The Soup: Season 8
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Soup Season 7.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
January 28, 2011
Jan 28, 2011 · 30 min
American Idol continues to power through the bat-sh-t crazy auditions, and Steven Tyler continues to power through the bat-sh-t crazy voices in his head... The Bachelor's Brad Woma
February 18, 2011
Feb 18, 2011 · 30 min
Televised starvation is back in vogue as Survivor returns to the airwaves, and one castaway is already running dangerously low on saliva... Charlie Sheen gives Lindsay Lohan life a
March 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011 · 30 min
Joel plunges into the deep end of the Charlie Sheen pool, but makes sure to cover his nose so as not to get any "seven gram rocks" up it... Rolling Stone puts Snooki on its magazin
March 11, 2011
Mar 11, 2011 · 30 min
Celebrity Apprentice returns to your TV, as does the babbling vessel of bat shit insanity that is Gary Busey... Two and a Half Men disappears from your TV, unlike the babbling vess
March 18, 2011
Mar 18, 2011 · 30 min
The Bachelor's Brad finally picks the woman he wants to marry...or at least date for a few months before he realizes a televised gameshow probably isn't the best place to find real
The Soup Awards 2011
Apr 1, 2011 · 30 min
Hosted by Joel McHale and featuring guest appearances by famous and infamous presenters, we honor and showcase the unintentionally funniest people and moments in pop-culture.
April 22, 2011
Apr 22, 2011 · 30 min
This week, Joel McHale weighs in on the latest Hollywood headlines including celebrities doing volunteer work for Earth Week, Kate Middleton's wedding gown designer revealed, and D
June 10, 2011
Jun 10, 2011 · 30 min
When a man wants to impress the woman he wants to marry, it's only natural that he gleefully mocks her breast size on national TV, right? Apparently it is when that man is bachelor
July 1, 2011
Jul 1, 2011 · 30 min
This season's main plot device on The Bachelorette is Ashley Hebert's perverse, self-destructive obsession with duplicitous miscreant Bentley. Apparently the B-dawg's magnetic d-ba
October 28, 2011
Oct 28, 2011 · 30 min
Hard-hitting news commentary just got that much harder and hittinger as The Soup brings you a taste of the issues of the day with The Situation Room. Assuming the day is one at Jer