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Thursday, September 13, 2012
10:48 am
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Tagged: amish, boring, breaking amish, electricity, funny, mennonite, parody, reality tv, recap, the learning channel, tlc, tvgasm
Kate, much like Rockwell, always feels like somebody’s watching her. She dreams of being a model. She wants to put on makeup and dress up, further confirming my suspicions that she will be the resident slutbag. She tells us that due to the fact that the Amish do not believe in photographs of them, she has no idea what she looked like as a baby. They have to wear their dresses at a specific length which is upheld by the church. Not her dress, but the code. Get your minds out of the gutter. Basically, every little thing about aesthetics is regulated heavily so that everyone looks exactly the same.
Kate’s father found out that she was being filmed, so he kicked her out of the house. She’s packing up her stuff and bailing out. She left to go to Florida to be with her Amish friends who moved to a community down there. Maybe that community will be like the Jersey Shore gang when they were in Miami. One can only hope.
We are now introduced to Jeremiah who lives in Ohio, is adopted, and dreams of driving a car.
Because sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic is some good times.
I’m seeing hotrods in his future. Jeremiah wasn’t born Amish, because he was adopted. He feels like he got the shit end of the stick by being adopted by an Amish person instead of an English person. For those of you who don’t know, the Amish refer to us regular people as “English”.
Which means they think we all look like Austin Powers.
The bishop watches every move made by Jeremiah and he’s sick of it. SICK OF IT! He realizes that if he leaves, he’s going to be shunned, but I have a feeling this particular guy doesn’t give a damn.
Next, we meet Sabrina the Teenage Crybaby.
Get ready for a lot of this.
Sabrina is a Mennonite who thinks chickens are like people with beaks. Being a Mennonite, she’s allowed to drive cars. Mennonites aren’t as strict as the Amish. Like Jeremiah, Sabrina was adopted into the Mennonite community and hates it. Her dream is to be a singer, but singing is frowned upon in the Mennonite community. She’s crying a lot already, so she’s going to be the drama queen of this show. She’s been receiving death threats since revealing her desire to leave the Mennonites. That sounds like a nice crop of people.
Sabrina reads some of her hate mail, but it’s not as scary as she makes it out to be. She’s crying about being told she’s going to hell and being shunned as the Mennonites shun. When the Amish shun, they aren’t talked to, but can rejoin the community. The Mennonites turn their backs on you.
For whatever reason, Sabrina doesn’t find it fulfilling to polish eggs.
Looks like loads of fun to me.
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a few years ago i was on a bus in maine traveling from portland to augusta and there was a very large family of amish..with grannys..children..moms and dads and babies ..these people brought their own food in baskets..my mistake was i was useing a handheld videogame..they did’nt let this at all..they looked at me like i was the devil!!! one mother looked like she was going to slap my in the head with the bible!!!
couple of these girls on the show are kind of hot..cant wait to see what happens with them all!!
Great recap! There was a show several years ago on the WB, I think, that was similar to this one I’m glad another network is doing this type of show and I’m glad you’re recapping it, so funny!
LOL @Sugarbush I got to the duck lips pose for Facebook and clubbing and had to put Kleenex in my eyes!
I’m so glad you’re doing this show. I can tell it’s going to be a hoot!
Well, I don’t knows whether the show or your recaps will be funnier, but I’m in.
Congratulations on the new home, Sugarbush! Loved your recap!
Could Abe’s sister be any more less model-like ? What would one have to do to turn that frown upside down… probably a good ole Double Cheesburger/fries and a milkshake…
Love the editing, one head interview Kates got some chicken McNuggett sized zit, and the next.. poof they are gone.. Dang, now I am hungry.. off to Mickey D’s…
Really annoyed with this show. Was expecting it to be interesting, and it turned out to be a gigantic scripted piece of crap. Jeremiah isn’t even Amish, and hasn’t been Amish for years. He’s divorced and has kids. People started pointing it out right after the show aired. I’m assuming everyone else is just as scripted.
I’m all in, fake or not. The recaps are going to be tff to miss out on.
I came to the realization, about half way through viewing, that I’d be the Antichrist to these people. lol
LMAO@TVKimmy…the thought of a Gasmii being the Antichrist and the rest of us Gasmii snarkily running around to do your bidding!
Oh, and great recap SB! I’m definitely in for this one!
I’ll read the recaps, but this looks as real as MBFAGW.
Wonder what will happen to the families that allowed their children/homes to be filmed? Kids can’t say cameras can come into the house etc.
I’m in as well! I loved this shit, right down to the overly dramatic music and horror movie editing.
How much would it suck to be adopted into an Amish family? Isn’t it interesting that two of the four are adopted? I wonder if that plays more into their wanting to ‘jump the fence’.
