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From jaw-dropping confessions to outrageous stage brawls, these unforgettable “Jerry Springer” moments pushed daytime TV to the absolute limit. We’re diving into the weirdest, wildest, and most shocking clips the show ever unleashed, including food fights, bizarre relationships, and guests who somehow made every situation even messier. Which chaotic moment do you remember most? Tell us in the comments below!
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00:00Today we're talking with adults who like to act, dress, and be treated like babies.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:05And today we're counting down our picks for the weirdest, wildest, and most hilarious things to ever happen on the
00:11Jerry Springer stage.
00:12To love her, honor her, and tickle her.
00:15To smell her soul, even when she's smelly feet, all that.
00:19As long as you both see I live.
00:21Yes, I do.
00:22And by the power and vest in me, by all that is good and right, I now pronounce you man
00:25and foot.
00:27Number 20. Taco Tuesday Throwdown.
00:30Nothing says I love you like a trip to the Jerry Springer show.
00:32Skylar thinks she's there to surprise her longtime boyfriend Damien with a taco-flavored declaration of love.
00:38As she stands there in a kiddie pool covered in taco fixings and regret, Damien surprises her by telling her
00:44he's been sleeping with their roommate.
00:46Remember how we had our argument a few weeks ago about money issues?
00:51And do you remember when you took Kaylin and went to our families?
00:56Right.
00:57I slept with Amber.
00:58Of course, it wouldn't be Springer without the roommate waiting in the wings.
01:02Once the roommate comes out, it's pretty much a given that there's about to be a food fight.
01:06Only once they're tired out and dripping with ground beef and sour cream can the real healing begin.
01:11I do love you.
01:12I want to marry you.
01:14But I just want to tell you I'm sorry.
01:16That's more than anything.
01:17What are you going to do differently than to make it up to me?
01:20I'll start paying attention to you more.
01:22Number 19. The Bet.
01:24Michelle's wedding day should have been the happiest of her life.
01:27But her sister-in-law, Danielle, despises her.
01:30She tells Michelle that her brother, Matt, says that if she wins a fight against his wife, he'll leave with
01:35Danielle.
01:35They're obviously together.
01:37But the whole reason I'm here today is because my brother made a deal with me.
01:40If I beat her ass, he leaves with me.
01:42And you think that's going to happen?
01:43I know that's going to happen.
01:44There's a loving husband.
01:45Ask and ye shall receive.
01:47The fighting starts immediately.
01:49Danielle doesn't exactly endear herself to the audience.
01:52Even some of them want to get up on stage and fight her.
01:55When we finally meet Matt, it's almost as if he doesn't even care at all that his wife and sister
02:00are boxing over him.
02:01Something tells us the next family reunion is going to be a battle royale.
02:05I'm for the kids, Jerry.
02:07Yeah, you better think about them kids.
02:10You better think about going home tonight and telling that little boy he ain't going to say.
02:13Hey, hey, hey.
02:13Shh.
02:14What's it going to be?
02:16Well, I've got to stay with my wife.
02:17I don't want to pay child support.
02:19Number 18.
02:2070-pound baby.
02:21One of the more memorable guests was Zach Strinkert, who was born with a genetic disorder that caused him to
02:26gain weight and grow at an unusual pace for an infant.
02:29His 1996 appearance on the show identified him as the 70-pound baby.
02:34I get phone calls every day from moms, dads, and grandmas that have big children.
02:38And they're having the same problems that we have with doctors, equipment, diapers, shoes, clothes, you name it, public response.
02:45Unlike a lot of guests, this family is perfectly lovely and clearly going through something painful.
02:50The segment catapulted Strinkert to international fame for a brief moment.
02:54When he returned to the show as an adult years later, he and his family clearly looked back on him
02:59and the experience with fondness.
03:01But you helped us out because you were the only one that gave us the doctor that we needed.
03:06And it took a lot of growth from the community, from the world.
03:10But when the results came back, it was because of you.
03:14Number 17.
03:15Kenny messes with the guest.
