 pm
Sorry. But I laughed my butt off watching this last night. These people are hysterical. but not in the hysterical “oh my God they are making fun of Georgia” way… but hysterically funny. If you can’t laugh at yourself, you should not be allowed to laugh at others.
Reality
September 20th, 2012
2:35 pm
Best Show On TV. Just check out those ratings! You have to admit that you like it because it’s a train wreck waiting to happen. Which is ironic considering that the Boo Boo’s actually have a train track in the back and side yard areas!
Danny
September 20th, 2012
2:39 pm
Well if you need some more quality programming and thought provoking content then head on over to VH1 and watch “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta”
Max
September 20th, 2012
2:41 pm
Honey Boo Boo is the product of decades of a system that was designed to keep people poor and dumb via low pay and poor education. They are the remnants of the sharecropping and textile world that exploited people all over the south. This family is now being exploited by TLC. If they are going to get exploited, they need to get paid more than 10k a show.
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skeeter
September 20th, 2012
2:43 pm
Yep, draw a fifty mile radius from the gold dome and you have a WHOOOOOOOLE different GA.
Delete ATL and we’re neck-in-neck with Mississippi.
Southern Comfortable
September 20th, 2012
2:48 pm
Dum-Bass you are correct: South GA is full of Bass’s. And yes, Dum-Bass is cute an innovative considering that Bass is obviously your last name, a fact I was unaware of until your most recent post. It’s funny how things that happen in high school can forever alter how you’re know to those around you. At least your nickname was “cute and innovative”. I’ve known some people who didn’t come off as lucky.
Tornado
September 20th, 2012
3:04 pm
They are white so they must be Romney supporters.
Kris
September 20th, 2012
3:11 pm
I cannot for the life of me understand why people watch this garbage.
LydiasDad
September 20th, 2012
3:34 pm
Why, oh why, do people watch this kind of stupidity? There’s a Presidential election in less than two months. People, quit wasting your time with this reality nonsense.
LydiasDad
September 20th, 2012
3:36 pm
Honey Boo Boo will be a drug user by 13, and dead by 18. Sad fact, but those making her a celebrity are contributing to the problem.
real life is scary...
September 20th, 2012
3:37 pm
I just wish their 15 minutes of fame would be up before there was too much damage inflicted on this family. Too late, money and fame (can’t believe I wrote that about them) will result in them crashing and burning… nothing good will come out of this.
you're all idiots
September 20th, 2012
3:43 pm
honey boo boo is actually a well thought out, well written tv show, and yes it is obviously heavily scripted, people who makle fun of the family for being fat- wow you’re so cool, they obviously have weight issues, so what, nearly half this country is obese so i’d say its a pretty accurate representation, despite the fact that they have a fairly modest lifestyle, they seem to have true love and enjoy each other’s company, over half of all marriages end in divorce, including many of yours who took the time to rip the family, and oh yea- the joke will be on all of you when this family ends up making more off two or three seasons of this show than most of you will in your entire lives, bottom line is- the kid is cute, the family loves each other, and mama june isnt as dumb as everyone thinks, her comedic timing and delivery are spot on and hey, fat woman can make it in hollywood right (melissa mccarthy anyone), i will definitely keep watching this fresh, original and entertaining show
322 Electoral Votes
September 20th, 2012
3:55 pm
Sorry Reverie, you’re obviously too dumb to recognize who the Republican base is. Those white trash “Christians” who live in the backwoods of states like Jawjah always vote for the white guy who likes God and guns and “don’t kill no babies”. Obama won the “educated” vote in 2008 and he will again in November. The race is over!! Go shoot your guns out of your trailer window or check on your next batch of shine.