Stupid Things about this show….
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LittleMissVeronica — 14 years ago(September 20, 2011 08:02 AM)
It annoys me every time a guy who is accused of being the father of some kid brings his mom and sister on the show, and the three of them are saying it's impossible the guy's the father. Are his mom and sister in bed with him every time he has sex??
The commercial pace of the show also sucks. In the first 30 minutes there are like 2 commercial breaks, and in the last 30 minutes there's like 4 or 5.
But to me the most annoying thing is when they show you a story at the beginning of the show and they don't say what the results are (paternity or lie detector). Then, at every commercial break they tell you that you'll find out what the results are 'later'. And then, at the end of the show they make a recap of what happened earlier and they tell you that you'll find out the results 'on a later episode we'll keep you posted.' UGH!
And also the fact that they often say that you'll see an update of a couple at the end of the show and they say stuff like 'you won't believe what happens!!' and finally what happens is just blah.
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usersince03 — 13 years ago(June 29, 2012 03:36 PM)
- Some man on it who thought his child with autism wasn't his because he doesn't produce autistic babies.
- These women running backstage because they are humiliated because they found out some guy isn't the father of their baby, they agreed to go on this show.
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queen_naandi — 13 years ago(July 04, 2012 11:38 AM)
- The ghetto @$$ grandmothers or mothers of the guests. We see where your children get their behavior from.
- When the baby mama talks about how horrible the guy is in bed. (He ain't but THIS big Maury or Murray). UM YOU SLEPT WITH HIMprob more than once, so you MUST'VE liked it!!
- HOW CAN YOU NOT REMEMBER WHO YOU SLEPT WITH and narrow down who the father of your baby is Within a 2 week time span, HOW MANY MEN DID YOU SLEEP WITH!?! That just seems to be idiotic/inexplicable.
- Maury is an instigator. When he reads one result and the woman goes ballistic, she is already upset over the one "revelation". Maury CONTINUES to read the rest.
- The guests who SMELL their mates underwear to look for evidence of sex/cheating. DISGUSTING!!
I am sure there are more
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cdon — 13 years ago(February 02, 2013 08:47 AM)
One thing that gets me is when a guy in a relationship thinks he is the father of his girlfriend/wife's baby and it turns out hes not Maury launches into his "I have a child at home that's not biologically mine, but it doesn't matter to me" speech. Whenever I hear it I want to yell at the tv theres a diference between adopting a baby you know is not biologically yours and raising a child for however long and thinking its yours when it isn't.
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marbleann — 13 years ago(February 02, 2013 10:13 PM)
Cdon you read my mind That is the one thing I say too. A big difference. I wish someone would say to him one day.
To address some of the other people in this thread. I have been in the audience of some of these shows. I lived in NY they were free so you go. First off they tell the audience how and what to say. So the audience doesn't believe the women all of the time. On some shows they do not even let you sit with who you come with they match the audiences up. Look at the audiences and how they are seated. The camera goes to one section for certain reactions. You would think the guys have no support but when you see they were not lying they run to a certain section and looks like they had nothing but support.
The complaints about it being feminist, does anybody really believe this show is on The NOW list for shows to watch?
These shows are very manipulating and they are geared toward young girls who go to those schools they advertise during the show. People need to understand that before they look at the show they are not going to make a low down lying strumpet look bad. They are going to offer her sympathy even after making poor guy into a fool. Do you think they would have guests if they knew they were going to get a lashing from Maury and the audience? If anything it is anti feminist because it makes young girls into sexual objects at times and make women look like lying sluts. Who are so out of control they do not even use Birth Control while having sex with multiple partners. Who can think that this show is pro feminist? -
Abuhin — 13 years ago(February 03, 2013 01:16 AM)
Ever see the ones where the "lie detecter" proves that a man had a "secret love child with another woman" to his wife/gf?
Maury to wife/gf: "Do you think you can still be with this man?"
Wife/gf: "No! I can't be with him if he has a baby."
Maury: "OK, then."
Audience: cheers
Where's the encouragement there to love a step-child? How is this any worse? In fact, I'll dare to say that the woman has it better - she won't be forced/pressured into any obligation to raise support the child. At most, just let the kid visit every other weekend.
