Miss America Thanks Honey Boo Boo

While watching the Miss America Pageant last night, I was hit with an epiphany.  The self described, "Worlds Largest Scholarship Fund for Women," needs to write a 6x10 foot THANK YOU note to Toddlers and Tiaras and Honey Boo Boo!  For that matter, they should also send one of those huge bouquets of long stemmed, red roses that they give to the newly crowned Miss America (it went to Miss New York, by the way).

I hope you took note that the Miss America Pageant is BACK on network television as you watched it on ABC at 8:00 CST January 12, 2013.  Important to notice is that ABC is owned by Disney - who also owns the Discovery Networks - which includes TLC.  Just a few years ago, the pageant, which has been seated in American culture since 1920, was relegated to D List Status on Vicom's Country Music Television.  Even the niche network, CMT, threw up their hands in 2010 and opted NOT to continue airing the annual event.

Only when TLC, the network famous for such gems as Toddlers and Tiaras and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo chose to run the Pageant, along with a "Behind the Crown" special, did anyone bother to break out the defibrillator.  Regardless how you feel about shows which depict children and pre-teens chasing the crown, the fact remains that those brilliant pieces of Pop Culture Art have revived the world's fledgling interest in pageantry as a whole.

So when Miss Oklahoma, Alicia Clifton, was asked her opinion on Toddlers and Tiaras and Honey Boo Boo for her final question, rather than giving an honest, but milk-toast, answer about how much June Shannon loves her daughter, Honey Boo Boo, she should have blown enormous, sloppy, air kisses toward the state of Georgia.  Had Authentic Entertainment never produced these shows and had TLC never picked up and ran with these scuttlebutt-worthy train wrecks, surely the Miss America Pageant would be relegated merely to a web broadcast by now.

Thanks to the vision of the brilliant players attached with Toddlers and Boo Boo, I was blessed to watch our very own Miss Iowa, Mariah Cary, tout the importance of Marijuana for recreational and medical purposes.  Is it any wonder that my Home-State-Girl suffers from Tourrette Syndrome?  After she flubbed the answer to her final question, I know I spewed out a few choice four-letter-words myself!

Until Next Time,

Heather Ryan
The Ultimate Talent Mentor
www.RyanTalent.com