I'm not much of Dr. Phil fan myself. I think he gives decent advice and his shows, when I've actually watched them are interesting. But the thing that bothered me is how this guy can talk about weight loss when he himself is fat! Let me say that again, YOU'RE FAT DR. PHIL! What's next... George Bush reading a book?!?

So called"doctor" Philis probably a porn addict, hits his kids and back hands his wife for looking at store mannequins, at home alone he masturbates over Oprah. A pathetic excuse for a human, that makes money for the suffering and injustices of the human race. He hasnt helped anyone but himself and filled women's head with crap worldwide.

He's an obnoxious know it all, trying to look like an ideal husband - who is he to judge people

What the hell??? I've tried watching this show and have to say it's a witch hunt! And who the hell are these guests? Is he competing with Jerry Springer? Is this a prize show or a theraputic train wreck?

I find it so hard to believe that people can follow such a quack as Phil McGraw.

The show isn't the same any more. It's too much of what's going to happen "Next" and all the pre views of what is going to happen "Next". They took a great show and there turning it into a circus. It's also taking too much time away from the show. Many of my friends feel the same way. I hope Dr Phil changes things back to the way it was were before. It's awful now.

Psycho-babble for trailer trash.

Apparently there's pretty good money in the gig, too.

While not the first guy to practice telepsychiatry, he's uniquely responsible for millions of people walking around with "I'm Okay, You're Okay" tucked neatly under their arms and a sick assed grin, reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny!" in "The Shining", plastered on their faces.

For that alone, Oprah should burn in hell for setting this master of psychobabble loose upon hordes of mentally weak viewers.

It's amazing just how far a guy can get in this country with a junior college BS degree in pop psychology, a suitcase full of phrases and tag-lines from 1970-1980s self-help books, and a cult of personality following. I haven't listened to this guy finish EVEN ONE SENTENCE since I heard him finish the first one. If Dr. Phil had an old big-top tent and PA system, he'd be a red-state, snake-handling, speaking in tongues tent revival preacher. When you are a weed, you tend to grow where you're planted.

Some BS is just too blatant for long term consumption, life is just too short to suffer the kinds of fools who GET PAID to get on your nerves and shrink your mind. Has anyone checked to make sure that this isn't just Dr. Laura in disguise?

even though he can seem a little arrogant and a know it all sometimes he hits some real issues and seems to be truly concerned with helping those that want help

Dr Phil Show is a really great show, I saw it live and meet him. His staff are really nice and fun to be around. Dr Phil is very nice and I feel he tells it like it is. You may not alway agree with him but I like him and his show. It is lots of fun to be at his show. Bindy1012

I know there's a lot of people who would disagree but I think he is for real. The fact is, even if I'm mistaken about that part of the show, at least I can say that I learned about things from his show that no others touched on.

I love Dr. Phil. I think he inspires people and give them knowlege on how to deal with issues. I noticed mostly men don't care for Dr. Phil because men usually don't want to talk about their issues. That's why most men are screwed up. I think if more men would listen to Dr. Phil, maybe they could learn a few things!

HIS WORDS GO NOWHERE AND SAY NOTHING TO PEOPLE IT'S NOT HIS HIGHWAY. I CAN SAY IT BETTER....

Yawn, is show is boring and his dating site is a rip off! Way to capitalize on dateless people you jerk! Why should people take relationship advice from a guy who has been divorced?

He only bases his show on his own opinion!!! what a tardO_o

I was totally disgusted by 'Dr" Phil's approach on yesterday's show about homosexuality. There was this lady guest who admitted to all America that she was homophobic and to add insult to injury she was scared that her 4 year old who loved to play with dolls and wear mummy's clothes would somehow turn out gay! What a load of rubbish! It is obvious to people with a minimum quota of God given intelligence, the the mother was the problem not the innocent child. Her attitude smacked of sheer intolerance and unmitigated stupidity! Instead of educating viewers, 'Dr' Phil suggested that mommy, who, by the way, is about to separate from daddy, give 'gender free' toys to her 4 year old.........and......if his propensity to play with girls' toys persisted, then couselling was suggested. "Dr' Phil, since when do boys who comb dolls' hair turn out queer? And if they did, what's the big deal? Frankly, mum looked very plain on your show. She needs a good hairstylist. Who knows? Maybe this is Divine Justice!"

I think that his show is the greatest!!! I watch it every night and have done so from day one. I feel that I learn a lot from them. I wish that my husband of 49 years would learn something too. I make him watch if he is at home. Great Shows!! Keep them coming.

