Thanks to my friend Mark Hawthorne for the guest post.
Every Wednesday night, I make sure to set my satellite TV’s DVR (Digital Video Recorder) to automatically record this bizarre show. We can also control our florida satellite tv from our home in New Jersey to record it there too! It stars a rather peculiar man named Billy. Billy operates an extermination business with the help of his parents and also his wife Mary. They all stay in a giant mansion, but I do think it’s just a little bit odd that he is still living with his parents after all these years. For they are in remarkably good health, and neither his father nor his mother look a day over 60.
Billy’s mother works as sort of a ‘dispatch’ operator. Whenever their customers call the office, they explain their situation to her. She then calls Billy, and gives him the details of the job. But this is where it starts to turn into more of a comedy act than a reality show, because she can be just a little bit eccentric at times.
One of my favorite episodes to this day, is a wasp extermination job. Billy arrives on the job site with his accomplice Randy, who apparently is severely allergic to wasps. Randy lets Billy do most of the ‘dirty’ work, staying away from the dangerous insects. But right at the end of the episode, the camera cuts to a scene of Randy. He is holding a wasp in his hand, most likely a dead one. But what happens next is guaranteed to blow your mind. He eats it. Never in a million years would I have been able to predict that!