03:16Jerry Springer often had recurring co-stars, one of whom was Kenny Easterday, a man born with sacral agenesis and
03:23was the focus of a TLC special called The Man with Half a Body.
03:26While the show clearly used his disability for sensational effect, Easterday clearly knew how to have fun with the whole
03:32thing.
03:33This particular guest is clearly uncomfortable.
03:35If all of a sudden you're this other guy, this friend of your husband, if he's okay.
03:42Thanks, Kenny.
03:43She's trying to tell her unbelievable story about how she's been hexed, but Kenny's presence is clearly making her uncomfortable.
03:50He begins to tease her, coming closer to her as she visibly recoils in the chair.
03:54The audience eggs him on, too, until she finally asks Jerry for help.
03:59Oh my god, Jim, will you stop this?
04:03I know, he's gone.
04:04It's okay.
04:05Don't worry.
04:06Number 16.
04:07A stolen leg.
04:08Lots of people keep mementos from past relationships.
04:10Keeping a prosthetic leg is a little much.
04:13This woman slept with her friend's man, and she seems pretty unapologetic about it.
04:18But she stole his prosthetic leg when he wouldn't commit to her.
04:21The man's fiancé comes out in her bridal gown to collect the leg and her man.
04:26You knew how much I love him.
04:28You know how my kids love him.
04:30You are such a baby.
04:32I'm such...
04:32Give it up.
04:33Too bad.
04:34Sorry.
04:34He ain't getting the leg back.
04:35And if you think you're gonna hold one in, you're sadly mistaken.
04:38A brawl ensues between the two women, leaving Jerry Springer holding the leg.
04:43The bride-to-be and the mistress have to be pulled apart several times.
04:46It's pandemonium even before the man they're fighting over hops out on one leg to settle
04:50this, likening his libido to Tiger Woods.
04:53I don't want to do this.
04:54I want to be faithful, but I can't.
04:57It's like I'm tired.
04:58Number 15.
04:59Stripper fights man whose wife he cheated with.
05:02Infidelity confessions were a dime a dozen on this show.
05:05To make a real splash with the Jerry Springer audience, you had better have something they
05:08haven't heard before.
05:10This woman cheated on her husband with a male stripper.
05:12So, me and my husband hadn't done it in a while, so I went for it.
05:18Her husband watches as the man himself makes an appearance.
05:21This stripper is also a little person.
05:23This is what you want to throw away seven years of marriage for?
05:27I mean, I come out here thinking I'm gonna be intimidated when you tell me that you're
05:31not me.
05:32He has a lot to say about the man of short stature who slept with his wife.
05:35And after a back and forth, the husband drops to his knees and the two start to duke it
05:39out.
05:40It plays out about as bizarrely as you would expect.
05:43Your underwear is bigger than you are.
05:47Hey, why don't you let your little sister go and let's bring it on.
05:50I'll tell you what, come on.
05:51Number 14.
05:52She's rubber, I'm real.
05:54All right, my first guest says he's living proof you can find love in the strangest place.
05:59Please welcome Billy to the show.
06:01Despite being engaged, Billy has fallen in love with an inflatable doll that he takes
06:06everywhere.
06:06Even Jerry Springer seems charmed by the blonde and beautiful Betty Jo, who is losing air by
06:11the minute.
06:12One person who is not charmed is Billy's fiance.
06:15She's raring to go immediately.
06:18The audience always gets rowdy on this show, but beat him with the doll is one of their more
06:22creative chants.
06:23We have no idea what the Spanish translator is doing there, but it doesn't even rank in
06:28the top 10 of the craziest things happening here.
06:30Love can take many forms, but sometimes it is a deflating experience.
06:35Let's do the things we used to do, get in the old truck and go riding and talk and going
06:39out and stuff like that.
06:40You know how to have a good time.
06:43Are you willing to do that?
06:45Number 13.
06:46I Married a Foot
06:47Featuring one of the oddest guests ever to appear on the show, this segment introduced the
06:52audience to a man with a fervor for all things foot-related.
