r/southpark • u/jogaargamer6 • Jun 24 '23
So... im not from the usa so when i saw this episode i tought honey boo boo was fictional like part of the show.... until i search her up. Meme
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u/icepop680 Jun 24 '23
People like to make fun of her but also forget that she was like 8 and definitely a product of her mother. It’s honestly just sad, but her mom lost custody and I think she and her sister are doing much better.
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u/jogaargamer6 Jun 24 '23
Im not making fun i genuilly tought she was fictional.
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u/icepop680 Jun 24 '23
No I’m sorry i know you’re not! I was not attacking you, just kinda saying like holy shit it really sucked for her.
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u/shadowthehh Jun 24 '23
Fact is often stranger than fiction.
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u/Soddington Jun 25 '23
Well yeah, but stranger than Southpark is a whole other level.
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u/shadowthehh Jun 25 '23
Less so when you remember South Park thrives on making fun of reality.
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u/MikeSihl Jun 25 '23
Don’t worry, there’s a lot of people who I thought were fictional until I found out they were real. I honestly didn’t know who Kanye West was and thought they made him up for South Park as a parody of Puff Daddy but made him even more egomaniacal. I don’t know how he flew under my radar because after I found out he was a real person I kept hearing about him.
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u/seanbiff Jun 24 '23
Her mum supposedly spent $1m on cocaine
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Jun 24 '23
That's just the tip when it comes to how her mum treated her kids
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u/Kalse1229 Jun 24 '23
Isn’t her biological father (whom her mother willingly entered a relationship with and opened her home and family to) a sex offender as well? Pretty sure that got their show cancelled.
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u/luckiexstars Jun 25 '23
I thought Sugar Bear was her dad? June said he was physically and emotionally abusive (coincidentally after she got called out for dating the sex offender) but not that he molested Alana or her sisters.
(Then again, my interest in this family went to 0 with the sex offender involvement and "Mama June got hot!" publicity. She and Memaw Angela from 90 Day Fiance are the proof that surgery can't fix ugly.)
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Jun 25 '23
yeah i’m pretty sure he actually raped/touched one of the older daughters, i remember hearing something about that
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u/LANewbie678 Jun 25 '23
Nah, it was the mom's new/old boyfriend who was a pedo according to the one daughter.
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u/Viking_Lordbeast Jun 25 '23
I thought cocaine was supposed to help you be skinny. Or at least below 600 pounds.
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u/TOW3L13 Jun 24 '23
Everything got better for her since James Cameron raised the bar.
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u/TACHANK Jun 25 '23
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because he is, James Cameron.
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u/slackdaddy9000 Jun 24 '23
It was never really making fun of her it's more criticism of the culture that allows these people to become famous. We somehow hit a point where instead of creating culture we decided it's ok to watch trashy families air their dirty laundry on television for views so people could feel better about themselves.
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u/vt8919 Jun 24 '23
Makes me think of the "Cash me outside" girl from Dr. Phil who appeared to be a complete waste of air but somehow became a millionaire because the clip went viral.
We reward the wrong people and wonder why the world seems to be moving backwards.
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u/CAWitte Jun 25 '23
I’m a veteran of the US Army. I went to Afghanistan from 2011-2012. When I came back I found out my mom and fiancé (now wife) passed the time watching Honey Boo-Boo. When they showed me an episode after I got back, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I said “what the hell happened while I was gone?!”
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u/icepop680 Jun 25 '23
Partly, yes, at least the part of the internet that understood that she was a product of her environment, and that reasonably she really didn’t have an option not to be on TV with the family she had. That’s what the South Park episode was making fun of.
Everyone else was making fun of her.
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Jun 25 '23
Okay, I love South Park but they were totally making fun of a little girl. It was pretty fucked up. If they were making a criticism of the culture, they would have just made up a fictional character. But they flat out mocked a small child who probably went to school the day after it aired and had to hear all about it. You’ve gotta admit that’s messed up.
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u/Minimum-Leopard7989 Jun 24 '23
I met her once at her school. She seemed like a good kid based off the brief interaction.
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u/ruttinator Jun 24 '23
Most people made fun of her mom, not her.
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u/PseudocodeRed Jun 25 '23
You got a real selective memory then. People DEFINITELY made fun of her more than they did her mom until more stuff came out about her moms drug addiction.