Sugarbush…great recap!
From 13 to 18 I lived in a small town in northeast Iowa that had a large Amish population. I believe 2nd largest to Lancaster, Pa.
Uhhhhhmmmm remember I was in highschool.
We called them “hookies” because they would hook up their buggies.
Anyway…
My best friends and I on Saturday mornings would go on “hookie runs” to get over our hangovers and to get out of the house.
“Hookie runs” were like going to a farmer’s market in a car. We would stop and get mud pies, veggies, eggs.
When I would go to Kansas City to see my sister (as an adult) just 10 miles from the Iowa/Missouri state line (only stopped in the fall) I would stop to stock up on elderberry jelly.
If you have never had elderberry jelly…you are missing out on a wonderful jelly.
Seems like the amish are the only ones that make elderberry jelly anymore,
Tis a shame.
Okay call me a total idiot, but if these people really were true Amish folk, how did they even hear about this show in the first place? We hear casting calls online or on TV… did TLC just go to every Amish village and post a flyer for anyone who was interested in being shunned from their community and running away to New York?
Shunning???– come on kids— In Cawfee’s childhood home it was called “the silent treatment”. I have had it manys the time– ya ride it out.
“a proper submissive wife”– sweet Jeebus– that gave me chills. I knew there was a reason why I am not a Mennonite. 5 minutes of my highly opinionated, won’t-walk-behind-a-man, independent,I-won’t-wait for -a-man’s-permission-to-speak sassy self and I would be tossed over that fence!!
This looks interesting–my thoughts too @14 Hobbitses–if they are supposed to be kept from society and all its evil trappings how did they find out about this show??? MTV’s True Life did an episode of Amish young people who left their communities for the “English” world.
I havent watch the show yet–but it looks promising—Altho we wont get to see Abe’s sister.
Congrats on the house SugarB!!!!!!
Now this is a creative reality tv show, hopefully we all learn something. I am glad this will be recapped.
@whatwhat – really? Divorced with kids? THe hell is that about!!!
Hot wasn’t show more about their excursions (they have a name for it) where they get to go let off steam but eventually they come back to the fold like good sheep?
@labowner I wonder if they’re doing it for their romspringa. Like they did on the UK show. They don’t have baptism ceremony for babies in their religion. It’s only after romspringa that they can join it.
I don’t know how that guy’s family got to be on camera. But I bet somebody’ll find out!
@Kthxy, we meet again for another subculture. I was thinking Romspringa too. Seemed more final, however.
@snowshoecat! (=^-ェ-^=)丿
We’ve got another 1 coming too! I didn’t forget Natl Geo. I’ll put it in the forum when I get caught up.
I’m curious what is sacred here(@tvgasm)? I recorded this show b/c nothing else was on and I am genuinely interested in shows about other cultures, then I saw it recapped (yeah!) so after watching it, I figured we should all call human services. Seriously. I was sad watching it and really upset reading comments. Snark above and beyond, unless you know that all worked out somewhat OK for these kids.
We should all be starting a fund for these kids. It’s hard to know how “reality TV” has bent the the truth, but doesn’t this break anyone’s heart? Get out of amish hell and never see your family again? I don’t know, this made me tear up a bit.
OMG! I did NOT mean to send this. Or even mean. Don’t drink and comment. Sorry.
Really do want to know how these people heard about the opportunity. Did TLC go into communities and stir up crap and dissatisfaction? Illicit TVs in the community? Maybe a computer or two? Really, how?
I watched it and loved it. I’ve always been fascinated by the Amish. Yes some of the shots were a bit fake and movieish but it still worked. Will def be watching.
Terrence my friend as well loves the Amish. To the point he almost killed us one night (I believe we saw Mennonites as they were driving). We were traveling one evening and Germ (nick name) was driving and a van of bearded men past us as if we were standing still. “Amish” Germ yells out, steps on the gas and proceeds to chase them down the highway. Wonder what they thought of the albino freak chasing them.
Wonder if they will hang out an protest with the Occupy folks?
Why do they call children of unmarried parents “bastards”? It’s not the child’s fault. Don’t label the people who had nothing to do with it! Label the parents!
flalady because that is a way to shame the parents.
As my Jewish friend told me when I joked about them having a “bastard” child he said “Ha, ha. That is how I know who my Catholic friends are as we are Jewish and don’t have bastard children.”
It doesn’t shame the parents, it only shames the children! I was born to an unmarried woman, but adopted by two wonderful loving parents. I resent being called “bastard” or “illegitimate”. I’m just as legitimate as the next person!
My self esteem is good enough I don’t care if you call me illegitmate, bastard whatever. Life is what it is.