User blog:2FromBFB/The Supernanny Iceberg


 * warning: most of the entries you’ll see on this iceberg like James Jenkins were made by me, they are not intended to fool anyone, at all*

Greetings and salutations everyone. I am 2FromBFB. You may know me as a pretty active user on this wiki, usually adding stuff people never knew before. So I decided to compile all of that, into a Supernanny Iceberg So I’m gonna talk about just about everything on it. Let’s get started

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Supernanny: Do I even have to explain this? You know what this is

Supermanny: Supermanny was a collection of 2 episodes, set as specials for Supernanny, they star Mike Ruggles, a Child expert like Jo, who helped families as well

Season 8: Season 8 of Supernanny, wasn’t released until 2020, instead of being on ABC, it aired on Lifetime instead

The Colier Family: The Colier Family is perhaps, a pretty notorious episode of Supernanny, due to it being the first episode in Supernanny history, to have ever been banned. This is due to the father, Jason, supposedly showing signs of pedophelia. We don’t know if this is true, since the episode hasn’t aired for 10 years, but from the amount of backlash it got, it’s certainly true. Plus we don’t know if Jason was ever arrested for it

The Davis Family: Perhaps the most notorious family Jo had ever helped. This in part to Phil, the family’s father. Who was shown to be very sexist, and abusive. Shockingly enough, he was never punished, causing not only major backlash, but for many people to quit Supernanny entirely. Starting the shows downfall

Nanny on Tour controversy: During Jo’s spin-off, Nanny on Tour, Jo caught footage of the Spivey Family. It showed the father, Chris, supposedly hitting his autistic son, Marcus, with a belt for taking his phone charger. This in-turn caused Jo to report the family to Child protective services, which is something she had never done before. However they couldn’t do anything about it due to there not being any proof he did, as according to Chris, the crying heard in Marcus’ room, was stated to be because he was scared, but mostly because the family lived in Georgia, as there corporal punishment is legal. This got so out of hand, that Chris was actually considering taking legal action against Jo, due to numerous death threats he had received. But it gets crazier. Around 2019-2020, Jo was receiving backlash for being “racist”. In short, many people were shocked it was a black family she reported to authorities, but not any white families. And it’s very odd, considering the fact that other families also used corporal punishment on their kids, yet Jo didn’t do anything about it. I originally thought this was because Jo believed she was superior than others, meaning that she thought everyone would be ok if she handled things on her own. This, of course, isn’t true, because she has called for help on numerous occasions, mainly when dealing with special needs kids

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James Jenkins and the Jenkins Family: These two are perhaps the most well known Supernanny rumours ever. Starting with James Jenkins, he was a rumoured child who was allegedly beaten to death by Darren, Matthew and Devin Nitti for unknown reasons. This caused panic with the family, especially the Mother. Who was so traumatised by the event, she could only say “My son is dead” from that day onward. Then there was the Jenkins Family, a rumoured lost episode, where Jo helped the family. Darren, Matthew and Devin also supposedly appeared, which would’ve been the first time in Supernanny history, where one family is connected to another

The Dakin Family: The Dakin Family is a lost episode of Supernanny UK, set to air in the series’ 5th and final season. Due to unknown reasons, the episode became lost. And it’s existence is proven by the Porter family, the episode that came before it. We don’t know much about the episode, however Jo apparently lost it at the family, screaming and yelling at them, and giving up on them. There was also that time people said Clare was executed for killing her kids. However this has been debunked due to executions being illegal in the UK since the 90’s

The many Young Family controversies: I’m pulling all three of these into one spot. I won’t talk about the Young Family, but I will talk about the two controversies. With the first one, recently 3-year old Joel Young, set fire to the house in 2007. Causing the family to move into a hotel. And the other, and more recent one, is with Jacob. Who was arrested in 2020 and sent to jail for 10 years.

