" RIP Jerry Springer 🙏 … thank you for giving ' 90s kids something to watch when we stayed home ' fed up ' from school . "
If you were a kid who grew up in the ’90s, then there is a 99.9% chance that you watched theJerry Springershow.
And you probably usually watched on days you were home sick from school and alone — because the show was wild and definitely not appropriate for kids.
Well, earlier today, it was announced that Jerry Springer haddiedat age 79. And for many young Gen X’ers and older millennials who have fond memories of watching his now-problematic talk show, it feels like a piece of our childhood has died too.
In memory of Jerry, I decided to round up some tweets that basically summarize how millennials are feeling about the death of a TV icon who really played a huge part in our lives (at least on screen):
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Millennials fail through it right now with the Jerry Springer news 💀
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Jerry Springer , Maury and Bob Barker - The three amigo of babysitting elder millennials while we were home sick from schoolhouse .
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Jenny Jones , Ricki Lake , Montel Williams , Jerry Springer , and Maury Povich Ware the Avengers of 90s talk show hosts . You had to be there to fully understand it . Everyone was tune up in .
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If you ’re wonder why Millennials seem superfluous nostalgic for the Jerry Springer Show it ’s because it was the easiest way to find nasty monstrosity to gawk at before Twitter roll out paid verification .
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Oh no … RIP Jerry Springer 🙏 … give thanks you for give XC kids something to catch when we remain home " sick " from schoolhouse
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I thought surely I was the only kid watching Jerry Springer at my age because my parents play fast and loose with the removed dominance , but ostensibly this was a ninety ethnic imperative .
This explain so much about us millennials .
RIP to a nauseated daytime icon 💔 https://t.co/EnlwuEeCSy
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@WUTangKids I grew up on Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake ❤ ️. I feel like they were my best babysitters .
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Jerry Springer was peak chaos which is why millennials are like this
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I think Jerry Springer was a middling significant thing for those of us who were kids in the 90s cos it was the first time that you actualize that a lot of adult are really stupid & amp ; mess up .
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Watching “ My Son Got My Ex - Wife ’s Transgender Sister Pregnant ” on Jerry Springer before Power Rangers came on at 4 atomic number 61 was a ritual of passage for millennials . R.I.P.
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When I was a kid we used to line our little chairs up in the living way and play Jerry Springer . It was so fun / curious ! We even had audience members chant “ Jerry ! Jerry!” … .RIP to the 90s legend
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Say what you will about Jerry Springer . But nobody else would ask in KKK members onstage so guests could perforate them in the face . Respect .
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I feel like millennials are collectively grieving
The Jerry Springer show , though messy and probably inappropriate for child , was like an constitutional part of our upbringing
Wow … .RIP
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Jerry Springer is one of these things that delimit Gen Z and millennials . If you realise the words “ Steve ! Steve ! ” , you are plausibly a millennian or over .
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My students just told me Jerry Springer died . To them , he ’s the source of memes . To # Millennials , he ’s our instigating uncle sitting at the end of the tabular array ascertain the class lose their shit , winking at us , and then instigating some more . RIP Uncle Jerry
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RIP Jerry Springer . A messy legend .
A staple fibre to 90s kids , unsuitably so , but still grateful 🙂 🙏 🏽
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Jerry Springer taught an integral multiplication of now - geriatric millennials who see too much telecasting that it was okay to be unearthly
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RIP Jerry Springer . He was there every sick day growing up
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Jerry Springer ’s “ Final Thought ” was actually good living wisdom and he ’d wind up it with “ Take tending of yourselves and each other ”
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