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00:00 - Somebody is going to have the last word here
00:02 and I guarantee you, guaranteed, it's going to be me.
00:06 - Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:08 And today we're counting down our picks
00:10 for Judge Judy's most outrageous and bizarre cases.
00:14 - I'm not trying to be cute. - Great.
00:16 - You're trying to be cute. - Good.
00:17 - You are cute.
00:18 - Number 20, the mother-in-law from,
00:21 in what plays like a particularly unhinged sitcom,
00:24 the plaintiff in this case, Patricia Renante,
00:27 is a disgruntled mother-in-law
00:29 who just doesn't get the hint.
00:31 - She's a nice lady and you don't look like a bad guy.
00:34 You're quiet, you don't look like a bad guy.
00:37 She's too involved in your business.
00:40 - What?
00:41 - Mrs. Renante's ongoing acrimony with the defendant,
00:44 her son's ex and the mother of her grandchild,
00:47 led to a restraining order against her.
00:50 The judge knows going in that she probably deserved it.
00:53 - And if it's not good for you to be around a grandparent,
00:56 for whatever reason, either because they're a pot stirrer.
00:59 - Not a pot stirrer.
01:00 - Her interruptions and defensiveness
01:02 get pretty tiring pretty fast,
01:05 but it's her complete lack of accountability
01:07 for breaking a restraining order that really takes the cake.
01:11 If there's one thing Judge Judy has no patience for,
01:14 it's people who flagrantly ignore the law.
01:17 - We're done.
01:18 - Your Honor, I'm out $2,500 in lawyer fees
01:20 because you took me to court.
01:21 - Good, absolutely, absolutely perfect.
01:24 - Number 19, the interrupter.
01:27 Kim Knoller is suing Thomas Doherty
01:29 after he tried to cancel a reservation
01:31 at her motorcycle rental business.
01:34 - You told him according to your papers
01:36 that you had a no refund policy,
01:38 that you would send him vouchers for another time.
01:41 He said, "I want my money back."
01:44 - Though the charges were eventually reversed,
01:46 the plaintiff is here to collect for fees incurred.
01:49 But the judge finds her business practices pretty harsh.
01:53 Even as the judge tries to talk to her,
01:55 she keeps repeating herself as if talking over the judge
01:59 is going to change her mind.
02:00 - The NSF charges that I incurred
02:03 for the money going in and out,
02:04 the taxes that I had to pay,
02:06 and the inconvenience of it all.
02:08 - I'm not giving you a quarter.
02:10 - The plaintiff just keeps repeating no refunds.
02:14 Maybe she thinks it's like a spell.
02:15 - I have no cancellation policy.
02:16 - Just a second, I'm speaking, hey, I'm speaking.
02:19 - No cancellation.
02:20 - If you repeat it enough times, it comes true.
02:23 - That's not how things work in Judge Judy's courtroom.
02:26 - The money went back into your account.
02:28 - Because he was wrong.
02:29 That's why he brought the dispute.
02:30 - No, let me tell you something.
02:31 If I was in business--
02:32 - Why did he drop the dispute?
02:33 - If you're gonna talk over me,
02:34 I'm gonna throw you out of here
02:35 and not even explain. - Why did he drop the dispute
02:36 would be my question. - Just a second.
02:37 - Number 18, why are you laughing?
02:40 Judge Judy hears a case about a man
02:43 who threw a bottle at someone's car.
02:45 - I just went to the bar and I was drunk.
02:46 - What?
02:47 Slowly.
02:48 - Oh, I'm sorry.
02:49 - Oh.
02:50 - Why are you laughing?
02:51 - He readily admits he threw the offending bottle,
02:54 but still can't understand how he did the damage.
02:57 Pretty standard stuff at first.
03:00 But as the suspiciously spacey and red-faced defendant
03:03 tries his best to keep it together in court,
03:06 he can't even keep from laughing through the case.
03:09 - We established a moment ago
03:11 that you threw the bottle at the car,
03:13 that you hit the car,
03:14 and that you caused damage to the car.
03:15 You said, "Yes, I was drunk."
03:18 - No.