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The show could be scripted: during the Young Family (UK)’s controversy. It was alleged that the boys were told to play up for the episode. Causing a massive theory, that most things we see on Supernanny, are scripted. This was also apart of the Channel 4 controversy at the time, with the program being rigged

International Versions: Recently, the Supernanny YouTube channel has uploaded some clips of international versions of Supernanny. Currently being one from the french version, and the Swedish version. Personally, I think it’s great we’re getting clips of these. Plus people seem to like them

UK Episodes in the US series: There have been quite a few episodes from Supernanny UK, that have been brought over to the US series. These are portrayed as episodes where Jo returns to the UK to see if any families need help

Terrill Family Reddit outrage: On Reddit, there were quite a lot of people criticising the Terill Family, after the father, Scott took his own life. Of course, they were meant with backlash pretty quickly, with many calling them disrespectful

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Evans Family Gangbang scene: …do I have to talk about this? This ones so messed up, I don’t even wanna do so. But I have to, unfortunately. Supposedly, there was a deleted scene of the Evans Family. It involves Gary giving Jo “a surprise” which is eventually her getting raped by all members of the Evans Family. Of course, this was debunked almost immediately, as at the time, Michael, Sean and Dylan wouldn’t even know what sex is. It would’ve been massively disturbing if this was real, and could’ve potentially gotten the show taken of the air all together, had it been real

Cartoon Segment: I found this out on a Reddit page, where I asked people to help me find The Ryan and Kyle Ball theme song. A user named “AnnonymousRedditor39” said they watched one of the episodes from the UK series. Where it featured a cartoon segment, where a bunch of cartoon characters sing about a mother being bad at discipline. I currently don’t have any clue which episode it’s from, as it could’ve been from any of them. Let’s just hope those cartoon characters weren’t Mickey Mouse or anything, that could’ve gotten Channel 4’s ass sued

America’s Supernanny: America’s Supernanny is a show similar to Supernanny. Airing on Lifetime from 2011-2013. From what I see, whenever clips are uploaded to the Supernanny YouTube channel. Most of the time there just people question what it is. With me unfortunately having to explain what it is, for the 10,000,000,000th time

I’m a Supernanny Kid: I’m a Supernanny Kid is just a joke entry. It’s not real or anything. It’s just some story I made up in an earlier blog post I made. It’s basically a song where every kid that has ever been on Supernanny, sing about Jo and how they changed their lives. There are even cameos from the families she failed to help, with them being forbidden from entering the song, due to Jo failing to help them

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Silva Family alternate cut: Supposedly, there was an alternate cut of the SIlva Family, which if you know me, is my favourite Season 2 episode. What this alternate cut has, was a different reinforcement. Where the girls all turn on Danielle. And remember that extremely emotional scene with Tom giving Morgan his great grandfather’s watch? Yeah that’s basically gone, the whole reinforcement now revolves around Jo and Danielle trying to make the kids like Danielle again

Pop-culture Easter eggs: I honestly don’t know why I put this so low on the Iceberg? This is basically a key factor of Supernanny. In almost every episode there are usually Easter eggs of other things that make blink and you’ll miss it appearances. With some obvious ones from the Nitti Family’s GameCube, to more obscure ones like the Astro Boy figure in The Weston Family

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The Eddy Family: The Eddy Family is the lost true finale to Season 4 of Supernanny USA. We know next to nothing about this episode, however it is alleged Jo failed them

Jared is a god: Jared Nitti is actually a god, you guys. His powers involve him being able to make people give into him, and do his bidding. And secretly has a cult where people worship him

Richie Benjany can go super Sayan: Yes you heard me. Richie Benjany can go Super Sayan. Whenever someone throws what he calls a “Caillou tantrum” he will go super Sayan and beat the shit outta the person throwing it.

Ok I’m just joking, the Richie and Jared entries are just joke entries. But yeah, that’s the Supernanny Iceberg. Anyways my hands tired from all this typing. So I’m gonna take a break