PIMP MY WEELCHAIR: TV Show Analysis

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I recently watched a show on YouTube that was on the channel TVFilthyFrank. The show was called “PIMP MY WHEELCHAIR”, this show seemed to be entirely made up of stereotypes that range from Blacks to being mentally challenged. I watched this show on the 8th of November and found the humor so controversial that it was funny. This show seemed to be made for people between the ages of 16-late twenties or thirties, mainly for people who aren’t afraid of controversial material. The show starts with a picture of wheelchair getting customized with speakers and guns, with the “Pimp my Ride” theme song playing. Then cuts to a man that intros the show, and has a guest come in, the man who’s getting the “Pimped” wheelchair. The guest is an African American …show more content…
He asks “how do you even talk to these people”, he doesn’t want to just go up and say hi because he doesn’t want to scary him. This is going off of the idea that handicapped people are not real/normal people and that you have to handle them in a certain way. Once the host talks to the guest he says “What took you so fucking long”, “learn how to drive you absolute leach”, saying that handicaps do not provide anything for the community and only consume from the government. The guest responds to this by saying “I’m trying man, its hard work”, that’s when the host says “you don’t know what hard work is you never even stood”. This is from the idea that people in wheelchairs can face the same hardships that others can because they are not able to do the same activities. The host says that was too mean, so they took the scene again. The scene starts out with the host saying “What sup young blood” and tries to give him a handshake, but before getting disgusted and putting on a glove to shake his hand. Once the host and guest are about to present the wheelchair the host tries to get the guest excited and pumped then starts making chimp noises at him. Going back to the idea that blacks are monkeys. Once the wheelchair is revealed, it turns out to be a go-kart that is striped and replaced with a office chair and a back panel. After the reveal

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