03:19 - The judge can hardly believe
03:21 he thinks any of this is funny.
03:23 She tells him that he's the only fool laughing.
03:26 - The plaintiff isn't laughing.
03:27 Your witness isn't laughing.
03:29 The only fool that's laughing would be you.
03:31 - Oh.
03:32 - What's hilarious is everyone in the courtroom
03:34 is definitely trying not to laugh the whole time.
03:37 Number 17, your honor, that child is a liar.
03:41 At least that's what this defendant
03:43 wants the judge to believe.
03:45 As the sweet, soft-spoken little boy
03:48 who was bitten by her dog gives his testimony,
03:51 defendant Lourdes Rodriguez can't help but point out
03:54 the factual inaccuracies.
03:56 - Like she had the leash on her hand
03:58 while she was holding on to the string.
03:59 - I'm sorry, your honor, that is false.
04:01 - Just a second, don't interrupt.
04:02 - Not the best way to endear yourself to anyone,
04:05 let alone the judge.
04:07 The judge quickly deduces
04:08 that she has a pre-prepared version of the events
04:11 that not only makes her look better,
04:13 but also completely contradicts her sworn statement.
04:16 - You know, when you start to say things
04:18 that you've been practicing in your mind to say,
04:22 but as you actually articulate them, they sound stupid.
04:25 - Okay. - Okay?
04:26 - The fact that this woman is so willing
04:28 to throw this child under the bus
04:30 and even blame him for it is kind of reprehensible.
04:34 - And if you sense that your dog was agitated,
04:37 you cross the street.
04:39 You don't direct the child to walk around you.
04:42 You get your baby buggy and your dog
04:44 and you move them out of harm's way.
04:47 - Number 16, bleaching his clothes.
04:50 A couple's spat turns into a destruction of property case
04:54 with the plaintiff's clothes covered in bleach.
04:57 - Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of property
04:59 because she poured bleach over the property.
05:01 - The defendant blames the plaintiff
05:03 for most of the damage for grabbing the bottle of bleach
05:06 out of her hand as she was pouring it.
05:08 Her arrogance with the judge is clear from the jump.
05:11 Even after she's reminded she's not on Jerry Springer,
05:14 the defendant can't help herself.
05:16 - Where do you think you are?
05:17 You think you're on Springer?
05:19 You're not. (audience laughing)
05:20 - The judge rules against her
05:22 and dismisses her counterclaim.
05:24 And that's when the defendant loses it.
05:27 Her behavior is so wild that the judge is compelled
05:30 to come back out and let her have it.
05:32 Although there are probably a lot of people
05:34 who sympathize with her,
05:35 the judge deals with the law, not morality.
05:38 - It's my playpen.
05:41 I have the word. - That's not right.
05:42 - You don't hear nothing I gotta say about nothing.
05:43 - You don't stop playing chess.
05:45 - Number 15, case dismissed.
05:47 Nevermind.
05:48 Litigants rarely get a second chance
05:50 in Judge Judy's courtroom.
05:52 A man accused of stealing a television
05:54 and assaulting his own sister
05:56 sues his mother for false arrest.
05:58 However, he storms out after the judge asks
06:01 about his previous arrest record.
06:03 - I'm just talking about this case, your honor.
06:05 - I'm talking about who the party--
06:07 - I'm gonna talk about this case at hand.
06:10 If you don't wanna discuss this case,
06:12 then we can just dismiss it.
06:13 In a rare show of mercy,
06:15 she allows him to retry the case after his outburst.
06:18 Things don't go that well in the second round either.
06:22 Through slurred speech,
06:23 the plaintiff can barely contain his temper.
06:26 - Because I didn't steal the TV that my mom said.
06:29 And my mother sat there and said,
06:31 she hasn't, she's seen me in a while.
06:34 - His mother can barely look at him throughout the case.
06:36 And given that the daughter involved in the dispute
06:38 has recently died,
06:40 it's a tragic and unnecessary situation.
06:43 - They're trying to give me 46 years for this TV.
06:46 My life is a little more than 46 years, okay?
06:49 Or acting out in jail or whatever.
06:51 I didn't do it.
