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Oct. 6, 2009 TLC is a real trip this season, let me tell you. I've always been both fascinated and mortified by their programming. They focus on the kind of human conditions we rarely ever witness ourselves. If it's not up close surgical procedures, it's vegetation growing out of someone's face or, as in tonight's fare, people adopting monkey's. Now who in their right mind would adopt a monkey? Their rationale strikes me as sensible enough. Either because they've decided not to have children or their children have grown and have families of their own. They profiled 3 different couples who've all adopted for similar reasons, as an alternative to actual human children. One of the "mother's" put it like this "I get to do all the things I loved the most about motherhood. I bathe her, I dress her, I take her shopping, I feed her, I love her the same way I love my own children, but precious little Jessica Marie won't be leaving me to go to college, she won't be getting married and starting a family of her own. She doesn't grow up, she'll always need her mommy", This explanation is given during Jessica Marie's make up session, "just a wittle pink here, a wittle wipstick there, then after her manicure she's aww weady to put on her wittle dwess!" Uh huh, okay, as they say--you go girlfriend! This was the first show in the weekly series, and for all it's hilarity and indulgence, of course I still managed to find two things that bothered me. I tried not to but I couldn't help it. The first one had to do with the "licensed breeder" who had dozen's of monkey's in a separate enclosure. Why, if these monkey's are being sold into homes where they are coddled and nurtured like children are they kept in the most awful conditions? No carpet, no vegetation whatsoever, no hidden corners where they could sleep quietly. They slept on concrete floors, it's barbaric. And I don't give a flip what anyone says by way of an explanation. Even if it's the Humane Society, I don't care. The conditions were so removed from anything remotely resembling a rain forest, it didn't make sense. Zoo's have better enclosures for their monkey's than this woman does. She needs to check herself. She should be more concerned about the comfort of these animal's than the $4500 she makes for each one she sells, or the local notoriety she's basking in as "the monkey lady" who has all these adorable little primates. Considering the fact that throughout the entire show we're being told that these monkey's are emotional sensitive creatures who have many of the same characteristics as human's, the way she had them housed made no sense. It reminded me of an orphanage in Romania. Seeing them caged like that was upsetting. The second one had to do with the woman who had her monkey baby with her as she was running errands. She turned her back for a nano second and when she turned around she couldn't find her medication! So what does she do? In a show where I gave a lot of leg room to questionable behaviour, even support it, this woman tipped the scales when she called her "monkey baby psychic" to find out if little Silly Willy ate mommy's thyroid pill or her hormone pill! Are you kidding me? Silly Willy "spoke" to the psychic and "assured" her she didn't touch those damn pills"! Seems I've heard that one before! So Silly Willy's mommy heaved a sigh of relief and went home, secure in the knowledge that her wittle monkey baby was telling the truth!
What's next? An intervention? Will Silly Willy be in Detox? I wouldn't
rule it out, after all it is TLC!
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