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Linda Stasi in the NY Post startles with Meat My Daughter. Puhleese. :

July 22, 2002 -- "Meet My Folks" Tonight at 8 on WNBC/Ch. 4

JUST when you thought television couldn't possibly sink any lower in the swamp, along comes "Meet My Folks," which should be titled, "Meat My Daughter."

Each week parents allow three strangers to come and spend a weekend with them and their single young daughter.

At the end of the weekend, the parents get to decide - get this - who will go away for a week on vacation alone with their daughter! I swear!

What is this? The Taliban? Who could be so horrible as to think it's OK to give your daughter away to a jerk you've all just met?

It's so sleazy that even Jerry Springer would be ashamed to participate.

In the premiere, one good looking blond girl, (Senta) who still lives at home, is basically given away by her chipper, overweight, extraordinarily annoying blonde mother, and her overweight, extremely annoying football-coach father.

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The problem is that it's so amoral and decadent that it does have it's fascinating moments, like Senta telling one of the guys in front of mommy and daddy, "You need to get your little ding-a-ling cut off." This, mind you, is an NBC network show.

The parents go to bed and she hops into the Jacuzzi with all three guys. Unbeknownst to them, however, the parents are watching on closed-circuit as their daughter makes out with one of the guys in the tub, tries to act like a lap dancer at his request, and is all over the guys like a bad smell. Yuuuuck.

Daddy hops out of bed to put a stop to it, but the dopey mother - obviously living through her kid - "No, let's see what she does," or some damned thing. Skaaaanky.

God Save America!

Aren't the parents even a little embarassed at pimping their daughter for whatever the producers paid them? What do they say to people they meet after this little bonbon hits the airwaves?

Around here, folks tend to view the goings-on amongst City folks with a great deal of amazement, but this is so bizarre that it will likely rate special comment. When it comes to daughters, W. Bruce Cameron's 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter aren't comedy, they provide a useful guide.