06:52 - Number 14, a $5,000 haircut.
06:56 When Judge Judy actually bothers with your case
06:59 just for the pure entertainment of it,
07:01 you know you're in trouble.
07:03 The plaintiff told the judge not to hold his occupation
07:05 as a lawyer against him.
07:07 - I'm a lawyer.
07:08 - Where?
07:09 - San Antonio, Texas.
07:10 Hope you don't use that against me.
07:11 - No, I'm gonna hold your lawsuit against you
07:13 'cause it's stupid.
07:14 - In her brilliant incisive way,
07:16 she tells him it's not his profession that offends her,
07:19 it's his stupid lawsuit.
07:21 The plaintiff who is, let's say, not exactly Fabio
07:24 when it comes to his hair,
07:26 is suing a hairstylist who cut his hair too short.
07:29 So he's suing for $5,000.
07:32 - You went to the defendant to have your hair cut.
07:35 Whatever hair you have left, you wanted to have cut.
07:38 And she cut your hair too short.
07:40 - The fact that he seems completely earnest in his lawsuit
07:43 is even weirder.
07:44 Judge Judy is a good sport though.
07:46 - It's a ridiculous waste of judicial time.
07:48 Only thing is, this is a television courtroom.
07:52 So we actually have fun doing sometimes ridiculous cases.
07:56 - She refunds him the $10 he paid for the cut
07:59 and sends him on his way.
08:00 - You get $10 and that's the judgment of the court.
08:03 Goodbye.
08:04 - Number 13, broken toilet.
08:07 Accidents happen, but suing a friend over something
08:10 that not only wasn't their fault,
08:12 but is supremely embarrassing is low-key evil.
08:15 - Lisa Reed is suing her former friend,
08:17 house cleaner Barbara Loth,
08:19 for breaking her toilet when she sat on it.
08:22 - Judge Judy is rolling her eyes 10 seconds into this case.
08:26 And we get the feeling she already knows
08:28 how this is gonna go.
08:29 - All I wanna know is, did you fall on it?
08:32 Did you kick it? - Oh, heck no.
08:33 - Did you hit it with a hammer?
08:35 - No, no, no, no.
08:36 - Did you hit it with a wrench?
08:38 - No, Your Honor, no, no. - No, it broke.
08:40 - Though the plaintiff insists her friend broke the toilet
08:43 and is responsible, the judge is less than impressed
08:46 with how she handles the situation.
08:48 What it amounts to is a plaintiff who's a bad friend
08:51 trying to get money and embarrass her ex-friend.
08:54 At least we hope they're ex-friends.
08:56 - I agree with you.
08:58 The toilet broke while she was using it.
09:03 That doesn't mean that she broke it.
09:05 And that doesn't mean that she's responsible for it.
09:08 The good natured defendant can definitely do better.
09:11 Number 12, Judge Judy learns about Grindr.
09:15 We never thought we'd see the day when Judge Judy
09:18 would learn what Grindr was.
09:19 However, her reaction is exactly what we would have thought
09:23 if she ever did.
09:24 The plaintiff in this case, an older man,
09:26 and the defendant, a noticeably younger man, met on an app.
09:31 - We met on a social website.
09:33 - What kind of social website?
09:35 - It's actually called Grindr.
09:36 - The lawsuit is, unsurprisingly, about unpaid loans.
09:40 Judge Judy wanted more information.
09:43 This leads to a thorough explanation
09:45 of the dating app, Grindr.
09:47 Although she looks incredibly confused,
09:49 some of the audience members clearly know what's up.
09:52 - You went on this website in order to find someone
09:55 who had the same sexual predisposition you did, right?
09:59 - No, actually, it was just to make friends.
10:01 - She eventually clicks right back into the case.
10:04 She knows exactly what kind of social
10:06 and financial arrangement the two had.
10:08 However, her initial response to the idea
10:11 that the defendant was just making friends
10:13 on the app is priceless.
10:15 - If I was looking just to make friends,
10:17 I wouldn't go on a website that said, you know,
10:20 it's just for little old Jewish ladies.
10:22 - Number 11, 10 kids, zero brains.
