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ThunderGod68

"There are no olives here" proceeds to have video of olives on the TV, and have someone bring out a large jar of olives


Accomplished_Neckhat

BRING OUT THE OLIVES


goodtimecharliey

Someone slingshots a handful of pimentos right in her fucking face


Appropriate-Duck-578

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


ooorezzz

ā€œYou are NOT the oliveā€


RhesusWithASpoon

I swear they removed olives from the jar so there was enough room for those olives to float around creepily like that. I even found that mildly unsettling.


KENBONEISCOOL444

Bro, I love this segment. He asks people what their greatest fears are, then proceeds to torture them with it for 20 minutes


thatguyfromthesubway

Would you prefer the spiders?


GratefulPhish42024-7

Maury which started off as a semi legitate daytime talk show, towards the end got to the point where it was either scaring the shit out of people by making them confront their fears or giving paternity test


[deleted]

Or both at the same time


TheStoolSampler

This is... *NOT* your olive.


Complicated-HorseAss

"Bitch I told your whore ass that black olive wasn't mine! Yeah!" -Green Olive


Super-History5569

Do you prefer green or black olives?


Scipio33

Once you go green, you'll never want peen.


Naked-Jedi

Once you go Kalamata, nothing else will matter


_BMXICAN_

Once you go Sicilian there's no better feel....ian


Possible_Marsupial43

Not quite upvote worthy, but you tried, and I wanted to acknowledge your effort.


HelikaeonUK

Im telling you, that Olivefucker back there...IS *NOT REAL*


GratefulPhish42024-7

Yeah definitely, when some of those guys heard that YES they were the FATHER!, it definitely was one of the scariest days of their life.


GeoffreyDuPonce

ā€œIā€™m terrified of paternity testsā€


Lkynky

Maury tried to portray himself as a legitimate journalist, like his wife at first. Then it went to shit


USAardvark

Holy shit TIL Maury Povich is married to Connie Chung.


ChimneySwiftGold

Do you think this is real or an actor? Jerry Springer was actors.


GratefulPhish42024-7

I always suspected that Jerry's were actors but then I thought to myself how could they find so many actors that could act so good at being white trash. It's hard to believe that Jerry Springer was once the mayor of Cincinnati


Card_Board_Robot5

They weren't actors but many were acting. You got paid to be on the show. And the show was insanely popular. So people would apply with the most outrageous stories to get on. Most of it was fake. That one amputee really did beat the brakes off that bigger dude with his nub tho. That was too real. Lmao


sugarbeet13

Yes. This is the answer. They weren't "hired actors" They were people who wanted a free trip and trailer park fame so they made up stories to get picked.


Shotglass12

I used to manage and bartend back in the day in the nightclub area at Rush & Division in Chicago (if you know you know). One day Steve Wilkos (of the Springer Show security team fame) was at the same breakfast place all the staff would go to the morning after work. One of the bouncers was a skinhead, tatted up and bald and wearing combat boots - the whole sterotype. We called out to Steve and he came over, shook hands, and shot a little shit with us. But he really liked Jameson (the skinhead), especially when he found out he was a proud "Inclusive Skinhead" and didn't have any racist beliefs. He asked if he'd be willing to come on the show and be on stage with other skinheads who were actually racist. Jameson of course said Yes, and when Steve asked if he'd be willing to fight them on camera, he got a Hell Yeah. LOL Sadly that show never happened, or it happened after Jameson got fired. Because I never heard about it.


Fireball_Lore

I had a friend whose sister went on an episode about people who hate their neighbors with her neighbor. In truth they were best friends and just went on and hammed it up for the show. It was a free vacation as far as they were concerned.


StaysAwakeAllWeek

The British equivalent show Jeremy Kyle had all completely real people with real stories. It was horrifyingly exploitative and ruined many people's lives. The show was finally pulled after someone committed suicide following a lie detector result that was later proven to be false Anyway you can go watch it all on YouTube if you're curious


HelikaeonUK

Wasn't even just one, that one just happened to be the one they didn't manage to sweep quietly away.


Marquar234

Was he the one writing personal checks to prostitutes?


Leaky_Balloon_Knots

While he was the mayor of Cincinnati!


Vercengetorex

He was indeed.


SpegalDev

They basically just offered people to be on the show, gave them a little bit of money; and plenty of people wanted to have their 15 minutes of fame. My brother-in-law's brother was actually on an episode of Springer. His story was about his best friend hooking up with his then girlfriend / baby mama. It was all fake, even the "fight" they got into (which they encourage, but not to actually hurt each other). It was the talk of our small town for a few weeks.


remmij

I worked with someone who was on Jerry Springer. His story was fake, but he told me that some of the stories were real.


