Sometimes, a show comes around that's so outrageous, with a cast doing things that are so cringe-worthy and bizarre, a reasonable viewer must, at least once, think to themselves, "This cannot be real."

Enter I Love a Mama's Boy. A TLC show - billing itself as reality - that has a lineup of couples and their corresponding overbearing mothers that will make even the most die-hard reality TV fans scratch their heads and wonder if there are writers in a backroom who just love to make the audience squirm or if reality has indeed become this out of pocket for some people.

See the clues that hint at whether the show is a depiction of its subjects' real lives or just exaggerated made-for-TV storytelling.