While watching Jon and Kate Plus 8 with the kids:

Captain: Know who my favourite character is on this show? Aiden, the boy character.

Me: That’s nice, but you do know that these are real people, right? Sometimes we watch TV and the people are just pretending to be characters, to tell a story that didn’t really happen. But this is a real family, and the Mommy and Daddy really have those eight kids.

Gal Smiley: Oh! Do they have robots?

Me: Robots? No.

Captain: Or monsters? Are there monsters?

Me: No, no, nothing like that. This is their house and it’s just a house like ours. No robots, no monsters.

Captain: So, who is the bad guy on this show?

I think they are lacking a fundamental grasp of the concept of reality television.