Poll: Just Kidding...and Kidding...and Kidding

Big families are the next big thing, at least in the media, but which massive clan is your fave?

If you're driving anywhere with your family this weekend, we're guessing that however many kids you have seems like plenty. That's not so in the media, of course, where more is always better.

Way back in the day, Eight Is Enough tried to gently alert us to the vicissitudes of excess reproduction, but even Dick Van Male-Pattern Baldness couldn't prepare us for today's supersized realities. There's something vaguely lurid in our contemporary gawking, as we're undeniably glued to the tube (and "the Intertubes") to keep abreast of all the latest über-brood brouhahas. Which prompts the question:

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Procreation-Porn Poll

Which oversized brood is your fave?

<i>Jon & Kate</i>'s <i>Plus 8</i> has more pluses than minuses

Jon & Kate's Plus 8 has more pluses than minuses

24.4%

The Duggers, because excess in everything is the American Way

The Duggers, because excess in everything is the American Way

26.4%

Octomom Nadya Suleman...sometimes reality's a car wreck, you're a looky-loo

Octomom Nadya Suleman...sometimes reality's a car wreck, you're a looky-loo

3%

Brangelina adds a patina of social responsibility to the world of hyperfamily hype

Brangelina adds a patina of social responsibility to the world of hyperfamily hype

46.2%

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