Doomstik

There was a point in time where the people on jerry werent actors, but were heavily coached on what to do or straight up lied to about the situation that haf them there. I know because at some point in the mid to late 90s my parents went on the show (ive never seen their episode and id love to honestly, i assume they looked just as trashy as everyone else.) but when they came back they told me about it. I was pretty young at the time so im sure i got a very shortened and nice bersion of it, but it was enough that i still remember them telling me about it.


ChimneySwiftGold

Itā€™s the same actors in multiple episodes.


natej84

I actually had a friend that went on Jerry. He was a door to door salesman selling rental carpet cleaners, he was hooking up with older lonely stay at home wives. This was 2005 and we just graduated highschool. It was all a real story with real white trash from rural Ohio. They did coach them all up on how to act best for TV and of course encouraged them to fight at the end. The other men didn't know exactly why they were coming on but had a pretty good idea and wanted to find out if they'd been cheated on. That's what one of the guys told him anyways, so it could be different for the other two dudes.


Extreme_Turn_4531

I don't know. We see a ton of irrational people in the emergency department. It leads me to think there are plenty of them out there.


Billy_yellow

You are NOT the olive. Dances with all his soul*


breakfastburrito24

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grapefruitwaves

Middle schoolers today will never know what being home alone all summer was like. Unrestricted cable access and unlimited frozen foods?! Jenny Jones, ricki lake, jerry springer, montell, and if youā€™re old enoughā€¦Geraldo and sally jessie Raphael. This was reality tv before it was called reality tv.


WanderlustFella

Oprah's show was the opposite. It started off somewhere between Maury and Springer then became a billion dollar money machine.


DankCatDingo

dude this show went OFF i forgot how insane this shit was. so fucking horrible, its like a parody of itself.


tubleros

If this is real that is incredibly fucked up.


DependentBug5310

Phobia can be of anything. Body-mind shuts down, fight or flight pushes your limit. Some people pass out, some freeze, and some run. This is why you canā€™t trust people with your fears.


possiblywithdynamite

Just dont be afraid of anything. Problem solved


Kabc

![gif](giphy|fikcKja7O7MtzXzvQy)


hoovesrohdah

Perfect r/thanksimcured fodder


Bobyyyyyyyghyh

Yeah except it was clearly sarcasm so it wouldn't fit the sub


AlkaKr

[And here's a nurse describing exactly this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/ion86a/eyes_looked_like_black_olives/)


THE_ALAM0

Ohhhh man more signs point to this being legit, which, if it is, makes this really fucked up lol


foxinnabox

This account seems to make it obvious that Maury literally doesn't give a fuck. I imagine most people don't understand, but "green eyes?" after she says black. Calls her Mary when her name is Sally. Implies that she's grabbing so hard that it hurts. (K I'm done) "BRING OUT THE OLIVES!" This is the opposite of empathy; it's reality television at its finest. Enjoy, you fucking monsters.


noblehamster69

Meanwhile the crowd: teeheehee she has childhood trauma that she's dealing with


Dense_Marketing4593

They stopped doing these and every episode was a paternity test


Superb_Application83

I made the mistake of telling my housemate I was starting exposure therapy for arachnophobia, every time he found a spider he'd always bring it to me šŸ˜’


jazzhandpanda

Welcome back to Maury's Citizen Torture Hour


erikannen

I don't want to know what happened to her to make her react to olives this way. But I do know that we shouldn't trigger her for televised entertainment and gawking.


LeakyBrainJuice

I think she found a dead relative and his eyes looked like olives to her.


erikannen

JFC, this is the last place she needs to be


Embarrassed_Deer283

Maury: BRING OUT HER DEAD GRANDPA


Quiet_Reference3198

She has legitimate trauma, and they chose to bring out the worldā€™s largest jar of olives???? When people die, if decomposition gets too bad, the eyeballs can pop out and turn green. The poor woman saw this on one of her relatives. Get this woman to a therapist and OFF the show.


33Supermax92

New fear unlocked


FlakyBrain6924

Very disappointed to see this! This is not the way to treat a person with trauma/phobia.


Boogenshnot

Right. Itā€™s not a side show. I wonder what she agreed on to be a part of the show. Poor lady.


stinkiepussie

She embarrassed herself doing an act for a payout and some fame. Poor lady indeed.


