“I’m sorry I threw feces at you.”

To hear the review

    That is Kate, of Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht, telling the producer of the show that she is sorry about tossing a diaper full of baby crap at her.  Sorry.  It was a bad day.  Oh well, tomorrow’s another show.  I mean, day.  And, just like every other day (or show), we will see the same things.  Kids running around and being cute, parents trying to keep up with all eight of them, and a married couple bitching at each other constantly.  This show doesn’t become boring after nine minutes.  It starts boring, it continues boring, it ends boring, and then it resumes being boring the following episode.

   I guess just having eight kids is enough to make for a TV show.  Oh my goodness, there are EIGHT of them!  That’s CRAZY!  But imagine, for the sake of argument, that your next-door neighbours had older twins and younger sextuplets.  Would you watch over your backyard fence as they all played in the sprinkler?  Or through the window as they did arts and crafts?  Or would you just not care?  If you’re the kind of person who would purchase binoculars so you could watch every movement of the sextuplets, then you are likely the kind of person who would enjoy this show.  If you aren’t, then you are likely more like me.  And you won’t.

   Then again, I might be a little hypocritical here.  After all, it’s shows like this that gave rise to the Octomom and that stupid, crazy, insane story that, against all reason, dominated cable news for like three weeks.  That woman knew that for better or for worse, she would become a media celebrity the day the octuplets were born, thanks to shows like Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht.  And the hypocrisy exists with me because I would actually consider watching her reality show.  At least she’s enough of a train wreck that weird stuff might happen.  This is just a normal family.  BORING!

   There is also an argument to be made here about (for or against) fertility drugs.  Anyone watching this show would likely make the against argument, I think.  But I already made that argument when I reviewed Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht Seasons One And Two a while ago.  You can find that here. 

   It’s another testament to the bizarrely self-absorbed nature of this show (not even the people in it, but the show itself) that there are scenes where the family is watching their own show.  I am assuming these scenes made it into the series because there is nothing else to see.  There really is almost nothing going on here from one episode to the next that is any different or more interesting.  I get it.  The parents are exhausted.  The kids are a handful.  Mom has to make a LOT of food.  OK.  Really.  I get it.  And I’m totally bored.

   Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht, Season Three airs on TLC, and comes out on DVD May 5th from Alliance Films.

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