Which interventionist from A&E's "Intervention" is your favorite?

Candy and Ken are my favorites. I like how passionate Candy gets, sometimes.

Jeff is my least favorite: “They love you like crazy and want to fight to get you back.”

Yes, cause I can vividly remember all of them by name.

Who was Allison's inteventionist?

Oh, you're all bitches.

Drama Queen Sylvia is still my favorite episode of Intervention. Chugging the little airplane bottles of Smirnoff, and driving shitfaced all over town.

^ And her poor mama and judgy old Aunt Frieda ...

My favorite memory of that episode was her desperately hacking at the cork in the wine bottle with a knife because she couldn't find a corkscrew opener.

Sylvia Ann in all her glory

R1 How dare you! Jeff is the best. Didn't he have to take some time off cause he was in such danger of relapsing because of all the bullshit he put up with here? I like Candy too and the Ken, he started off really nice but became a bit of a hard ass, like they need.

Sylvia and her family were like a William Faulkner story.

R8, I think Jeff relapsed. What bullshit did Jeff have to put up with? The reason I don't like him is because he sounds so rote in what he says and just sits there like a blob.

What is it that you like about him so much? I'm willing to look at him in a different way.

R10 Oh I just mean all the shit they all put up with, it's tough being sober and dealing so closely with active addicts. Hmm, why do I like him? I think h'e pretty caring, he really is serious about helping them which is why he doesn't let the families make all those excuses. I just assumed everyone likes Jeff! I can't really explain what I like about him, I like them all but yeah, he's my favorite.

I haven't seen the show in years, so I don't know a few of these. Did Sylvia become an interventionist herself?

If I were a druggie at rock bottom, I think Candy would be the most convincing for me to get treatment.

Yes, Sylvia is now an interventionist. I'm pleasantly surprised by her turnaround. I'm horrible at predicting the outcome of the Intervention subjects. (I didn't think Sylvia was ever going to give up drinking.) Her mother and aunt (?) had that clueless act down-pat. I'm guessing there's a lot more to Sylvia's story than being a failed perfectionist.

There was a Q&A w/Sylvia. Someone asked why she bought airline-sized bottles rather than liters. She said it was just convenient to buy (and to drink surreptitiously from, I guess) those tiny bottles.

Many alcoholics do the airline-sized bottles to deny how much they're drinking in a day. If they bought a liter and 2/3rds of it was gone the next morning they would be confronted with how much alcohol they're actually consuming. With the tiny little airline bottles, they're not seeing the total amount drained from one big bottle.

It's like "social smokers" who never buy their own cigarettes but are constantly bumming cigs off of other people. They can smoke 12 cigarettes in a night, but because they don't have a pack that's 2/3rds empty the next morning, how much they smoked the night before isn't staring them in the face.

I haven't watched Intervention in years. Is it still current, new episodes?!?!

Jeff always seemed like an old hippie substitute teacher.

Candy was great because just looking at her you know she had seen — and been through — some shit.

I never figured out if Ken was gay.

And of course I adored Sylvia Ann. Some of those people would be awful on or off drugs but she seemed like a real sweetie who was trapped in a habit she couldn't break.

Yeah, IIRC, Candy lost custody of her children due to her alcoholism. She's definitely credible when she deals with these addicts.

Ken Sealey is gay and out, I think.

Here's Sylvia following up with a kid who was addicted to anything that wasn't nailed down.

[Quote]I never figured out if Ken was gay.

I know Ken. He's out, he's got a partner and he's a sweetheart.

Candy is my homegirl because sometimes she tries to one-up the addict. "You think you've got it bad? I was sucking cock for an 8-ball in a dumpster behind Shoney's while you were still shitting your diapers."

Nick-the super hot highly manipulative heroin addict from New Mexico!

[quote]Candy is my homegirl because sometimes she tries to one-up the addict. "You think you've got it bad? I was sucking cock for an 8-ball in a dumpster behind Shoney's while you were still shitting your diapers."

Yeah, Candy had a bit of a Jerri Blank vibe at times.

She was a loser, a boozer and a user R22!

"Candy, what does V-I-C-T-O-R-Y spell?" "Fandango? Hobo ... Hobocamp?"