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u/Jabroni-Tony1 Jun 25 '23
The bar was super low. Until James Cameron pulled it back up
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u/jackinsomniac Jun 25 '23
His name is James, James Cameron!
Explorer of the sea.
No budget too steep,
No sea too deep,
"What's that?" "It's him!"
James Cam-er-on.
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u/HeisenbergX Jun 25 '23
And also the state of modern entertainment. The fact that enough morons watched that shit to keep it on for multiple seasons...
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Jun 25 '23
I think this was the only South Park episode that I thought was actually offensive. I have no problem with them making fun of adults, or mocking history/religion/etc, but they were making fun of an actual elementary school aged child.
Make fun of the mom all you want. But for them to be like, you’re such a piece of shit were going to make fun of you, to a little kid is really fucked up.
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u/Sitford Jun 25 '23
By “lost custody” you mean on camera her saying that she didn’t want her to her daughters face. Poor honey boo boo
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u/pawood689 Jun 24 '23
One of The Learning Channel’s golden geese
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u/tinfoil3346 Jun 24 '23
"Learning Channel" Lol.
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Jun 24 '23
Teaching people to belittle and make fun of others. Imagine your mom and a major network signing you up to be a lolcow
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u/KazPrime Jun 24 '23
TLC = The Learning Channel: Learning there is no hope for humanity.
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u/canichangeitlateror Jun 24 '23
Wtf all this time TLC has been acronym for The Learning Channel? You must be kidding my European ass
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u/BellowingBard Jun 24 '23
It used to be, they rebranded a while ago to just TLC
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u/Mustard_Icecream Jun 24 '23
That and the History Channel will be missed.
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u/cinyar Jun 24 '23
We know history channel was great, but new evidence shows ... it could've been haunted?!? Stay tuned after the break!
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u/BellowingBard Jun 25 '23
'Of course you can't prove there were no aliens at the first Thanksgiving! Just like you can't "prove" that... the Pilgrims themselves weren't alien! Can you prove that?! Here: draw that Thanksgiving turkey symbol with your hand! Maybe that symbol matches... galaxies in space or something! OooOoOoOooOOO!' - Kyle Broflovski [Ph. D., Professor of Thanksgiving - DeVry Institute]
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u/Mustard_Icecream Jun 24 '23
And its always someone really old haunting the place like,"Hey it's Scott" from 1993 remember.
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u/devilsadvocate1966 Jun 24 '23
Well.....look at MTV - Music Television
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u/honeybee71322 Jun 24 '23
I'm old enough to remember when MTV and VH1 actually did have music videos on them 😳🤣
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u/devilsadvocate1966 Jun 24 '23
Me too!
And that was probably also when The Learning Channel still had content that you could learn from.
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u/cinyar Jun 24 '23
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u/devilsadvocate1966 Jun 24 '23
I know why. It's because they can make more ad revenue from showing longer content. The same reason TLC show reality shows and not content that you can learn from. They only keep the original name because of recognition - not because it reflects the content shown on the channel.
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u/Zeqhanis Jun 24 '23
Yep. TLC and Discovery used to air science and nature programming exclusively. A&E (Arts and Entertainment) used to show ballet and opera. Nick@Nite aired about 40 classic shows from the '50s, '60s, and '70s instead of just 4 shows from the '90s, or whatever they're doing now. Content drift really homogenized entertainment.
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u/earl_lemongrab Jun 24 '23
And AMC (American Movie Classics) used to show classic films, some really good stuff.
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u/earl_lemongrab Jun 24 '23
It originally was a legit educational-focused channel. Back in the day it had some interesting programming. Somehow its content and focus drifted over the years to...whatever the fuck it is now.
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u/scotiej Jun 24 '23
I miss the time when The Learning Channel actually had shows where one could learn something useful and interesting and not the horrors of humanity.
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u/luckiexstars Jun 24 '23
The super early morning surgery shows that slowly got absorbed by the baby/delivery shows that got shifted off to the huge families/"lol look at the poor/fat/disabled people"/"support sex tourism under the guise of marriage" shows 🫠
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u/turquoiseflamingo Jun 24 '23
I’m only six and I’ve had three heart attacks, girlfriend!
