Bernice South Beach Tow

About

Bernice South Beach Tow refers to the character Bernice from the TruTv show "South Beach Tow" (2011-2014) which includes dramatized reenactments of Tremont Towing Service's day-to-day business in Miami. The show stars Bernice, played by actress Lakatriona Brunson, whose scenes of falling off a car garage and forcefully putting car owners in their place have gone viral on Twitter in 2019.

Origin

On November 13th, 2013, TruTV aired episode 50, "Bernice Goes Down," in which Bernice gets pushed out car garage (shown below). TruTV uploaded a clip of the scene to YouTube which gained over 8.8 million in six years.

Spread

After the episode aired in 2013, many people speculated as to whether the show was staged, though the scene and many others from the show "South Beach Tow" are indeed staged. ^[4] On September 30th, 2019, Twitter user @myskinsmylogo tweeted the scene saying, "the fact that this is one of the funniest moments in cinematic history" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 328,300 likes and 139,300 retweets in five days.

The video soon went viral and On October 2nd, Twitter user @OriginalYoni^[1] tweeted confirmation that "Bernice" began trending on twitter (shown below).

On October 2nd, Bernice replied to the trending status via Twitter^[2] (shown below, left). Her tweet accumulated over 170 likes in two days. That same day she tweeted, "They not your real friends 😂😂😂RT @kathleenelee: I spent a considerable amount of time this morning researching Bernice and am at a loss as to why none of my "friends" made me aware of this icon before" (shown below, right).^[3]

That same day, Twitter user @jocastafanpage tweeted another scene featuring Bernice saying, "We really tweeting about Bernice but I haven’t seen this iconic moment show up yet? The disrespect. BERNICE TOOK OUT THE TRASH" (shown below). The tweet gained over 12,800 likes and 4,500 retweets in two days.

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