Oh Dr. Phil

Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a taping of Dr. Phil with my grandma and about 40 other seniors. Let me tell you it was quite an adventure. The Dr. Phil show sent a bus to pick up the ladies club and take us all to the studios. First of all let me say that the oldies love to push and shove to get onto the bus, and of course are in a panic that they won't be first into the studio, etc. Even though we were told they'd be letting us in by numbers. My grandma kept going further and further up to the front and then would yell for me, where are you?? Keep Up!! It was exhausting really.
The actual taping was alright the topic of the show was Is it normal? There was a lady on who was basically a hypocondriac and then someone who refuses to celebrate holidays. The general consensus among the ladies was that we should have at least gotten free Dr. Phil mugs and they felt rushed around all day. I'd say the rushing they felt was themselves getting in a tizzy about getting on/off the bus first or making sure they got into the studio ASAP. Also they got super impatient when Dr. Phil and some Marines were filming PSA's for Toys for Tots, it was taking forever and it was cold in the studio..purses were gathered and they were ready to bolt the second it was over. Anyways the taping airs on Nov. 1st, I'm sure you can see me since the lady in front of me kept clapping at inappropriate times and so the camera would pan over to her. Oh the other best bit was that they showed Dr. Phil being drawn for an episode of the Simpsons and in the clip he says something to Homer about losing weight. This one got all the ladies started, something about a Dr. Phil diet bar scandal that all the seniors seemed to know about in great detail. At this point I also got another lecture about broccoli. My grandma said something about how you need to read labels very carefully and that one time she almost ate somethign with too much Vitamin D, and that you can OD on Vitamin D if you're not careful..then she says, you can OD on anything really if you have too much, even broccoli. Then she launched into the broccoli speech again, by the end of this she's gonna have me brainwashed to never eat broccoli again!