Much of the new season of TLC's hit reality show has focused on Jessa and Jill Duggar, but 19 Kids and Counting Season 15 Episode 4 was a little different.
This installment centered around Jana Duggar and the maligned, beautiful, saintly oldest sister's ongoing plight as she's forced to cater to everyone else.
Just kidding! That would go against everything the reality TV family stands for (making her do all the work while they bask in joys of marriage and fame).
Jana Duggar commentary aside, here's a rundown of last night's dual installments, which you can see in full if you watch 19 Kids and Counting online ...
The twin brother of Jana Duggar, John David Duggar, 25, works construction. Naturally, he decided to show mom Michelle, 48, how to use an excavator.
Michelle Duggar likened the experience to baking brownies. Something like that. John David is also a police officer somehow, and he dad to work there.
There's not a lot of crime in Tontitown, Arkansas, so other than pulling someone over for having a headlight out, it was a quiet night for the two of them.
Except for Jim Bob noisily chowing on snacks. That was pretty noisy and probably more than a little distracting to John David's official police business.
"I just call 'em flowers. I don't know any flower names," said the most low frills, non-bridezilla bride of all time, as she prepped for her special day.
Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald, 19, also received their wedding invitations courtesy of eldest brother Josh Duggar, 27, and they were thrilled with them.
So was their "outside advisor," so they must have been pretty good.
Jinger Duggar, 21, was tasked with giving a second opinion in case Jessa and Ben were "too in love" to be impartial and see flaws, and was duly impressed.
Jinger also helped Ben with designing Jessa's wedding band, as the two of them went to the store and tried to find the ideal match for her engagement ring.
"I can't wait to see her face when I slide it on her finger," Ben said.
While the future Mrs. Seewald pretty much knew what her beau was up to, she said she'd wait to be surprised if that's what her fiance had in mind for her.
Other Duggar family news and notes from last night:
Josh Duggar took kids Mackynzie and Michael to the music store, where they found that banging on some things (drums) is socially acceptable!
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard took a break from sledding over cats to make a care package for Derick's mother, Cathy, who is battling cancer.
Jason and James Duggar, 14 and 13, prepared a pair of pies for Jessa and Ben's rehearsal dinner, and they were surprisingly not bad!
The Duggar parents often accompany their kids on dates in order to maintain "accountability" and "keep things from going in the wrong direction," per Jim Bob. The girls are fine with this, as being alone with men puts them in grave "moral danger." When the parents aren't available, their older siblings will often tag along, making every date a group date and a family affair.
Even in the kids' late teens and early 20s, mom and dad are creeping on their text messages. When Ben Seewald jokingly wrote to fiancee Jessa, "Give me a ring," Jim Bob actually jumped in on the group text, writing "No ring yet." With a smiley face emoticon. Seriously, he did that. Jim Bob needs his own Instagram so he can start posting screen shots of this stuff.
This moment you see here between Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard would not have been permitted until the couple was married. Side hugs are the preferred method of PDA in order to prevent any further temptation or hanky panky, as has been well documented on 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars love their side hugs so hard. Any touching beyond that? Save it for your wedding night.
This is probably an obvious one if you know anything about the Duggars. The family does not smoke or drink. They do, however, enjoy the occasional sugary dessert or getting high on life and love.
Safe to say the Duggars are in the minority, having not read Fifty Shades of Grey (the movie adaptation of which they won't be seeing either, we're guessing). The Bible warns not to "think about gratifying the pleasure of the flesh," so instead the family studies Christian text and not E.L. James' erotic fiction. The Duggars' option is probably better-written.
Avert your eyes, Michelle Duggar! The family matriarch feels that dancing encourages "sensual" feelings, while Jessa Duggar has said that she feels modern music promotes "sex, drugs, all that type of stuff." Instead, the family chooses to play gospel music together.
Yes, seriously. There is Duggar-approved swimwear (it's conservative and not very revealing, spoiler alert) but when it comes to the beach, that's not happening. At all. Blame the general public. "It's just too hard for the guys to try and keep their eyes averted," Michelle explains. If we happened upon Kaley Cuoco doing beach yoga, we might see her point. But we also wouldn't complain.
Even if you took out the boozy parties and sexy nurses and cats looking to get frisky, Halloween would still be a no-go for the Duggars. According to the parents, magic and witches are "part of a demonic realm God wants us to stay away from," and this holiday qualifies. To each their own.
We don't actually know if there's a definitive rule against the use of birth control in the Duggar household, but it's clearly not something the family is thinking about, or using, ever. Just saying. Once those vows are exchanged, fornication and procreation tend to happen early and often, ensuring that the great state of Arkansas will never have a population shortage of really nice, quirky, family-first, side-hug loving human beings.
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