06:55He claims to have married 24 pairs of feet.
06:58Yes, he says he married them.
06:59So you have like a ceremony where you marry feet?
07:02Yeah, I love that.
07:03I'm looking for my 25th foot and I want to come on your show to find it.
07:08And in a stunning feat of sensationalism even for daytime TV, he's prepared to marry another
07:13pair of feet for our viewing pleasure.
07:15After graphically sampling four audience volunteers, he selects the lucky bride and the show performs
07:21an impromptu marriage ceremony right there on stage.
07:24It leaves us with one question.
07:26Will the show also foot the bill for the catering?
07:29And by the power invested in me, by all that is good and right, I now pronounce you man
07:32and foot.
07:33May no man or woman divide what the good lord is brought together.
07:36You may kiss your toe.
07:37Number 12.
07:39Mother-daughter dominatrix team.
07:40Apparently, lawyers and doctors are not the only businesses you can pass down to your children.
07:45Lady Ice Queen and Princess have a big secret.
07:48At least they did before they strutted onto the Jerry Springer stage to tell the world.
07:52They claim to be the only mother-daughter domination team in history.
07:55This is just wonderful.
07:56Would you like to try it?
07:57No.
07:59Who are we to ask for evidence?
08:01Lady Ice Queen and Princess then bring out a client for a live demonstration for Jerry
08:05and his audience.
08:06They proceed to humiliate this guy.
08:09Usually, that's par for the course for this show.
08:11But this is a specific brand of wrong we've never seen.
08:14You know what they say.
08:15The family that dominatrixes together stays together.
08:18If you're gonna be anybody's bitch, it's my bitch.
08:21Number 11.
08:22Adult Babies.
08:23This entire episode is an odyssey into a very fascinating subculture that Jerry Springer spends a lot of time pretending
08:29he doesn't want to know about.
08:31But it's his name on the show.
08:32I did it out of love because I knew that I was a mom, deep down, and a mommy type.
08:39Why not be a mom to a baby and be a wife to a husband?
08:43If these men who dress up as infants to be babied by their wives can't go on the Jerry Springer
08:48show, where else can they go?
08:49Actually, it was the 90s, so probably any other show.
08:52Children don't need to be spanked before they can actually understand what they've done wrong.
08:56How many children do you know that when they go up to a fire, it's gonna burn?
09:01Okay, hold on.
09:02You're trying to have a serious conversation, and you're dressed here in a diaper.
09:05If anything else, the cultural legacy of this phenomenon is still with us.
09:09It clearly left an impact on at least one RuPaul's Drag Race producer.
09:13At the end of the day, I'm gonna speak for myself.
09:17It's a couple of you girls I really don't care for, but I have to commend you on your drag.
09:22This is Drag Race.
09:24Number 10.
09:25I Know Kung Fu.
09:26Who could forget David, the self-proclaimed kung fu hillbilly?
09:30He ain't got to leave the trailer.
09:31He can stay there, but now if they're gonna be doing it, he's gonna have to give me my money.
09:36He came on the show because he was having a problem with his roommate Lil Wayne,
09:40not to be mistaken for the Grammy-winning rapper of the same name.
09:42David mastered the art of kung fu by watching countless Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme movies on his
09:48VCR.
09:48In fact, David was so confident in his fighting abilities that he told security not to interrupt him while he's
10:07doing his thing.
10:08When Lil Wayne comes out, it doesn't take long before the two men are shirtless and throwing punches.
10:13Well, one of them was throwing punches.
10:15David was obviously sticking to the karate chop.
10:17Number 9.
10:18Cheating with a stripper.
10:20If there's one thing the Jerry Springer show is synonymous with, it is revelations about infidelity.
10:25Like when this guy informed his girlfriend that he's been sleeping with a stripper.
10:28I love you and I would never do anything that intentionally hurts you, but I have been sleeping with a
10:32stripper.
10:32Sure, he claims it was purely physical, but his girlfriend doesn't seem to want to split hairs and starts smacking
10:37him in the head.