10:26 The Judge Judy courtroom is not the place
10:28 to advance your standup career.
10:30 You'll end up looking like a fool.
10:32 - So you have all your kids.
10:33 What kind of kids do you have?
10:34 - I have about 10 kids.
10:35 - You have 10 children?
10:36 - Yes, I do.
10:37 - Danny Gonzalez didn't need the judge's help
10:39 to do that though.
10:41 When the judge expresses some surprise
10:43 at the 21 year old having 10 children,
10:46 he responds by making a vulgar,
10:48 if somewhat nonsensical joke about the judge's daughter.
10:51 - How many?
10:52 - About four.
10:53 - About four?
10:53 What do you mean about four?
10:54 What does that mean about four?
10:56 - About four of them, including your daughter.
11:00 - The most pathetic thing is that he really does
11:02 look terrified, but stupidity overrode his good sense.
11:06 - This might be your show, but this is my episode.
11:08 - No, no, no, no, no, no.
11:10 You don't have, listen to me.
11:11 You don't have, you don't have an episode.
11:14 - Despite Gonzalez's obnoxious behavior,
11:16 it's actually one of Judge Judy's tamer moments.
11:20 Without even raising her voice,
11:21 she puts him squarely in his place.
11:24 - Perhaps if you stayed in school a little longer
11:25 instead of staying out of the bedroom,
11:27 you'd understand better.
11:28 - Number 10, allow me to demonstrate.
11:31 Dr. Noel Howell is probably a legend on the dance floor.
11:34 - What happened, Mr. Howell?
11:36 Why did she leave?
11:37 - The thing is, Judge Judy doesn't have a dance floor.
11:40 That didn't stop him from doing an incredibly unfortunate,
11:43 but now legendary reenactment
11:45 of the plaintiff's drunken antics while on the job.
11:48 - Her action became so bizarre,
11:50 it was hilarious at times, dangerous at times.
11:53 - During a movie shoot in the Caribbean,
11:55 Dr. Howell alleges that the plaintiff was smoking, quote,
11:58 "the good Antigua ganja," and things quickly got out of hand.
12:03 - And she was like, "Why? Why?"
12:07 - His description of her increasingly erratic behavior
12:10 is endlessly memeable, but his imitation of her dancing
12:14 and screeching while under the influence
12:16 is an unforgettable courtroom moment.
12:18 - With behavior like that, I was like,
12:20 "Melissa, what's going on?"
12:21 - Number nine, doused with boiling water.
12:24 What starts as an incredibly upsetting and violent case
12:27 about a roommate squabble that led to the plaintiff
12:29 being attacked with boiling water
12:31 turned incredibly sad by the end.
12:34 - So it's her apartment, the two of you were living together
12:36 and you moved in as a roommate.
12:38 - Judge Judy quickly sussed out
12:40 that the litigants were high during the event.
12:42 - So is it accurate that the three of you
12:45 were doing drugs that night?
12:47 - No, Your Honor, it's not.
12:49 - Is there any reason why you think
12:51 this officer would write this?
12:53 - Yeah, the officer is a fugazi officer.
12:57 - Despite the plaintiff's bizarre assertion
12:59 that the police officer who responded to the scene
13:01 was fugazi, the judge soon realizes
13:04 she is in desperate need of care for substance use disorder.
13:08 Instead of adding insult to injury,
13:10 the judge actually takes great care to explain
13:13 why the police didn't act on her initial report.
13:16 - The reason that they didn't take you seriously
13:20 is because you were so high on drugs
13:22 that you were in an altered state, do you understand?
13:26 - She was simply too deeply under the influence
13:28 to advocate for herself.
13:30 Number eight, push.
13:32 Look, we get it.
13:33 It's embarrassing to be kicked out of the courtroom,
13:36 especially if you're not the first,
13:38 but the second person in your group to go.
13:40 - Okay, sir, you can step out.
13:41 - Because that shows that you just can't listen
13:44 and Judy has no time for the likes of you.
13:47 The defendant, not willing to let well enough alone,
13:50 had the audacity to talk back to Judy on his way out,
13:54 then turned to storm through the doors
13:56 that wouldn't open for him.