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u/chipdougl4s Jun 24 '23
She’s got a pig heart now. She thinks she’s a pachyderm
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u/Hey_Dinger President of the Mel Gibson Fan Club Jun 24 '23
Mah pig heart make me sweeter than bacon, child
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u/Gapoly Jun 24 '23
So... I'm not from the USA when I saw this episode I thought honey boo boo was fictional like part of the show... Until I saw this post and I don't dare to google it
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u/jogaargamer6 Jun 24 '23
Please don't americans are weird.
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u/ExistingLoad1599 Jun 24 '23
You say we are weird and yet we are not weird. YOU CANT BLOCK OUR SHTYLE!
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u/Kalse1229 Jun 24 '23 edited Jun 24 '23
If we’re weird, you should see Canada. The South Park depiction is 100% accurate. Flappy heads, beady eyes, and thick accents.
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u/killer_icognito Jun 24 '23
And that bitch Anne Murray too!
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u/HeisenbergX Jun 25 '23
In fairness, we may have made Honey Boo Boo a celebrity, but we also have Matt and Trey to satirize it, so. It all evens out?
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u/Th3_Accountant Jun 25 '23
back in the days the first video on youtube when you looked for Honey Booboo really summed it up. I recall watching that and just thinking "this cannot be real". And yet... it was...
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u/BGTheHoff Jun 25 '23
It blew my mind that the pig scene in south park was nearly a 1 to 1 copy of a real scene. Just the heart thing was wrong, they wanted a pet pig. But even the "evil look" line was from the show.
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u/Opening_Advantage770 Jun 24 '23
i have thought so many things from south park are fictional, only to discover they are real.
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u/BigTelephone9117 Jun 24 '23
Like the Jonas brothers purity rings
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u/shokolokobangoshey Jun 25 '23
Excuse my wtf?! That actually happened with the rings??
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u/Th3_Accountant Jun 25 '23
Actually, quite recently they made a statement they regret the purity rings.
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u/earl_lemongrab Jun 24 '23
Yeah. The most disturbing of which was NAMBLA
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u/Liam2012---- Jun 25 '23
How can the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes be disturbing? They're just Marlon Brando lookalikes. Nothing disturbing about that, is there?
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u/superbadsoul Jun 25 '23
I remember lots of people thinking What What in the Butt was a South Park original song.
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u/lemonylol Jun 24 '23
That's so interesting. A lot of these episodes hit hard because they are airing as the event they're calling out is happening. So part of watching the episodes air live was figuring out what or who they'd be going after today.
Also if people think this is bad reality television from the 2000s is almost like living on another planet now.
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u/Ryguy55 Jun 25 '23
You're right, the show was so in the moment and having experienced it as it was all relevant, I can't imagine how confused young viewers must be about a lot of the premises. Does anyone have any idea who Paris Hilton is anymore? Britney Spears, or that nuts predatory paparazzi culture? Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich has become one of the most popular episodes, but I'm sure younger viewers don't know who John Edwards was or how insanely popular his show was for a hot minute, not to mention that whole, "vote or die," thing that was totally real.
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Jun 24 '23
I only found out today that the million little fibres episode is based on a real event, I love it even more now
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u/Yanrogue Jun 24 '23
didn't the mom have a massive drug habit spending shitloads on nose candy?
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u/king-of-new_york Jun 24 '23
she also married the same pedophile that assaulted Alana when she was little. (Honey Boo Boo's real name) She recently graduated highschool and she lives with her older sister.
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Jun 24 '23
Always considered that to be a pinnacle white trash show
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Jun 24 '23
Coming from a white trash family I can confirm. They still tune in every Friday for her new show
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u/RockNRoll85 Jun 24 '23
Wonder if she’ll ever make it past her 20s lol
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u/Seve7h Jun 24 '23
Honestly thought she was older because of how long ago that show aired
But apparently she’s 17 and just just graduated high school last month
Really hope her and her family can use whatever money they got left from the show to try and get healthier, her moms lookin rough.
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u/phil67 Jun 24 '23
What the fuck?? Doesn't she have a kid? I thought I saw her show and she was at LEAST in her 20s with that kid.. Goddamn
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u/WjorgonFriskk Jun 24 '23
I just re-watched this episode yesterday because I kept seeing James Cameron on TV taking about the Titan imploding. Absolute classic/hilarious.
