Jon & Kate Play The Ratings Game
Alright, we bit.
We don’t know how you’re spending your Memorial Day, but tonight at 9:00 p.m. we will be watching the season premiere of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus Eight, a former family values show that’s taken a bizarre tabloid twist over the last few months.
In case you’re wondering, this is a show about a Pennsylvania couple with eight kids (twins and sextuplets) that used to be incredibly sweet. Or at least the kids used to do incredibly sweet things while their parents basically screamed and yelled at them and bitched and moaned at each other – before meeting later on a sofa for some televised venting.
We actually quit watching the show recently because the parents (Jon & Kate) had gotten annoying. And predictable. And more than a little bit “eat up” with their fame.
Of course, 4.6 million people watched the most recent season finale …
Now, though, fame is suddenly eating Jon & Kate up … and it’s precisely that morbid fascination of the circling sharks devouring these gluttons for punishment that has us wanting to tune in.
Is that wrong of us?
No.
Shouldn’t we be concerned about Jon & Kate’s eight kids?
No. They have parents, remember?
And frankly, if this whole highly-publicized marital implosion is indeed a marketing ploy to boost the show’s ratings, then consider us suckers. Gleeful suckers, even.
Seriously, if some Christian band went mainstream and suddenly got sucked into a world of vice … and then they made a Behind The Music of that … you’d watch, wouldn’t you?
Of course you would. It turns out, people can’t get enough of watching other people get what’s coming to them.
Which means Jon & Kate have satisfied the one requirement of television – they’ve given us a reason to watch.
Comments
By Rick Garner on May 25th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Although the prayer schedule featured on the link below has the Gosselin’s with 24/7 prayer coverage, there’s always more room to remember this family in the coming days as the media and others continue their campaign of gossip and hate.
http://richardtgarner.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-can-honestly-say-jon-is-my-best.html
By Mab on May 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Willie –
If you and Mrs. Sic and Shorty and the-eminently-soon-born Johanne have a cat, I’m thinking it would be cocky like this:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/05/23/funny-pictures-skeptic-kitteh/
Would you say this kind of kitteh would work for y’all? I know of one…
?
By confused on May 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am
everyone who watches this show is part of the problem. you ridiculed that psycho who had the 8 kids, and yet you endorse watching this train wreck? it’s the same thing, only these lunatics already got a t.v. deal.
when western civilization finally crumbles, i’ll blame reality t.v.
By Crooner on May 26th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I was introduced to this show within the last few months. My wife had downloaded episodes to her laptop and was watching as we sat by the pool. I couldn’t see the video but was able to hear all of the dialog. And when the episode was over, one thought came quickly and clearly to mind: she’s a bitch.
We tried to watch last night but it was such a whinefest we had to switch to animal planet, where the stars thankfully can’t talk.
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