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I’ve been watching Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, from episode one, and
it’s weirdly fascinating. It is not because, as other media outlets have
suggested, Jessica Simpson is a moron and watching her makes everyone
else feel brilliant by comparison. It is because I have always wondered
what my cats would say if they had the ability to speak, and in watching
this show I feel like I have the answer.

Darryl notes this brilliant
essay about the subtle,
exquisite schadenfreude that is Newlyweds. It moves on
from cutesy mockery of Jessica Simpson’s short-circuit from hindbrain to
mouth (“I have to pee!”) to serious analysis of their bizarre
predicament: “If Jessica and Nick are supposed to be the case for
premarital chastity, they’re doing a wonderful job of sending people
screaming in precisely the opposite direction.”