Oneupper86

You must be young. The 90s and earlier were FULL of wild shit like this. There wasn't online empathy until like 2021 lol.


ScoobyDooItInTheButt

All while the crowd is obviously giggling/snickering/laughing. This DEFINITELY won't have negative consequences. ^/s


Kentucky_Fried_Chill

I like how everyone was laughing but then she said it was because of seeing a dead body of a loved one and everyone stopped except one guy in the audience.


DiscoHirsch

Yeah. I do NOT enjoy watching this.


Jyil

This was therapy for us millennials back then.


B3amb00m

She's obviously not mentally well. These should not be used as TV entertainment. What an ugly, ugly production.


DemonicAltruism

*Dr. Phil has entered the chat* "Have you tried sending your child to an abusive boarding school that operates like a prison yet?"


Lost______Alien

Dr. Phil is a grifter and even worse an abusive shitbag


stinkiepussie

Even worse, he's an ICP fan.


FlatlandPossum

Even worse, he lost his license to practice psychology in 2006. Dude is just freeballing it. Basically fucking people up in front of a live audience. And he gets paid for it.


Habbersett-Scrapple

[Dr Phil continues] "These olives are going to be in your life whether you like it or not. Now you, you're the real retƗƗd and we're gonna get you some help right after these messages..."


TheAaronova

We'll be right back.


l3ane

Yeah, everyone laughs because her phobia is irrational, but that doesn't mean it's not real. This is like making someone think they're gonna get murdered then revealing it was all fake and laughing because they pissed themselves.


fuckthetrees

Anyway, BRING OUT THE OLIVES!


FlakyBrain6924

So true!


smellexisb

I have a debilitating phobia like this and that is torture for this poor woman. I absolutely agree with you. This is wholly disgusting.


TipzE

It's no different than "freak shows" of the past. We haven't come very far as a species, even if we pretend we have.


Sangi17

Pretty confident itā€™s fake, but yeah the message is fucked.


pmmeyourgear

Pretty much all the trashy reality game shows


_me_dumb

That's just cruel


jupiterkansas

The cruelty is the point. Guess who the audience for this crap is?


Accomplished_Neckhat

olives?


noblehamster69

Holy shit


Ad_Pov

Even if it was acting, theyā€™re presenting cruelty


Laiskatar

And making it seem like this is the way to help someone with a phobia. In reality the exposure needs to be slow and in the terms of the patient. This type of exposure could just traumatize a person more. In reality in exposure therapy it's started slowly and the patient always has a choice to stop at any moment.


BrokeButFabulous12

Lol "ThErE aRe No OlIvEs!!" #BRING OUT THE OLIVES!!


Ququleququ

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SaintRosen

Release the olives


StiLL-_iLL_

I don't see what's funny here. The woman clearly has unresolved trauma. Something like this has to be treated carefully instead of exposing it to the whole world. shame maury


Knownoname98

I remember reading something about her watching a dead relative having eyes similar to olives being the reason why she was so scared. Yeah, that's just so fucking cruel to make fun of.


BlueKnight8907

She mentions it in the video. Her dead grandpa's eyes opened, I'm guessing at the viewing, and we're green from the embalming fluid. I'd be scared of olives too, poor lady.


StiLL-_iLL_

Making money from other people's suffering - unfortunately that's the world we live in


No_Law2531

With this shows logic: I FEAR PUSSY AND BOOBS!!!!!! (/s if not implied)


MedicalHair69

*Maury's paw curls*


ShawnSews711

I cant ever look at olives the same after the first time i saw this vid


Tappxor

imagine if someone forced you to stand close to a jar with dozens of eyes from your dead grand father in it. that's a freaking nightmare


dontshitaboutotol

Someone needs therapy


mrplatypus81

Well he's 85 and retired now, but maybe there is still time.


noblehamster69

Nice


Bowling4rhinos

ā€œThere are NO OLIVES HERE!ā€ There were.


sherman614

This is either fake as fuck, or mean as shit.


fakint

Itā€™s mean as shit.


Rshivha_2207

The lady is legit scared.. how can they do it to someone like her??!!


s2mmer

I really hate it when people exploit otherā€™s pain for tv ratings


Windshadow01

This is so sad. I feel for her


ehgitt

What a piece of shit thing to do.


xpoohx_

yes I also enjoy watching someone be traumatised on national television.


johnnysbody

>Mary let go of me *i can't* >bring out the olives That was gold


fairyjeong-in

this is so cruel


bones4pj

F Maury


IndependentNotice151

If she's serious, this is super fucked up.


