The Gosselins are back!

The extended family that dominated the tabloid headlines and TV ratings just five years ago returned to TLC’s lineup on Thursday, with the first of a two-part special dubbed Kate Plus Eight: Sextuplets Turn 10, documenting the milestone 10th birthday for her sextuplets Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah.

The special centered around Kate Gosselin’s elaborate plants for an unforgettable, "huge, real life-size grown-up carnival” with the kids’ involvement, as she noted that “it's very hard to find a theme that six kids are all excited about."

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Viewers Thursday might have been a bit taken aback by the rapid development of the very precocious children -- in particular the sextuplets’ older sisters, 13-year-old twins Cara and Mady -- and their transition from mommy’s girls to the beginnings of teen angst, as Mady called herself “an awful role model" to her younger siblings.

"This is stupid: I don't want to be a part of this,” Mady griped of the party, adding, "This isn't my birthday, so I don't care.”