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Watching the Shawna Rae Dating Show Clips
from Mike Recine | The Tim Dillon Show #333 · #333
11 min
They watch and react to actual clips from the TLC show, including Shawna's blind date with a firefighter/traveler named Dan, meeting her parents, and making sushi. Tim and Mike riff extensively on the absurdity, the parents' vetting questions, the guy's suspicious world travels, and general disturbed commentary on the concept of the show.
- Tim describes meeting Shawna in Thailand by asking a hotel if there were eight-year-olds available for sex.
- The fundamental problem: any man dating a 23-year-old with dwarfism will be inherently suspect and monitored constantly in public.
- Tim watches a blind date between two people with the same dwarfism condition and immediately questions what TLC is doing.
- Tim asks if the executives at TLC can be arrested for the show.
- Shawna Rae claims her mouth isn't eight years old and can do things only a 47-year-old woman knows how to do.
- Tim notes that people who watch this show are sick, and compares what women watch on social media to beheading videos.
- Tim observes the boyfriend meeting the parents and questions what the audience is supposed to feel.
- Tim recounts explicit details from the show's season finale about Shawna needing lube and crying, then jokes this is the new Nathan for You.
- Tim asks what the boyfriend will do in 30 years when Shawna looks like she's 12.
- Tim suggests the boyfriend makes sushi at home instead of going to a restaurant because he doesn't want the embarrassment of sitting down with her in public.
- The boyfriend mentions traveling to Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar frequently, and Tim jokes he's running from the police and visiting warlords in Afghanistan.
- The boyfriend says he wants to gift Shawna the ability to see the world, but notes planes and hotel rooms are very small and those countries have rules about who you can travel with.
- Tim escalates and calls the boyfriend a pedophile who wants to fuck children.
- Tim fantasizes about walking into a TLC development meeting and pitching increasingly absurd concepts to see what they won't air.
- Tim pitches down syndrome twins in love, then conjoined twins, suggesting nothing makes TLC say no.
- Tim notes Shawna has brain cancer, dwarfism, and tattoos trying to look older, and suggests she should shop at Ann Taylor or Loft instead.
- End of clip: the show ends with a scene of someone paddleboarding.