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See What You Started, Maury?

This has been Maury's schtick for 20 years.
After all this time, can you hope to remotely compete with the originator who himself has folded, spindled, mutilated, and viciously dragged the original idea back out into its basic shredded fibers for this long?
 
quadraphonic said:
This has been Maury's schtick for 20 years.
After all this time, can you hope to remotely compete with the originator who himself has folded, spindled, mutilated, and viciously dragged the original idea back out into its basic shredded fibers for this long?
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Well...not the whole 20 years, more like the last 9-10 years. His show, at least when he was syndicated by Paramount, was more like the topical shows that Oprah, Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, and others did during that timeframe. It didn't become low-brow as it is until he changed syndicators to what's now NBCUniversal. Even with all that said, your point's well-taken.
 
His first year or so of the updated "Maury" was OK - but it got "whosthedaddied" fast. I think he only does a couple of interesting episodes a year - wild moments caught on tape, and a talent contest in one episode - but the other gazillion episodes a year are full of who's your daddy and lie detectors.

-crainbebo
 
ShawnHill1 said:
It didn't become low-browno-brow as it is until he changed syndicators to what's now NBCUniversal. Even with all that said, your point's well-taken.
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Corrected for truth. I don't see why anyone would want to watch his manure.
 
The Founding Father of all of these programs would have been the first host of the original trough of slop "A Current Affair"...who was that btw. Can't seem to remember...
 
I often wonder how much of those shows are real. I remember back in 2008 a woman claimed she contacted Maury and tried to get a paternity test, but all three men she thought to be the father refused to be on the show.

She claims the producers than told her to get anyone to claim to be the father to come on. Then she says they told her and her friend what to say and how to act.

I don't recall how that was resolved tho'.
 
I tend to agree with a line from Becker where Ted Danson said that as long as there is white (or any other) trash willing to make fools out of themselves on national TV, shows like Maury, Springer, etc. will never run out of material. That show ran ten years ago, and it's more true now than ever. :p ::)
 
anotherguy said:
I tend to agree with a line from Becker where Ted Danson said that as long as there is white (or any other) trash willing to make fools out of themselves on national TV, shows like Maury, Springer, etc. will never run out of material. That show ran ten years ago, and it's more true now than ever. :p ::)
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I miss watching Becker on WGN America. Good Morning- Danson: "This Sucks" or not. ;D
I have DVD recordings of Becker somewhere in my massive media collection, I just might pull one of those out and watch Becker again!!!
 
I feel bad for the kids as you know this will be recorded and played back at them for the rest of their lives.

Must be fun to see that you're father didn't want you or your mother didn't know who the father is.

But I guess it's not really knew. I read a book on quiz shows in the 50s and "Queen for a Day," caused a lot of backlash, even when it was a radio show.
 
OK. The contestants had sob stories and those who won usually didn't get what they really wished for, but QFAD never dealt with paternity ever. At least, as far as I know. It was mostly stuff like "my child needs a wheelchair" or "my house burned down." Sad stuff like that, but light years from the trashy shoutfest Borey, Harry Swinger, Jeremy Pile and the ilk churn out day after day with no compassion whatsoever.

Mark said:
But I guess it's not really knew new.
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Corrected. (Groan!)
 
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