The people of Tiger King

[VikingsGuy]

Seems like enough of us have watched this meth-fueled dumpster fire to have formed some interesting takes. The ruminations of Hunttalk nation on this topic should be a welcomed distraction from the daily news . . .


There are over 20 characters, but I see some shared themes so bucket them this way.

Manipulative predators: Doc Antle; Carol Baskins; Jeff Lowe; Mario Trabaue

The moron whisperer: Joe Exotic

Harmless morons: John Finley; John Reinke; Erik Crowe; Travis Maldonado; Doc's harem; Joe's parents; Dillon Passage; Joshua Dial

Dangerous morons: Alan Glover; James Garretson

The almost normal (if you lower your standards): Kelci "Saff" Saffery; Barbara Fisher; Ann McQueen; Marc Thompson

Bad people, but not predators or morons: Rick Kirkham; Tim Stark

Your takes?

 

[DouglasR]

None of them are innocent.
I especially don’t trust John Reinke.
Not buying his Mr. nice guy act.

 

[FI460]

I don't disagree with any of that.

 

[Dave N]

Never saw it. Don't intend to watch it. Never heard of it until the jokes started. I like the rock I live under!

 

[noharleyyet]

Hands down the throuple....with it's meth/pot dowry and livin' in the good trailer perks.

 

[Ben Lamb]

We're all one tiger eating an employees arm away from being Joe Exotic.

You people realize this, right?

 

[VikingsGuy]

We're all one tiger eating an employees arm away from being Joe Exotic.

You people realize this, right?

Parallels the oft uttered, “we are all just one bag of meth and a pet tiger away from being married to Joe Exotic.”

 

[MT Bound]

watched a couple episodes, they are ALL LUNATICS and should be locked up. oh, and IMO that lady fed her ole' husband to the tigers, plain and simple, GUILTY I SAY!!!

 

[noharleyyet]

We're all one tiger eating an employees arm away from being Joe Exotic.

You people realize this, right?

Just imagine the comp & G/L multiplier....

 

[geetar]

I know a good idea for how to spend my money now.

 

[WildWill]

Almost everyone on their was full of sh** all selling their versions of the story, excluding the one armed lady. I like reinke but to much blind loyalty to Joe. I've met Jeff Lowe briefly in Paul's Valley know a guy who he tried to hire but the word was out around here already before Tiger king that he doesn't pay his bills.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

John Reinke = But why is a "normal" person stuck in this mess

Howard Baskin = clearly the scariest person in the series

Joshua Dial = Ben Lamb if he had been born in OK

Dr. Antle = wllm1313 if his parents had been free love hippies instead of dirt bag mountain hippies

Joe Exotic = staysharp... if he had been born in OK... honestly maybe it was just Joe Exotic trolling us from prison

 

[MTGomer]

Don Lewis sounded like a decent fella.

 

[VikingsGuy]

Don Lewis sounded like a decent fella.

Cuz he was dead before they could get him on camera

 

[Irrelevant]

I'd put Dial in the normal person category. Howard Baskins in the not dangerous moron category. Rick Kirkman also in the normal person category. Carole Baskins needs to also be in the dangerous category.

 

[noharleyyet]

Howard Baskin was definitely the most tiger whipped....

 

[VikingsGuy]

I'd put Dial in the normal person category. Howard Baskins in the not dangerous moron category. Rick Kirkman also in the normal person category. Carole Baskins needs to also be in the dangerous category.

I view the "predators" in various ways being more dangerous than the "dangerous morons", but either way we agree she is dangerous.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

I know a good idea for how to spend my money now.

So in response to this... but also to derail the thread completely...

Tiger rugs... ok so how do you get one?

Did Kurt or Pete buy a tiger from Joe and shoot it (assuming with a .30-378 weatherby) and then have it made into a rug.

Who's the best CITES armchair expert on the forum.

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

Why don't we just list the actors we'd like to play the characters?

Joe Exotic - Joe Dirt
Travis - Bam from Jackass
John Finley - I can't think of anyone with teeth that bad. Maybe one of the Swamp People?
Carol Baskin - Cathy Bates
Doc Antle - Ted Danson
Jeff Lowe - Vanilla Ice OR Danny McBride
Howard Baskin - Tommy Lee Lewis
Don Lewis - Patrick Swayze - that's pretty funny IMO
Rick Kirkham - Jeff Probst
John Reinke - Seth Green
Kelci - Michelle Rodriguez
Dillon - Jamie Kennedy

 

[thusby]

So in response to this... but also to derail the thread completely...

Tiger rugs... ok so how do you get one?

Did Kurt or Pete buy a tiger from Joe and shoot it (assuming with a .30-378 weatherby) and then have it made into a rug.

Who's the best CITES armchair expert on the forum.

I was wondering about this same damn thing. You would think you would need a tiger to die of old age and then get a special use permit or something.