Honey Boo Boo got higher viewer ratings over the RNC

[LynneSin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/honey-boo-boo-cast-salary-money-dollar-makes-me-holler_n_1857814.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

'Honey Boo Boo' Cast Salary: How Much Money Do The Stars Make?

When seven-year-old Alana Thompson first uttered, "A dollar makes me holler, Honey Boo Boo," she probably had no idea that it would not only become her catchphrase, but it would also score her and her family a reality series ... and some money. Sources estimate their TLC reality series, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," has earned Alana and her family a salary in the tens of thousands.

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No doubt, there is a possibility that this salary might get a bump if "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" is picked up for a second season.

"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" has had huge ratings thus far and even scored more viewers among adults 18-49 than the Republican National Convention. The Aug. 29 episode drew nearly 3 million viewers.

I'm guessing the people who watch shows like this Honey Boo Boo are the same people that vote republican even if democrats would be better for them in the long run. And yet instead of watching the RNC they would rather watch some obnoxious 7 year old kid and her redneck family (and I use redneck because that's what the mom calls her family - a bunch of rednecks).

[WCGreen]

1. Okay I watched that clip....

TLC use to be The Learning Channel.

[MatthewStLouis]

2. I wonder what the acronym stands for now?

[LibertyLover]

3. My husband claims it now stands for Totally Loose Crap.

n/t

[get the red out]

7. or The Loser Channel

[titaniumsalute]

12. My wife called it the TOTALLY LAME CHANNEL the other night

I responded with it should be called TLRC. Totally Losing Revenue Channel.

[Initech]

21. I've been referring to it as the Freak Show Network.

[LynneSin]

4. I was channel flipping and saw the most disturbing thing on that show

It was on the new HD channels on my cable. For some reason Comcast decided to move them from the 200 level to the 800 level and god forbid I had to find all my favorites again.

So I'm flipping thru and I stumble onto this Honey Boo Boo Train Wreck and I guess they were at the beach. The mom didn't want to take her socks off but the family convinced her and there was this toe that was the most gnarliest of disgusting I have ever seen. It had flies all over it.

I hope this family uses this money they are earning to help get that toe fixed.

[Corgigal]

6. yeah explain that to me

She mentioned she got run over by a forklift, so shouldn't she have been under workers comp to have that surgically taken care of. I can't believe she, nor anyone is walking around with some kind of active infection and never got it treated. Maybe the TLC show will give them damn medical, you know real insurance. She may laugh at it but it's more serious then she believes.

Incredible , I guess I have been living in the middle class world too long.

[WCGreen]

11. But that's part of her personality....

Seriously, that is the most unriviting TV I've seen since Battle of the Network Stars...

[get the red out]

5. Let's be fair

Many Republicans probably confused Honey Boo Boo FOR the RNC.

[Kurovski]

8. I have to say, I first heard about boo-boo here on DU when someone was bemoaning the fact that...

Americans were paying more attention to shows such as that rather than our state of affairs...well, so, big freak that I is, I spotted a Honey Boo-Boo Child Marathon and settled in expecting to ride a high horse through the afternoon, trashing and feeling superior and what-not.

To my surprise I lurved it. Alana is something of a brilliant little communicator. (although i suppose I could contact my long-time friend who is a child psychology specialist and get her take on it, because I'm pretty crazy myself and really can't judge.) Her mama is a stone feminist in the way she views the world and herself. And I see a lot of what we used to call affection within the family.

in the south, in life as in the literature, the use of language is often imaginative and...great I guess. I love it and it is in evidence in the show.

So, I don't give a rat's ass in the tomato patch who knows it...I hope Honey Boo-Boo and clan get success and financial comfort off this show. They are FUNNY people, and I mean ON PURPOSE funny.

So now all y'all know it. I did just bust-out the got-dang closet here.

[LynneSin]

10. This family could make alot of money and I hope they do something good with it

Honey Boo Boo was a product of TLC's "Toddlers and Tiaras". These pagaent parents can spend like $25k-$50k a year on pageants; many of them going into serious debt for these things and for what - so their kids can win a few hundred bucks and a cheap crown.

I'm not saying they need to change their lifestyle, they seem content on being rednecks and quite proud of it. But that money could be saved to help pay for their kids to go to college or even just have some money for when they grow up.

Look at it this way - the Gosselin family, another product of TLC, made millions and yet they are struggling financially today. Money was lavished on luxury items and spoiling the kids instead of saving for when the series ends and the cash cow is no longer giving them money.

[Kurovski]

17. The T&T show is something that I just can't watch, though I understand the pagents in the south have

been around a long time. (according to friend who grew up in Mississippi)

The family actually goes to a redneck "olympic" in an episode and you can see a big difference. The ma points out the difference, and rejects the moniker, although it's used in a number of episodes in a jocular manner by her. She knows the difference. I think she's going to better her family. She's no fool.

[LynneSin]

18. It's not a southern thing - they have plenty of them up north

They had one in Harrisburg PA, which is about as yankee as you can get.

[Kurovski]

19. I was misinformed. Never heard of them in the midwest.

of course, by the eighties we know they had them in Colorado.

I was told they emerged out of "charm training"starting early for the southern ladies.

[berni_mccoy]

9. 3 million viewers would also be more than the DNC

In fact, that's more viewers than the RNC and DNC combined.

Hate to say it, but that's a fucking sad state of affairs for this country.

People really don't give a shit about the conventions. And it's hard to blame them.

[4th law of robotics]

14. Maybe politicians should just plaster reality show stars with their campaign slogans

I'm seeing an untapped market.

[berni_mccoy]

15. LMFAO

[Tom Ripley]

13. It's the Hatfields and the McCoys all over again

[Marrah_G]

16. Hahahahahahahahahaha

[turtlerescue1]

20. HEY there wasn't anything else to watch!

AND just like trying to include karlrove on twitter, I just can't do it without losing my temper.
So I got to watch three episodes of Honey Boo Boo for the first time.