Duggar low points/worst moments on show..

[Jessica]

Oh yeah, the whole toilet thing.

Makes me wonder if they switched the whole camera crew to females for that episode, which I am sure they didn't. How is it ok for them to see all this?

It might be in the "First Grandson" episode, but there's a voice-over of Anna saying she feels comfortable with them because they've been filming them for so long that they're like family. So she wouldn't kiss her fiance (even a peck on the cheek) and wears WholesomeWear swimsuits to go swimming but then she lets a bunch of guys film her giving birth twice. What...ev...er!

[vicka]

It might be in the "First Grandson" episode, but there's a voice-over of Anna saying she feels comfortable with them because they've been filming them for so long that they're like family. So she wouldn't kiss her fiance (even a peck on the cheek) and wears WholesomeWear swimsuits to go swimming but then she lets a bunch of guys film her giving birth twice. What...ev...er!

don't forget the editors, the producers and the interns some of whom she probably never even met.

modesty rocks.

[annalena]

It's just not possible to film this without seeing her, um, private parts.

MODEST MUCH.

[Annette]

1) When Grandpa Duggar was wheeled out in front of the cameras, barely conscious. One of his shoes fell off and no one but a howler monkey noticed because JimBlob was too busy pontificating to the cameras.

Wheeled out on a fucking office chair, no less.

[vicka]

It's just not possible to film this without seeing her, um, private parts.

MODEST MUCH.

i just don't get it. i mean i wear bikinis to the beach, short summer dresses, mini skirts and low cut tops.... but i'd be damned if a group of some strange men were in my delivery room. over my dead body. I just don't get how this is ok. at all.

[annalena]

i just don't get it. i mean i wear bikinis to the beach, short summer dresses, mini skirts and low cut tops.... but i'd be damned if a group of some strange men were in my delivery room. over my dead body. I just don't get how this is ok. at all.

me neither.

[donks]

ACk brain bleach! BRAIN BLEACH STAT!! I forgot all about that hot mess.

If they re-enacted that scene now it would be titled, "Clash of the Titans' for sure.

IMO there were several low points, most already mentioned:

the lego sex

the hand sex

Grampa

the kid in the pit

Josie

Anna crapping one out on the shitter while her WUNNERFUL husband woke from his slumber

the engagement/wedding

the renewal of the J'vows episode *gag*

Joy covering the NIKE bits on the tv

[annalena]

oh what's the episode with joy covering the nike bits??

[donks]

I think thee was a 'special announcement' and they left a few home with Grandma. they dragged out a small tv from the Boob and J'Chelles closet to watch. Cheerleaders came on (commercial? memory fails) and Joy ran to cover the screen. Grandma explained what she was doing. It was quite sickening.

How does The Boob take them to see the Razorbacks play? There are cheerleaders there!

[donks]

Messed up my edit, my bad. I swear I wasn't educated around the dining room table!

[Daenerys]

Interesting that Boob and Ofboob have access to a TV but no one else does....

[Kitchen Princess]

They don't go to Razorback games. They went to a Naturals (minor league baseball) game just because of TLC.

[donks]

Then why are the kids doing the Razorback Cheer and they have Razorback stickers and clothes? Another hypocrisy on their part?

[Visionoyahweh]

OMG, I'm p8712 on TWOP. Thanks for transplanting my thread. I'm still trying to pick my best worst moments. Grandpa's &Josie's suffering, the bizarre response to Jason's injury, and the whole 'Josh can finally move out and get laid, we bought him a wife!' marriage episodes are all up there.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the creation museum or Kirk Cameron. There really is a creator!!!!111one!!

Plus, we've seen Johanna, Jennifer, Jordyn, and now Josie all jettisoned by Michelle on camera. Not any specific moment, but you can obviously see the new wear off in Michelle's black heart.

ETA:

Dawniecakes, will you marry me? Assuming you're a frumper-wearing, patriarchy-loving, 20 year old with an intact hymen, of course. Your picture is so made of win.

[ladypuglover]

I was thinking about this thread when I went to bed last night.. er this morning and another worst was with Amy throwing bread at the animals in the zoo safari.

Basicly any time Amy is on is a worst moment.

[emmyfair]

Everything mentioned here, plus the chicken pox episode with Jim Boob exclaiming "Now my kids will never get shingles!!1!" to the camera crew. The stupid, it burns.

