Am I missing something?

I will be the first one to admit I truly dislike watching anything on E!. It’s all very sensational, ‘he slept with her!?!?’ ‘isn’t she married, oh wait who cares in Hollywood’ type of news. However, E did catch my attention this morning. On a show called ‘The Soup,’ the host, Joel McHale, was sharing his thoughts on the tv show ‘Jon and Kate plus 8.’

‘The Soup’ dishes out opinions on the latest Hollywood buzz and creates spoofs of tv clips. This morning, ‘The Soup’ showed a clip from the latest episode of ‘Jon and Kate plus 8.’ For those of you who don’t know, ‘Jon and Kate plus 8’ is a reality tv show on TLC about a couple (Jon and Kate) in their mid-thirties who are raising 8-year-old twins and 4-year-old sextuplets. Jon is very laid back while Kate tends to micro-manage every aspect of their family.

The clip of ‘Jon and Kate plus 8’ shown by the ‘The Soup’ was from their latest episode of the family moving into a new house. Jon left the house to purchase some home repair items while Kate and the kids unpacked. To make a long story short, Jon returned with a receipt proving he had not taken a coupon with him to purchase said home repair items. Kate then became upset because she had a coupon and Jon didn’t take it with him. Kate asked him to find the receipt which he retrieved minutes later. That was that.

Now, here’s what ‘The Soup’ did:
Jon left the house to purchase some home repair items while Kate and the kids unpacked. Jon returned with a receipt proving he had not taken a coupon. Kate is shown waiting at the bottom of the stairs for Jon and the receipt. ‘The Soup’ then pans to a mans hand loading a handgun. As soon as Kate is done talking to Jon up the stairs, you hear the gun fire. The spoof implied that Jon shot himself because of Kate being upset over a non-coupon purchase.

(I tried to find the video on the Internet but it has not been posted yet.)

While watching this spoof from ‘The Soup’ I could hardly believe what I was seeing. My favorite show was now a suicide spoof! Are you kidding me? I watched the rest of ‘The Soup’ and some of the spoofs were just as bad.

My question is, who thinks a suicide spoof is funny? Am I missing something here? I think I have a pretty good sense of humor but this just crossed the line. I was appalled that E would go this far. I know E has rights to comment and criticize any way they please but you have to admit, too far is too far. You can only go so far before you start offending people and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one offended here. This just proves to me once again that E is nothing more than sensational news and absurd spoofs. The little respect I had for E has now plummeted into the negative numbers.