Dream 19 Kids And Counting Episodes

[Kellbells]

I'd like to see Josh get a real entry level job for which he is qualified and actually has to work and interact with other people ie non fundie, not daddy's business. Might take some of that smug away!

I'd like to see the jslaves embark on a 'journey' of their own choosing without chaperones. I'd like JB and Michelle to see that unchaperoned young woman are capable of good decisions. Trust them.

And finally, JB and Michelle need to parent without the older kids. Period.

[Mary C Doates]

Ozzfest. There's one in Japan that would be perfect: international travel, shots of Jessa packing, defrauding outfits, crowds, mystery foods (and mystery substances), JBoob trying to communicate in "Japaneso" and bartering with the weed sellers, "Satanic" music and imagery. It's a gold mine of TLC's favourite themes. Hell, I'd pay to watch it.

C 'mon, TLC, make it happen!

[already hungover]

One of the kids escapes, don't particularly care which, and prompts TLC to create a spinoff called "1 Free and Counting". Eventually all the kids get out and there's a very special episode called "19 Free and Fuck You, Jim Bob".

[salex]

I'm waiting for the episode where Jim Bob dumps his no longer fertile wife Michelle (based on some obscure bible verse like for some reason like she wasn't a virgin when we married, as she had kissed another boy in HS) and marries a new younger woman who starts popping out children. One man, one woman, at a time.

Kids get to pick sides......

[tuckerphez]

I'd like to see a group of "normal" young women come to stay with the family for a week or two, then the J'Slaves go and stay with them.

I volunteer as tribute!

I'm a liberal feminist jew in college that likes to wear pants. I'd LOOOOOOOVE to go to the TTH and raise some hell. :twisted:

Anyone else want to come with me?

[ProfessorAndMaryAnn]

Jana announces she's expecting!

[snarkyjan]

I'm waiting for the episode where Jim Bob dumps his no longer fertile wife Michelle (based on some obscure bible verse like for some reason like she wasn't a virgin when we married, as she had kissed another boy in HS) and marries a new younger woman who starts popping out children. One man, one woman, at a time.

Kids get to pick sides......

Better yet, the kids in his "first" family FINALLY recognize the clusterfuckery for what it is and desert en masse.

[snuggles911]

Michelle announces she's pregnant again. They do the ultrasound live on the Today Show and it's quadruplets. Bob and Michelle are out of "J" names so TLC holds a national contests to solicit ideas. The four winners get to go to Arkansas to help with laundry duty and tater tot casserole preparation while Michelle recovers from the birth. And, Pampers donates a truckload of diapers b/c the Duggers are always up for a handout.

[feministing]

ITT: people wanting 19KAC to turn into John and Kate Plus 8.

[dada]

Someone, other than us of course, finally recognizing on tv how crappy Michelle and Jim-Bob really are as parents. A doctor, a community member, journalist, just someone finally getting up and saying "Hey, they kinda suck as effective parents."

actually this just happened.. although it was rather subtle and on the daily show. in a recent segment about the gay marriage hearings Jon Stewart commented on how nobody seeams to care who gets to be a parent as long as they are heterosexual, prompting a graphic about common "paranting-themed" shows (of course all of them of the reality variety) and then adding something along the lines of: "and this is only the people that let us film them!". I was at least a bit suprised that they included the 19kac logo.

[Hane]

The kids are all given standardized tests to determine how they're performing academically in comparison with public-schooled kids in their state--and their scores are presented on the show.

[DuggarsTheEndIsNear]

Someone earlier mentioned a wife swap episode, which reminded me of a conversation one of my friends and I had a few years ago about how we wanted somehow for Kate (who was newly divorced at the time) to meet Jim Bob (and Michelle was somehow out of the picture). Then they'd make the ultimate show: Your 19 and My 8. During which time, Kate tries to dominate the house, and Jim Bob is at a complete loss of what to do because he's not used to strong women. Kate puts all the kids to work and puts the land to use while Jim Bob yells things like "but the boys cant do women's work!" and she shoots him nasty glances. Then, Kate's girls show the Duggar girls that it's not so bad living in the outside world. At which point, the older girls say "Screw you, dad, we're going to find ourselves some hot boys!" Then they get a spin off show: Fundies on the Loose.

