[Cowperson]

I've only seen a few episodes but most seem to revolve around a single individual sitting on a pile of crap.

A more disturbing episode was a gentleman who had moved his wife and three young kids, including a little girl who appeared to be pre-school, out of the house into a tent in the yard and had been there for seven weeks with winter nearly on top of them.

The place was crammed to the rafters with crap, including a bathtub full of lumber, but the real reason they'd moved into the tent was because of an out-of-control bed bug infestation. The plan he had was to starve the bed bugs to death by removing his family. The dilemma was the fumigator couldn't work with the house piled full of crap. He had to clean it up.

Basically, his life plan and the lesson he was teaching his kids was that when you're done with a plate you put it down on the counter and that's the end of it, as one example.

Children of the Depression, (he was an older gentleman in spite of the pre-schooler) taught by parents to never let anything go to waste and, in this case, a spouse too weak or lacking confidence to challenge the way they were living.

It never occurred to him the harm he was doing to his children or that his wife actually cared (her fault too).

In the clean-up, he was worried the haz-mat dressed crews were scratching the hard wood with their shovels . . . . it never occurred to him that the crap they were shovelling was more important as an issue.

Fascinating stuff but you almost feel embarrassed watching it as you are watching the humiliation of an unwitting human being. They just don't get it, that the way they live is abnormal.

At the end of the show, I still wasn't sure if he fully understood how messed up he was, although he seemed to be trying.

Cowperson