And yeah, anyone who thinks this is feminism is either stupid or deluded. It's just a man-bashing, woman-coddling theme in order to bring in ratings. They know women are the majority of their audience, like you said, so they want to appeal to them. "Counter-sexism" is not empowerment. -
marbleann — 13 years ago(February 03, 2013 09:59 AM)
I understand what you are saying and I would encourage him to take care of that other child too and I would love to have contact with the baby. But not with him. the guy is a jerk, I say I"ll deal with your baby but not you. I had a boyfriend years ago whom I found was a deadbeat dad. I encouraged him to see his son and most of the time I had to force him. His ex hated me and she had no idea that if it wasn't for me his son would never see him. And if I had children I would make sure they were in contact with the secret sibling, but nothing says I have to deal with the guy.
Another point I want to make that I feel people over look. My definition of a bad mom and dad is clearly different then a lot of the people on that show. And I know a few people in life who just settled. They think bringing some pampers over and a booty call is being a good parent. But the problem arises because a lot of these kids really think the dad or mother are good parents and it is carried over to the next generation.
How many times have we heard some one declare on Maury "I take care of mine" and the women agrees? Meanwhile he has 4 other kids and works nowhere or barely. Take care means he comes over once a week , tells her he loves her have sex and leave a few bags of pampers. -
ladyxxxvengeance — 12 years ago(June 13, 2013 08:00 AM)
Things I find stupid/annoying:
- When a female has tested five men to find out the father of her child and yet she still yelling and screaming I'm not a hoe. And when she actually find the father then she starts shaking her ass on the splits. WTF?!?
- When the females are having their men take a lie ditector test and after every question they tell the truth on they say "That don't mean nothing; there's more question". Like they want them to be cheating.
- The audience; I don't even want to type all the annoying things about them.
- Trisha G. and that one Snoopy looking dude.
5)When the females are like "yup I'm getting that child support". Give the man a chance to be in the childs life; you was boinking 10 dudes of course he wants a DNA test. - Stupid guest all together. How can you find panties (that's not your size) and a used condom (yall don't use condoms) in your mans care and say "I don't know if he cheating".
- The fact that these people would go onto national TV and make themselves and their whole family look stupid and just eww.
- So pretty much the entire show annoys me, but I can't stop watching the DNA test episodes. lol
Alright, I guess this is the night bitches die.
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WaningMoonMage — 12 years ago(December 04, 2013 01:03 PM)
Agree with all your points but the second one. It's just as much the men's fault for not using a condom.
And I still occasionally use the line "Why are you making it complicated? IT'S EASY!" That commercial made me LOL every time.
And another thing I hate is just how dumb people are in general. You find condoms and underwear and someone even called you can told you they had sex with your boyfriend but you don't know for sure if he's cheating. Your kid is a different ethnicity than you and your partner and you don't know for sure if you're the father. Your out of control teen is disrespecting you and all you do about it is cry and bring them on television to show how much you failed etc. -
Hater_Is_Here — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 08:30 AM)
Agree with all your points but the second one. It's just as much the men's fault for not using a condom.
That's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that it is unfair for a woman to have 100% say in whether or not she is going to raise the baby, sometimes without telling or knowing who the father is and then using HER decision to alter the man's life forever once she proves he's the father. Keeping men in the loop before the baby arrives is key and should be enforced by law.
Look at Janelle from Teen Mom 2. She's recently had an abortion without telling the father that she was ever pregnant. Is it fair she aborted the child without telling him? What if he wanted to keep the baby had he known? If he had a right to keeping the baby then he also has the right to say "No, I cannot raise this baby, I want you to get an abortion or give the child up for adoption." Oh wait, only women have the right to make that decision even though as we both agree, "it's just as much the men's fault for not using a condom" (or the condom failing, or the woman lying about being on BC, because women haven't lied for the child payments before)
How would women like it if men could say "I know you don't want that baby, but you're going to carry it to term, AND you're going to help me at least financially in raising it". Now I know women bear the hardship of being pregnant/giving birth, but that is nothing compared to actually raising the child - and it sure as hell doesn't mean mommy is more of a parent than daddy. Yet dads who want an abortion or to give the child up for adoption have ZERO say in that. If that's the way people want it then fine, but don't ask for his money when YOU'RE making the decision to raise the child. It's an injustice to him and society overall by creating more poverty, which goes hand and hand with more crime and poorer quality of life.
