# ...the hell? The Duggar Family show up on "Say Yes To The Dress"! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172 "2010-01-16T05:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/1 "2010-01-16T05:45:48Z")
I’m just watching TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress” (a reality show of women buying wedding dresses - yes, I like it, and no, I don’t know why), and a family shows up with about 200 kids in tow. I don’t catch the names at first - Jim Bob and some woman. They’re renewing their vows, and for some reason they think all 200 of their kids need to come with them to pick out a new wedding dress for mom. “Hmm,” I think, “They must be Full Quiver people like those guys who have their own reality show.” I watch a little more - the mom wants a modest dress, no cleavage, etc. The girls all have long hair and are also wearing dresses. Okay, they put her name on the screen - “Michelle Duggar.” Wait a second! I know that name! Quick google search - yup, it’s them. I just wanted to share this bit of reality tv weirdness with all y’all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/2 "2010-01-16T06:57:41Z")
Nineteen children and the woman still has the nerve to wear a white wedding dress. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/3 "2010-01-16T13:14:32Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Nineteen children and the woman still has the nerve to wear a white wedding dress. For some blessed women, it grows back! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/4 "2010-01-16T15:10:13Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Nineteen children and the woman still has the nerve to wear a white wedding dress. As opposed to all the hussies who’ve had sex with a dozen or more people and still wear a white wedding dress? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/5 "2010-01-16T15:12:12Z")
Not that far. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/6 "2010-01-16T15:18:15Z")
When you have 200 children, you find a way to put food in their mouths. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/7 "2010-01-16T15:19:17Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > When you have 200 children, you find a way to put food in their mouths. Seems like the Duggars are doing just fine. It’s just that people like to find a reason to hate. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/8 "2010-01-16T15:25:31Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Seems like the Duggars are doing just fine. It’s just that people like to find a reason to hate. Of course they’re doing fine. They have a career in reality TV. Lots of money in that. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/9 "2010-01-16T15:44:10Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Of course they’re doing fine. They have a career in reality TV. Lots of money in that. Yep. So what’s the problem? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/10 "2010-01-16T15:44:43Z")
Something similar happened the other day… I watch _Ace of Cakes_ religiously (looooooooooove Duff!) and they had the crew from _Man Caves_ on their to renovate his band room. And I knew I’d seen this episode before despite the preview saying it was new. Then the husband reminded me we’d seen the actual episode on _Man Caves_, because Jaceson likes and watches that show and knew I’d want to see anything with Duff. So now we’ve seen both. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/11 "2010-01-16T16:47:41Z")
They were doing very well financially, supporting their large family, long before the tv show. This show is popular for only one reason that I can see. People love an opportunity to judge others and feel superior. Period. They take nothing from the state, are totally self supporting. Their children are all happy, healthy, well fed, well dressed and well mannered. Where is the problem? Which is better; These people having lots of kids when they are good at it and obviously enjoy it. Or people with fewer kids who are truly less than great parents? Seems to me there are way more of the latter, and it doesn’t even raise comment from most people. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/12 "2010-01-16T16:54:15Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > They were doing very well financially, supporting their large family, long before the tv show. > > This show is popular for only one reason that I can see. People love an opportunity to judge others and feel superior. Period. > > They take nothing from the state, are totally self supporting. Their children are all happy, healthy, well fed, well dressed and well mannered. Where is the problem? > > Which is better; These people having lots of kids when they are good at it and obviously enjoy it. Or people with fewer kids who are truly less than great parents? Seems to me there are way more of the latter, and it doesn’t even raise comment from most people. Yes, the hatred of people having children is disturbing to me. It rears its ugly head the most with the Duggars. The rot of culture war. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/13 "2010-01-16T17:11:46Z")
The entirety of cable reality shows are one big clusterfuck of interconnected famewhoredom. The Ace of Cakes guy showed up on the Gosslins’ show, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/14 "2010-01-16T17:18:43Z")
They put themselves on reality show. We judge them. It’s like…a law. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/15 "2010-01-16T17:36:53Z")
But back to the OP… The whole idea of “renewing vows” is an odd one to me - what, are your old ones wearing out? It is a bit more amusing that the Duggars are the ones renewing. I guess everything starts wearing out after 19 births… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/16 "2010-01-16T18:16:51Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Yep. So what’s the problem? I think the problem may be you, since you seem to be picking a fight. If they need to parade around on reality TV to pay the bills, than more power to them. It’s not having children that people are glomming on, it’s the fact that they have an unseemly number of them. So unseemly that they had their very own show about it. I’m sure there are other American families with even more children but you don’t see me snarking on them. They aren’t on my TV all the time showing off and inviting my comments. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/17 "2010-01-16T18:48:25Z")
Actually, one can wear a white wedding dress (according to Miss Manners) for their first wedding, virgin or not. If one marries again, white is not proper, but say lavender, light blue, yellow, etc. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/18 "2010-01-16T18:55:03Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I think the problem may be you, since you seem to be picking a fight. If they need to parade around on reality TV to pay the bills, than more power to them. It’s not having children that people are glomming on, it’s the fact that they have an unseemly number of them. So unseemly that they had their very own show about it. How is it me that’s the problem? You’re expressing the problem right here, ‘unseemly’. They can take care of their kids. You are lamenting the fact that human beings were born and feel like their parents should be ashamed for giving their children life. > [@](#): > > I’m sure there are other American families with even more children but you don’t see me snarking on them. They aren’t on my TV all the time showing off and inviting my comments. So if they hide it from you it’s ok? But if you find out about it they deserve your derisive judgment? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/19 "2010-01-16T18:56:05Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > But back to the OP… > > The whole idea of “renewing vows” is an odd one to me - what, are your old ones wearing out? It is a bit more amusing that the Duggars are the ones renewing. I guess everything starts wearing out after 19 births… It’s an excuse to throw a party. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172/20 "2010-01-16T18:57:42Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > So if they hide it from you it’s ok? But if you find out about it they deserve your derisive judgment? Well, yeah. If you put yourself in the public eye, you invite comment. You can’t televise your life and then complain that people are judging you. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-the-duggar-family-show-up-on-say-yes-to-the-dress/525172.md?page=2)