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A recent episode of the hit NBC TV series "Life" portrayed steroid usage in a negative and ridiculous way. Steroids were the culprit of such atrocities as murder and brutality in the episode. Just like so many past shows that have made steroids out to be the root of all evil like The Program, The Substitute 3, A Body to Die for, and others.
Like pretty much everybody else out there, I watch my share of television. Now I don\'t sit in a recliner all day flipping through the channels from sunup to sundown, but I do like to check out my favorite shows. And one show that has developed into a favorite of mine is the NBC TV series "Life". The show airs on Friday nights at 10:00 ET so I only catch the episodes on Fridays when I can\'t find a date. The ones I\'ve seen though have been pretty good... up until now!
That\'s because the last episode I saw of the show, titled, “Everything... All the Time” chronicles the adventures of Detective Charlie Crews - a man who was falsely imprisoned for murder and wins his LAPD position back after a lawsuit - focused on a mysterious murder where a family man was found beaten and bound to a chair. The initial thought is that he is the victim of gang violence, however, I knew this would take a turn for the worse when a bottle of steroids was found as evidence later.
Then came the descriptions of a legend simply described as the "Monster". The trail led to the ultra-hip gym called FLEX T where a doctor/gym owner is allowed to prescribe his patients/gym members with anabolic steroids. Later Detective Crews and his sexy partner, Dani Reese, find a circle of rich kids who throw parties at an abandoned building and the Monster (Marty) happens to be one of them. Eventually, the detectives come to find out that the family man\'s daughter (who had something put in her drink) was called to the party by someone who got scared. Unfortunately for the dad, Marty got another fit of "roid rage" and the dad was beaten to death.
That\'s the plotline, now I need to get into the terrible steroid depictions that come purely from people who have no idea about juicing. At several points in the show, a Speedo-clad Marty has roid rage episodes including one where he hits his therapist and then proceeds to destroy an entire room. After that, the detectives stop him and he starts bleeding from the eyes only to collapse dead on the floor. We eventually come to find out that Marty died from a giant steroid overdose given by the leader of the rich kids (Patrick). You can watch the entire, and shameless, episode right here!
This episode of Life got me thinking about some of the previous, and crazy, shows about steroids in the past. Probably one of my favorites is from the 90\'s college football movie "The Program" where a jacked up defensive end named Steve Lattimer abuses steroids to move from a lowly rated special teams player to a pro prospect. Along the way he also fits into the stereotypical juicer image that has been created by the media.
He does things such as howling and grunting while lining up to play defense, screaming like a maniac while lifting weights, and slamming his head into car windows after learning that he\'s made the starting defensive team (check it out here). In the most ridiculous scene of the movie, the gigantic Lattimer tries to rape a 90 pound girl and ends up throwing her all over the room for resisting him. Eventually, the tiny girl somehow kicks Lattimer off of her and his two friends rush in to grab him as he screams, "Get off me!" over and over again.
Continuing on with the theme of out of control college football players, the TV movie "The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All" takes a more violent approach to dealing with the subject of steroids. The action begins after a college professor gets assaulted by a group of crazy college football players. In comes Treat Williams\' character Karl Thomasson who is an undercover mercenary with no mercy.
On the path to avenge the professor - who is the daughter of his late friend - Thomasson poses as the female professor\'s substitute. It isn\'t long before Thomasson\'s investigation uncovers that the whole football team has been juicing and they are the ones responsible for the attack. In between dishing out such hilarious quotes as, "Maybe you didn\'t notice but those guys were completely wired. Maybe it was coke, maybe it was steroids." Thomassons finds that it is the head football coach who has been giving the players steroids.
One of the players that the coach has given steroids to dies while bench pressing some major weight. Despite the bar falling on his neck and apparently choking him to death, this isn\'t the cause of death at all. Can you guess what really killed him besides hundreds of pounds resting on his larynx? This should be easy as it was obviously a steroid overdose that Thomasson discovers killed the player.
Tired of steroids causing these football players\' lives to spiral downward, Thomasson confronts the crime boss who is the head of the steroid operation in Vincent "Vinnie the Brick Lo Russo. This is where the bodies really start piling up as Treat Williams is forced to kill tons of mobsters in his mission to rid the area of steroids. At the end, Thomasson falsely sums up the dangers of steroid by stating, "Steroids can kill you! Not years from now or down the road, but right now…today….this minute." (So can watching too many Treat Williams movies in a row.)
Not to be outdone by any of the aforementioned movies, there is also the old HBO special called "A Body to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story". The show focuses on how Aaron Henry\'s life spun out of control when he started taking steroids in order to enhance his high school sports career. Henry\'s character is played by Ben Affleck who has a similar Lattimer-type meltdown in one scene (see this here). In this scene, Affleck hits a girl who finds steroids in his room and then punches a hole through the wall, downs a whole bottle of steroids, destroys his own room, and collapses on the floor in a crying mess.
My last favorite steroid movie depiction comes from the classic "Rocky IV". This is, by many accounts, the best Rocky movie ever made (or at least the most inspiring to a lot of people). After all, they not only had to find an actor in Dolph Lundgren who was nearly a foot taller than Sylvester Stallone, but they also had to depict him being pumped full of steroids to make the match-up even tougher to overcome. To further push the bill, Rocky trains in remote Russia while Ivan Drago (Lundgren) has state of the art equipment to use. Despite all of his advantages, Drago is defeated by Rocky in a thrilling, and climatic, defeat.
Thus comes the end to my list of the craziest and most mind-boggling depictions of steroids that the entertainment world has ever seen. Luckily, it is a somewhat short list - but a damaging list nonetheless as far as gaining support from the public goes. I really wish that the general public could see how false these depictions are and how unknowledgeable the writers who come up with these ideas are about steroids. Unfortunately, those that control TV and movie production have the upper hand in this matter since the average person doesn\'t check out what real, and knowledgeable, people have to say on the subject of steroids.
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