I never watch the show and have actually been wondering who these two people are that I keep seeing on magazines when I buy groceries. But a quote that really annoyed me was by the guy when they were starting to talk about the dissolution of their marriage:
Dude… “The hardest episode ever…”???
If you can’t live your life and acknowledge your decade-old marriage is coming to an end without referring to your own life in terms of “episodes”… well, fuck! Something is very, very wrong there. (Pardon the language.)
Don’t know if it was a Doper but that is the story all the tabloids, People, US, etc. have been reporting. He was supposedly buying women drinks, hitting on them, etc. and was seen leaving the bar with a few women and not wearing his wedding ring. Now there are reports that he has been having an affair for a few months with one of them - a 20ish teacher named Deanna. There are pics of them together, including at the house, and supposedly she went with him when he filmed the ‘skiing for charity’ episode that aired a few weeks back. Her brother (also her roommate) is one of the people confirming the affair, he claims he has heard them having sex.
Whether this is true or not, is is awful to have it all out and documented for the kids to read someday. I wonder how they can even be sheltered from it - they wouldn’t even be able to go to a store without seeing huge headlines accusing their parents of all kinds of stuff. Plus they are hounded by paparazzi (although I find Jon and Kate’s whining about ‘why are people so interested in us’ eye-rollingly hypocritical…people are interested in you because you are marketing yourself to the public on a reality show. Maybe you didn’t know what it would become when you first started, I can buy that…but you know now and yet you continue with it.
That’s why they kept saying “Crooked House” over and over and over again.
The worst example of product placement was last season. Jon said, “I’ve been working hard. My Allstate agent has me checking out all the different options on their website.” and then showed us the website.
This season they’ve also had all kinds of crossovers, like the Ace of Cakes episode and the motorcycle one. It’s not the same show at all.
I hope they at least tried, or try now, to work through this with counseling. Hopefully not on the air, LOL. They made the decision to have those kids, and there’s pretty much no easy way anyone could earn the money to make a family of that size financially secure. If he were doing it some more conventional way by busting his ass in business, he’d probably be the tyrant. And if they were raising the kids in poverty or even the middle class, that’d be pretty stressful, too.
Kate laid the eggs, John fertilized them, facehuggers emerged which latched onto local transients, and the kids burst out from the chests of the unlucky victims, at which point the bossy older sister made half of her siblings cry.
So which kid got voted out of the house and into foster care last night? (I voted for Joel- he adds nothing, plus I think Leah’s got the show in the bag.)
How can it be that I have never heard of this show, and wish I never had, aeven though it’s been going for several years. And now, all of a sudden, everybody and their dog is talking about the damn thing?