10:38I do love you.
10:40I do love you.
10:41What has she got?
10:43I don't.
10:44She's just a freak.
10:45I'm 20.
10:46Things go from bad to worse when the stripper enters the fray and a fight breaks out between the two
10:50women.
10:51With the crowd chanting, the stripper flashes her breasts and starts dancing on a pole.
10:55Meanwhile, the girlfriend is backstage throwing up.
10:58With the stripper refusing to be quiet, Springer has her escorted off stage.
11:03Why was there a stripper pole on set anyway?
11:05Why?
11:06Please be quiet.
11:07It looks good on you.
11:08Stop it.
11:09I'm going to ask you to leave the stage.
11:10It really does.
11:10Take her off the stage.
11:10You know why?
11:11Because it's from your hair, honey.
11:12Take her off the stage.
11:12You're out.
11:13Number 8.
11:13The Brawl.
11:14What do you get when you invite members of the Jewish Defense League and the Ku Klux Klan onto the
11:18same stage?
11:19He's the founder of the JDL, the Jewish Defense League, a very controversial organization.
11:24Here is Irv Rubin and his bodyguards, Al and Joseph.
11:27Mayhem, that's what.
11:28For some reason, the KKK stopped by the Jerry Springer show to discuss race and religion with the JDL,
11:34with Springer acting as moderator for some reason.
11:36However, and unbelievably, things quickly spiraled out of control when a KKK member mocked JDL chairman Irv Rubin
11:43by revealing a kippa beneath his hood, triggering an all-out melee between the Klan, JDL bodyguards,
11:49Springer's security, and even members of the audience.
11:51Now that is worth the price of cable.
11:53But I gotta tell you, and I'm telling you this very firmly, you came out here twice now,
11:59and you basically sucker-punched them.
12:00That doesn't make you any better than them if you're gonna act like they do, okay?
12:04Number 7.
12:04Living in a Box.
12:06Say what you will about the Jerry Springer show, but there is no denying its knack for finding unique personalities.
12:11I'm not going anywhere.
12:12Man, I'm here because I love you.
12:14I'm not there.
12:15Take, for instance, this chap, who decided to shun the societal norm of living in a home to live in
12:20a cardboard box.
12:21All the man wanted was for his significant other to take him back, which she was having trouble doing seeing
12:26as how he, you know, wanted to live in a box.
12:29The best part about this WTF moment is when Boxman threatens Springer, claiming he won't leave the set until Springer
12:35convinces his wife to take him back.
12:37I tell you what, if she doesn't come back to me, then, um, you're my, I am your problem now.
12:44I'm gonna sit here on this stage.
12:46Hey, at least he doesn't have to worry about paying rent.
12:49She says she'll take me back, then I'll go.
12:52Otherwise, I'm camping right here.
12:54Number 6.
12:54The dance slash rap slash proposal.
13:06The Jerry Springer show saw its fair share of breakups, fights, and proposals over the years.
13:11And while it's usually pretty easy to predict when one is about to occur, this episode had the audience guessing
13:16till the very end.
13:18It starts with Judah doing a provocative dance for his boyfriend, but quickly devolves into an emotional rap about his
13:24desire to take their relationship to the next level.
13:36The whole thing culminates with Judah pulling a ring out of his pants and proposing, much to the crowd's delight
13:42and displeasure.
13:43The boyfriend looks pissed, but surprises everyone by saying yes.
13:47It was a rare happy ending for the controversial show.
13:50I can't believe you did this for me.
13:53Yes, yes, of course.
14:00Number 5.
14:01Hooking up with the stripper sister.
14:02What is it with men cheating with strippers?
14:04In this clip, we meet one of the most dysfunctional families on earth.
14:08They were spending a lot of money on me.
14:10I went up to the champagne room and I offered him a ride home because he was drunk.
14:16And it just, it got kind of wild and we ended up having sex.
14:20After a drunken night at the strip club, a man went to bed with his girlfriend's sister, a stripper.
