Who watches Intervention and Hoarders on Monday Night?

[Sharkbait]

I know it's sad, but I look forward to Monday nights because it's essentially my night of "tv that makes me feel better about my life."

I find Intervention touching and interesting, since it's almost always possible to connect the dots to the person's issues and childhood. And, it makes me feel good when everything works out in the end. I'm also amazed how much booze the liver can process.

And..Hoarders...wow. I'm addicted to Hoarders. It find it amazing, repulsive, fascinating, etc all in one. My eyes are as big as saucers when I watch this show. I'm just like the WHOLE time.

I can't think I'm the only one. Who else watches these?

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[steve]

My wife does. religiously.
I'm going to call intervention on her for watching intervention.

*head assplode!


Talking about parallels to issues and childhood, I watched "sex rehab with Dr. Drew" for the first time to find that each of those girls is either a porn star, stripper, or a little of both. The main cause? "My dad never cared about me".

I hugged my daughters twice after watching that.

[4x4GGG]

I wish they spent more time on after.

[Sharkbait]

Originally Posted by hypa

My wife does. religiously.
I'm going to call intervention on her for watching intervention.

*head assplode!

I've only been watching Intervention a few months. But, I've seen Hoarders from the pilot. I just put Intervention Season 1 on my Netflix queue.

But the Hoarders....how it takes them 4 hrs to get through cleaning a bathroom or one corner of a bedroom. It blows my mind!!!

[Davemeister]

Originally Posted by Sharkbait

I'm also amazed how much booze the liver can process.

Not enough to make that **** entertaining. Sorry.

[Sharkbait]

Originally Posted by Davemeister

Not enough to make that **** entertaining. Sorry.

Oh, I never said I found it entertaining...I find it more life-affirming and educational than entertaining.

[steve]

^
damn right.
I have enough addiction in my family to not be entertained by these shows. It's more for realizing just how lucky we are for being somewhat normal.

Originally Posted by Sharkbait

But the Hoarders....how it takes them 4 hrs to get through cleaning a bathroom or one corner of a bedroom. It blows my mind!!!

werd.
I can't believe that some people actually live like this.




I think that's why I can't watch it, as there's no way I could relate to these people. I guess I should be thankful for that.

[rlhaddock]

Love them both. I started a thread about Intervention a while back, lemme find it. brb

Upon searching, I found many threads about Intervention.

[Sharkbait]

Originally Posted by hypa

werd.
I can't believe that some people actually live like this.

Part of me just wants someone to come in, throw away and organize EVERYTHING and watch the person return to a major meltdown and just flip the **** out.

But, part of me realizes these people are truly, truly sick and that makes me .

It also motivates me to clean my house. By the end of that show, my house looks like a Pottery Barn catalogue. Everything in its place and just so.

[AWD>FWD]

Originally Posted by 4x4GGG

I wish they spent more time on after.

The "Before" is usually epic though. Did you see the one with the two heroin addicted teenage brothers living in their family's house, dealing heroin in plain sight? The oldest brother is straight edge and keeps telling the parents what's going on in their house and the parents were in such denial and getting pissed off at the oldest son.

"I would do anything for you, man. I know if you had no dope, and I only had a little dope, I'd give you my dope."
"I love you...."

[Sharkbait]

Yeah, one last week, the kid was one of 10 kids and was acting out because she never got any attention. So, she did drugs. Her parents were all like "We don't know why she thinks she didn't get enough attention??"

UM, because you had ten kids, retard! By the time she was 6, she had 4 younger siblings and you jerks worked full time!! So, because you're a crazy, kid producing religious whackjob, your kid whores it out for meth to get attention. And you don't think YOU had anything to do with that?

This one I watched a couple weeks ago, was so intense, watching this chick methhead crawl around naked in her house, throwing food and stuff...it was so disturbing. Like truly watching a wild, feral animal.

[Davemeister]

Originally Posted by Sharkbait

Oh, I never said I found it entertaining...I find it more life-affirming and educational than entertaining.

Oh.

I watch TV for entertainment. Occasionally I enjoy a documentary if it's about a subject I'm interested, such as anything scientific, hard rock/metal/punk bands, or boobs.

I just can't get into "reality TV." I invariably find the people on these shows really annoying, and it annoys me to watch them.

