Je-rry! Je-rry! Je-rry! ... and Maury

I've been parked in front of the TV all morning. First I watched Maury and now I'm watching Jerry Springer. There used to be a time when watching such shows made me feel extremely uneasy. I must have been a different person back then because now I simply revel in them.

Wondering how long the Jerry Springer show has been running, I was interested to find out that the program debuted on September 30th, 1991. Even more fascinating, Springer was born in the East Finchley tube station in London. His parents, Margo (a bank clerk) and Richard Springer (owner of a shoe shop), were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

I am amazed how the people that end up on the show are constantly surprised to find out that they're there to find out that a significant other has been cheating on them. If the premise of the show hasn't changed much in the last 18 years (but for the addition of a stripper pole and the chanting of U.S.A.), then what could they possibly be thinking they are there for? Dancing with the Stars?

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