20 Reality TV Moments Where We Were Grateful The Cameras Kept Rolling

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There was not a viewer out there who doubted Tiffany "New York" Pollard was About That Life, but Pumpkin put her to the test when she spit on her during an elimination ceremony. Reality shows shouldn't be about condoning violence, but there were few people who watched that scene and didn't think Pumpkin had more coming to her than she got.

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Tyra admits she would handle the infamous moment differently in retrospect, but she really laid into this woman with no mercy and no concern for public perception in the present or future.

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Ashlee Simpson was embarrassed when she was caught lip-syncing as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, but it was the different stories around it that made it a meme moment. Initially, she said it was that her band played a different song than she was ready to sing. Then, she blamed acid reflux for lip-syncing. On The Ashlee Simpson Show, you see a doctor warn her not to go on with the performance, which later was revealed to be because of nodes on her vocal cords. 

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Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley had a tumultuous relationship that included several incidents of domestic violence that played out in front of MTV production, their child, and after it aired, the world. Many have questioned why MTV didn't intervene in these incidents and why they took it a step further and aired the footage.

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Family fights can be hard to watch and a confrontation between the Richards sisters of Beverly Hills was no exception. Both sisters have had regrets about the fight looking back, but the fact that Kim's addiction was central to the argument made some feel uncomfortable with watching it play out.

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While Ayers maintained he did have stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013, he says he produced fake documents to maintain his privacy while silencing other castmates' suspicions he was faking his illness.

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Tony catfished her cousin Antwane for three years because he called her "a fat ass Kelly Price." That's the kind of petty revenge you kind of love to see, but you do feel a teensy bit bad for the dude finding out on national television in what would go on to be one of the most meme'd moments in reality TV history.

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While this did give us the iconic slight "you are a slut from the '90s," it turned ugly for the first-ever Housewives reunion fistfight. Andy had to jump in, as did production, and it led to an assault charge.

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Production was suspended due to alleged inappropriate behavior between Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson that was initially believed to have been sexual misconduct. Both were later cleared but opted to leave the show. Many questioned whether BiP producers threw this in to garner more interest for the season since it ultimately appeared to be much ado about nothing.

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It's been heartbreaking to watch the Thompson/Shannon family deal with Mama June's battle with addiction and at many points, fans have wondered why so much of the family's heartache has had to play out on camera.

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Of course, the latest season of RHOSLC wouldn't have been complete without discussing Jen Shah's arrest, but a lot of viewers were upset by seeing authorities pointing weapons in a raid of her home while there were children present.