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06/21/09

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my favorite line from that episode of 16 and pregnant - the girl is IN LABOR and she says: "I'm so sorry everyone has to look at my crotch right now - i'm like, so sorry..."

priceless.
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notheretomakefriends
06/19/09

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#9 "Son charged for posing as deceased mother"? is this an actual case or are they announcing the movie for the evening (Norman Bates, anyone?)
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midwesternmom
06/19/09

@notheretomakefriends: Some guy in NY pretended to be his mother for rent subsidies and her SS. They have him on tape looking like your typical grandmotherly type in his sweater and scarf. Apparently his business partner was also in on it and pretended to be a nephew.
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saintbernadette
06/19/09

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I don't buy this "Babies learning to read" business for a minute.

That's like me holding up a sign telling my cat to lay on the couch and sleep and then going, "See? He's doing it! He can totally read!"
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AmericanSplendor
06/19/09

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"Daniel! Daniel!"

"That's Stephen."

PRICELESS! Where else can I see an American Idol reject correcting Janice motherf'ing Dickinson on what name to call a Baldwin.
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ambitious
06/19/09

@AmericanSplendor: I think that's the best thing to happen to me all week!

Sanjaya is like me trying to get my Nana to stop snapping her fingers at the waitress to get her attention.
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kaiwhakamarie
06/19/09

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That poor doctor on 16 and Pregnant. I can see her mentally *headdesk*ing. My cousin (who incidentally had her baby at 18) had this same attitude. I didn't like how everybody in the family kept harping on her about breastfeeding, but she didn't help her case at all by saying, 'I'm only 18, I don't the want boobs of a 40 year old! The baby will be fine'.

Its pretty funny that she pointed out that breastfeeding doesn't = saggy boobs, pregnancy = saggy boobs. I would have really loved breaking that news to the snotty, shallow teenager. Ha ha ha.

*sigh*
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MarissaExplainsItAll
06/19/09

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The families on 16 and Pregnant aren't a fair example of teen pregnancy. My teen sister is pregnant, and my parents aren't horrible like that. I think in my sister's case, a lot of it has to do w/ me not being around since she thinks it's embarrassing to buy birth control and being raised catholic, where we were taught that abortion is murder. Obviously, we picked up on different aspects of the religion, but what I'm trying to say is that this show seems to like to perpetuate the stereotype that the parents are always horrible, and that isn't true sometimes.
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AmericanSplendor
06/19/09

@MarissaExplainsItAll: The other episodes have shown more responsible mothers. This one was an extreme example. Overall the series has done an OK job showing teen pregnancy. I would highly recommend the other episode, they can be quite insightful.
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MarissaExplainsItAll
06/19/09

@AmericanSplendor: I will check it out! To be honest, I was avoiding it b/c MTV has a pattern of showing the worst of the worst.
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kaiwhakamarie
06/19/09

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When did Janice leave? Dude, how did I miss that? It must have come on last night. I thought Thursdays were no-show days.

Wait, I mean...I don't care about that show...not even a little!
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electrogeek77
06/19/09

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They're giving that baby the clap!
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saintbernadette
06/19/09

@electrogeek77: Ahaha!
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saintbernadette
06/19/09

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Oh, that 16 and Pregnant was soooo painful.

Both of the Moms were awful. I loved it when the teen mom wanted to get a Ford Focus because she thought it would be something she could afford, and the mom said "No. I think they're ugly."

And then Teen Mom burst into tears.
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CurtCole
06/19/09

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I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the linoleum floors!
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annebreal
06/19/09

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I was wondering if you'd recap this week's 16 and Pregnant! This week was more like "My Super Sweet Sixteen: My Eggo is Preggo" than anything else. The mini-mansion, the complete obsession with physical appearances (she had to point out that she was a size 2 in the first minute of the episode, then the breast-feeding shit, THEN she said "good thing I work out!" on the delivery table!), the brattiness, the appalling parents...it had it all. Realism? Only in small doses.
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Uncommon Whore
06/19/09

@annebreal: I had never seen that show, but I watched it for a little bit last night. Oh man, the daughter apologizing to the doctor and nurse - I don't remember the wording, exactly - for having to keep looking at her vagina as she was, you know, GIVING BIRTH! And I wondered about the breast feeding, because I watched the baby at like day 3 when she kept waking it up to give it the bottle... I didn't realize she had such a superficial reason for doing that instead of breast feeding.
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hfree
06/19/09

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Those last 2 minutes with Danielle and her daughters was the best part of that episode and summed up her relationship with them and her personality perfectly. She treats them (at 10 and 12) the exact same way she would treat a girlfriend. That's kind of f-ed up.
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EKane
06/19/09

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I watched that episode of 16 and Pregnant earlier but I missed that clip. I felt really bad for the girl because her mom seemed batshit crazy and hellbent on retroactively controlling her child. The pregnant girl didn't seem much better either with her "teenitude" but it seemed like her mother was really interested in sticking her fingers in her ears and not listening rather than coping and moving past her daughters pregnancy.
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saintbernadette
06/19/09

@EKane: It made me appreciate the fact that, while I was a crazy teen, my parents were basically normal people.

Of course, I wasn't pregnant, either.
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RainbowBrite
06/19/09

@EKane: God weren't those people a total mess? The mom was a real idiot -- when she told her daughter not to ask the doctor about how the birth will go, or when she'd get an induction, I was floored. Who tells someone not to ask a doctor questions?? But then the girl was a typical immature teen brat, too. There's plenty of craziness to go around in that house.
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bluebears
06/19/09

@EKane: yeah I didn't feel bad for the girl. I didn't think the mom seemed super awesome either but...its a bit much to decide to have this baby and raise it "by yourself" (with parents financial support) and then have the nerve to whine about how she's "controlling" you?
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vulcanized
06/19/09

@EKane: I felt bad for her, but more when her friend sold her out and told everyone she was pregnant and then again when both her mom and her sister initially said they wouldn't be in the delivery room with her. At sixteen, that has to be scary and isolating.
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midwesternmom
06/19/09

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Is it just me, or does she look like she could click her ruby shoes together and wish herself back to Kansas?
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midwesternmom
06/19/09

@midwesternmom: Janice, that is.
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sassyredhead
06/19/09

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The girl that Brooke was set up with was so hot. I felt bad for her that it was all just some big joke between the roomies.
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