Admittedly, I didn't really know what the whole here comes honey boo boo thing was about till today's thread prompted me to go and look it up. I just watched a few YouTube videos and read the Wikipedia page. :-| ^o)
Ok seriously, wtf. Is this for real? Ettm. Discuss. Whatever, I'm still in shock.
The weird thing is... they actually seem to be loving and supportive of each other. It's weird.
Agreed. I think it's not that atypical of a family in rural (straight up COUNTRY) America. At least they aren't doing meth? I'm interested to see how much they change in the 2nd season, with all the fame and whatnot.
It's an interesting merge of TLC topic shows: The mother is an extreme couponer, the child pageants, and then the "interesting" family show (Jon & Kate+8, 19 Kids and Counting, Little People Big World, Sister Wives, etc).
At my hair appt last weekend, I was flipping through a gossip magazine while my color was sitting and there was a huge feature on Honey Booboo. Turns out, we have the same last name. I choked on my coffee when I read that. I told H that, if it turns out I am related by marriage to the honey booboo child, I will undo my name change. It's a common name, so I'm hoping I am not, but, yikes.
I just posted about Honey-boo boo on my FB. Here's what I posted: "I have no idea who Honey-Boo-Boo is other than a very obese, apparently low-class reality child star, but last night she and her "family" were in my dream...and they had their own show because they were cannibals. Some members of the family were horridly deformed due to inbreeding, including many members who were only heads the size of cherry tomatoes and VERY sharp teeth and had attached all over me, chewing!!"
Seriously, I only know of her existence and what she looks like because I see posts people do on FB, but I've never even bothered to click to watch a clip or anything.