Shark Bytes

RL is just like the other generic trash talk shows - Jenny Jones, Maury Povich, Geraldo, etc. What makes the RL show and others such a scam is that they all act like they're working for the greater good of society, for the betterment of mankind. These do-good hypocrites are only after sensationalism and ratings.

The only exception to this is Jerry Springer - at least he openly acknowledges and admits that he IS doing trash TV and nothing else. He openly admits that he's just giving America what it apparently wants - endless episodes of boob shots, midgets, food fights, fist fights, rednecks, druggies, etc. Sort of a modern day carnival on stage. He doesn't spew his hot air about trying to fix the world and "help" human beings such as RL and the other imposters did when they were on.

It jumped when at least one episode a week featured a "can you tell the glammed-up drag queens apart from the biologically women" contest.

Hey, Ricki...if you contact FOX as well as Krofft Studios, I'm sure they could use you as DynaGard for an upcoming version of Electra Woman on 4KidsTV. Since you're slimmed down from the day you did that wretched talk show as well as your futile attempts at game show hosting on CBS, being EW's sidekick may be all you have left, just like Markie Post.

This was a terrible show. Just another one of those yak, yak shows where the person at home can feel so much better about themselves because their life is nowhere near as bad as the people on stage. Like most if not all of they day time talk shows, IMO jumped day one.

Most of the bits and pieces of this usually toxic bit of television tedium hit the shark tank and hit it hard. Usually for the very reasons that have been listed.

One snippet I did catch though that defiitely cleared the shark infested waters was an episode with Soleil Moon Frye, the star of "Punky Brewster", now all grown up. The moment in question came when Ricki took a question from a dude in the back row who refered to the character - or the show, I forget which - as Punky Boobster!

This reference almost escaped the attention of the host of the show as Lake had actually turned to face her guest to get the response but quickly turned about and questioned the guy as to what he had just said ... he, of course, pronounced it correctly this time.

Still, we all knew, and Ricki did too - it was Boobster.

The only thing slightly interesting about the show was Ricki's fluctuating weight issue.

I think the comment about the F.P.I is completely wrong because one of them is my mother in law and she is a beautiful woman, so maybe you need to look more closely at her or look more closely at yourself before you judge,

I was a big fan of her show.

Ricki couldn't decide whether she wanted to be like Oprah or Richard Bey so she did a little of both.

Day One all the way...you can only do so many eps on cheating lovers, out-of-control teens, etc. before they all start to look alike, and here's the proof that she's clearly run out of steam: as per today's (2/25/04) NY Post, Lake's decided to wrap it up at the end of the season, after 11 yrs of polluting the airwaves...goodbye and good riddance!

The women of F.P.I. look like dogs. I can't figure out how the men fall for them. I quit watching the show after she not only introduced the women, but featured them on a regular basis.

R. L. seems a VERY nice, well-intentioned person. Alas, she doesn't exhibit enough intelligence for a show of her own. I am not saying she doesn't *have* intelligence, just that it doesn't transpire from her work as talk-show host. "Don't tell me - tell her/him!" That one really curls up my nerves... (Anyone who has seen the show more than twice will recognize that "profound" psychological device, typical of R. L.) And the audience chanting "go Ricki"... When they introduced THAT, I said goodbye, and never looked back.

Ive always thought that Ricki Lake was one of the better "trashy" talk shows, and have watched it since it debuted. I enjoyed that every time someone (one of the guest loved ones who were not supposed to be there) would make a surprise appearance and the doorbell would ring. The whole crowd would shout "UH OH!" I didnt mind when Ricki herself would periodically say "Oh no you di-int!", but when that poor mans version of Dr. Phil, Dr Michelle came to the show I lost interest.

I know this show was never really that good in the first place, but it really sank to a new level in the shark-infested ocean when they started using stupid little poems as their show topics. Something really retarded like, "Is my sister right, are you a whore? Better give me some answers or I'm out the door." OR.....the ever popular "Dump that zero and get yourself a hero." Wasn't this previous one a line in the Vanilla Ice movie "Cool as Ice"?

I only recently watched this show for the first time, I was in a hotel room and they had fewer channels available than I do at home. In that episode Ricki was giving away a dream wedding in Jamaica to the couple who finished first in the humiliating competitions the show had created. The big catch, as Ricki kept telling us just before and after each commercial break, was that the Jamaica dream wedding was in the nude (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Ricki took particular glee in the fact that she knew something that the contestants didn't and keep dropping sly (well, sly for her anyway) hints like "I hope you can bear/bare to do this stunt." On one stunt they smeared the guys with wedding cake icing and then told the women they had to like it off. But here's her exciting twist, they had to lick it off "the other woman's man!" Another stunt consisted of the couples in bathing suits having to swap clothes with their partner in front of the audience and cameras (with blurring covering the naughty bits). Aside from this crap being juvenile and stupid it was all ripped off from MTV's spring break shows!!! Ya gotta be jumping the shark when you're stealing from a show whose only purpose to provide eye candy to the 18 to 25 demographic.