Tuesday, January 27, 2009

DUGGARS!

Being the omnivore for pop culture that I am, on Sunday night I decided to Tivo "A Very Duggar Wedding." For the uninitiated, the Duggar family is a crazy, exceedingly-conservative family with 18 kids (all biological). The Duggars have their own show on TLC, and all of their kids have names that start with the letter J. For this special, the oldest Duggar child, Josh, married his sweetheart Anna.

Without a doubt, this was the most entertaining TV I have seen in weeks. Here are some of the things I learned about life and love from this TV special.

1. If you want to make sure that you have a sexually unfulfilling life, grow up in the Duggar household. Josh and Anna had their first kiss (not just kiss together, but kisses in life) during their wedding ceremony. Throughout the show, Josh made it very clear that he wanted the wedding to move quickly so that they could get out of there . . . . presumably to bump uglies. Prior to the wedding day, JimBob Duggar , patriarch of the Dugger clan, finally gave Josh "the talk" about the birds and the bees. He described the process as "kinda like Legos." And last but not least, as a gift JimBob gave Josh a CD entitled "On Your Wedding Night," which featured a medical doctor describing the technicalities behind it all. Comic gold.

2. Two of my favorite things about weddings are dancing and drinking. There was room for neither of these activities at the Duggar wedding. As we all know, dancing encourages unclean thoughts. Everyone knows that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding, but according to the Duggars, this was a mistranslation. A more accurate translation would be "grape juice" And did they ever have juice . . . 80 gallons for their 300 person wedding!

3. Men and women are inherently different. JimBob Duggar made many references to this, when explaining that men focus on the physical aspects of a relationship, while women are focused on feelings and other mushy stuff.

4. A wedding for 300 people requires 200 pounds of crab salad.

5. When in doubt, sing your bride a song at the wedding. Bonus points for singing badly. Anna - Just remember, Josh will do his best to be faithful to you. If that isn't reassuring, I don't know what is.

On the whole, this was a gem in the vast wasteland of reality TV. A+++

2 comments:

  1. Its a vagina, not a clown car.

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  2. This family is such a disturbing train wreck about to happen...sooner or later one of them is going to get caught trading hand jobs for crack. I'd like to see Jim Bob on "Are You Smarter That a Fifth Grader". Is it just me or does Meridith Viera look like she is about to throw up in her mouth every time she interviews Michelle?

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