You Redo the Math

The Washington Post
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Recent gossip and a pesky paparazzi ambush have detonated a marital-woe bomb in the world of "Jon & Kate Plus 8," the TLC reality show about Jon and Kate Gosselin, the Pennsylvania couple who have twins and sextuplets. Is he dating around? Is she? Has he finally had it with her nagging? Are they going to stick together? The uncertainty!

While we wait for more fireworks (and the series's May 25 return), maybe it's time for a new show title. Joel McHale of "The Soup" has already referred to it as "Jon Minus Nine." Post readers in The Reliable Source chat room the other day chimed in with the popular "Jon & Kate Separa-8" and "Jon & Kate Plus Dates." Okay, this is a tad cruel but it's fun. What about . . .

Jon & Kate Plus Court Dates

Jon & Kate Mediate

Jon & Kate: Mady's Revenge

Jon & Kate on a Hot Tin Roof

Jon & Kate Plus 8 Things I Hate About You

Jon & Kate: The Shaming of the Shrew

Jon & Kate: Harpy Days

Jon & Kate: The Hatey Bunch

Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus Appearance Fees Plus Book Deals Times Ladies' Night Drink Specials Divided by Paparazzi Over the Square Root of Scandal = Sweet Schadenfreude

Jon & Kate: Cold Silence

-- Monica Hesse and Hank Stuever