Jon and Kate
Sorry I’ve been slacking on the class blog, it’s just that I’ve been so preoccupied keeping up with all this Jon and Kate business. It’s hard to find a minute for myself anymore what with all the back and forth between these two. I start writing and BAM! new CNN alert! Jon said something mean about Kate! Kate said something snarky about Jon! Stop the presses, we’ve got some late breaking news in the Jon and Kate saga: Jon is a gigantic douche! What happened to the “plus eight”? Are they OK? Were they laid off?
You know, the most watched episode of “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” just so happens to be the one where they separate, earning 10.6 million viewers. 10.6 million! That’s kind of funny. The most watched episode of the show that completely destroyed their family is the one about how the show they are on is completely destroying their family. Hey, at least 10.6 million people had something to watch for half an hour instead of the news or whatever.
Or so I thought anyway. As annoying as Jon and Kate might be (and the jury is still out on the eight), at least I could tune them out. That is, until, they started popping up in the news here and there. What began as a slow trickle eventually morphed into a never ending avalanche of unwanted and unnecessary updates about these two insufferable human beings and the countless ways they are completely ruining the lives of their children. The fact that even one of CNN’s top headlines is about Jon and Kate is a slap in the face to real people everywhere. There is actual stuff going on! You know, in all those other places that exist!
The cherry on top of this hate cake is the decision by TLC to continue the show. Really? Haven’t you done just about enough, TLC? That’s ten lives (if you count Jon and Kate as people) that are pretty much forever broken because of this terrible television abomination. Even Jon doesn’t think this is good for the children. Sure, it took kicking him off the show for him to finally realize it, but Jon doesn’t rhyme with eight so there were only so many options. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong and these are fine people who were caught up in the wrong situation, but I think it’s time to put these two back where they belong: relative obscurity.
