Alright, TLC, that's enough. Shut it down...

[Sawyer]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/31/man-scrotum-show/

Man with 132 lb. scrotum gets TLC show
by James Hibberd

TLC has some pretty big balls putting this on the air.

The cable network has just announced a special titled The Man With the 132 lb. Scrotum. Yes, this is happening. Yes, there are photos. We put them semi-discretely below the text, but beware: Once you see a man with a 132-pound scrotum, you cannot unsee him.

The special chronicles the challenges of Wesley Warren Jr., a 49-year-old Las Vegas resident who is living with a rare medical condition called “scrotal lymphedema.” The show will follow “Wes’s life as he deals with day-to-day challenges that are easy for most people. Due to the large size of his scrotum, Wes has difficulty with simple tasks like walking, preparing meals and even going to the restroom.” In the show and in public, Warren wears a hoodie to keep it his scrotum covered up.

More from the channel: “According to Wes, it all began one night in 2008 when he awoke to sharp shooting pains. Afterward, the tissue around his testicles began to swell and grew bigger ever since. It’s estimated that they were growing at an alarming rate of at least 3 lbs per month. The Man With the 132 lb. Scrotum, which highlights the difficulties of living with this bizarre situation, also reveals Wes’s many attempts to find appropriate medical care and raise money for the surgery he desperately needs.”

Notes a professor of urology, Dr. Joel Gelman: “The main specimen, after surgery, was 132 lbs, but we can’t accurately predict its total weight. With an additional specimen, tissue and cell fluid not taken into overall consideration, the starting weight could have been over 160 lbs.”

The one-hour special airs Monday, Aug. 19. So what do you think? Was TLC savvy to package this as a special? Or should the executive who ordered it get sacked?

I can't wait until he and Honey Boo Boo's mom conveniently meet, get married and move on to their own spinoff.

 

[Mace Dolex]

There gonna have to put in a lot of manpower just to digitaly blurr out or put a giant blue dot over his scrotum in every scene.

 

[WorthyStevens]

Randy Marsh would be so proud.

 

[Maximus One]

Hey man, if this helps the dude get the money he so desperately needs to have this taken care of then BRAVO TLC. Is this stupid to air on tv? Well yea. But, is it a great thing they could be doing possibly to help this man? If it's the case then hell yea.

 

[zeroapoc]

Randy Marsh would be so proud.

Damn. I wanted to make that reference first.

 

[Ghostvirus]

At what point is the name of the channel no doing what the title indicated false advertising?

What does this have to do with learning? What does Honey Boo Boo have to do with it as well?

What does Pawn stores have to do with history?

and the old joke MTV doesn't play music

Seriously. This is just insanity!

 

[Teelie]

TLC dropped it's formal name a few years ago. It's no longer The Learning Channel, just TLC. Much like TNN used to be The Nashville Network then became just TNN before eventually settling on Spike. Or MTV that's just MTV instead of Music Television. The SciFi Channel, same deal except they abandoned science fiction/fantasy as a majority program years ago and renamed themselves SyFy for marketing purposes.

Pawn Stars at least has the veneer their stuff is occasionally antique and they give some history into it but otherwise it's only loosely historical at best.

 

[Sawyer]

Pawn Stars is horribly scripted. The funny bits are awful.

 

[Piper Maru]

Hopefully this show gets sacked.

 

[Soapy]

Hopefully this show gets sacked.

But that could leave the guy in a pretty hairy situation.

 

[Piper Maru]

But that could leave the guy in a pretty hairy situation.

I think he's nuts.

 

[Teelie]

At least let him give it a shot. He might be able to slam dunk it.

Oh, who am I kidding? The ball weighs 66 pounds.

 

[Ghostvirus]

I see a horror movie. Call it Tea Bag.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I like Honey Boo Boo!

 

[Maximus One]

I don't see how the dude has gone this long like this. Seriously, they'd have driven me crazy enough to where I'd probably end up trying to perform a little home surgery. Ya know, after like the 4th year of having a 100lb ball sack. It'd be like walking around with a filled up garbage bag attached to you. For real though, all you'd have to do is like start cutting and then call an ambulance and doctors would just take care of the rest. It's like when John Billingsley was on Nip/Tuck and tried cutting off his own leg due to his BIID. I really feel for this guy. It has to be absolute hell doing the most mundane daily stuff.