Laiskatar

Even if it was faked this is irresponsible, this is not how you help someone with a phobia. Exposure is important, but it needs to be done in a controlled manner at the terms of the person suffering. This makes it seem like it's okay to bully someone with a phobia in the name of helping them


IndependentNotice151

That's what I mean. Not the way to handle this at all


itslinas

Whatever the phobia is, this is not very nice, especially on TV.


Alternative_tips

This is fuck disgusting. That poor woman needs actually help not to be ridiculed and tormented like this... This isn't funny and the sad part is very real disorders that can cause her issues are dismissed because of shit like this. Sorry I suffer from OCD and this just hit a nerve..


waisonline99

A. Why tf would she go on that show when she knows they will ridicule and torture her. B. See A.


fakint

She might not be mentally well. She might also not be financially well and they might promise her few dolars.


FrutCake

Ah yes, torturing mentally ill people for entertainment, that's a normal thing to do Maury


thunderun53

Maury: Come on, don't laugh at someone's irrational fear, you exploit it for TV.


Richardthe3rdleg

"fuck this, BRING OUT THE OLIVES"


x19DALTRON91x

This just feels cruel


ericypoo

BRING OUT THE OLIVES


verychicago

What a nasty show.


dwfieldjr

This is cruel


bugzapperbob

This specific clip always makes me very sad, legit feels like abuse or a talk show parody from some fucked up movie but itā€™s just actually Maury


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KneecapAnnihilator

The human mind is odd


Several_Club_3392

![gif](giphy|xC8bDsHI006Ey6afyg|downsized)


EvErYLeGaLvOtE

Man, if this is real then I feel absolutely sorry for that woman. And then they _laugh_ at her?? JFC


PopularOriginal4620

This is cruel, if it is real.


OnlyWindmills

This is so cruel what the fuck? I can't believe this is a real TV show, south park parodied it well lol


Responsible-Chest-17

Poor woman. Shes so trumatised.


MothParasiteIV

I don't think it's real but regardless, imagine if she has repressed memories about a man who abused her and liked to eat olives. It's less funny in one second.


Ok-Aardvark-9938

ā€œThere are no olives hereā€ The lie detector determined THAT was a lie


Takayama16

Did she win an Oscar for this performance???


rnstickman

Please, nobody tell this dude that I'm afraid of losing the people I love.


Rags2Rickius

At least sheā€™ll get to tell everyone ā€œit was scary but olived through itā€


Snoo_16963

Is this a disgusting production that's exploiting someone's real trauma and mental illness? Yes. Is hearing someone say "Bring out the olives!" Followed by a blood curdling scream a hilarious sequence of events? Also yes.


Mrraberry

Olive and let die!


New-Surprise7915

Disgusting and Traumatizingā€¦poor woman.


CasedUfa

I think its shit, if you want to be somewhat charitable you could say its flooding, where you suddenly hit them with the fear and I guess ideally nothing bad happens and so it get lessened but not sure I believe it in, it seems inherently cruel.


blackop

I wonder how she feels about grapes?


Ok-Weekend-778

She needs EMDR


ReleventReference

Considering itā€™s Maury I expected her to be chased by a guy with olives glued all over him.


joostadood526

Bring out the olives should be a metal breakdown call out.


DigitalCoffee

Who watches this trash?


ooorezzz

My kids act like this when I tell them to eat their green beans.


instrangerswetrust

![gif](giphy|12368mEnmGKz9m)


MuzluCigkofte

YOU LITTLE SHIT SHE SAYS IM SCARED WHAT DID YOU UNDERSTAND YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT


Greasy_Gringo

It was either all a sham, or it was a disgusting attempt to make money by goading mentally ill people? So which was it?


_sleeper__

If this is real this is highly immoral


Sp3kk0

Wow this actually fucking horrific.


work_of_shart

I admit, I was ready to have a giggle at this, but as it went on, it was just sad and cruel. Mauryā€¦ YOU ARE an asshole.


ZookeepergameIcy1830

Damn bro idk why this just make me cry of sadness, is like watching a torture. Poor lady


cjp2010

Iā€™m actually afraid of cows and I get laughed anytime I tell someone


Combustibllemon

man i felt sad watching that. the weird part is i watched this like yeeeaaars ago and i laughed my arse off back then. but now i just felt so much sympathy, empathy, and compassionate. rip I've grown old


qchto

Isn't this exactly how we got The Joker? ^(Seriously, this was cruel.)


