While flipping through channels I’ll occasionally stop for a second on this show and Jon and Kate always seem to be on the couch describing to the camera their latest trip to the grocery store. I don’t get the appeal at all.
I don’t mean to thread shit, I’d really like to know what is about this show people find fascinating.
I watched the Table for 12 show the other day- I was so amused at the difference between JK+8 and that one. Kate believes that the only way to survive is to have everything uber scheduled, organized, controlled etc (remember the bubble gum episode)? The other family were just the opposite- flexible, chaotic, etc. Don’t know which is better, but it was such a stark contrast!
My favorite were the once a year Dilly six pack updates. They seemed like such a nice family…
We’ve got 3 kids - 8, 6, & 4 years old. We think our life is hectic, rushed, & stressful. Watching a family with 8 kids in the same age range is lots of fun - we can’t figure out for the life of us how they get through it. Seeing the routines they go through, the problems they run into, and how devoted they are to the kids is lots of fun. Our kids love it too - except when I point out how much better behaved the Gosselin kids are.
I watch it wen theres nothing else on. Kate comes off as overbearing, and Jon could just care less alf the time. The kids are all starting to turn bratty, especially the twins.
I read somewhere all their friends-the sister in law, Beth, the babysitters-all pretty much abandoned them because they were using them. As you watch the newer episodes, you see less helpers. In the beginning they’d practically get a sitter to go to the bathroom…
I’ve watched some of JK+8, mostly because my 9-year-old is a fan, it interests me only moderately… But after nine years of Katlick school, and now married to a man who is the oldest of five kids and living in Norway’s Fertility Central, I’ve known lots of big families and watched them from the outside. Now, I’m one of three, and we only have two, but from years of being nosy, it seems to me that once you pass maybe four kids, there are only two stable states. With two or three, you can let things slide for a while and still yank it back to reasonably organized on relatively short notice when you need to. But at some point, you either have to be strict and organized the whole time, or you have to go with the flow and learn to love the chaos.
I’m not sure either is better, I think it comes down to the personalities of the family involved.
I think the family is relatable, more so than Octomom or the Duggars anyway. But there’s also the novelty factor of having two sets of multiples to keep it interesting. Mundane things like grocery shopping and going out for ice cream become a lot more interesting when you have to drag six 4-yr-olds along with you.
Also, the sextuplets are really cute. But they are becoming less cute as they get older. Perhaps that’s why Kate is milking this so hard…she knows it won’t last forever.
I’ve heard similar. Some female relative that was around in earlier shows was offered reimbursal from the shows producers for being on the show. Kate apparently flipped out saying no one was going to make money off her kids except her.
Jon was at the bar at my college on Valentine’s Day night. I had no idea who the guy was – and I still don’t, actually – but he was approached by people throughout the night who were familiar with him, and someone asked him why, on Valentine’s Day, he’d be at a college bar by himself. His answer: “Because my wife’s a bitch.”
I have nothing to prove this, obviously, but I can assure you that it happened. I never watched the show and never had any intention to, but if he was scouring for college ass on Valentine’s Day, I have no respect for him. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t surprise me if some dumbass girl at my school did the guy that night, only because of his “celebrity” status. How depressing.
About Jon doing some girl…aren’t there a lot of rumors floating around about Jon hitting on/going home with girls in singles bars?
I think former child actor (and current showbiz kid advocate) Paul Peterson summed it up best. Children aren’t property, performing animals, commodities or a means of making a living, no matter how many you have.
The little boy who had a camera two feet away while his father removed impacted fecal matter from his anus (with a plastic bag over his fingers) after a bout of severe constipation is a real human being who deserves more personal space and privacy to live his life than his money-minded parents seem capable of giving him.
I really think it’s mostly just one of the twins (Maddy), but unfortunately for Cara when you’re a twin (even fraternal, which they are) people tend to lump you together. This I know from personal experience, and I look a lot less like my twin than they do.
To me, the appeal of the show is watching the little kids. Observing thier emerging personalities, figuring out what makes them tick and cracking up at the stuff they say. I hope for thier sake, that the ominous commercial is just a publicity stunt ot something… They have a hard enough time as a family without that… As for Mady, She’d be better off as an only child. she requires more one on one time that it is possible for her to get.
I think this is the most important post of the thread. It is really hard to take anything at face value in these heavily edited shows.
On a different note, do these shows seem like a bit of an arms race to anyone else? First this Jon & Kate Plus 8 thing, now the Table for Twelve thing, I hope there aren’t too many families out there procreating like crazy trying to be the next show!
Stay tuned for JohnT21, coming to a station near you!
My daughter says the sequel will be “Jon minus 9,” but I think she got it from “The Soup.”
Looks like some of the Blurbs from the ad were taken out of context. Apparently the problem is that Kate is having the time of her like with the show, and Jon is sick of having no privacy.
Guess who wins…
He’s unhappy about working from home and having no identity, she thinks it’s the best “job” she’s ever had.
She’s a bitch. Sure there could be some editing, but after what…4 or 5 years of this show (and my wife watches it all the time), I’d think some other hint of a better person would have shown through. He’s a better man than I am to have put up with it for this long. I was really irriated when he did have a job and would come home at the end of the day, Kate would immediatly demand that he jump right in and take over with the kids. “I’ve been around them all day and just need a break”…yeah? Well it’s not like he was at the movies all day…he was at his job…you know…working.
Meh, if this show allowed them to get a bigger house, or to have the money for all the kids to go to college, then I don’t think it’s a bad idea to have held onto that 15 minutes of fame. It’ll probably last another year or so, with a special once a year for a couple of years after that, then fade into obscurity.
Yeah, so long as this and other shows like it remain, The Soup can milk some comedy gold out of it. I’ll enjoy it for the highlights.