The Exterminators

• Posted on April 24, 2009 at 1:40 am

I think the head honcho at the A&E Network decided that on Wednesday nights, they will only have realty shows featuring people with crazy-ass hair. Exhibit A: My beloved “Dog The Bounty Hunter” which I have previously written about. Exhibit B: “The Exterminators,” a new show which comes on after “The Dog.” This show follows the adventures of an eccentric Southern family in Louisiana who own their own eterminator business called “Vex Con.”

This family is a step above white trash and I love them. The mom and dad run the show, but the real star is the son, Billy. He REALLY loves his job and gleefully hunts down whatever bugs, rodents, snakes, etc, that are bothering his clients. He is careful to never kill any creatures; he traps them and sets them free at a safe location. His hair looks like one of those punk rocker wigs that you can buy at Halloween. I don’t even know how to describe it, so here’s a pic so you can feast your eyes upon it for yourselves:

Amazing, isn’t it? In addition to riddng their clients of various pests, they also have a lot of family drama going on. His brother’s wife just left him and the parents HATE her. Billy is having problems of his own with his better half (who looks a tad on the hard side). And his mom reminds me of a derranged former beauty queen. Oh, and the dad almost had a heart attack a couple weeks ago and had to be rushed to the ER. Drama, yeah, they’ve got it!

I also give props to the family for their gothic style. They have crosses, skulls and all kinds of voodish looking shit all over their huge office. Hey, if you’re going to hunt down disgusting vermin for a living, you may as well look great doing it! Seriously, watch this show just one time and you will be hooked. You will also be amazed at how completely gross some of their clients are. Of course you’re going to have cockroaches when you live in filth! One woman had been having a bug problem FOR YEARS and did nothing about it. How do people live like that?! In another show, Billy pulled not one, but two huge snakes out of a couple’s home. I was impressed Billy could ANYTHING under all the trash and crap that was in the house. Here’s a tip- clean up your shit once in awhile and you won’t have these problems.

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