Wrestling With Death

[Torqued pork]

Arkansas' contribution to reality tv premiered last night on WGN.

It's about an Osceola family that operates a funeral home by day and are wrestlers by night. You get embalming scenes with this jewel of a show.

Did anyone catch it?

[The Boar War]

Yep.  Took some penicillin.  Cleared right up.

[Torqued pork]

Yep.  Took some penicillin.  Cleared right up.

Well, it probably won't dethrone Duck Dynasty, but it has potential. They need a hotty or two on the show, though...preferably a lesbian couple.

[Boll Hawg]

Started watching it with my kids.  When they started the embalming process the wife made me shut it off. 

[SwinerBock]

I just do not get reality tv.  Or scripted reality tv.  At all.  I literally feel brain cells dying off if I watch even one second of it.

[DLUXHOG]

I just do not get reality tv.  Or scripted reality tv.  At all.  I literally feel brain cells dying off if I watch even one second of it.

Then you're drinkin' too much while you're watching I reckon....

[SwinerBock]

Then you're drinkin' too much while you're watching I reckon....

I wish it were the alcohol

[Rev. Jerry Falwell]

If that show's done in Osceola, shouldn't it be called "Wrasslin' With Death"?

No Offense to Osceolians

Rev

[clutch]

I just do not get reality tv.  Or scripted reality tv.  At all.  I literally feel brain cells dying off if I watch even one second of it.

I just don't see how they find people like this. A funeral home owner that also wrestles, let's make a show. I know they didn't make these people up because I actually know them. Just can't figure out how a tv producer found them. Especially in a town like Osceola.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

I know a lawyer in Jonesboro who used to wrassle in the Mid-South.  Half of a tag team known as the Cadillac Brothers.  He's still practicing law, but I'm not sure he still wrassles.  Says his greatest claim to fame was getting body slammed by Jerry Lawler one night.

Honest injun.

[SwinerBock]

I just don't see how they find people like this. A funeral home owner that also wrestles, let's make a show. I know they didn't make these people up because I actually know them. Just can't figure out how a tv producer found them. Especially in a town like Osceola.

Someone local aspiring film maker probably thought it was a great idea, approached the family about making a few pilot episodes, then pitched the series idea to some production companies / networks.  That's the approach someone took down here in El Do last year about a tv show based on a local family-owned tire service company.

[Overtheroadtruckdriver]

Blasingame is all mixed up with these folks.  where do you think they got the idear?

[Torqued pork]

WGN is showing the first two episodes again tonight. WPS!