tv live from the star wars bar…….
January 4, 2008 — fredsworldHello and Happy New Year to you all!
I apologise in advance as this small post will probably only interest uk readers who happened to be housebound on wednesday evening!!!!!!! Has the tv scheduling been taken over by the lanlord of the Star wars bar? It was probably the most bizzare evening of tv I have ever watched….first we had ” half a ton mum!” a documentary that followed a 64 stone lady who wanted gastric bypass surgery, the show had a kind of morbid freak show quality that sadly finished with her death, however the only conclusion i seemed to draw from the show was , if you eat 8 McDonalds at a time! you are not going to win a gold at the 2012 Olympics in the 100 meters hurdles!
This was followed by Fake Babies!!!!!! even more bizzare, a lady made life like babies and sold them to nutters, ooops i mean other ladies who had more money than sense, who then bought them prams and took them out shopping . One lady made me nearly choke on my pringles as she took her “little miracle” ( no! just a plastic dolly you fool!) to the sea life center!!!!!!and what was even more unbelievable was her husband, whom no way looked retarded, helped to strap this child of chucky doll into a childs car seat for the journey!!!! Still this only confirms what ive always felt, never trust a woman with a cheap home perm! for thats what she had..still the plastic babies did look so at home in her northern council flat..and when she announced she was going to go to America to collect her new baby, all one could do was to shout at the tv, get a new carpet instead you silly cow!….however, this was not the end, she then went to Harrods with a fake baby in a pram! oh god call security! and bought £269 worth of designer baby clothes for her new arrival. We then follow this care in the community escapee to Washington to get her new arrival…we see her pacing the hotel room waiting for the delivery, and she even says” that this has been a long labor!”.. god someone get me a stun gun. The baby arrives in nice brown box, shes so excited, we watch her peel back the plastic and bring her new baby to life…..at this point Happy and I , burst into what can only be described as hysterical laughter…the baby is so ugly, and i dont mean ugly Betty ugly i mean Nigel Lawson ugly!!!!…….still our laughter was an omen as a few days later as ’straw perm lady’ begins to bond with her baby she notices a crack in its head, she is devastated and feels she needs to reject the child as she only can accept perfection!…we on the other hand roll about on the floor unable to breath through laughing!….
Next i kid you not was another documentary about some Asian jail where the inmates for punishment are forced to dance on mass to make you tube videos! one of which, there version of Micheal Jacksons thriller has had over 7 million hits and is you tubes most watched video…not bad for a group of some thousand plus murder’s, rapists and drug dealers. What ever happened to real punishment like sewing mailbags and working on a chain gang…after all when they are released the world will be over run with what could only be described as failed Asian X factor contestants….and when they all donned nuns habits and started on a Sister Act medley, it was time to reach for the remote, turn of 16 sets of christmas lights and go to bed, or was i already in bed and this was all some kind of bizzare dream……….
January 4, 2008 at 11:32 am
I am still laughing!!! I didn’t catch the strange reborning thing - now I wish I had. TV has become more and more surreal lately. Have you seen Can Fat Teens Hunt?? It is actually quite good. But a really odd concept.
January 4, 2008 at 3:05 pm
the highlight for me was the nappy on the babies head as she unpacked it!!!!!
cripes - there’s nowt stranger than folk!
happy new year to you and yours x
tracy x
January 4, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Man, I hope we get that fake baby docu on BBC America soon. I can’t wait to see those lulz. I remember watching that jail vid on youtube awhile back. How did they choose who got to be Michael? Were there tryouts or was it a bonus for good (or bad) behavior?
January 4, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Oh Fred,
I have missed your way with words these past few days/weeks. I appreciated this post you’ve done and I am in the states. You underestimate your appeal for any story told by “Fred’s World”
Amy
January 4, 2008 at 8:20 pm
didnt you think that crazy perm reborn lady looked liked cilla battersby?
January 4, 2008 at 11:07 pm
OMG I’ve got tears streaming down my face Fred! I only saw the beginning of the unfortunate “big” lady’s story, so I had wondered if she had made it… thanks for the update. As for the baby thing, the advert for it had already made me laugh, and I’m kicking myself for missing such a priceless piece of TV viewing. I’m so glad you were able to report back to us instead!
January 4, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Yep it was a bizarre night’s viewing, the nappies being used as packaging were so strange! And what can the photographer have thought at Sealife? Surely he could see it was a doll?! You couldn’t make it up…..
January 5, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I can imagine not being able to come up for air watching a grown bad perm lady with a fake baby buying designer clothes and rejecting the cracked fake baby. I wish i had seen it, we do receive BBC here in Holland. I love the way you put it in words, now i dont feel so bad for missing the show. That must have been a super strange BBC evening.
January 6, 2008 at 10:56 am
Sadly I missed all this! but I feel your brief but vivid recap is vision enough! I have given up on TV these days its all so wrong. What happened to the darling buds of may? Ordinary folk in tea dresses and tweed. This thirst for televising nut cases is scary!
Jess
January 6, 2008 at 12:53 pm
What a pity I missed it all!!!! Happy new year
January 7, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hi Fred,
I’m so with you on the fake baby thing.Did you know that they are also for sale on ebay ?
Yesssiree….just type in Berenger Baby or Reborn doll and there are dozens of Dr.Fibes offspring just waiting for some dummy(no pun intended) to cough up sometimes hundreds for them.
Hope you and Hay and the young adults are ok,Happy New Year to you all.
Kat xxxx
January 8, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I actually remember looking at the TV guide and thinking “No way am I watching that ….” now I wish I had, you’ve made me laugh so much, I had no idea that I would be missing such a good evening of comedy!
January 9, 2008 at 11:59 am
I saw just a few minutes of the fake baby thing and thought it was SO weird! I find any kind of doll pretty freaky to be honest but the fact these women actually dress them in baby clothes and take them out in prams as though they were real! Well it’s just not right is it?! I couldn’t manage more than a couple of minutes although I’m now thinking I should have stuck with it if only to have had a good laugh.
January 9, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Oh, forgot to say, Happy New Year to you!!
January 9, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Dear fred,
I have to say I haven’t laughted so hard in ages, well not since I watched that fake baby program lol
What a total nutter, my mouth fell open and got wider with every bizzare thing she and her hubby did. Talk about hen pecked hehe!
I’ve seen them on Ebay, oowww they are just very odd. Creepy!
I’m so glad I’ve popped onto your blog. Tracy from cupcakes at home told me to have a look at your page and today i did.
And will be coming back from now on, if that’s ok?
Happy new year and nice to read you.
Catherine
January 14, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Yup, it was the weirdest pair of programmes I’ve seen on TV for a long time, only Channel 4 could air such stuff!! I thought the story of the Half-Ton Mum very sad, but the programme about the fake babies was just freak-me-out weird. I’d love to have known how much the freaky-looking dolls were actually sold for - I bet it would make your hair curl if you knew. Ah well, a fool and their money are soon parted.