Most of BBC America's programming is based on a dare, that's a given. There is no other way to explain the channel's seemingly never-ending supply of episodes of Cash In The Attic, Bargain Hunt, and anything else that takes place at a flea market. But when BBC America isn't airing some show about trying to auction antique crockery for a small profit, the channel is trying to gross-out its viewers in the guise of self-improvement, with shows like How Clean Is Your House? (aka, You People Are Filthy) and You Are What You Eat (aka, Here's Your Poop).
The best of these gross-out shows is the documentary series called BBC America Reveals, aka BBC America Reveals Some Total Weirdos. The show is essentially the tawdriness of the Maury Povich Show distilled to a fine vapor, treated like a documentary, and covered in accents. Past episodes have included: Too Ugly To Love (about people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder), My Secret Female Body (about a female-to-male transsexual), and 476-lb. Teenager (about, you guessed it, a 476-lb. teenager).
Recently, though, BBC America Reveals aired its grossest, most horrifying episode yet: Britain's Worst Teeth. I know what you're thinking: "I watched The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off and You Swallowed What? and I Am My Own Twin. How bad could some rotten teeth be?" Answer: very, very, very bad. A warning: clicking play on the video below will make your teeth, your eyes, and your sense of decency at being so entertained by someone else's horrific medical problems ache.
How is BBC America Reveals ever going to out-gross-out itself after this? Britain's Smelliest Garbage? Britain's Weirdest Skin Tags? There are only so many icky ideas to go around.