Marking the end of a truly baffling era, TLC has canceled Kate Plus 8, the itching phantom limb of a series that’s been hanging around ever since husband Jon Gosselin left wife Kate holding the whelping box while he pursued all the finer things in life, such as draping himself entirely in Ed Hardy and getting laid by smirking college girls who thought it would be hilarious at the time. The long-running reality show—which followed eight children and the two awful people who used them to become just famous enough that they would no longer have to be stuck at home with eight children—will hit its 150th episode soon, which the network noted in the same press release announcing its cancellation with an implicit sense of shock.