LOVE this shit! Its such a train wreck that you cannot turn it off!!!!
'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo'
Judging from the buzz in social and dinosaur media alike, TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Wednesdays, 10 ET/PT) is either the end of civilization as we know it, or a loving picture of joyous redneck family values.
"And TLC wins again with another show I am hooked on:)," country singer Miranda Lambert burbled in a tweet last week; "a dolla makes me holla honey boo boo!"
VIDEO: McIntyre reacts to 'Honey Boo Boo'
Another, more-sour Twitter reaction: "SMH (shaking my head) at this nasty show. If go & act all crazy like I have no manners will they give me a TV show too?"
The latest entry in the reality sweepstakes, the half-hour show (which has drawn more than 2 million viewers a week in its first two weeks, TLC's top-rated show) follows the adventures of a self-described "crazy redneck" Georgia family , and their chubby little beauty-pageant princess, Alana Thompson, known to her familiars as Honey Boo Boo. She is 6.
She first appeared in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras as a pageant contestant and made such an impression as a vivacious charmer, the network snapped up the whole family from rural McIntyre, Ga. — 300+-pound mama June, short-and-silent dad "Sugar Bear" Mike, and sisters Lauryn (Pumpkin), 12; Jessica (Chubbs), 15; and Anna (Chickadee), 17 and pregnant — for 10 episodes.
The show follows the family's wacky lifestyle in and out of pageants. Cameras watch them engage in all manner of offbeat antics — extreme couponing, eating roadkill, playing in mud, eating off the floor, toilet-papering the house, sneezing, nose-blowing and passing gas. At one point, HBB's pet piglet Glitzy is allowed to defecate on the kitchen table while they all roar with laughter.
