Alana Thompson won the hearts of America on the TLC show, "Toddlers & Tiaras." Watching the six-year-old, better known to the world as "Honey Boo Boo Child" was somewhat akin to watching a car crash ... or The Jersey Shore. People loved to watch her and loved to laugh at her expressive nature and ridiculous sayings. In due time, she got her own show debuting on TLC Wednesday.
The show, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" follows the wacky world of Thomspon and her everyday life as a pageant contestant in rural Georgia.
Alana's family members who will debut on the show include a crazy cast of characters including, her dad, "Sugar Bear" who is a chalk-miner, sisters Lauryn ("Pumpkin"), Jessica ("Chubbs"), Anna ("Chickadee") and her mother June who starred on the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" alongside her daughter.
June said to CNN, ""We do a lot of mud bogging, four-wheel riding, going to community events," she said of the family's lifestyle. Viewers will still see the preparation for pageants, but it's mainly focused on the Thompson family "and the crazy things we do to pass the time by," June said. "I think America will get the gist of who we actually are."
Here's what some media outlets are saying about the show:
TIME: "Honey Boo Boo basically serves up this image for 21st-century reality tv minus the knowing satire. If you ever need a mental image of what it looks like when the boundary between ironic self-parody and actually embracing a stereotype collapses, it is a teenage girl dunking her head in a plastic tub to snap up an animal's severed foot."
The Washington Post: "You could hire all the comedy writers you want and still not come up with more ludicrous sitcom characters - and anyhow, all the comedy writers would have gone to Ivy League schools. Their conception of such folk would be just as stereotypical and somehow not nearly as true."
Variety: "Disturbingly condescending and almost irresistibly cheeky, this exploitation of deep-fried Southern rubes is balanced by the fact they'll all likely be much richer, ultimately, for the experience -- and nobody even had to strike oil or cut a sex tape."
Sounds like the quintessential, reality TV guilty pleasure. Watch it Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on TLC.
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