It's a double standard to only honor the woman's decisions, and then turn around and say BOTH parents are responsible for the well being of the child. Are you arguing that men don't deserve the same rights as women when it comes to what is EQUALLY theirs? -
WaningMoonMage — 12 years ago(March 09, 2014 08:35 PM)
You actually made some good points.
But what I meant was that both parents should take responsibility for the kid because they both acted irresponsibly by having unprotected sex with a person they barely know. That would be the best thing for the child, not the stupid, selfish parents. I didn't mention abortion on purpose in hopes of avoiding a debate. -
Hater_Is_Here — 12 years ago(March 21, 2014 09:25 AM)
But what I meant was that both parents should take responsibility for the kid because they both acted irresponsibly by having unprotected sex with a person they barely know.
I also agree that they should share the responsibility - and the first part of that responsibility is how to handle the situation before birth. And yet women have full say in that matter, which is contradictory to the equal rights parents are supposed to have.
That would be the best thing for the child, not the stupid, selfish parents.
See, that's debatable. A mother can say that it'd be best for the child if she and the father took responsibility, while the father believes it'd be best for the child to be given to an adoptive (read: stable) family. But no, the mother keeps it, works a dead end job, receives government aid, collects money from the father (making him stoop lower socioeconomically) since they can't make their relationship work, and the child is then going back and forth from mom's house to dad's house every 4 days. So now, who is selfish and is this all better for the child in actuality? Is it better for society? How is making two people less financially stable better for society?
Things that are directly and strongly related to crime (both juvenile and adult) and/or lower quality of life: poverty, maladjusted youth, broken homes, incompatible parents, cramped households, overpopulation, higher taxes.
Things that would be reduced if both parents had
equal
say in whether to keep/adopt/abort: poverty, maladjusted youth, broken homes, incompatible parents, cramped households, overpopulation, higher taxes. -
WaningMoonMage — 12 years ago(March 24, 2014 06:22 AM)
See, that's debatable. A mother can say that it'd be best for the child if she and the father took responsibility, while the father believes it'd be best for the child to be given to an adoptive (read: stable) family. But no, the mother keeps it, works a dead end job, receives government aid, collects money from the father (making him stoop lower socioeconomically) since they can't make their relationship work, and the child is then going back and forth from mom's house to dad's house every 4 days. So now, who is selfish and is this all better for the child in actuality? Is it better for society? How is making two people less financially stable better for society?
I agree with you now. I didn't think of that because I was thinking more of my own family and how that worked out. -
gallileo60 — 11 years ago(August 21, 2014 01:13 PM)
- Unfair circumstance for the men: If a man doesn't have a say in whether or not the mother aborts (or puts the child up for adoption) the baby, then he should not have to promise Maury that he'll take care of a baby when a DNA test proves that a one night stand suddenly gets him stuck with a child that could have been 5 other guys'. Is it fair that men are suddenly called up and told that a woman he slept with a year ago and hasnt been with since suddenly accuses him of being the father?
So true, you should both agree to have it, or she is on her own - Women running backstage: WTF is that!! "MarkYOU ARRRE..not the father" aaaand cue the skank running backstage so that the audience cant boo her after she claims: "Maury, I am 10,000% sure he IS the father of my baby!!!" (so sure she had to say it while clapping her hands at every syllable). Then here comes Maury with his "Mark, get away can't you see she's upset! Stop rubbing it in her face, she only flew you all the way out here, called you out on national television, smacked you up a bit, called your mom a bitch who needs to mind her own business, had an audience of people boo you (cuz theyre all ethically perfect apperently), and acted like a little miss knowitall throughout the whole process, leave her alone she doesnt deserve any ridicule!"
This is what makes this comedy show so funny, fat cow runs to the back, falls down, and makes bellowing cow like noises
You Have a Hard Lip, Herbert..
Better Living Thru Chemistry
- Unfair circumstance for the men: If a man doesn't have a say in whether or not the mother aborts (or puts the child up for adoption) the baby, then he should not have to promise Maury that he'll take care of a baby when a DNA test proves that a one night stand suddenly gets him stuck with a child that could have been 5 other guys'. Is it fair that men are suddenly called up and told that a woman he slept with a year ago and hasnt been with since suddenly accuses him of being the father?