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Aaron McCargo, Closed Captioned For The Grammatically Impaired

Published on: July 1, 2010 – 11:24 am by Jillian Madison Comment

The following screen grabs are from this weekend’s episode of Big Daddy’s House, called “Deli Done Right.” He may have done the deli right, but I can’t say the same about his grammar.

(We apologize for any loss of brain cells you may have experienced whilst reading this blog post.)



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  1. Hilton
    July 1st, 2010

    Oh my god. LOL.

  2. July 1st, 2010

    Bubba Gump is easier to understand and is a genius compared to Aaron!

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    froglegs replied on: July 2nd, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    You said it!!!

  3. GreenJeans
    July 1st, 2010

    I’ gonna get me sum aspirin. An sum wata to wash it down.

    One clean hand, two reasons…the suspense is killing me.

  4. Silvio
    July 1st, 2010

    Wasn’t he just on The First 48 ?

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    BOO replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Please tell you mean that that first 48 hours show!

  5. July 1st, 2010

    Ah, I was going to say, he needs a show called “What The Hell Did Aaron McArdle Say?” now all I need to do is closed caption his show. I feel sorry for the poor guy operating the Cryon for closed caption-wonder if he/she is able to decifer acturately.

  6. Ray
    July 1st, 2010

    …and the English major within me is suddenly very glad I have never watched his show. Ouch. Aaron would annoy me endlessly. Based on posts I have seen here in the forums, I gather he doesn’t enunciate clearly, either.

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    potty mouth princess replied on: July 5th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    Yes, he is universally known as Aaron McMushmouth.

    Sincerely,

    Fellow English Major

  7. July 1st, 2010

    yes, I wrote “Act ur ately”

  8. pintbypint
    July 1st, 2010

    He’s jus’ keeping it real like a gansta chef should.

  9. July 1st, 2010

    What the frig is wrong with you people? How dare you poke fun of someone keepin’ it real.

    Imagine a drunken Pauler and McCantspeak having an argument after polishing off a bottle of Courvoisier.

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    Ferd Berfle replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    I wish all the drunk and incoherent FN hosts would just get together, get completely trashed and put it all on videotape for all to enjoy. Then the network could explode and we’d be done with it.

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    Mo replied on: July 6th, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    I always wonder what that would be like. I especially think of the more disparate personalities hanging. Alex Guarnaschelli and Sandra Lee, for example. How long would it take Alex to kill her. Or Alton Brown and Aaron McCargo Jr. Ina Garten and Sunny Anderson.

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    Silvio replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    McGhetto drinks Colt 45.

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    Kira replied on: July 5th, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    Shit haven’t you seen Emeril trying to operate his food processor?

  10. Jill P
    July 1st, 2010

    Is it me, or was he starting to look angrier and angrier on each of these screen caps? Maybe he knows what we’re talking about …

    It’s funny, I did transcription for awhile, and we had to type verbatim what someone said. However we did have to spell the word the way it should be, not how the person said it. If they said “I’m gonna get me some of dem peppercorns now …” it had to be typed “I’m going to get me some of them peppercorns.” We also were not supposed to put in “ums” or repeats, or stutters — those were supposed to be ignored. It’s funny to see how these closed captions come through now.

  11. July 1st, 2010

    He has some very weird facial expressions, especially in the last picture!

  12. July 1st, 2010

    I’m gonna git me some pork up in here! WHERE MY DOO-RAG AT?

  13. July 1st, 2010

    Hey, now, wait a cotton-pickin’ minute! I’m a born and bred Southern boy and I don’t mind his closed captioned grammar. Just because he … er, what? Excuse me? Aaron is not from the South? He’s from New Jersey?! Okay, now I’m offended.

    PS: Did I really write “cotton-pickin’”?

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    atdleft replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    “He’s from New Jersey?!”

    Come on, don’t hate on Jersey. Have you seen “Jersey Shore”, “Jerseylicious”, and/or “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”? Trust me, they KNOW how to completely mangle and destroy the English language! ;-)

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    Paula Deen replied on: July 25th, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    hi, y’all.

  14. Mac
    July 1st, 2010

    I second MERIJOE. Can you imagine the agony of the poor closed-caption typist?

  15. Robert
    July 1st, 2010

    I used to work for a caption house and was the guy who had to transcribe this stuff. It was torture when these kinds of shows came across, because we had to try and shoe horn their words into grammatically correct sentences.

    Oh, and because I’m sure you were wondering: We had a style guide that dictated the correct way in which “Beotch” was to be used.