[steve]

Originally Posted by Sharkbait

But, part of me realizes these people are truly, truly sick and that makes me .

And that is the saddest part. These are real people with real feelings, family, and lives. It's easier for me to write off a crazy meth head as no longer human because they have little humanity left. These people could be your aunt, or your co-worker, kid's teacher, whatever.

That's what gets me about intervention. They had this one guy who was in a car wreck, and became a paraplegic. He got his million dollar settlement, and basically spent his day getting high so he could forget about what he lost. It was so sad, because that could have been any of us. I know if I lost the use of my legs/junk, I wouldn't want to get out of bed, let alone succeed in life.

[unamused]

^^ This is true, and as interesting as find it, I think a lot of it falls under the trainwreck theory. Hard to look away...

Anybody in here catch the Intervention with the stripper chick who was a methhead/alcoholic. That was like Intervension with a side of Hoarders; her room was in an absolute sickening state, full of random s*** strung everywhere.

Her sister came over and made her cup-o-noodles, which she proceeded to thow against the wall. She wandered around naked for the better portion of the taping and hey mistered guys for booze, pretty much promising them some sort of company, but seemingly not going through with it.

Train. Wreck.


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[ekw]

never seen either.
but Hoarders sounds like "Clean House"


on meth.

[Sharkbait]

Originally Posted by unamused

^^ This is true, and as interesting as find it, I think a lot of it falls under the trainwreck theory. Hard to look away...

Anybody in here catch the Intervention with the stripper chick who was a methhead/alcoholic. That was like Intervension with a side of Hoarders; her room was in an absolute sickening state, full of random s*** strung everywhere.

Her sister came over and made her cup-o-noodles, which she proceeded to thow against the wall. She wandered around naked for the better portion of the taping and hey mistered guys for booze, pretty much promising them some sort of company, but seemingly not going through with it.

Train. Wreck.


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YES! That's the girl I was talking about that was like watching a wild animal!

[2k2BlackWRX]

I can't watch intervention... I can't even watch the commercials without getting upset. Its too ****ing close to home only everyone close to me is dead.

Hoarders on the other hand just makes me at those people.

[MikeCee]

i <3 the gas huffers

[MikeCee]

Originally Posted by 2k2BlackWRX

I can't watch intervention... I can't even watch the commercials without getting upset. Its too ****ing close to home only everyone close to me is dead.

Hoarders on the other hand just makes me at those people.

hoarders definitely hits close to home for me. it's hard to watch. i'm sure it's not as difficult, but is something i've had to deal with.

[Dirty TR]

I'm walking on sunshine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Woozles Moran

[AWD>FWD]

Originally Posted by 2k2BlackWRX

I can't watch intervention... I can't even watch the commercials without getting upset. Its too ****ing close to home only everyone close to me is dead.

Understandable. My family is full of recovering alcoholics but it made for a fuuuuun childhood, the alcoholism interventions are just a little too close to home for my comfort as well.

For some reason, the hard drugs ones are just an eye opener. It's like watching Requiem for a Dream for me, I guess.

[St3fan]

Both shows are really sad, but deeply engrossing. I feel the producers do a good job with their presentation. It's not overtly gratuitous.

SB, in unrelated news, I am told that I can bring in ~85K per year of offshore income without giving any to the IRS. I remember you struggling with taxation on rent? Ask your accountant perhaps. I haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet, but mine made out like this was common knowledge.

[Brad Pittiful]

slight thread jack...i find myself watching the little people big world series...and then there is the little couple...im fascinated by little people

[VpointVick]

Wait.

There's a show on TV, that's like Intervention, but deals with obsessive hoarding?

*races off to program DVR*

[unamused]

Originally Posted by Sharkbait

YES! That\'s the girl I was talking about that was like watching a wild animal!

Ahh, I missed your post there, otherwise I would have put that together. I think that`s the `best` or `worst` one I have ever seen, however you want to classify it.

Feral animal is a good way to put it. I mean with all the food strewn about and general uncleanliness, can you imagine the things living/crawling on her floor... Yikes!

There was another one where they let the guy speedball in the back of the mini-van the whole way to the airport, he said one last one about 5x, but finally got out and went on to finish the program. It`s pretty nuts, but it`s sombody`s real life.


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