[AnnoDomini]

Tell about the chicken pox. Is it because they gave the kids chickenpox on purpose?

[Visionoyahweh]

Tell about the chicken pox. Is it because they gave the kids chickenpox on purpose?

No, Johanna caught it and spread it to the rest of the kids. No evil intent on JB&M's part, for once. No fancy schmancy nonbiblical vaccines for the Duggars!

[xDreamerx]

Everything that has been said, plus a few of my own:

-The home school episode

-The film festival one, stupid Doug.

-Any one in which Jim Bob says something glaringly stupid (which is pretty much EVERYTHING HE EVER SAYS) but some special gems include: the chicken pox nonsense, the King James translated the Bible crap, etc.

-Their version of St. Patrick's Day

-The Dolly Parton episode (although it does have a lot of win in it also)

-Any segment in which they sing Amazing Grace (Do they even know that it was an abolitionist hymn? Considering most of the Christian education crap they use seems to think colonialism was just grand, I doubt it. LEARN A NEW FUCKING SONG.)

-This also goes for any segment with the Blood song.

-The asking the Duggars episodes.

I'm divided on the Josie issue. On one hand I think it was exploitative and probably dangerous to her health. On the other hand, I wonder if they would have been able to cover the costs without filming. (Happy to be Canadian). The same applies to Grandpa. I thought Mary asking him to turn to the camera and say "Hi" when it was obvious he was barely alive was especially heart breaking, disturbing, and uncalled for. If they had to keep filming to pay for his care, then his room should have been off limits.

[JenniferJuniper]

I know there are many who don't believe in chicken pox vaccinations, but I had extremely severe case of chicken pox when I was about Joseph's age and ended up very ill with secondary pneumonia. It nearly killed me. IIRC he was the kid that suffered the most. I doubt JB would be proactive enough to expose his kids to the virus when they were young anyway, but he had a couple of older kids at the time who had not yet been exposed to the virus and who had a much higher risk of complications.

But the shingles comment, yeah. Too moronic for words and shame on TLC for not running a blurb correcting him.

[AnnoDomini]

No, Johanna caught it and spread it to the rest of the kids. No evil intent on JB&M's part, for once. No fancy schmancy nonbiblical vaccines for the Duggars!

Ah. I'm pretty sure my parents don't do vaccines either, and my parents made sure we all got chickenpox 'so we wouldn't get it later in life'. It wasn't too bad.

[crazyforkate]

Anna giving birth on a toliet.

(OT: Happy Thanksgiving ya'll !)

Just...the whole giving birth on TV thing at all. You can't claim to be modest after that. And I think it was Mac's birth when they filmed the sound guy and one of the producers holding the baby...and then it dawns on the viewer just how many people were watching! And really brings home how money-grubbing and commercialized they are.

[kayray]

They did not have vaccines when I was young, so I got chicken pox. As did my younger brother. Obviously I survived it, however it does mean I have a risk of shingles now as an adult (and I believe I may have already had a minor occurrence of the same) - as do you. Also, getting chicken pox as an adult is much worse than as a child; so for those who never got immunized or caught it as a kid, I feel for them.

Also, I don't think you meant ill by it, but in the general sense I hate the "it wasn't too bad" thing as a reason for people not to get vaccinations as for many people illnesses like this ARE bad. Not everyone will die or become permanently injured/disabled due to measles, or whooping cough, or the flu - but some WILL, and those are generally the ones who cannot be immunized (such as young infants) and/or have compromised immune systems. The former tenant above me said something like that about H1NI, after it sounded like she was dying for three weeks, and all I could do was look at her jaw agape, given people had already died from it.

[AnnoDomini]

Oh, indeed not. Never did I mean it as a reason not to get vaccinated. Just giving my own commentary on my experience is all.

[JenniferJuniper]

Ah. I'm pretty sure my parents don't do vaccines either, and my parents made sure we all got chickenpox 'so we wouldn't get it later in life'. It wasn't too bad.

Problem is if, like me, you live somewhere where chickenpox vaccinations are mandatory for entrance into public kindergarten and you skip the vaccination for your children, you may have a difficult time finding kids with the illness to expose them to early on. If later as adults they visit places where most people are unvaccinated, they could contract the illness and become very ill. I'm 49 years old and chickenpox at age 16 was by far the most serious illness I've ever had.