History Series / JonAndKatePlusEight

* HulaAndLuaus: Jon and Kate went to Hawaii to renew their vows (coincidentally the same place as ''The Little Couple''). That was also a chance for Jon's Hawaiian relatives who couldn't attend the original wedding to celebrate.

Controversial [=TLC=] RealityShow about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin family with eight kids]]. The series focused on the lives of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who have a pair of twins and a group of sextuplets (and 2+6=8). It chronicled their day-to-day lives.

* CensorBox: When the sextuplets when potty training, Kate would show off pictures of the kids' results. where pictures of the kids' stool were featured, the production team censored them with black blobs labeled "Poop!" in white letters.

* DayInTheLife

* ImportantHairCut: Inverted -- After the show finished Kate got hair extensions that made her look a lot like Sharon Stone.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings
* MyBelovedSmother

* TheProfessor: Aaden.

* TooManyBabies: The premise.

* ControlFreak: Kate.

* TheUnfairSex: Despite being the victim of emotional and (sometimes) physical abuse in the relationship, Jon was invariably cast as the bad guy for "doing her wrong", and basically was forced out of the limelight because of this. Kate, on the other hand, still continued to get magazine covers and guest appearances on other shows.

* YourCheatingHeart: Both Jon and Kate. With Jon, at least, he had ''some'' justification for wanting to find someone who wouldn't consistently abuse him.

It ran for four seasons before hell broke loose with the disintegrating marriage of the Gosselins, with accusations of adultery on both sides being tossed around. [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity The scandal paid off for the show]], leading to the fifth-season having record ratings as [[BileFascination Americans turned in to see the trainwreck up close]] as Jon and Kate separated. The series was put on a hiatus, undergoing retooling as TLC wished to jettison the soon-to-be-divorced Jon from the show and rename it "Kate Plus Eight". Needless to say, Jon fired back with a cease and desist order towards production of the show, saying that it "has damaged the children's lives." Due to the controversy surrounding the show and Jon and Kate's divorce, it was canceled.

Then the series was UnCanceled... sort of. TLC went through with their plans of kicking Jon off the show by airing a new series entitled ''Kate Plus Eight'', showing how the family was doing post-divorce. This show did poorly in the ratings, running for only two seasons before it was cancelled in 2011. The cancellation put the kibosh on a second spin-off entitled ''Twist of Kate'' (which would have featured Kate sans kids travelling across the U.S. and visiting single mothers), and ultimately ended the collaboration between Jon, Kate and TLC.

The series has been recently revived again as a regular series during the start of 2015 after two successful specials in the middle of 2014. Jon is also not involved with this iteration of the series.

* DomesticAbuser: Kate persistently yelled at her husband Jon, belittled him, and repeatedly hit him. On camera. In addition, people who knew the Gosselin family said she kept him on a $5 a week budget, had invaded his office to scream at him in front of colleagues at work, and prevented him from attending his own family's funeral. Make of this what you will. According to Jon, she even pulled a WoundedGazelleGambit on the cops when she was having a tantrum and he wouldn't let her in the house.

* CensorBar: When the sextuplets when potty training, Kate would show off pictures of the kids' results. where pictures of the kids' stool were featured, the production team censored them with black blobs labeled "Poop!" in white letters.

* ImprobableHairstyle: And yet, there it is. You know you've got it when there's a ''Halloween wig'' of your hairstyle and at least two pairs of news anchors (including ''Regis and Kelly'') dress as you for Halloween.

* MoneyDearBoy: Why Jon agreed to continue filming, at least initially.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' and ''Series/TableFor12'', whose commercials played [[MoodWhiplash uncomfortably]] during Kate's [[TearJerker tearful]] final interview and the final episode.

* SpinOff: The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen never-made]] ''[[PunnyName Twist Of Kate]]'' where she travels the country giving advice to single mothers with children.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' and ''TableForTwelve'', whose commercials played [[MoodWhiplash uncomfortably]] during Kate's [[TearJerker tearful]] final interview and the final episode.

** And, as noted above, got her own spinoff where she gives other people relationship advice... despite arguably being the one to cause her marriage to destruct so spectacularly.

* SpinOff: ''[[PunnyName Twist Of Kate]]'' where she travels the country giving people advice.

And even more recently, it was UnCanceled...sort of. A two-hour special and limited series, entitled ''Kate Plus Eight'', showing how the family currently is doing, will air, and then a new series called ''Twist of Kate'' following Kate as she travels around the U.S., will soon follow.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: It started out as fairly ideal, but like all on-screen marriages, was TooGoodToLast. An article in the LA Times pointed out that after the stress of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family "An American Family"'s]] filming added to the couple divorcing, you'd think people would know better about letting cameras into their homes.