Cross-Promotional Marketing Month Continues on TLC

Umm, why has it just come to my attention that Kate Gosselin has a Winnie the Pooh tat on her ankle? Can I rely on you readers for nothing? Help me help you as it were. Alrighty?

Anyway, I hope the TLC Vice President of Marketing is getting a big fat raise for the innovative cross-promotional techniques being implemented on "Jon and Kate Plus Eight." Recently they featured the cake-baking people and last night the chopper-making men. Can they think of nothing else to discuss on the show that they must haul in all of the other TLC reality folks to conjure up a 30-minute program? Sheesh. You've got eight kids, a marital debacle and a modern Mommy Dearest. Don't think so much, producers! Just lock them all in the house, let the cameras roll and put your best editors to work on compiling 30 minutes of pure hell for the pleasure of the viewing audience.

Still no co-couch sitting for confessionals by the way. With the extra room, Kate decides to get comfy on the love seat and swings her feet up. Which is when I spotted the tattoo. Of Winnie the Pooh.

Regardless, if I am a TLC producer, I'm thinking of more compelling show themes than baked goods and motorized vehicles. This is what I'm talkin' about, people. If Kate won't give her "dehydrated" kids a drink of water in public with witnesses around, imagine the potential atrocities being committed in the (relative) privacy of their own home.

The good news about last night's program is Jon seems to be off the ledge. No longer am I concerned for his life. There were a record four smiles. All of which had to do with the customized motorcycle he was getting, but still, that's progress. We see Kate rolling her eyes when Jon's new toy arrives, presumably because she liked him better on the verge of self-destruction. Perhaps there's a hefty life insurance policy involved. Perhaps she just likes torturing other humans. Perhaps rolling her eyes, like chewing gum, is just something she does 24 hours a day.

So the mustachioed chopper fellas visit and play with the kids and along with Jon's bike they bring Kate a pink one. Because she is such a charitable person (read here she doesn't want it) she donates it to the Ronald McDonald house. We finally might see Kate in a more favorable light but it lasts only momentarily until she starts scolding one of the kids (I told you I'm not learning their names so deal with it) for honking the horn."I'm so over that!" she says and suggests to the nice Ronald McDonald lady that she throw the horn out.

The way I see it, the only hope for this show is if they run out of TLC shows with which to cross-promote and they strike a deal with ABC to allow the eight children to stay in the Fantasy Suites on the overnight dates on The Bachelorette. What better way to find out if one is really suited for marriage than to throw a bunch of kids into the mix for an overnighter? God, why can't I be a reality tv producer?