  16. July 1st, 2010

    Maybe I’m the crazy one here, but every time I think back to his season of TNFS I really don’t remember him talking so…. uneducated? During TNFS, didn’t he speak in proper sentences and use fairly decent grammar? Again, maybe I’m crazy and just not remembering things properly… but I have a feeling that Bob Tuschman may have urged Aaron to ‘keep it real’ by appealing to a slightly more urban demographic.
    Of course, I admit that my opinion of ol’ Bob is pretty low and that I have absolutely no trouble viewing him as a racist bigot.

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    Silverlock replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    From what I remember of his TNFNS run he spoke in complete sentences whenever he was off-camera, but as soon as he did what would now be called a CAMERA CHALLENGE! he slipped into the persona that he uses on his current show all the time.

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    Silverlock replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    And re-reading my own comment I realize that calling any televised part of TNFNS “off-camera” is perhaps not entirely accurate. :)

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    BigWillieJohnson replied on: July 21st, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    I nor my bride remember McCargo ever sounding like this when he was on the challenge, The Next Food Network Star, but we both remember some guy named rob or bob kept saying something like he needed to see more of McCargo’s “soul”……………..

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    oh_come_on replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    If the NFNS’s supposed to be ‘an example’ for us at home, nice example Mr. Gonna Git Me Sum.

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    Barbara @ VinoLuciStyle replied on: July 2nd, 2010 at 11:25 am

    I clearly remember when he was a contestant and just as clearly remember how surprised I was that he won. His cooking was not my forte but I felt his grammar was just too embarrassing for the FN to ever choose him for a television show. WRONG; cringing now at the thought!

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    Barb replied on: July 5th, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    In my recolecshun, he sounded jus as dum when he were a contessa. But he steel one.

  17. Robin
    July 1st, 2010

    Why he so dum?

  18. July 1st, 2010

    People in eastern NC talk like Aaron. Lived listening to it for 15 years, cringing.

  19. Goober
    July 1st, 2010

    Stuff White People Like #472: Policing Grammar

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    Jillian Madison replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    It doesn’t have anything to do with race or color, so I’m not sure why you went down that road. It’s more like “Stuff Intelligent People Like: Policing Grammar.”

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    Goober replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    I was just repeating something I read on this site: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/12/99-grammar/

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    oh_come_on replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Goober, my WHITE neighbors and WHITE friends are who I was referring to when I said that “…NC talks like this…” Has ZERO to do w/ race.

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    atdleft replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    And don’t forget… If you think Big Daddy is bad, remember the white people on all the above mentioned “Jersey” shows. It’s more than enough to drive English majors bonkers! :-p

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    oh_come_on replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    So right atdleft; they BUTCHER English. The 2 things that send me over the edge are ‘me and my boyfriend’ and double negatives. But close seconds are “That cost 25 cent.” and ending a sentence w/ a preposition – “Where’d you git that at?” Nails on a chalkboard.

  20. Detroit66
    July 1st, 2010

    Am I the only one that sees it? Hears it? McCargo is channeling MUSHMOUTH from Cosby. It gets worse week after week – less articulate – words bleeding into each other – ramblings and all out made up words. “I beba cookin my potatobu recibubba. I be grababuba some egguba wif one handabubba”

    MY HEBBA HURT!

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    cloverleaf replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    LOLOLOLOL!!! Just add a few “ubbas” to words and there you have it: Daddy-speak! ;)

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    lizzielove replied on: July 3rd, 2010 at 4:36 am

    That’s exactly who he sounded like the one or two times I tried to watch his show.

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    Barb replied on: July 5th, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    LOLubba!

  21. Kitty
    July 1st, 2010

    Stupid is as stupid does and, ugh, stupid is an understatement to describe this guy.

  22. PeteC94
    July 1st, 2010

    I’ve never actually watched his show but I figured it was bad due to some of the comments I’ve heard on this site. I had no idea it was quite that bad though. Kinda makes you wonder what demographic the Food Network is reaching out to with that show.

  23. July 1st, 2010

    I got me one hand clean, because, you know…

  24. BCA
    July 1st, 2010

    I’m gonna get me some earplugs…

  25. July 1st, 2010

    Yeah, honestly it’s even too much for me… And I <3 Paula Deen and the Neelys!

    Big Daddy's crimes against the English language are about as bad as Queen YUM-O's fabricated "words" and Aunt Sandy's all-too-often drunken slurs.

  26. Teague
    July 1st, 2010

    I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again…no wonder his son ran away.

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    VirgoPixie replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 10:40 pm

    When did his son run away?

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    SaraCVT replied on: July 1st, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Even if it’s Big Daddy we’re talking about, that’s still kind of cold.

