Salon.com > Honey Boo Boo child http://www.salon.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:20:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Honey Boo Boo”: Lovable racist dysfunction http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/honey_boo_boo_lovable_racist_dysfunction/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/honey_boo_boo_lovable_racist_dysfunction/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:59:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12976626 “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” which premiered last night on TLC, stars a 6-year-old named Alana with a huge personality and a habit of imitating the speech patterns of the “sassy black woman.” Alana became Internet famous after a few searing appearances as a beauty pageant contestant on TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras,” a long-running exercise in documenting the supremely dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships of the future.

On “Toddlers” Alana shared her feelings, made her tummy talk to the camera, happily farted, and generally exhibited the sort of high-energy fearlessness and lack of inhibition that has served reality TV stars three to 10 times her age very well. She also birthed a number of viral videos, one that showed her extremely hyper interaction with “go go juice”(not alcohol, but a mixture of Mountain Dew and Red Bull, if that’s any better) and another that captured her way with urban slang, complete with fierce snapping, head shaking, and the dubbing of herself “honey boo boo child," from her quote, “Girls must be crazy if they think they’re gonna beat me honey boo boo child!”

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