Thank you, thank you for your show with Beth Hollaway Twitty. Since hurricane Katrina I have been unable to get up to date info on Natalie. Beth has to be one of the most , controlled and loving mothers in the world. I do not know how she is able to contian her emotions. It is a true show of Motherly love!!! I am a mother of 2 daughters and also a grandmother. Something positive must come from this. Beth needs to know where her daughter is and the USA should know how dangerous it is to travel in Aruba. Maybe we could have an universal rating system on foreign countries. For example, takes good care of tourist to very unsafe for US citizens especially women. Maybe countries that surrive on American dollars would try to get an excellent rating on vacation safety!!!! I can sleep better tonight because of your show today. I just love you for adapting Beth's tragedy and unbelievable struggle as if it were your own. She can now be a mother, and wife. God Bless You and I will keep wathcing Dr. Phil. Jennifer Mathewa. Jennifer Mathews

the dr phil show is a terrific show he helps a lots of people solve there problemand i do admire the wonderful support of his family to him especially his beautiful wife and his great kids thanks you dr phil for being you.

Dr Phil your shows are very inspiring, touching and has helped me deal with my own personal problems. Thank you Dr Phil.

I think Dr. Phil should be rated the number one talk show. I just love him and his wife He gets right to the point. He is very passionate. He put's his all and all into trying to help anyone that needs help. I hope that he stays on tv for a very long time. My goal is to one day be able to afford to sit in on one of his shows.. God Bless you Dr. Thanks La Vonia

I absolutely love dr. phill and his wife. every body teases me for watching him all the time. event though dr. phill is quite a bit older than me he is still very good looking, i say jokingly of course he is my childrens long lost daddy!!!

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Proving once again that people will watch any thing including this doush bag.

I can't stand this bald blowhard.

The show about the sexual offender was rough on the boy but maybe nécessary. He did not confess his bahavior freely. He did not have a choice but to admit. This boy is not out of the woods yet. I wish him luck.

Not much here but a guy saying get over it next,next,next. Always boring.

For all the people doubting Dr. Phil, they would have had to watch his show to make a comment. Why did you watch, something sparked your attention to make you sit there, if you did not like him , you would not have set there in the first place. If his money is an issue, he has more than you do, he must be doing something right.

Sorry to those sorry arrogant morons who cannot deal with the truth! Yeah! Most people do not want to hear the truth and that is essentially the basis of the Dr. Phil Show! He is just telling people what they need to know, but don't want to hear. So those of you who placed him at a less than average rating, you cannot deal with the truth. Running from your problems only makes them worse! So, all in all, I think Dr. Phil or his management/crew is finally bringing what America needs to the surface and I think that is what we need.

DR.PHIL, I USE TO WATCH YOUR SHOW BUT NOT ANYMORE ITS KNOW DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER TALK SHOWS. ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY AND RATINGS

Dr.Phil is a great guy. He is very straight forward and truthful.There has been times where Dr.Phil could have gad families in trouble with the Childrens Aid Society and or police but as he said I am here to help them not jeopardize them because if I did do that I wouldn't have a show. Dr. Phil is awesome along with his wife.

Good guy, he really helps people. The only thing that I do not like is he is anti-spanking. The bible says spare the rod spoil the child. The reason there are so many physco people out there is because they were not diciplined right.

Dr. Phil is all about making money and uses a Oprah technique of emotional baggage to get sponsors get a reality TV show and make his life better by having more money.

Dr. Phil helps people, which is a very good thing. However, the shows are very depressing. Day after day it is sadness and depressing situations. Hopefully the good outweighs the sad.

Dr. Phil is nothing more than an actor. He isnt a genius inventing a satirical way to help people and entertain the folks at home at the same time. He is an employee of NBC who has an entire production staff that is responsible for each and every show. Phil comes in each morning and is handed his agenda, a script of sorts, on what he'll be doing and how to conduct himself with it. From there its mostly improv on his part with interjections from the directing staff on where they want the show to go during that episode. Im not saying the man is dumb or has no education, im just saying he isnt practicing psychology by any means, nor really trying to help people that much. The show exists for one reasn people, so listen up and listen good. ***COMMERCIALS!!!*** If the advertisers who try to sell you their swiffer mops, diet pepsi, and chevy trucks dont think anybody is watching, they stop paying NBC to air them. NBC doesnt get their money, they pull the show. So Dr.Phil is really all about getting people to sit through 20 minutes of commercials, and if that means sacrificing important issues or breakthroughs for the patient, so beit.

