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A Portrait of a Portrait of an American Family: A Day With the Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Clan
Rich Juzwiak · 09/26/12 10:35AMSomewhere on the brief walk from the Macon Mall's Spencer Gifts to rue21, a bright discount store glittering with pageant-level tackiness but no pretensions of refinement, somebody farted. Loudly. It was in the potential earshot of the staring kiosk workers in the Georgia mall, the mass of people who were trailing the nine of us, and even the paparazzi 20 yards ahead.
The Shining Moment of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Modern Television
Rich Juzwiak · 09/20/12 11:35AMOn last night's episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, 7-year-old Alana served Leaky Lindsay (the Garbage Pail Kid) when she sneezed, shot snot out of both nostrils and then held her hand over it for a minute. This aired unedited — televised vérité at its rawest. I wonder what Frederick Wiseman thinks of this show.
The Honey Boo Boo Family Has Reportedly Earned $40,000 for Its Services
Rich Juzwiak · 09/05/12 10:15AMTLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a show about class, and one thing people talk about regarding the Thompson clan (when they aren't cursing them for existing) is whether fame and fortune will spoil their appeal of being trashy beyond belief. If a piece in The Hollywood Reporter is to be believed, there's little risk of that happening...so far. Says the trade:
Goodbye, Glitzy: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo as Tearjerker
Rich Juzwiak · 08/23/12 09:45AMTLC's deliriously trashy Here Comes Honey Boo Boo makes a lot of people whine about the quality of TV (as though you can't just change the channel to find something to rest your highbrow on), the exploitation of children (as though this show is a cause and not a symptom of much greater cultural values) and the fall of civilization (as though we haven't been headed there anyway, and as though that even matters since the world is going to end this year). However, it hasn't made anyone actually cry (to my knowledge)...until last night.
What Honey Boo Boo Child Is and Why You Should Care: A Guide to Reality TV's Trashiest Sensation
Rich Juzwiak · 08/09/12 12:30PMLast night, TLC premiered its first Toddlers & Tiaras spin-off, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. It is a show that reinforces what its source has been trying to tell us all along: the families of those who enter their children into beauty pageants are way more fascinating than the pageants themselves. The show's resulting viral noise has been astounding. You know a piece of pop culture is onto something when many agree that is that it's signaling the fall of civilization. Not since Jersey Shore's debut have the pearls been clutched so ardently, the eyes fixed so steadily.