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u/Razakel Jun 25 '23
James Cameron is the first person to solo dive to the Mariana Trench, he actually is an expert on deep sea exploration.
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Jun 24 '23
When I was a kid, I thought, trey and matt make their own crazy stories. Only in my late teens my english became good enough to dive into american culture to realise, this show was a satire about real events from the start 💀
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u/CompetitiveAd1192 Jun 24 '23
I felt exactly the same when I saw the situation and snooki....... it was the day I gave up on us
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u/lucky7hockeymom Jun 25 '23
I actually feel super bad for Alana. Her whole family was messy. I think her sister has guardianship of her now. She was just a tiny little thing when her mom put her on tv the first time. She was only 5 or 6. Then she acted how she was coached to act in order to stay on tv. At 5, your diet is 100% your parents’ responsibility.
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u/The_Crip_Sleeper Jun 24 '23
Almost everything they reference is an actual real thing and a lot of it is local Colorado lore, and being a Coloradoan myself makes it even more funny.
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u/XBL-AntLee06 Jun 24 '23
I’m from the states and didn’t realize Casa Bonita was a real place until a month ago lol
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u/lemonylol Jun 24 '23
Casa Bonita is like a single restaurant though so even if you're from the states you likely wouldn't know.
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u/Razakel Jun 25 '23
Matt and Trey bought it and hired a renowned executive chef. They're trying to make it actually good.
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u/Accomplished_Role922 Jun 24 '23
Bro she looks like cartman but as a girl and when I say that I mean the character design
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u/thestenz Informative Murder Porn Jun 24 '23
I live in the US and when I first saw the episode (when it first aired) I didn't know she was real.
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u/Past_Contour Jun 24 '23
Reality officially became stranger than fiction in the mid-2000s, and we haven’t looked back.
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u/Life_Ad3567 Jun 24 '23
I was quite shocked to find out Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was a real show. I was laughing hysterically at her in South Park, but I did not have the same sense of humor for the actual show.
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u/sfchubs Jun 25 '23
Before I moved to the US, I thought the whole show was fictional; until it wasn’t
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u/LeiatheHutt69 Jun 24 '23
I thought she was fictional too. When I discovered she was real, I was disgusted.
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u/Hefty_Standard_7526 Jun 24 '23
that’s so funny, bc I thought honey boo boo was famous worldwide✋
but feel like a lot of South Park’s humor drives from being American, specifically Coloradan bc sometimes the stuff they do r direct references to growing up in Colorado, like personally being from The South, I can’t imagine it casually being snow / cold all the time
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u/st3wartburn3s Jun 24 '23
I'm 28 years old and I'm still afraid to watch that show. I don't think I've ever seen more than clips on you tube
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u/jogaargamer6 Jun 24 '23
Im still questioning of someone actually watched the show because they like it
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Jun 24 '23
EVERY country has those people. You aren’t American so you don’t have fat and stupid people in your country?
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u/biplane_curious Jun 25 '23
I felt the same way about the Jonas Bros spraying foam on their audience
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u/NathairGlas Jun 25 '23
I'm in the UK and honestly thought 'Southern Fried Homicide' was made up by South Park until it was broadcasted over here, I was shocked!
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u/cbunni666 Jun 25 '23
Oh god I just noticed her teeth. (Starts drinking to try to forget) That satire was a dumpster fire but so was that whole Honey Boo Boo thing and it's spin offs. They nailed it.
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u/Electrical-Trash5929 Jun 25 '23
For me it was just the name for a burger in a place en Mexico, then I saw the show and thought it was a South Park reference and then I googled her
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u/reverendjesus Jun 25 '23
Wait they have a Honey Boo-Boo Burger‽
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u/Electrical-Trash5929 Jun 26 '23
Why of course! It’s a maple glazed donut burger. Here’s a TikTok with the “día de muertos” honey boo boo special https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2fGJEXB/
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u/JapaneseStudentHaru Jun 25 '23
I feel pretty bad for her. She was only 8 at the peak of her fame and it wasn’t her choice to become a TV lolcow. Plus, her mom traded almost all of their possessions for drugs and dated a sex offender. She was clearly in an abusive environment and all anyone could do was laugh at her for being fat
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u/Wings4514 Jun 24 '23
“Who wants Sgetti and butter?”