I just want everyone know that I love the Dr. Phil Show!!!In my opinion, I feel that Dr. Phil earned everything he has today. Whether he had a boost of recognition from the Oprah's Show or not... Dr. phil would have made it big ANYWAYS!!!!! His show has helped me in some ways (and I didn't have to spend any $) and other ways his show has not helped, but who cares! Those of you who don't like him then don't watch him. I'm sure if you put all feelings aside, maybe one show will relate to you in some way. So, Give the guy a break. Keep up the good work Dr. Phil. MDC

Its either love him or hate him-which means people don't GET him: Dr. Phil EXISTS because of this gulf--if not him, it'd be someone else. Here's the point: Dr. Phil has people on who SHOULD have a clue but don't (unlike Jerry Springer et al who have STUPID people who can't help themselves). Dr. Phil then rips these people 'cause they've got it coming to them. Further, his smug egotistical attitude and snide comments are the whole GENIUS of him! This is very subtle dry humor here folks.It is nearly satire. The point of Dr. Phil is ENTERTAINMENT!!! Not psychology! I think the man is genius at what he is doing (which is NOT psychology). He is, in and of himself, a parody. He knows it too....think about it--watch this show with a different mindset and you'll see what I'm saying. He's also quite sexy!

No one can match his wisdom and his indepth analysis. He is the ultimate champion and I salute him.

This is creative TV, something that is rare these days. Phil evokes a lot of passionate reaction and that is a good sign. I am perturbed that he is talking so much about weight and body image. Since he is a male, he has not experienced what culture does to women first hand, i.e. middle school bullying, bombardment of ideal female images, etc. He doesn't talk to blacks about African American issues without a member of that group, why does he tell the women to diet? Ugh. If he was a woman he would be considered fat, and probably wouldn't have a show. I don't think he gets how he comes across. Geez.

OKAY OKAY, so he is sexy in a way, but BORING SHOW,,,,occasionally entertaining...Give him another year or so...lol....

only reason i'm happy it exists is that MadTV does awesome parodies of him.

Ugh....Have you ever heard this guy lecture his guests? Oh, God! He can get so annoying! He never adresses the REAL issues of the problem. For one example, This girl didn't like having sex....And Dr. Phil berated and belittled her! What kind of help was that?

Dr. Phil is only telling you how to live your life becaus, people go on that show for advice. I would never let him tell me how to live my life.

Please stop telling me how to live my life.

An extremely arrogant man who thinks he knows everything about everything.....I would rather watch classic reruns of Jenny Jones anyday...that is how bad he is...

I think we all need to remember that Dr. Phil is a psychologist, not Dear Abbey. Although its understandable that he needs to make his point clear in an hour show, this is not the approach that a psychologist should be taking. I have watched the show alot and although there are certain guests that we all feel like yelling at such as the children who have no remorse about bullying and attacking other children on the schoolbus, its not Dr. Phil's place to yell at them and repremand them, although that is what we want to see. Practicing psychologists are not paid to give advice - they are paid to help the client work through their issues themselves. Telling guests on the show that they are dumb as rocks is completely unethical and insulting to the field of psychology. If this is what he chooses to do on a T.V. show as an occupation, he should do it under the title of advisor or talk-show host, not as a psychologist.

I think Dr. Phil is GREAT! I can't believe so many people hate the show.The solution is simple,turn it off, if you think he is so bad.There are to many jealouse people out there. I was hunting a great site for Dr. Phil and his family and know now that it's not here.I am so ashamed of you folks that don't like him,the show and his family.Being from the south, you would not talk about my FAMILY.SHAME on you.I am fighting with my weight and a stroke,he has helped me mentally and I'm sure millions like me.My food made me big not Dr. Phil. Society is so crule not Dr. Phil.

I think he brings reality to those who are living in a fantisy world...if you don't like him then maybe your just scared to find out who the true you is and that he may be right for what he may have to say to you. I've realized alot of things and have forgiven alot of people for there behavior because I realize what's going on in their minds...they just don't get it ;o)

I think that Dr. Phil should really explore more about Erin and the children before he keeps putting Marty in the hotseat the way he does. Erin as you can see has enough of her own issues before she can forgive Marty. Everything seems to be aimed at him, when it is clear that his children and wife are totally disrespectful do to their mother's feelings toward their father. Why would they try to get along with him if they have Dr. Phil and their mother backing up all the disrespect they get away with. I am the mother of four sons and one stepdaughter ranging in ages from 33 to 12 and never would I allow my children to react in this manner that have I witnessed in the last two times on your show. This family is definetly in crisis but Erin is a big part of the situation, and this is not being brought to our attention. A child does not get pregnant at 15 do to the neglect of one parent, and a family does not fall apart because a man cannot talk openly because of his childhood. I hope you try to bring out the true problems in this family rather then focusing on the insecurity of Marty. Erin seems to be willing of taking care of her self but I don't think she has really been there for the children, and maybe that's why Marty has to react in the manner in which he does. He must have been very angry when his 15 year-old came home pregnant and as a father he thought the best thing to do was for he to keep the the baby, and now he is being disowned by the three of them. I know from experience how a mother can influence her children as Erin is doing. This is totally wrong and I hope on upcoming shows that you concentrate more on what Erin is doing to these children than Marty's neglecting to tell his wife he ran in- to someone he had an affair with. This is because we all saw the reaction from his children and his wife on public t.v. It was something that anyone would not want to deal with after seeing their reaction to that. I don't know if this was to make your show more dramatic or what. I know one thing but I would not want to come home and tell my wife I ran into someone I had an affair with if this was the reaction! Please try to honestly help this family get their life together without all the dramatics for your show, or tell Erin to leave and stop dragging this man through the mud another day. It seems to me he had a rough enough childhood and carries enough guilt without you blaming him for every problem in this family. The big lie he was hiding was just trying to protect Erin from additional worry about finances. Please think about this and let me know of one man that has not tried do that to protect their wife from worry.