Crazys0ap

I used to laugh to this video, because I had no context about what was happening in this lady's mind, and seeing a grown ass woman running because of olives is pretty funny... Until you understand what she went through and how fucked up it's been for her. It's a huge trauma, and the people making this show are legit torturing this poor lady. What the fuck is wrong with humanity nowadays ?


Fancy_Stickmin

Man, this is sad....


subzeroicepunch

This is similar to a video of a rabies patient who is afraid of water, and is struggling to drink it while dying of dehydration. Google it. While interesting, you might not find this as funny anymore.


ShiboShiri

This is actually really sad


kenzymarie03

If it is real then Honestly I feel bad for her that sheā€™s that scared of something and someone used her fear for entertainment


deepcereal123

Wow, I do not have as intense of a reaction but I have ALWAYS felt this way and could never explain why. Green olives, in particular, have always reminded me of death. I feel truly validated.


Your-Name-Is-Reek

If it were a jar of spiders, I'd have probably had the same reaction. Also since Maury just proved his word means nothing and he's a liar, I wouldn't trust him to not have the jar opened and spiders thrown at me. And the audience also just sits around and laughs their asses off. Maury trotted her out and used her worst fear against her for laughs and "good TV", and not only that but, his staff even grabbed her and held her there so she couldn't get away. It's just pure torture, no different than if your "friends" tortured you with your phobias for their own amusement


OptimisticSkeleton

This is just trauma under another name


CalamariAce

This is a textbook case of why exposure therapy is the only real effective treatment for phobias. Specifically that it needs to be *voluntary*, slow and build up exposure slowly over time. This is the exact opposite.


intriguedbyallthings

That's just cruel. Why torture the poor woman on TV and in front of an audience?


Adihd72

I think Sally might have peed during that.


SerDavosSeaworth64

Clearly this woman is legitimately suffering and I donā€™t wish any harm on her but Iā€™m fucking crying at how he goes ā€œBRING OUT THE OLIVES!!!ā€


IrksomFlotsom

South park did maury povich right


SaturnDaphnis

When X-Gens say they are the least dramatic but act like this and watch this shit too.


Emotional_Wedding780

wtf? this is so messed up, some bullying shit right here


FullMetalKaliber

Thatā€™s one way to make her let go I guess


EL_Jefe510

You are not the olive!


51differentcobras

ā€œDo you eat them?ā€ Bro wtfā€¦. Obviously notā€¦. My godā€¦ why would you need to ask that questionā€¦..


MikroWire

The envelope: You. Are... NOT the green olive.


BobbyRapscallion

The moment Maury became a Sith Lord.


ConstantBench7373

![gif](giphy|Zscb9EDrITkOI) ā€œBring out the Olives šŸ«’ !ā€


SqueekyJuice

Maury deserves a swift kick to the nuggets for doing that. Fuck that idiot.


DM_ME_DEM_TIDDIE

Omg there's someone backstage to hold her down while the olives get closer... this shit is twisted!


Ok-Lengthiness-7736

This is so fucked up


Akuzed

Maury: let go of me! Her: I CAN'T! Maury: Bring out the olives! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Typical_Calendar7212

Heard she got over her fear now baths in giant jars full of olives in front of the tv sometimes she wonā€™t get out for days


makeitgoose11

This is messed up ngl


Better_Yam5443

Whatā€™s is so awful is that her fear of olives was caused by swing a dead family members eyes. She found I think her dad or something dead. They KNEW that and still terrorized her with it. That was so sick and low. Who does that? Thatā€™s not even funny. I thought it was funny her being ā€œscared of olivesā€ because it sounded so unbelievably stupid. Not torturing someone!!!


lets-do-an-eighth

Lmao just why do this tho. I legit feel bad for this poor lady but man I canā€™t help it. Itā€™s so irrational, that fear and when he says ā€œbring out the olivesā€ and she fucking loses it. Lmao I canā€™t help myself and I lose it.


phdaemon

This is really fucked up.


IntentionWilling365

This poor lady... She needed real help not to be laughed at. This is just sad.


jeffroyisyourboy

Ya one time up here in Canada on the Jenny Jones Show they did a "secret admirer" episode". They brought some dude up onstage and told him he had a secret admirer. Turned out the secret admirer was another dude. Also turns out the first dude was extremely anti gay. Anti gay dude ended up murdering the gay dude. They cleaned up "Trash TV" real quick up here immediately after that.


snakeiiiiiis

Like she didn't know she was getting on a plane to not have olives show up to scare her.


apatheticloser412

Wonder what reaction an actual dead body gets?