13:58 Forget embarrassed,
13:59 this is outright humiliation at this point.
14:02 As he shrugs his shoulders to ask, "How do I get out?"
14:06 You can hear him being told to push, not pull.
14:09 - Well, I have to tell you something.
14:10 I have to tell you something.
14:12 You- - Push.
14:14 - Out.
14:15 (audience laughing)
14:16 - Take your chance to be a judge.
14:18 - Number seven, for mature audiences.
14:21 We're not judging anyone for their chosen profession,
14:24 and neither is Judy for that matter.
14:27 You just might have to explain it to her.
14:30 - We go into homes and hold parties for adults
14:33 with lotions and potions and vibrators.
14:36 - Such was the case when the plaintiff had to explain
14:38 her adult novelty party business to Judy,
14:41 who was able to connect the dots
14:42 when she told about the lotions
14:44 and more specifically, vibrators.
14:46 - The bullwhip, one of a set of two C-rings,
14:50 10 catalogs, making love oil,
14:53 flavors strawberry and champagne.
14:54 - This leads to the plaintiff listing off the names
14:57 of every item that went missing,
14:59 both Judy and her bailiff, Bernard,
15:01 expressing various levels of, "Huh?"
15:04 As if trying to figure out what everything is.
15:06 Then the sex bee balm is dropped.
15:09 One of the items was returned used.
15:12 Poor, poor Judy.
15:14 - The eager beaver, which appeared to be used.
15:16 So that may have been used,
15:19 but we would have appreciated that to have been cleaned up
15:20 before she returned it to us.
15:22 And then the tickling taste was broke.
15:24 - Number six, the fake case.
15:27 There's always debate on whether or not the cases we see
15:30 in any televised courtroom drama are real.
15:33 - As he was breaking one of the televisions
15:35 that fell on your cat and killed it.
15:37 - Yes.
15:39 - Yes.
15:40 - While the jury will always and forever be out on that one,
15:42 we can say with utmost certainty
15:45 that this particular case is an absolute work of fiction.
15:49 In an interview with Vice in 2014,
15:51 it's revealed that the case about smashed TVs
15:54 and the tragic death of a cat
15:56 was made up purely for the settlement money
15:58 and a free trip to LA.
16:00 - I thought you were there with six people.
16:01 - No, they went to go rent a movie from the Red Box.
16:05 - There was no fight and thankfully no dead cat.
16:09 While it'll definitely make us question
16:11 the validity of a case,
16:12 the defendant did at least confirm
16:14 that Judy really is that intimidating in real life.
16:18 Number five, dumb and dumber.
16:21 If you're going to say you didn't steal a purse,
16:23 you might not wanna tell a judge what was
16:25 and what wasn't in the purse you definitely did not steal.
16:28 - What was in your wallet?
16:30 - It was 50 bucks.
16:31 - As the plaintiff lists the items in the purse in question,
16:34 one of the accused defendants insists
16:36 there was no earpiece.
16:38 If only every case were this easy to prove.
16:41 - There was no earpiece in your mail.
16:43 - I love it, I love it.
16:46 - Before they can even realize what's happened,
16:48 Judge Judy has ruled against them
16:50 and the two have become a laughingstock
16:53 in front of millions.
16:54 We don't know if this was the shortest case
16:56 ever featured on the show,
16:58 but it has to be in the running.
16:59 - Dumb and dumber.
17:01 Judging for the plaintiff for the amount of $500,
17:05 that's what I think it's worth, madam.
17:07 Goodbye.
17:08 - Number four, Tupperware attack.
17:10 Judge Judy always looks like she's seen some things.
17:14 That being said, there are times when a plaintiff
17:17 says something so unbelievable that she,
17:19 as they say, can't even.
17:22 - She opened her Tupperware cupboard
17:24 and forced all of her Tupperware on me like that.
17:27 - When a plaintiff tells her that the defendant
17:29 threw not just one or two,
17:32 but all of the Tupperware on her, not at her,
17:35 Judy calmly says,
17:36 "She didn't throw all of her Tupperware on you."
17:39 - She's leaning her whole body into me,
17:41 pointing her finger at my face.
