The first comment on yesterday's Obsessed recap concerned one of the episode's two subjects, Rick, who, commenter ElBomb noted, is named Rick Rosner and has "a documented history of doing stupid crap to get attention." His claims of being the smartest man on earth have landed him a Domino's commercial and multiple appearances on talk shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. There is indeed a long documentation of Rosner's stunts, but I couldn't find anything more compelling than his 2000 appearance on Errol Morris's documentary TV show First Person, in which he describes his obsession with scars, being too smart for Harvard, and putting himself on a diet of lettuce and dog biscuits, which gave him hemorrhoids so bad he had to wear a maxi pad. Um, yeah, so basically this guy is just trying to make a living as a professional crazy person.
The producers of Obsessed should have known better than to indulge this guy's pranks, or at least should have included them as part of his backstory. But this video was hilarious, so at least there's that. Bad A&E!