14:25Naturally, this put all three parties at odds with each other.
14:28But it gets worse.
14:29Apparently, it isn't the first time the stripper has done this to her sister.
14:33It's the third.
14:43Shockingly, the two women come to blows, with the stripper losing a clump of extensions for her trouble.
14:48As the crowd chants some nasties, Springer is left holding the locks in disbelief,
14:52while the girlfriend wraps up the relationship.
15:04While we would love to spend this entire entry talking about what a horrible person the man in this episode
15:09is,
15:10and, well, he is,
15:11we can't ignore the fact that a woman's dentures literally fell out of her mouth during a fight.
15:15The fact that the woman in question is a sex worker who is pretty pleased with herself
15:19for providing services to another woman's husband just makes her teeth falling out all the more hilarious.
15:30Thankfully, a security guard brings her a glass of water to deposit the teeth in.
15:34However, he then turns to the crowd and raises the cup like it's the Holy Grail,
15:39garnering cheers typically reserved for a last-second touchdown in the Super Bowl.
15:46Number 3. Self-surgery and the saw.
15:49By now, it should be wholly apparent that there are some strange people out there.
15:53However, it takes a special kind of strangeness to handicap yourself because your brain told you so.
15:58I didn't want them. My brain just kept saying get rid of them, so I had to get rid of
16:03them.
16:03Springer perfectly prefaces this episode saying,
16:05quote,
16:06This may be the most bizarre story we've done in our 15-year history.
16:10Apparently, Sandra decided to cut off both her legs with a circular saw because the voices in her head told
16:15her to do so.
16:15Looked at the saw and looked at my leg and said, well, it's down or never.
16:19Bizarre barely scratches the surface when discussing this guest, who genuinely makes us worried for the future of humanity.
16:25Are you finished or are we going to lose other limbs?
16:27I'm finished.
16:29What if your brain one morning says, you know what, I'm so tired of this arm?
16:33I'm an artist. I need my arms.
16:35Number 2. Self-surgery Part 2.
16:37This time, it's really personal.
16:40Jerry Springer may have jumped the gun when he referred to the previous story as the strangest one he'd ever
16:44heard.
16:44We're going to talk to Earl Zee, a man who cut off his own penis.
16:49After all, those were just legs and a circular saw, not a penis and garden shears.
16:54He did it with a pair of garden shears, identical, identical to these.
16:59According to Earl, the guy with the shears, he decided to snip his bits just a month before in order
17:04to prevent his stalker from being able to touch them.
17:07However, the stalker claimed they were once lovers, adding a new angle to the drama.
17:11Earl went on to express regret for his actions, as one might expect.
17:16Why?
17:17He's been stalking me for years, and I just can't get rid of him, no matter what I've done.
17:21It was like the only alternative to get rid of him.
17:23Like, if it's not there, he don't want me.
17:25Number 1. The guy who married a horse.
17:28The first one happens to be, it's a real title from one of your shows, I Married a Horse.
17:35Well, this actually happened.
17:37I'm not allowed to know what the show's about.
17:39Arguably the weirdest person to ever appear on The Jerry Springer Show, this guest actually started off appearing quite normal.
17:46He claimed to be having problems with his neighbors, who didn't get along with his wife.
17:50However, things hit the fan when Springer brought out the man's wife, who just so happened to be a horse.
17:56Please meet Mark.
17:57He's been together with his wife for 10 years and married for the last five.
18:02But before we talk to Mark, let's meet his wife.
18:04Marrying livestock is, at best, a mistake and, at worst, illegal, making this man's arrangement with his horse truly astonishing.
18:13Actually, I'm not really a woman.
18:15I'm a horse.
18:17But listening to Springer describe the episode on The Meredith Vieira Show is downright hilarious.
18:23What? No!
18:24I'm thinking that his wife fell off the horse.
18:28You know, you don't think, oh, gee, that's his wife.
18:30So I'm going, oh, my God, someone checked backstage.
18:33Do you remember any of these guests?
18:35Tell us in the comments.
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