BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:18 AM

And the horror goes on...

Man, Bobert, you have really caused me to open a giant can of worms this time. Ugh!

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:02 AM

He's an arrogant hypocrite, dispensing almost useless advice and glitzy buzzwords/catchphrases to handpicked addicts, obsessive-compulsives, and other people with problems that need more help than a 10 minute soundbyte on his dumbass Oprah-sponsored daytime TV quasi-show can provide.

He has several so-called self-help books out to cash in bigtime on people's problems. My favourite is his requisite diet book. What gall! That f__ker must weigh about 350 lbs himself.

In short, he's the Devil Incarnate.

That's about it....

Except, my girlfriend is a fan and tries to get me to watch him. That's when I go for a poop and an afternoon nap.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:00 AM

Hmmmm. Not bad.

This is the quote that really sticks with me:

"Think of a bad Dan Hill song (or any Dan Hill song), then apply that to a T.V. talk show."

AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! The pinnacle of awfulness. The ne plus ultra of absolute drek. The horror, the horror.

Set all phasers on maximum annihilation, arm the photon torpedoes and target that gleaming bald pate! Beam me up, Spock! At once!

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:05 PM

Yeah, he's on tv like Dr. Laura, but not with the same kind of tight-ass conservative anti-gay anti-lots-of-things spin that Dr. Laura puts on it. So they really aren't alike.

Oprah spelled backwards is Harpo.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Mudlark
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:47 PM

Thread Creep here....Does everyone know that Oprah was named afer Harpo (a noted Marx himself) and that she is the reigning queen of entime TV?

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: jaze
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:37 PM

Another "Dr Laura" type dispensing advice to the hopelss masses.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:09 PM

Well gol danged... I know all about Doctor Phil... The P-Vine tapes his show everyday and watches him at night... She thinks he is the samrtest person in the world... I think he's a danged trouble maker myself...

His advice is very consistent... Doesn't matter the problem...

Dr. Phil : "Ahhhh, Bill, yer wife keeps catching you cheatin' on her. Is this working for you?"

Bill: "Well, no Doctor Phil, it isn't"

Dr Phil: "Well, Bill, quit doing it. Can you do that?"

Dr. Phil: "Good, Bill. I a moment we'll introduce you to Sally who weighs over 400 pounds.....

(Commercial break to sell yer sorry butt some junk that you don't need or want.)

Dr. Phil: "Well, Sally, you eight over 400 pounds and yer here because you want to make some changes in your life. Is what you have been doing working for you?"

Sally: "Well, no (breaks down crying...) No, Doctor Phil, it isn't...

Dr. Phil: "Well, buy my book on loosing weight..."

And they are all the same.

Dr. Phil reminds me of an assistant principle back in High school. All the kids called him Uncle Willie and when you got caught doing dumbass stuff you'd be sent for a little face time with Uncle Willie who would rwll you not to do dumb stuff any more, usaully call yer parents, give you a bunch of hours of detention hall or suspend you form three days... But part of the Uncle Willie's song and dance routine was to tell ya yo knock off whatever it was that you got caught doing...

Dr. Phil/Uncle Willie?

Uncle Willie/Dr. Phil?

Twiddle dee twiddle dum...

I hate disciplinarians... Bunch o' dumb narks as far as I can see...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:53 PM

Dr. Phil

Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Bonus Marx quote:
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

:)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:51 PM

you don't really want to know who he is. Think of a bad Dan Hill song (or any Dan Hill song), then apply that to a T.V. talk show.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Wesley S
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:00 PM

Is Vicodin considered an opiate ? I had plenty that week.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 05:47 PM

I think the phrase was "opiate of the masses", and it was before television had ever been commercialized.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:53 PM

Marx. Opiate for the masses.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:44 PM

You can learn even more reading a book. Or even sleeping. Was it Lenin who called religion "the opiate of the people?" -- whoever it was had obviously never considered television!

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Wesley S
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:15 AM

As I understand he met Oprah when he was helping her with her "mad cow" trial. Oprah was sued by beef producers here in Texas when she said on the air that she wasn't going to eat beef because of the mad cow disease scare a few years ago. Oprah brought him on her show on a regular basis { Tuesdays } and noticed that her ratings went up when he was on. He eventually got his own show.

You can learn a lot watching daytime TV when you spend a week in bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:05 AM

"Don't disappoint me. I expect to know EVERYTHING worth knowing about Doctor Phil before this thread vanishes into oblivion."

You are a sick man, Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: PoppaGator
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:02 AM

Before he got his own show, Dr. Phil was introduced to the mass US TV audience as a regular/repeat guest on Oprah Winfrey's show.

After several months of being ridiculed by David Letterman, Dr. Phil appeared on Letterman's show as a guest and was quite gracious, amusing, and self-depricating. He's been back several times since, and projects a very likeable personality.

Now he's making yet another fortune selling self-help books.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:01 AM

Is Dr Phil's first name Land?

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:56 AM

He/she is a Doctor and his/her name is Phil, hope this helps.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:46 AM

Pop-psychology gone network TV......cross Jerry Springer with Phil Donohue and set the result to work 'counseling' troubled couples live on TV with the same pre-digested advice for everyone...which somehow gets him invited to be a guest on many other shows.

(It's startling how many people are willing to have their personal problems discussed in front of a TV camera, as if having 27,000,000 know about it will make it easier to accept advice that YOU could have given them for free.)

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:15 AM

Or Dr Bob in the Muppets, or even Dr Dick in Cybill?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Mooh
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:04 AM

Is he related to Doctor John? Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:58 AM

LOL!!! Most happy to do that, Art. I'll be there at 5:35 sharp! Gotta run...

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:50 AM

If you don't already know, you probably don't deserve to. The meeting of the undeserving convenes at 5:30 at the pub...join me?

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:43 AM

He's on television, I think. Personally, I rarely go there.

Subject: RE: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: MBSLynne
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:37 AM

I haven't got the faintest idea.

Subject: BS: Who the heck is 'Doctor Phil'???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:33 AM

I know...I could just Google it! But then all you bright people on Mudcat wouldn't have a chance to educate me on this vital subject... :-)

I'll be back in the evening to see the results. Got a busy day today.

Don't disappoint me. I expect to know EVERYTHING worth knowing about Doctor Phil before this thread vanishes into oblivion.

And thank Bobert for getting me on the subject.