Jon and Kate Plus Eight

[agzg]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I know the "news" has already been broken, but I'm still watching the episode and it is the saddest thing ever to watch.

This show is breaking my heart.

[jennyj87]

I dislike them both so much. SOOO much.

[gee_ess]

Did anyone else notice the exchange between Jon and Kate during the umbrella tag team at the Mother's Day brunch? He was at the back passenger door of the van with a large umbrella, and she was getting out of the front passenger door with her umbrella. Their umbrellas became tangled.

In the old days, she would have said something like, "Jooonnn, get your umbrella off of mine!" Then turned to the camera guy with, "Tsk, he is such a moron with an umbrella!"

Today, the exchange was a polite, "Oh, we're caught,etc" and no irritation or sarcasm.

Too bad that lesson was learned too late.

I really wish they could spend some serious time and money in therapy instead of divorce lawyers. It is really sad...

[KSUViolet06]

It seems like they are realizing alot of thingss about their relationship, but it's a "too little too late" kind of thing.

Like, he seems to see now that he was too passsive, and she sees that she was ridiculously domineering.

Too bad they didn't see it before.

I keep saying the same thing, but I just feel so badly for those kids. Divorce is crappy enough, but it's awful that they have to deal with the whole thing playing out in the media.

[WinniBug]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

It seems like they are realizing alot of thingss about their relationship, but it's a "too little too late" kind of thing.

Like, he seems to see now that he was too passsive, and she sees that she was ridiculously domineering.

Too bad they didn't see it before.

I keep saying the same thing, but I just feel so badly for those kids. Divorce is crappy enough, but it's awful that they have to deal with the whole thing playing out in the media.

does she?
well, that's good...even if it is too late to save the marriage, at least she can hopefully fix that part of her personality

[gee_ess]

^^^ I agree.

I don't know a marriage that hasn't had to readjust, reconnect, or re-evaluate at some point. Marriage is tough. You have to be stubborn enough to figure out how to make it work, imo.

[Xidelt]

I don't feel bad for them. They chose to play this out in front of the cameras. They could have put some effort into fixing the marriage. They didn't. They have no one to blame but themselves.

[CutiePie2000]

Someone told me that when you have triplets, your likelihood to divorce is something like 90%. With 8 kids, they had the odds against them.

[33girl]

I can't BEEEE LEEEEEEVE that Jon pulled the "there are soldiers dying in Iraq, why do people care about what I eat for lunch" card.

You obviously wanted people to care what you eat for lunch when you started the show (when, ummm, there were also soldiers dying in Iraq) because I have yet to hear of anyone that gets involved with a television show on any level and doesn't want people to watch or talk about it.

[gee_ess]

So true, 33girl!

The soldiers dying in Iraq comment sounded very staged, or at the very least, like someone else had said it, and he thought it sounded good enough to repeat on camera.

[SydneyK]

I didn't watch the show, but the headline on Yahoo! news says that the show is continuing despite the divorce. Are they serious? That's just crazy wrong. (Seth and Amy need to do a "Really?!?" segment about this on Weekend Update on SNL.)

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

I didn't watch the show, but the headline on Yahoo! news says that the show is continuing despite the divorce. Are they serious? That's just crazy wrong. (Seth and Amy need to do a "Really?!?" segment about this on Weekend Update on SNL.)

Omg I LOVE Seth & Amy's "oh REALLY?" segments! My husband and I often comment on where it may be appropriate.

Seth Myers...are you reading?

[Kappamd]

I haven't watched the episode yet, but I caught the last five or so minutes last night.

Was it my imagination, or did Jon get his ears pierced? I feel like Jon is having some sort of mid (quarter? third?) life crisis. It's like he woke up, suddenly realized he was thirtyish years old, married with eights kids and was like, "OH S%$." I feel like his behavior over the past or so months has been blatantly irresponsible and immature (especially if some of the stuff I've read in the last couple days is true...... ), and I don't blame Kate for divorcing his sorry ass. Grow the hell up.

This whole situation is just disgusting. Those poor kids.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Kappamd

I haven't watched the episode yet, but I caught the last five or so minutes last night.

Was it my imagination, or did Jon get his ears pierced?

Not imagining. I believe they are BOTH pierced.

On the show, he was saying stuff like "I was way too passive and I just kind of went along with what Kate wanted. I'm really learning how to stand on my own 2 feet now."

That's all well and good, but I wonder if this could have been learned BEFORE they got a divorce.

I don't know. I'm sure that neither of them is 100% responsible for the break up, but I found these statements to be interesting.

[texas*princess]

I feel so sorry for the kids, but I'm not surprised.

Their network has supposedly suspended the show until Aug. 3rd.

I really hope they suspend the show entirely. These kids do not need to live their lives on TV like that.