Sneakers
- "If you suspect a loved one of cheating on you, call the Sneakers Hotline. Also call if you don't suspect. Most cheating happens when you think everything is just great."
- ―Host[src]
Sneakers
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TV Show Information
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Sneakers is a reality TV show produced in Springfield.
Description
The premise of Sneakers is that one partner in a relationship suspects the other of cheating, and the show investigates to find out whether it's true. The investigation uses tactics of questionable legality, such as stalking suspected cheaters everywhere they go and planting spy cameras in places such as motel room showers. The show purports to help couples by investigating the cheating allegations, but in reality, the show is only interested in the ratings. The Sneakers producers exploit the couples' situations for maximum dramatic effect; whether the couples are actually helped is entirely irrelevant. If anything, the show is more inclined to deliberately split couples up than it is to help them resolve their issues.
History
When Homer gained weight after starting a new diet, Marge wondered whether Homer was cheating on the diet. Then she saw a Sneakers ad on TV and decided to call the show, thinking that they might also work with diet cheating. The host (who appeared in the show's ads) agreed to air Marge's story, and the crew put Homer under surveillance. They videotaped him taking a stack of syrupy pancakes (which he had disguised as a woman) into a motel room and eating on the pancakes in bed and in the shower. The shower footage disgusted even the host, and for the first time in his career, he ordered the cameras to be turned off.
Finally, the show staged the confrontation between Homer and Marge, where Homer was supposed to be exposed as a cheater while Marge tore into him. However, Marge finally saw through the show's tactics, and delivered a resounding slap to the host instead of to Homer. Then she called him out for trying to split up her and Homer instead of helping them.
The host, however, was totally unfazed. After Marge slapped him and chewed him out, the host announced that he was going to get to work on editing the footage to make Marge look more insane.
Behind the Laughter
- Sneakers is a parody of the reality TV show Cheaters.
