{"id":1289,"date":"2012-09-18T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2012-09-17T21:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:37:52","slug":"the-fall-of-america-the-rise-of-honey-boo-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/the-fall-of-america-the-rise-of-honey-boo-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"The fall of America, the rise of “Honey Boo Boo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up until a week ago, I’d never heard of the\u00a0 show Here Comes\u00a0Honey Boo Boo (on TLC<\/a>).\u00a0 I saw a friend’s Facebook status\u00a0mentioning Honey Boo Boo\u00a0but not knowing what she’s talking about, I overlooked it.\u00a0 Coincidently, about an hour later, I saw previews for Honey Boo Boo\u00a0and decided to watch it.\u00a0 To say the least, I was shocked.\u00a0 I didn’t even realize that the toddler\u00a0girl was Honey Boo Boo.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I thought the show was about her mom:\u00a0a white trash, redneck, mother of four who got pregnant with her oldest daughter as a teenager.\u00a0 This woman doesn’t have much tact, and she definitely does not look her age (which is my age actually).\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>At first I thought the show was a joke, and then\u00a0I realized the premise is actually based on beauty pageants<\/a>\u00a0for kids (spinoff from Toddler’s in Tiara’s).\u00a0 I have to admit, when that little chubby, funny girl gets all glammed up, she looks really cute.\u00a0 But that’s besides the point, and not to mention, I’m not a big fan of beauty pageants for young children anyways.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All that being said, I couldn’t take my eyes off the show.\u00a0 In fact, the following night I tuned in again and realized that there was a marathon of the show running all night.\u00a0 I’ll admit, I stayed up and watched two of the episodes.\u00a0 Here’s a few things I kept thinking as the show progressed.<\/p>\n

1. Why isn’t Child Services taking these kids away?<\/p>\n

2. They must be making enough $ from the show to move somewhere better.\u00a0 Or at least, away from the train tracks that are IN their backyard.<\/p>\n

3. Why someone would want a pig as a pet inside their house is beyond me.\u00a0 But then again, none of their other decisions really made sense to me.<\/p>\n

4. Why would someone in the low-income\u00a0bracket spend all of their $ on beauty pageants.<\/p>\n

5. Is the saying “that’s a hot mess” going to be the newest popular tagline like\u00a0Paris Hilton’s tagline “That’s hot!”?<\/p>\n

6. This show is a mash-up of various reality shows including: Toddler’s in Tiara’s, Extreme couponing, and swamp people.<\/p>\n

I think one of my favourite parts was having them talk about “dieting” (the 12-year-old\u00a0daughter weighs more than me) as they were all sitting on the couch, snacking on what was probably a bag full of heart attacks waiting to happen. Another classic favourite was when they went to their local department shop to search for “deals”.\u00a0 Their local department store turned out to be the local dump.\u00a0\u00a0This family really took it to the next level, including\u00a0rolling one of their daughters\u00a0in an old, scummy, used-up mattress (gross anyone?). I also think it’s pretty funny that they have to write out what they’re saying as part of the show (not close captioning) because of their “accents”.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t surprised by some of the twitter feeds going around a few weeks ago\u00a0including “America is in trouble when more people tuned in to watch Honey Boo Boo than the\u00a0Republican national convention” and “Obama recently claimed he’s never been more optimistic for the future of America.\u00a0Clearly, he hasn’t seen ‘Here comes Honey Boo Boo'”<\/p>\n

The problem is, I can’t stop watching this show.\u00a0 What is it about this show? I guess I am a reality TV junkie… Does anyone else out there feel the same way??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up until a week ago, I’d never heard of the\u00a0 show Here Comes\u00a0Honey Boo Boo (on TLC).\u00a0 I saw a friend’s Facebook status\u00a0mentioning Honey Boo Boo\u00a0but not knowing what she’s talking about, I overlooked it.\u00a0 Coincidently, about an hour later, I saw previews for Honey Boo Boo\u00a0and decided to watch it.\u00a0 To say the least, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The fall of America, the rise of \"Honey Boo Boo\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1343,406,5309],"tags":[1006843,137227457,137227456,74356638,34920942,143569,7003,5707,147562,5850],"class_list":{"0":"post-1289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-children","7":"category-family","8":"category-parenting","9":"tag-beauty-pageant","10":"tag-children","11":"tag-family","12":"tag-honey-boo-boo","13":"tag-parenting-2","14":"tag-reality-television","15":"tag-reality-tv","16":"tag-tlc","17":"tag-toddler","18":"tag-united-states","19":"entry","20":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe fall of America, the rise of "Honey Boo Boo" - 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