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Local Octo-mom and Welfare queen gets shot at reality show stardom on new TLC series. Following the demise of Jon and Kate Gosselin's marriage, TLC is hoping a new reality series starring a Philipsburg welfare Octo-mom will pick up some of the pieces. The show, called Johns and Kate Plus 8, will feature Kate Lynn Dartucker, a dependently-wealthy welfare recipient, and several of her baby daddies. The show is based on the pilot, "John And Kate And Frank And Jack And The Guy Who Works At The Beer Distributors And Another Dude Who I Think Might Be My Cousin Plus Eight," explores the trials and tribulations of a single mom, raising eight, or nine kids, in a small town on welfare money and the occasional drug score. The show's highlight includes the eight children that Kate has had to five or six different men. "I like to call them children my little stimulus checks," said Dartucker. "They think they'z a special type Czechoslovakian, when I call them that."
Kate's five love interests also make an appearance in the real-life drama. "They usually drop in when they need money for weed," said Dartucker. "Or when they get out of re-hab or jail or both." Johnny Joe Barlinger, hubcap artist and lay-about, said he will be on the show. "Just during conjugal visits," said Barlinger. "Roughly 30 seconds, not counting the cigarette." "I always take the six for the road," he added with a laugh. "And leave the eight children behind." Dartucker hopes the Johns and Kate Plus 8 portrays the real life of a single mom struggling to stay dependent and the life of a group of white males struggling to remain stuck in a 16-year-old, glue-huffing, AC-DC fan stage of maturity. In the first show, for example, Kate struggles with the government to get one of her children classified as legally clumsy to receive SSI funding. "He just don't get around like a natural human being does," said Dartucker. "He's forever bumping into such-and-suches and what-nots. Like his brain may be on the deep end of the ropes when it comes to retardednation." But chronic clumsiness is much harder to prove. "I just wished he was born with flippers like the rest of my childrens," Dartucker continued.
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