I think it would be good fun. Definitely worth viewing. Especially when it comes to Kate's meltdowns when the Duggars are completely unsanitary and try to eat out all the time.

[dada]

they get a housekeeper (or two, three) and for the first time the j'slaves get some time for themselves to think and realize what they really want (hopefully to run away :) )

[pega127]

John David comes back from a day's work with his Latina Catholic wife, whom he married earlier in the day at City Hall, and announces that he and his bride will henceforth be living in his own house.

...and she's three months pregnant!

[Ellimenopy]

they get a housekeeper (or two, three) and for the first time the j'slaves get some time for themselves to think and realize what they really want (hopefully to run away :) )

I'd like to tell the slaves how much full-time maid and nanny work goes for these days. If they would even get to do for someone else what they have to do for free at the TTH, all the older girls could be independent, although not rich.

[snarkyjan]

I'd like to tell the slaves how much full-time maid and nanny work goes for these days. If they would even get to do for someone else what they have to do for free at the TTH, all the older girls could be independent, although not rich.

The oldest girls would be better off working as nannies for some wealthy family in New York, Miami or Los Angeles. They'd still have to change poopy diapers and wipe snotty noses. BUT they'd get paid (and not 3 cents per chore, either), they'd have their own rooms and the employers would be required to give them a certain amount of time off each week. Plus, when they were on their own time, they could come and go as they pleased without chaperonage.

[Chibi Author]

Not a very original idea, but I would love to see Michelle on Wife Swap with one of the Karsashians. Preferably Khloe, because while I'm not a huge fan of any of them, she's the most likely to actually call Jim Bob out for his BS.

I do remember one episode of WS, though, where there was a family of bunches of kids, and they home schooled, slept in one room, and spent most of the day in an RV, I think? Anyway, the lady who got them finagled it so the two oldest girls got to have part time jobs, which they LOVED, and an actual dating life.

I'd adore for something like that to happen to the Duggars. I think all the kids would love it so, so much.

Jana announces she's expecting!

Personally, I'd have it be Jessa, and then after Jill delivers the baby, she and her kid go live with Suze. :)

[tuckerphez]

Not a very original idea, but I would love to see Michelle on Wife Swap with one of the Karsashians. Preferably Khloe, because while I'm not a huge fan of any of them, she's the most likely to actually call Jim Bob out for his BS.

That reminds me: I once asked a friend if she would rather be a Duggar or a Kardashian. She immediately said Duggar, even though I tried to point out that as a Duggar, she wouldn't be able to wear pants or be a science major. Or go to school.

At least when you're a Kardashian, you have freedom to do whatever you want.

[Flossie]

For the older ones, I'd have them privately pick some kind of job that interests them, even if it's not one that they would like to actually do for a living. Then I'd arrange for them to each spend a day shadowing someone who does that job for a living. I wouldn't let a buddy tag along, and no parents either. I'd even make sure that whoever they are shadowing agreed not to ask private questions or bring up forbidden subjects like sex or religion. (However, if the Dugger in question asked about these subjects, I'd turn off the camera and go take a walk. I can come back later. :whistle:) I'd sanitize the footage appropriately so when the show aired there would be nothing that the parental units could criticize.

The Howlers could attend a Scout meeting or even an overnight camping trip. Same as above, go alone, we won't ask you private questions. I'd handpick the troop to be some nice boys who will be kind but look askance when the Howler misbehaved and the Scout Leader would take the boy aside and give him a heads up about how to behave. Maybe they could earn a badge in breadmaking, that would be funny.

The Lost girls could go to a Girl Scout meeting and earn a badge in something that would normally be viewed by the Duggers as a male activity.