17:42 How dare you?
17:43 Don't you even dare.
17:44 Shame on you.
17:45 That's it, I want you out of here.
17:46 And she hit my head with her finger.
17:48 She had all of her weight on me.
17:51 - Oh, ye of little faith,
17:53 because the plaintiff not only insists that it happened,
17:56 she gives a live demonstration
17:58 complete with aggressive voice acting,
18:00 a lot of finger pointing, and scrunched up faces.
18:04 At least the Tupperware wasn't full of food
18:07 or those lotions from earlier on this list.
18:10 Number three, losers.
18:12 If you haven't figured it out by now,
18:14 some of the guests on Judge Judy
18:16 aren't exactly what you'd call
18:18 the sharpest tools in the shed.
18:19 Case in point, when our next defendant
18:22 came to plead her case over an assault charge,
18:24 Judge Judy quickly demands to know
18:26 why they were swearing at the plaintiff.
18:29 - What were you cursing at them for?
18:31 - Because they're losers.
18:34 - Her answer, while not only provoking a court-wide groan
18:38 for butchering the word losers,
18:40 actually demonstrates that she initiated the conflict
18:43 with the defendants,
18:45 securing Judge Judy's decision almost immediately.
18:48 - Judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $4,000.
18:51 That's all, step out.
18:52 - Next time you want to accuse someone of assault,
18:56 maybe make sure you're not actually
18:58 the one who initiated it.
19:00 - I don't think this is a fair justice.
19:02 - Number two, venison will get you nowhere.
19:05 When will people learn that you have to get permission
19:08 before you take something from someone else,
19:10 even if you supposedly take it all the time?
19:13 - I just use it all the time and she wasn't home,
19:15 so I went over there to get the key and went
19:17 and the deer just jumped out in front of me.
19:19 - In yet another case of,
19:21 I'm always able to borrow the thing,
19:23 two sisters find themselves in court
19:25 over damage done to a car.
19:26 - What'd you do with it?
19:27 - Ate it.
19:28 - Is that true?
19:32 - Yes, ma'am, and she even offered me some.
19:34 - The defendant got into a wreck with her sister's car,
19:37 crashing into a deer.
19:38 But since she takes the car all the time
19:41 and has helped her sister sometimes,
19:43 she thinks she should be in the clear.
19:45 - I'm not having a rigor mortis stoob, I know.
19:48 - You did not have rigor mortis.
19:50 - At least she was nice enough to offer some of the deer.
19:53 Yes, the deer she hit with her sister's car.
19:56 Yeah, you're still gonna have to pay back that $1,300.
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20:14 Number one, suing a grieving mother.
20:19 In what is absolutely the craziest
20:21 and possibly the most morally unconscionable case
20:24 in the history of the show,
20:26 a woman sues a grieving mother for damages to her car.
20:30 The car was damaged when her son,
20:32 whom she allowed to drive her car,
20:34 gave the defendant's daughter the keys to drive it.
20:37 - Only on the property.
20:38 - I don't care if he drives on the property,
20:39 if he drives it on Pluto.
20:41 - Defendant Nelda Bailey's daughter
20:43 was killed in an accident.
20:45 And now plaintiff Wendy Moore is suing.
20:48 - Do you honestly believe that you have a case?
20:50 Do you honestly believe that any fact finder,
20:53 whether it be a judge or a jury,
20:55 is going to find your position sympathetic, Ms. Moore?
20:59 - Moore is so cool about it that it's actually disturbing.
21:02 She's convinced she's in the right.
21:05 In fact, she blames the defendant's deceased daughter
21:08 for the whole thing.
21:09 - Instead of saying that,
21:10 you sue her for the damage to your car.
21:12 You're an idiot.
21:12 - The audience applauded
21:14 when Judge Judy verbally destroyed her
21:16 and ruled in favor of the defendant,
21:19 granting her the $5,000 she was suing for.
21:23 What was the craziest Judge Judy case you remember?
21:26 Let us know in the comments.
21:28 - It took probably about three weeks
21:30 for your hair to grow out.
21:32 - Your opinion, I don't know, maybe a month.
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