he's a fake and I can't stand his wife's voice or her superior attitude The show on her redoing his office made me sick!!! I can't believe all the stupid people who buy his products and books and actually believe he's a real doctor.

I will admit, this show is better then some others. But I was never really down with the whole help people with their problems on national tv kind of thing. I think that if you have a problem, that you think is serious enough to think you have to go on national television, you should deal with it in your own country,city,town ect. Seek professional help. I'm not saying that Dr Phil is a bad guy. He's probably a very nice guy. But, talkshow hosts don't seem to just have all the stuff that people need to solve the problems,

I enjoy watching the Dr. Phil show, but I do realize it's a TV SHOW, which means it's entertainment. I think he has some good ideas and I like the fact that he makes people think about the consequences and responsibility that comes with being part of the human race!!

I would give him 0 stars. 1 star is too generous. Dr. Phil needs to be pulled off the air. He gave a couple advice about getting rid of there pets. These people took 2 full grown cats to a kill shelter. Shame on them. They were probably killed. They did this because they were in debt. The woman needed to give up her habit shopping at Victoria's Secret on a monthly basis. She actually had money in the budget for this item. Plus the couple made over $100k per year. Feeding 2 cats really would not have made the difference in their house. Shame on Dr. Phil for advising these people to throw away pets and shame on the people who did it. I would like to get on the show just to tell him off.

Keep up the good work!!

Dr. Phil wants to know why you all aren't worshipping him and presenting burnt sacrifices? Don't make him deploy his legions of housewives on your asses.

He's very overbearing and talks as if he were God. His guests are vulnerable and perhaps not very bright;for that reason, they may not be inclined to stand up to him. I'm sure Dr. Phil would have some advice for me, but I would be suspicious of someone so arrogant and so confident that his way is the only way.

I have only been watching Dr. Phil for a couple of months but I do not see why so many of you have a problem with him. He is very straightforward but seems to me to genuinely want to help people. He not only gives good advice, he a lot of times actively participates in helping people make the changes that they need to make. He doesn't just talk about it and go on to the next show, he hires trained people for their specific problems a lot of times and he follows up on people. I thought it was wonderful that he provided for that boy that was terrorizing the (screwed up) family to go to the ranch in TX. That kid deserately needed out of that house. I also thought it was great how he blessed another family's son with a drug treatment program, then got him a part as an extra on CSI, and blessed another girl with a trip to Cancun to explore her passion with marine biology. It appears from the follow-ups that he truly does help people that come to him wanting help. By being so harsh, critical and judgemental you put yourself in the same catagory as you put Dr. Phil and lower in my opinion. I think what you're really perturbed about is that he strikes a chord of truth in you in some of the things that he says, that you're not ready to deal with.

I think Dr. Phil is great. I love when he tells people what he thinks, positive or negative. Some of the people that go on there need to be taken down a peg or two and Dr. Phil does it by trying to help them also. His no nonsense attitude is an asset.

After following this show for about four months, it's become horribly more 'Springeresque' by the day- Particularly with his Dr Phil Family in which a dysfunctional, drama-prone white trash framily juices up the drama while camera just HAPPEN to be catching the most difficult and ridiculous moments in their lives... Plus the fact that most of his hokie bunk is just that.. bunk.

If you guys on this sight spent less time online and more time out you could see the good common sence that is shared with compassion and careing! the guy with the mba should be ashamed! I'm sure that you could support Dr.Phil if he told them to be angry about other people huh!!! The end results of his doings is much better than what I've seen from so many other hacks that hide behind closed doors, they open up long enough to throw out s--- then close up again! I'm sure he would luv to have you on his show to debate! I guess he would rather spend his time wisely helping none mba's! In the case off the hateful people on this site mba stands for major big ass!!!!