What vintage TV will you watch Oprah's last episode on?

[stromberg6]

Most of the "guests" on the Jerry springer show provide an illustration of how NOT to behave. I watch it sometimes for a laugh, but not often. History channel is a favorite, and TCM.
Kevin

[Sandy G]

If you're having a Bad Day, & are feeling particularly Sorry for Yourself, you can always catch the Freak Show on Jerry & realise that you ain't HALF as bad off as you thought...

[AUdubon5425]

I could handle Mike Douglas and Dinah...the later ones, not so much.

[JB5pro]

Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

I could handle Mike Douglas and Dinah...the later ones, not so much.

I predict that within the next five years at the most we will have some shows much like Mike Douglas, Dinah, etc. I saw a Dinah youtube clip with Andy Kaufman that is very funny in seeing the audience confused and Dinah trying to work with Kaufman's skit.

[CoogarXR]

I live in a town that is within a county that Oprah did a "special" on, about heroine use. Apparently, according to her stellar research team, there are a lot of meth and heroine users around here...

You know what though? I love this town. It is so quiet, there is next-to-no crime, and the people are great. But what ticks me off, is every time I mention my town to somebody, they are like "I heard there is a big drug problem over there"... ARRG!

Thanks Oprah.

[Carmine]

Originally Posted by JB5pro

I think the reason many here don't like such shows is that most of the more popular personality's here clearly grew up in situations of good neighborhoods and or with good parents and relatives who instilled proper good values for them to be generally very good people who were essentially isolated from most of the ugliest situations that large majority's have suffered through that naturally makes it hard for them to be such "good" people who are so above the low-level sorts seen on these shows.
So, it is no surprise that the fortunate majority here sees little to no value in these shows. All respected research indicates these shows, crazy as they may seem, do much more good than harm in educating peope about problems and presenting possible solutions.
I like Dr. Phil too

1) I believe you have it backwards... If the majority of people in this country were similar to the trash on these exploitative TV shows, we would have collapsed into anarchy years ago. That isn't to say we aren't trending towards a reversal of what is considered "normal".

2) I would love to see the respected research that indicates these types of shows (I'm not really including Oprah) do more good than harm to society. At one time, simply having an affair was talk-show fodder. Within about two decades, the shows have degenerated into near-daily discussions of incest, molestation, mental/physical abuse, and they worst types of depravity you can imagine. If anything, it normalizes and removes the stigma from this behavior until you have people rationalizing the lesser evils, because "they at least don't do XYZ". Televising this soul-crushing garbage cannot possibly improve society's mental health.