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    Emma replied on: July 3rd, 2010 at 1:05 am

    ouch… harsh

  27. Mort
    July 1st, 2010

    This is what happens whenever Gordon Elliott produces for the FN. Other examples of his handiwork – the Neelys and Paula Deen.

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    Melissa D'umbass replied on: July 2nd, 2010 at 10:55 am

    so true. door knock dinners wasn’t bad, but the only work elliott should be doing for fn is in front of the camera. he clearly has no business finding and honing talent.

    what’s worse is these three shows are some of the most popular on there. :(

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    MJ replied on: July 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    I couldn’t agree more with the comment about Gordon Elliot and I actually did not realize he produces this show also, but it doesn’t come as a surprise. I could watch anything before I could sit through the Neelys or Paula Deen & I’m a southerner just a few years younger than that wanker Paula.

    I didn’t watch the next FN star the year AAron won, and was STUNNED when I realized he was a former winner. I’m gon go find me a mute button.

  28. B
    July 2nd, 2010

    It’s really a shame, especially when the Food Network often encourages kids to learn to cook. They learn poor grammar along the way. Suddenly Giada’s over-enunciation of Italian words seems like a godsend in light of BigDaddy’s awful English. I should cut her some slack!

  29. July 2nd, 2010

    I’m just glad the black people on the FN aren’t perpetuating any stereotypes…

  30. Sandy
    July 2nd, 2010

    I sincerely hope that these were Photoshopped, but I know that they weren’t. A little bit of me just died on the inside.

  31. July 2nd, 2010

    I am psychologically unable to comprehend the vernacular meaning of Aaron’s heavily eubonic interpretated vocabulary.

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    GreenJeans replied on: July 2nd, 2010 at 8:21 am

    Say wha?

  32. July 2nd, 2010

    “I’se gawn get Bob Tuschman ta buy me some bigga ear-rangs ’cause dese mofos I be wearin’ ain’t big enuf.”

  33. Catherine
  34. FuryOfFirestorm
    July 2nd, 2010

    It least he didn’t say
    “Grrrl, i’m so hungry I could go fer sum SKRIMPS!”

  35. ori01
    July 2nd, 2010

    …and by the way, his fingers always look greasy or wet. Yuck!!

  36. Sandra Lee's Liver
    July 2nd, 2010

    No, wait! We can have a show with Captain “Mumbles” Groooooooooooooover and Aaron McCargo! You won’t be able to understand a single word, but it sure will be a hoot to watch!

  37. July 2nd, 2010

    I nor my bride remember McCargo ever sounding like this when he was on the challenge, The Next Food Network Star, but we both remember some guy named rob or bob kept saying something like he needed to see more of McCargo’s “soul”……………..

  38. Yoli P.
    July 2nd, 2010

    Holy Sh*tballs!! Remind me again how he won “Next Foodnetwork Star”!!

  39. Kev in Delaware
    July 3rd, 2010

    May as well change the title of his show to “Big Daddy’s Hizzy”

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    Boobilicious replied on: July 4th, 2010 at 12:07 am

    That comment made my day!

  40. July 4th, 2010

    Is he from the north?
    (British reference no one may get)

  41. Betty
    July 4th, 2010

    As bad as Mumbles is I can still tolerate him better than Melissa (I got bacon frozen in my freezer) D’Arabian

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    Barb replied on: July 5th, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Correction. She does not just have frozen bacon, she LOVES keeping her bacon in the freezer. I don’t know, when I need to think happy thoughts, how much I LOVE keeping my bacon in the freezer doesn’t come to mind. And I, at this very moment, have bacon in the freezer. I don’t LOVE it though.

  42. Rose
    July 5th, 2010

    My favorite show to watch with closed captioning: Down Home with the Neelys. You think their sexual innuendo is awkward with sound? Oohhhh you have no idea.

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    hi. replied on: July 25th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    heh. you have it on mute and your mother walks in when gina refers to herself as brown sugar.
    “Oh, my STARS! How can you kids watch these things?
    And is that a ceramic pig?”

  43. struhar2010
    July 12th, 2010

    i am literally crying reading your website because i’m laughing so hard.

  44. woodsgirl
    July 17th, 2010

    He is the most illiterate moron on the face of the planet and never should have been put on TV but the diversity angle apparently took over. I gotta go get me some aspirin.

  45. REKS
    July 18th, 2010

    LMFAO…i just shit myself

  46. Pam
    July 26th, 2010

    He looks so damn serious when saying, “I’VE GOT ME SOME SALTED WATER.” LOL it’s like some sort of deadpan winning line or something.

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