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Topic: Honey Boo Boo

Honey Boo Boo (Alana Shannon), Mama (June Shannon), and Kaitlyn Shannon. (TLC)

"Thin-tervention" madness

Rachel Kramer Bussel

TLC's controversies

Anna Silman
"Mama June" Shannon (<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64736p1.html?cr=00&pl=edit-00">lev radin</a> / <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/editorial?cr=00&pl=edit-00">Shutterstock.com</a>)

Jenny Kutner
"Mama June" Shannon (<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64736p1.html?cr=00&pl=edit-00">lev radin</a> / <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/editorial?cr=00&pl=edit-00">Shutterstock.com</a>)

"Honey Boo Boo" saga continues

Jenny Kutner
Honey Boo Boo (Alana Shannon), Mama (June Shannon), and Kaitlyn Shannon. (TLC)

Jenny Kutner
Honey Boo Boo (Alana Shannon), Mama (June Shannon), and Kaitlyn Shannon. (TLC)

Jenny Kutner
Jian Ghomeshi, June Shannon (Reuters/Mark Blinch/AP/Evan Agostini)

Sex abuse and class war

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Sarah Gray
Honey Boo Boo (TLC/Chris Fraticelli)

Honey Boo Boo is a monster

Christy O'Shoney
Clockwise from top left: Quvenzhané Wallis, Jennifer Lawrence, Ryan Lochte (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1092671p1.html'>Jaguar PS</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-842245p1.html'>Featureflash</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Checking in on class of '12

Daniel D'Addario
Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

Being poor isn't hilarious

Jared Yates Sexton
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Jillian Rayfield

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta

Leave Honey Boo Boo be!

Willa Paskin

Lovable racist dysfunction?

Willa Paskin