Jerry Springer’s Death Has Millennials Mourning Him On Twitter As "The Babysitter On Sick Days"
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"RIP Jerry Springer 🙏…thank you for giving '90s kids something to watch when we stayed home 'sick' from school."
If you were a kid who grew up in the '90s, then there is a 99.9% chance that you watched the Jerry Springer show.
And you probably usually watched on days you were home sick from school and alone — because the show was wild and definitely not appropriate for kids.
Well, earlier today, it was announced that Jerry Springer had died at age 79. And for many young Gen X'ers and older millennials who have fond memories of watching his now-problematic talk show, it feels like a piece of our childhood has died too.
In memory of Jerry, I decided to round up some tweets that basically summarize how millennials are feeling about the death of a TV icon who really played a huge part in our lives (at least on screen):