The youngest kids would spend a day playing with other kids in a controlled setting while being quietly observed by Child Development specialists who would then have a private meeting with the parents off camera explaining their kids strengths and areas that could use improvement. Then, on camera, the parents would be told things like, "We're not naming names on camera, but you have one or more child that is speech delayed. We'll pay for a years worth of speech therapy with a nice Christian Speech Therapist. We'll bring a portable classroom and set it up right here so the child could have the undivided attention of the therapist. A parent can accompany them, but not one of their siblings. Do you want it or not? We will do followups." They could say the same thing for any other areas of child development that one or more of the children might need. I'd love to see them try to get out of getting help for their kids. I bet if they couldn't get away with turning down the help they'd back out as soon as the first appointment came up.

[m0drnmoonlight]

It's been mentioned here already but an actual "Day in the Life" of one of the kids. I'm sure it would be boring as hell for some of them, but for one of the J'Slaves, it could really put into perspective for casual fans of the show just how much those girls are treated as unpaid housekeepers and nannies. I put doubt in the head of a casual fan just by mentioning that heh.

I'd love to see the kids all do age-appropriate activities too. No more teens and young adults getting dragged to kiddie-themed everything. And give the little kids some activities for them to release all that pent-up energy. I know a few people on here have said Johannah seems like she would love taking gymnastics or dance or something. Except wearing leotards is for hussies :roll: Do they make modest wear gymnastics outfits?

And I know they always have bullshit reasons for why they don't do sports, but I think the Howlers need something like soccer or baseball so they're not spending their lives running around the house and destroying everything.

[DuggarsTheEndIsNear]

That reminds me: I once asked a friend if she would rather be a Duggar or a Kardashian. She immediately said Duggar, even though I tried to point out that as a Duggar, she wouldn't be able to wear pants or be a science major. Or go to school.

At least when you're a Kardashian, you have freedom to do whatever you want.

I may choose a Duggar life over a Kardashian life. At least the name "Duggar" gives you an opportunity to escape without drawing attention to yourself. There are still so many people who dont know the Duggars exist (or, if they do, it's "oh you mean the woman with the clown car vagina?"). Kardashian is a name that people would instantly recognize because it's everywhere in pop culture.

[Bloo]

A "fly on the wall" episode, consisting of footage that the Duggars didn't know had been taken, so that the leghumpers could see the blanket training and other nastiness.

[Kitty]

Josh loses his job and has to apply for government benefits, while Michelle and Jim Bob explain how he totally needs them, juxtaposed with clips of them earlier shitting all over the poor and shots of them campaigning for Asshole Republican Du Jour who also regularly shits all over the poor.

John-David getting married to a girl with green hair and tattoos at the county courthouse, or eloping with her to some place that would make Michelle and Jim Bob have aneurysms.

Jana and Jill become pro-choice activists, and call Michelle and Jim Bob out on their fundie bullshit.

Jessa, Jinger, and Joseph go to an actual four-year public university... in New York. They all become Democrats. Many kittens are had.

All of the remaining school-age kids are sent to real brick and mortar public schools, learning about things like real sex education, evolution, and bringing home books that would make their parents faint.

Michelle is flown off somewhere else for a "crossover" episode of Wife Swap. She's swapped with an ultra-liberal feminist lesbian atheist hippie. Many more kittens are had.

Anna has to get a job. Josh has to watch Mack, Mike, and the new M'blessing.

Jim Bob gets a sweet deal with NASA. They "accidentally" shoot him into the sun. Whoops.

[itaintmebabe]

JimBob and Michelle are given the Ludovico Treatment ala A Clockwork Orange, so that each time they udder the words Jesus, God, or any of their fundie talking points, they become violently ill.

[alba]

Jana and Jill become pro-choice activists, and call Michelle and Jim Bob out on their fundie bullshit.

Jill's probably way too drunk on the Kool-Aid for this to happen, but I remain hopeful that Jana's future experience in childbirth coaching will make the dangers and sacrifices inherent in pregnancy more apparent to her and she'll become pro-choice.

Then again, her mother nearly died with Josie, so maybe not.