The World’s most punchable couple
When I’m not watching the TV I’m usually reading about TV. That’s how I’ve known all about what’s been happening on the show Jon and Kate Plus 8 despite never once watching even a second of the show.
And as you might know, but don’t really care, Jon and his beloved wife Kate are getting divorced. This has led to every media outlet making many Jon Minus Kate and other math related puns in their coverage of this spectacle.
All the good puns have already been used and I’m left with Jon and Kate Plus Who Fucking Gives A Fucking Fuck. It’s not as catchy as Jon Plus 4 and Kate Plus 4 but it gets the job done.
Now unlike most of the media outlets who are criticizing Jon and/or Kate for their horrible marriage and the horrible effect they’ve had on the kids, I’d like to congratulate Jon and Kate.
Why? For their dedication. Not to each other, but to the show. Yes, the show must go on. And while the show has been put on hiatus Jon and Kate have assured the viewing public that the show will return.
Right there, that’s commitment to a show. Your life is a mess, your emotions are out of whack and the first thing you think about is how will the viewers react to the news that the show won’t be on for a month.
I mean Christ on a Christmas tree this couple is brilliant. In the rest of TVland if an actor is hard to work with and gets into fights with other actors they end up either quitting or getting fired.
These two people can’t stand to look at one another without seeing their old love-of-their-life’s face as a giant fist-magnet and they still want to do the show.
This is where I finally see the appeal of reality TV through a network executive’s eyes.
It’s not just the low cost for the cast and crew. It’s that the cast will do anything, ANYTHING, for the directors and producers.
When stars from shows like CSI and Everyone Loves Raymond wanted a pay raise, they didn’t show up for filming. They’d call in and say they had just come down with a case of being a douchebag.
Stars might show up late for filming, costing thousands of dollars in delays. If they had a rough flight or a bad night’s sleep they might not come out of their trailers until a team of therapists is sent in to reassure the fucker that they are a beautiful snowflake, unique and wonderful and asked “Wouldn’t it be nice if you could, maybe, perhaps go and film your scene now?”
Kate gets told “Your husband hass been sticking his penis into one or more vaginas that don’t belong to you, how does that make you feel? Oh, and can you look into camera 3″ and she complies faster than a dog that’s just been beaten.
In addition, as a sign that they were not going to let the show fail, Jon and Kate went on air and thanked the show for helping their family when it’s rather obvious that the only thing the show helped out with was to get Kate a new face and Jon get a new STD.
It would appear that the order of obedience is to the TV show first, money second, the marriage and then the kids.
As the closing act, Kate filed the divorce papers mere hours before the divorce episode aired. I imagine that once you’ve built up the nerve to go through with something like filing for divorce, you don’t want to hesitate for a second. But Kate won’t wipe her ass until the network tells her to.
So while Jon might want nothing to do with Kate, TLC thinks she’s a keeper.
Tags: jon and kate, reality tv
June 25, 2009 at 10:54 am |
LOL funny!