Jon Minus Kate plus Eight (every other weekend)

[trekman101]

It's all BS.......the show started because they couldn't support their family and needed help.Now they need more money to support their new life styles...give me a break

[Goblin19]

I'm lucky. I've never seen this show. I think my wife watches only 4 things on TV: TMZ, Maury, 1000 Ways To Die, and various telenovelas or Mujer.

[toys2cool]

I'm lucky. I've never seen this show. I think my wife watches only 4 things on TV: TMZ, Maury, 1000 Ways To Die, and various telenovelas or Mujer.

Telenovelas in Cleveland?

[Gorn Captain]

I lead such a Sheltered TV Life... I didn't even know this exsisted until last week,.. & still don't know enough about it to even care,... or understand the Hype.

That's the best attitude.
Never watch it!

[Hector]

Trust me Hector - I see it all the time in my line of work...I don't care where kids live or what their socio-economic status is...

Divorce is always messy and the kids rarely recover well from it. I do feel sorry for them because this will affect them for the rest of their lives.

There's no way in hell you can compare an orphan who just had his parents butchered with machetes in front of him...with these two asss-clown parents and their silver-spooned brats.

They will survive and go on living.

You and I are like night and day...I could give a flying kite about this family.

You are preaching to the wrong person.

But hey...you can keep feeling sorry for them...I'll pass.

[The Toyroom]

^ When I used the term "poor kids" I wasn't referring to their socio-economic status, as Derek put it, but their emotional state....yes financial they'll be fine, but my point is I guess divorce sucks and can mess up a kid....so imagine that times 8 coupled with the fact that these kids will grow up and can watch their family dissolve before their very eyes again and again on a mass-marketed DVD.

"What year did you and daddy get divorced, mommmy?"
"Season Five, honey....the disc is in the DVD player"

Sure it has nothing to do with a machete but it still sucks....And I could give a flying kite about kids in Burundi (never even heard of it....), but that's just me

[Hector]

Nice...you care about rich and well-fed spoiled brats...who's only suffering in life is that the annoying control freak mommy and the clueless and void of any personality daddy...are divorcing.........but don't give a flying kite about thousands of starving kids with no parents in Africa.

I see you got your priorities in order...




P.S. Hey...that flying kite quote is pretty cool though, eh?

[Hector]

She will get a new hubby...and he will get a new wifey...and those kids will double their parents...how terrible...

[The Toyroom]

I see you got your priorities in order...

Yeah I like to turn a blind eye to mass suffering across the globe....helps me sleep at night

[Hector]

[The Toyroom]

And truth be told....my priorities are MY 2 daughters....not the Burundis or the Jon & Kate brood...

'scuse me while we all go fly a kite

[Hector]

We finally agree!!! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

[Earth 2 Chris]

I should call TLC, because while joking with my wife about this, I have the names of 2 new shows for them:

"Kate & Her Hate, Plus 8"
and
"Jon Gets His Groove On".

But seriously, if these insipid people go away for good, it could only help their kids, and the rest of the world as well.

Chris

[Megospidey]

There's no way in hell you can compare an orphan who just had his parents butchered with machetes in front of him...with these two asss-clown parents and their silver-spooned brats.

They will survive and go on living.

You and I are like night and day...I could give a flying kite about this family.

You are preaching to the wrong person.

But hey...you can keep feeling sorry for them...I'll pass.

If caring about kids...any kid...makes us like night and day, then so be it. It bothers me that kids watch their parents being butchered and it bothers me that kids have to deal with the pain that comes from divorce.

My only point was that divorce is always messy - nobody ever wins. People get hurt and they have a hard time recovering....especially kids - whether they are on tv or not.

[Adam West]

Actually, the show never really was too focused on the kids.

Even from the beginning the show focused on Jon and Kate and the daily struggles of trying to raise 8 kids (sextuplets and twins). They did do the show for the money and any kind of freebie they could obtain in the process.

My guess on what happened at some point wasn't an affair (even though that might come into play) is that Jon seemed like he really didn't want to be part of the show anymore; they made enough money from it to raise their kids and to call it quits. Meanwhile, Kate wants to ride this gravy train all the way to the end.

That is probably what started the beginning of the end and everything escalated from there.

I think what made it initially appealing to my wife at least was watching the day to day struggles of trying to raise 6 kids of the same age plus 2 others that are just slightly older. We have 3 kids and know how difficult it is just trying to raise 3 of different ages.

The show seemed to veer off course about a season or so ago as they were clearly taking advantage of their fame and fortune with the show no longer focusing around the day to day struggles but buying new houses, going on posh vacations, and a bunch of other material items. That's when my wife started losing interest in the show but seems to be interested to see how this train wreck is going to turn out.