# Octomom TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894 "2009-04-12T23:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/1 "2009-04-12T23:51:43Z")
[The Octo Mom may be getting her own TV show.](http://www.tvguide.com/News/Octo-Mom-TV-1004984.aspx) I don’t know what disgusts me more, the person that thought this was a good idea or the people that would bother watching it. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/2 "2009-04-12T23:57:10Z")
Damn… You mean, she’s not doing Playboy anymore? I was soooo looking forward to that. I wonder what they will call the show? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/3 "2009-04-13T11:05:01Z")
The TV show might be a good thing. With cameras always on her, we might be able to avoid the countdown to when one of her kids is found dead from neglect. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/4 "2009-04-13T11:09:13Z")
It will show routine activities like “dating”? The guy who wants to date her will be the guy who wants his own reality show, “Dating the Octomom”. More likely she’ll have to hunt her dates with a dart gun of some kind. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/5 "2009-04-13T13:59:14Z")
Is there any way to do negative Nielsens? Like to show how many people are not watching and will not watch this show? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/6 "2009-04-13T14:35:15Z")
Maybe if you could show that people who would watch it might die, then you maybe could have negative ratings. I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can get less than zero, even watching a mom who seems to have a negative IQ. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/7 "2009-04-13T15:30:13Z")
Remember the statement way back when about television being a vast wasteland? Proof. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/8 "2009-04-13T15:39:20Z")
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of vitriol directed at the Octomom’s donation website, so it would be nice to imagine that we will all boycott this show and it will be swiftly canceled. However, having watched the Rock of Love finale last night, I have to admit that deep down there is a part of me that loves watching people I hate on TV - even if only to make fun of them. So I fear that I will probably tune in if this show comes to be. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/9 "2009-04-13T15:45:02Z")
Grain of salt and all that, but the person who first told me about Suleman was from a large Hollywood talent agency – and she said the woman had not only already been shopping her story around to producers, but that reality TV was behind her mega pregnancy in the first place (at least the possibility of having a show, in her own mind). Sounds crazy 'til you turn on TLC. That channel makes my womb hurt. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/10 "2009-04-13T17:52:03Z")
She gets her own show. In return normal sane people never have to hear from the Duggars or John and Kate again. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/11 "2009-04-13T17:57:38Z")
Just so I am clear….I can or can not look forward to seeing her nude at some point soon? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/12 "2009-04-13T18:02:54Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Just so I am clear….I can or can not look forward to seeing her nude at some point soon? I’m gonna say ‘can’. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-tv/492894/13 "2009-04-13T18:26:54Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I’m gonna say ‘can’. I’m sure you’ll see her cooch when they implant the next dozen Egg McOctomoms.