Breaking Amish Recap: Who’s Your Daddy?

20 Comments

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   Bobbi
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 3:31 pm

   This show is a freaken fake…..

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   labowner
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 3:36 pm

   I have read it has been renamed The Lowbrow Channel.

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   Lizbot
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm

   @labowner – that sounds about right!

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   snowshoecat
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 6:38 pm

   TBC is also perfect– the Bullshit Channel.

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   ellemenop
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 8:14 pm

   i’m assuming you’ve never been to amish country — amish & mennonite restaurants are very popular with visitors. i haven’t been to lancaster in at least 10 years now (it’s a good three hours or so away), but i can wholeheartedly say that AMMISH FOOD IS DISGUSTING. i think i had some weird cucumber “salad” that made me want to throw up after one bite. but, yes, they have many a restaurant. they also sell their produce, canned products and baked goods all over the tri-state area (and i’m sure places like maryland, as well as wherever in the midwest they are). also not so great, but i remember kids from my high school (oddly, though, in miami, so i have NO idea where the hell these so-called amish where) were obsessed with amish cinnamon buns. gag.

   your caption of the mexican-chinese dining experience did get me thinking — burritos and quesadillas filled with chinese or indian food would probably be freakin’ good! i must now make myself a dal burrito asap (i know there was nothing about indian food, but i feel like it would be a good burrito filling now).

   even though this show is fake, it IS amazing how hot sabrina is in real clothes when she looks soooo dowdy in her mennonite costume (because it is clearly a costume for her at this point).

   and, on the subject of this show being fake, freakin’ hell, TLC (or, as you’ve more aptly dubbed it, TBC), have SOME dignity — that “what’s texting?” line made me want to throw something. stfu.

   i hate this show and yet i keep watching. why, why?!

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   teazer
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 9:11 pm

   *clique

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   alicecarroll13
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 9:46 pm

   if it was’nt for the fact the girls are kind of hot and im a 52 yr old guy drooling for sabrina in those shorts…..i would’nt watching this dumb fake show…and whats up with all the tlc shows doing bonus shows??? wtf???
   first i see honey boo boo child and now this show whats next…bonus sisterwifes..what are they going show as a bonus….the sister wifes visiting the pope or sisterwifes wet and wild….!!!!

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   NMH
   Posted October 1, 2012 at 11:01 pm

   This was hilarious! Just watched the first epi I had missed and was treated to Abe’s sister. Love how the camera kept panning to her during mealtime. She seemed like she might have had her teeth pulled too so maybe Abe’s not freaked out by Rebekah and her dentures.

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   Helena Handbasket
   Posted October 2, 2012 at 4:30 am

   I admit I have not done my due diligence in researching these people, but I do wonder when the show was filmed…is it possible that Abe and Rebecca got together and had their baby AFTER it was filmed? As for Jeremiah, he’s just a douche…I’m not looking for any excuses for him whatsoever.

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    Eyediosmio
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 6:21 am

    @ellemenop: In SW Miami Dade there is a Mennonite community, I believe, and they run a Farmer’s Market that is VERY popular and yes – the Cinnamon Buns are to die for. Huge, fresh, and full of yummy goodness.

    This show is strange, but if they’ve been on rumspringa before, then perhaps they’ve experienced these things.
    There’s a better show on History Channel or something, where they follow people who really did leave the community, and its slow moving and not very exciting – but enlightening. I dont know the name of it, too lazy to google.
    Also, i read somewhere once they routinely pull teenage girls teeth to make them unattractive so they won’t be getting the sexy on.

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    ellemenop
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 7:20 am

    @helena handbasket — there is absolutely no way this was filmed that long ago.

    @eyediosmio — go figure. i grew up in pinecrest and went to private school in coral gables until i made my parents let me transfer to palmetto in 12th grade. it was my private school people who were obsessed with the cinnamon buns. i never tried them, but they looked scary. then again, i don’t eat anyone’s cinnamon buns. i also had had some experience with amish food when we were in new jersey for 7th grade (i don’t know why my dad got transferred to nyc for just one year, and then again when i was going to start 12th, but my mom stayed with us so i could finish high school down there), and we’d taken a charmin’ ol’ trip to lancaster, and anything involving food made by the amish made me gag. i also went up to davie/ft. lauderdale more because we went to shows and this bangin’ vegan restaurant up there. anyway! thanks for clarifying; i always wondered where the hell these things were coming from.

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    Helena Handbasket
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 8:59 am

    My bad – I don’t know how old their kid is.

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    TurtleGirl93
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    @Helena, the show was filmed earlier this year according to multiple reports, but I haven’t seen anything ‘official’ from TLC. I think the kid is at least a year old by now; the photo that is circulating was posted on Abe’s brother Andy’s FB page in 2011.

    How many more episodes are there? Does anyone know?

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    ellemenop
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    @turtlegirl93 — i don’t know how many episodes there are, but i’m hoping it won’t get renewed, or i’ll probably continue to watch it, lol.

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    Sugarbush
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    I believe there are 9 episodes, so we should have 5 left. Hopefully TBC won’t wait until the final episode to clue us all in on the bullshit excuses.

    I did stumble upon a documentary I watched a few years ago called “Devil’s Playground” which is about kids on Rumspringa. I think that one was pretty legit. It seems as though in some communities, Rumspringa can last for years and the kids aren’t held to any customs or requirements as long as they haven’t been baptized into the religion/community/lifestyle yet. Of course, I doubt that counts for Jeremiah, the 32-Year-Old Man-Boy, but at least it gives us some basis for pretending this is for real.

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    Renee
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    Who is the singer of the song La Cucaracha in this episode? I can’t find it anywhere.

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    rebecca pressley
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Was it ever told WHY they get their teeth pulled at such a young age?

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    ellemenop
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    @reecca pressley — i think because they don’t have dental care or prevention … they probably NEED them pulled in many cases. i have TERRIBLE teeth, genetically, and even with the bazillions of dollars that have been paid to dentists on my behalf, i’ve had about 9 root canals, beginning at age 15. so i would absolutely be totally toothless by 20 with no preventative dental care.

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    rebecca pressley
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    why was beccas teeth pulled??

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    Ken
    Posted October 22, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Yup! Sabrina is definitely pretty hot in the shorts, boots, and t-shirt.