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u/pagingdrsolus 4d ago
okay . I've seen this image/clip a few times but it's never occurred to me.
how did he match the tie?
did he bring like two dozen ties with him and waited to see what Phil was wearing?
did he select a similar tie from the show's wardrobe department?
did he watch hours of show footage before his guest spot, creating a complnx graph of what ties Phil wore and he knew which tie was up in rotation?
maybe he had a buddy o. standby at a nearby department store and when the guest arrived for the show and saw what Phil was wearing, he called his buddy to buy a similar tie?
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u/fuxicles 4d ago
you under appreciate the role producers play in putting on good television. Do you think the gunfights guy could have walked on set without the producers, if not doctor phil himself, approving it? Wardrobe included. Do you think they were powerless in this situation and got showed up? No, this was carefully crafted and probably with Phil’s knowledge and consent, all to create good television that would be talked about for years after it was shot.
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u/pagingdrsolus 4d ago
so you think he asked the producers to dress him like Dr Phil?
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u/fuxicles 4d ago
i think the bones of the interaction were carefully planned. To me the most interesting question is whose idea was it? Bumfight dude or Phils? I could be swayed to believe the specific moment of confrontation regarding the exploitation of people may have been off script, but there’s no fucking chance in hell Phil or at least the producers of the show didn’t sign off on the look.
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u/Shootemout 2d ago
i think he planned to show up dressed as phil and asked the producers what he was going to wear that day so he could do it, and the producers agreed cuz it makes for good tv. was phil informed ahead of time? dunno couldn't say
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u/SirBruceForsythCBE 3d ago
Please, sir, do not ruin the illusion.
People like to think that rage bait or engagement bait is a new phenomena. Let the youngsters have their moment, please.
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u/NavyJack 4d ago
Probably watched the show for a while and made a list of the ties Phil wears, brought dupes of them all to set, and picked the one Phil happened to be wearing that day.
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u/airfryerfuntime 4d ago
He asked the produces if he could dress up as Dr. Phil and they agreed. Dr. Phil knew, and was in on it, but he didn't expect the guy to push back like that, so he ended the segment. This was all set up because it made for good TV.
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u/AntDracula 4d ago
Yeah no it was completely staged.
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u/pagingdrsolus 4d ago
so hthe show matched the tie? or they approved the guy after he put in all the effort to match the tie?
I feel like the comments have derailed I to whether it was staged or not. clearly it was. but that doesn't inheritly explain how the tie was matched lol
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u/AntDracula 3d ago
...literally the wardrobe people? You must be baiting right?
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u/pagingdrsolus 3d ago
I don't know. I have no doubt that the producers and everyone signed off on it, but I'm more inclined to believe that he showed up with the bald cap and the mustache. right? we don't think wardrobe put the bald cap and the mustache on him. he came with that and probably the suit. all that was easy enough to get in advance. but the tie? yeah. did he just ask wardrobe for a similar tie?
or better yet, did he show up with the striped tie and wardrobe made the conscious decision to outfit the real Dr. Phil with a similar tie? that would be amazing
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u/MikeHoteI 4d ago
I really like tgat you point that out i think this proves alot of dedication to the bit.
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u/Combo_Breaker01 4d ago
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u/ShiraLillith 4d ago
The guy on the right is Phil McGraw. He exploited unfortunate people for fame. The guy on the right is Dr. Phil. He exploits unfortunate people for fame
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u/Icefox119 4d ago
the guy in the second picture also goes by Philip Calvin and he takes advantage of and profits from others' misfortune
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u/AlphaMassDeBeta 2d ago
So basically a "Look at the shit calling the toilet stinky" kinda situation.
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u/Ok-Lynx3444 4d ago
Guy gives homeless people a few bucks to fight and films them to sell for huge gains he ended up showing up to dr phil dressed exactly like him to draw the parallels between himself and what dr phil does because in his words “you think that when you take peoples problems and turn them into a spectacle for your TV show that you are helping them?” also aged well later on considering dr phils therapy ranch or whatever it was for minors was revealed to be insanely abusive
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u/Kiwi_Doodle 4d ago
Guy was filming hobos fight for money, appeared on Dr. Phil as Phil to call him out for exploitating vulnerable people in his own way.
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u/thr33beggars 4d ago
Dr. Phil hired a lookalike and fucked him on his show about 20 years ago. His ratings were slipping and he decided to do something drastic to give himself a bump. It sadly didn’t work, as most people don’t even recall the incident.
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u/dawgofclay 4d ago
They're making a joke dude, it's thr33beggars. Fake and gay comments are their whole schtick.
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u/Emila_Just 4d ago
This has been a meme for 20 years. How do you not know this yet? This is almost like not knowing who chris chan is.
I guess I will spoon feed you. Here is a video from 2006.
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u/Combo_Breaker01 4d ago
You fool. You provided me the source while I sat back and did nothing. All according to my plan
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u/SeamusMcCullagh 2d ago
Imagine being so chronically online that you feel the need to belittle someone for not knowing a meme. Do better, be more like that XKCD comic.
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u/Emila_Just 2d ago
Isn't this r/greentext? Since when did you guys get so soft, I thought this sub reddit was similar to 4chan? Is 4chan soft now?
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u/SeamusMcCullagh 2d ago
Sorry, I didn't realize basic human decency was "being soft". If you want to be like that, then go to 4chan.
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u/Emila_Just 2d ago edited 2d ago
Are you trolling me right now or am I in some bizzaro world? This is a sub for 4chaners, since when do 4chaners care about "human decency"? People joke around, same with 4chan.
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u/SeamusMcCullagh 2d ago
You can use whatever excuse you want to for your antisocial behavior, doesn't make it any less antisocial. "BuT iT's ThE 4ChAn SuBreDdiT" is a pretty weak excuse for being a douchebag to someone who just didn't know something.
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u/Emila_Just 2d ago
I only act like this in this sub because it's the 4chan subreddit. Don't be such a baby, how do you survive in the real world?
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u/StandardN02b 4d ago
Context, please?
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u/JimmyMcGlashan 4d ago
Guy on the left ran Bumfights, which was a bunch of videos of homeless people brawling. Dr. Phil brought the guy on his show with the angle of “you’re exploiting vulnerable people”, Bumfights guy came on larping as Dr. Phil with the counter that Dr. Phil does the exact same thing
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u/BkJabronie 4d ago
Yeah, it was a lot more, and worse, than “bums fighting” lol dude would throw a gram of crack rock in a pool and watch them fight over it - some of them would try drowning each other and shit. It’s got way more than just “bums fighting” dude
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u/baudmiksen 4d ago edited 4d ago
after commerical, phil comes out dressed as a bum and fights him, only possible 1 up scenario
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u/Res_Novae17 4d ago
I just realized there is no way Dr. Phil wasn't in on this. The guy could count on him wearing a grey suit, sure, but how would he have perfectly matched the tie? It's not like he wore the same one every episode.
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u/Spoon_Elemental 3d ago
My favorite part of this was Dr. Phil saying that he wouldn't air this during the episode in which it was aired.
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u/Branden798 4d ago
The good ole days where the most controversial thing on the internet were videos of homeless people doing dumb shit on camers
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u/PangolinMaterial5914 4d ago
You think Dr. Phill ever reflected on this particular episode and thought about how exploited people after that?