Yeah, being aware of it (mainly from The Soup) but never watching it, it took me a while to ‘get’ whether that guy Scott was really her boyfriend or some planted actor/wannabe. The guy looks, talks & acts like he’s auditioning for ‘Serial Killer no. 2’ in some B-movie!
I hope the Jenner girls turn out ok. They seem a little smarter & more likable. Not to mention ten times cuter!
Garak is the only Kardashian worth a damn.
Otherwise OJ Simpson’s Dead Lawyer’s Family holds no interest for me.
Excellent summary, but you missed one thing: every female member of the family’s name begins with K. So it’s Kris, Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kendall, and… ummmmm… Kylie. One of the reasons why the tabloids were exploiting the story of Kim’s baby being named North was because allegedly Kris was all kinds of pissed off that the name didn’t begin with a K, which would have been extra perfect because… well, Kanye.
I know WAY too much about this situation. Clearly I need to scale back my TMZ reading.
Yes, both were singers long before the show started and remained singers long after it ended. Oh, and Paris Hilton was famous as a model long before her infamous sex tape and Fox execs were furious when it was released because the pilot for her show had already been filmed.
They should have named the kid Knorth.
I was thinking it would be a good name for the smaller of two mountain chains, what with the peaks and all…
I watch the show on and off (currently off, but was on back when she had her sham wedding, and the shamminess was televised) and I don’t feel like I’m suffering it. I’ve never watched honey boo boo and if it wasn’t for the ancillary comments on it (the Soup, Colbert, the internet) I would be blissfully unaware as I pass her face on the checkout-aisle mags. I guess I’m just dulled like that.
Okay, now whenever I see this thread OP, I’m thinking “Suffer the little Kardashians to come unto me…” But not me specifically, thanks.
We have to endure them because we aren’t ruled by the Windsors family idiots. Blame the minutemen at Lexington.
The youngest ones is actually by far the hottest of the bunch, she’s an actual model i think.
I wish I could take away money from the Bank of England, and no one would be the wiser.
I wish I could take away all the reality television, and everyone would be the wiser.
(archaic: I wish I could reform the Ottoman Imperial bureaucracy, and no one would be the vizier.)
Well, yeah. Scripted TV generally has better dialog, plotting, acting, direction and cinematography.
Not to mention characters. motivation, plot resolution and commercials.
Nick Lachey was more or less Justin Timberlake’s competition back in the days when NSync and 98 Degrees were competing boy bands (late 1990s).
Jessica Simpson IIRC was a successful Christian singer, and crossed over sometime around the same time to have a few pop hits (not coincidentally about the time she sexed up her image to be more similar to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera).
Nobody had really heard of Paris Hilton though; I think maybe she and her sister had cracked one of the Maxim or FHM hot chick lists, but mostly as being good looking women worth a ridiculous amount of cash.
I think you mean the second to youngest, Kendall. She’s been a model for a year or two now. The youngest, Kylie, is mighty cute too though.
Yeah, when somebody said she was a model first I had to look it up. I guess she did some phoney-baloney modeling for Trump’s agency. But yeah, she was a nobody before her sex tape. At least no more than a D-list socialite (which is a fancy word for rich, young slut). She’s not pretty enough to be a model, nose is too tall and got a wonky eye. Tall, leggy blond though so that, everyone in the world seeing her run around buck naked (and suck a mean dick) plus millions of dollars makes her a household name these days! 
I can only conclude that the Kardashian clan is brilliant. How else to explain that they can make a living as entertainers despite having no more noticeable talent than tens of millions of others?
Yes. Because when I willingly watch “completely fictional” people, I’m watching people practice an art or craft which tells me a story I find entertaining. People like Paris Hilton or the kardashians are worthless trash. They’ve exploited our culture’s worship of celebrities to become famous for no reason whatsoever. They’re neither actors or musicians. They do nothing of note other than have PR machines constantly slamming them in everyone’s faces as though we’re supposed to admire them for some goddamn reason.
They’re all in the spotlight because Mama Kardashian (Kris/Chris?) has made it her life’s work to promote her kids with the aim that they will always be financially well-off. She’s one of the executive producers of the show and the kids’ agent. Like any good agent she is relentless in working any angle to promote her clients. She’s also a fame whore herself.
Paris’s sister is much prettier. Paris was maybe vaguely known as an party-girl heiress before her sex tape but only among those who were super-plugged into the paparazzi circuit. She didn’t ping on anyone’s radar on a national scale until the sex tape. Well, the sex tape and her reality show with Nicole Richey. The two kind of came out concurrently so it’s fuzzy as to which was the chicken and which was the egg.
Although it did all start with Kim’s sex tape, once that happened the mom Kris Jenner took it and ran with it. Ryan Seacrest is to blame too, he produced their E! show. Kris Jenner is definitely an evil genius, as I have little doubt that Kim’s wedding of the century to that retarded football player was completely the mom’s doing. She pushed her daughter into it, knowingly or unknowingly, because she knew they were right at that tipping point of fame where exploiting, I mean having, a huge, lavish, fairy tale wedding could net the family 30+ million dollars! And when push came to shove I can picture her telling Kim ‘Look, if it doesn’t work out get a divorce or annulment’. And she was right.
Probably The Soup’s Joel McHale’s greatest moment was predicting that the marriage wouldn’t least 72 days, the legal limit for an annulment. He was only off by ***one ***day!
I love how recently the mom wanted to go back to her previous name, Kris Kardashian, cause it works better fame-whore wise. Bruce Jenner must have loved that!