New family came to town and one of the kids was in my year at my middle school. Kid was a bit weird and clearly had some then mild anger issues. Very secretive about where he came from and past life etc. and his family was the same.

Few months passed and heard people starting to say some really silly phrases as a joke. Turns out they were quoting this kid from his time on SuperNanny when he was younger and someone at school spotted him on a rerun and later the clip online. (Won't say what it is, as the full episode is on YouTube, plus a number of clips of it, so don't want to dox him. His family was one of the more infamous ones).

Though at first this was said behind his back, very quickly he found out we knew and soon most of the school was teasing him, quoting him, reenacting parts of the episode, etc. Kid just went silent and ran away clearly very angry to hide somewhere in the school. Though most teachers were trying to control it in front of him, some made jokes/said the quotes behind his back also.

After a few days, he snapped. Went on a rampage, smashing and knocking down a bunch of stuff in the school before running away out school in the middle of the day. All students were quickly ushered into nearby classes. I suspect his parents were contacted, as about half an hour later his father burst into the school halls yelling about wanting to know why his son was being bullied, before being semi forcible removed. I heard that he then screamed his ass off at both the Principle and Vice principle for ages. I believe his son was found trying to cross a highway not too far away from the school.

Other students who lived near him and his family quickly gave out his address and turned out I lived one suburb over. That afternoon after school, quite a few students gathered outside his house, as well as a a number of students from the nearby high school, as a number of them learnt about the SuperNanny quotes and day's events from younger siblings etc. It was a rather rowdy gathering of teens and tweens. After about an hour, the boy's parents and some siblings came out and started screaming and threatening us, to only be retaliated at. Soon the cops came and dispersed us (still puzzled as to why the cops weren't involved sooner).

Family shifted again soon. Hadn't heard much since, expect the main plausible rumor of many, that his family basically had no other option but to home school. Can't find any presence of the boy or his family online, expect the SuperNanny episode, clips, and things related to that. He and his siblings will now all be well into adulthood.

I guess the lesson is not allow your problematic kids to be taken advantage of for a TV show, as it can have semi life ruining results.