Cheer Perfection Recap: E Is For Effort

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   tntjunky
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 6:41 am

   First off, I LOVE Olivia’s Dad! You just know he is the Dad who wore a boa to play tea party with her, not cuz he secretly owns several boas, but cuz he loves his little girl. Second, I wish this show had more about the kids, the way Dance Mom does. BTW, I know my DM buds are reading this too, isn’t the Flashdance commercial hilarious?!!

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   talk it then
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 7:32 am

   Loved it when Ann so just almost got her ass kicked.. What a wimp!! She talked all that shit and didn’t even do anything… bahahhahahaha….
   Dont care for CTR’s uniform.. they look so cheap!
   They perform okay,, but nothing like what so called “Youth Silver” team elite should. Just saying.. so ready for the full recap.. bring it on!!

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   Miasweetie
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 8:04 am

   Great recap! Love all the pics. What is up with Shannon and the glasses on face and sunglasses on her head?

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   xcyjx5
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 8:11 am

   this is soo funny! but for the future, Cambree’s last name is Allen, not Dunlap

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   Boba Fett
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 10:31 am

   They use gloves for cookies but not for cleaning toilets! Great line!

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   whoochile
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 1:26 pm

   I also wonder about the double glasses on Shannon (?) bad fashion statement. As with the white trash mafia on toddlers and tiaras, pleasepleaseplease get better bras ladies!!! My goodness you are on tv, try and step it up half a notch.

   I think CTR’s, little practice uniforms need some tweaking. This has been a complaint of mine even when my daughter was a cheerleader, not every body looks good showing the midriff.Therefore, unless all girls are twigs, the tops should come down and meet the top of the shorts. I have always thought the longer tops are way sleeker looking, very clean and not distracting by having a striped effect of torso skin sandwiched between colored top and bottoms. Also, until every little girl learns to truly pull in their transverse abdominis then they need their tummies covered, it looks horrendous or have bellies popping out between sport bras and booty shorts. The dreaded Mississippi team had longer tops and looked way cleaner.

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   sagittariuskim
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 4:43 pm

   Alisha should just do what my high school band directors did. Whenever they felt we weren’t focusing or trying they would make us mad. And once they made us mad our run throughs were great. Then afterwards the directors would be mad, because they didn’t understand why we couldn’t do what had to in the first place.

   I loved Olivia’s dad too. I felt for him when he was putting on the eye make up. I terrified putting eyeliner on myself let alone others.

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   Gracie Lou Freebush
   Posted December 28, 2012 at 5:51 pm

   I watch this show because I LOVE cheerleading…but end up fast-forwarding through most of the mama drama. The women on this show are the most unappealing bunch ever assembled for television. There’s not one I don’t want to punch in the (fat-encased) throat. Ugh.

   Loved the recap!!! Helen Keller, bwah hah hah!

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   hopelesslydevoted
   Posted December 29, 2012 at 7:03 am

   I thought that the youth silver was so much better at the showcase. The uniforms though, needs some fixing, little girls were looking like they had muffin tops and love handles.

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    Lilly19
    Posted December 29, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    i love the show and all, but if anyone saw the show cheer on cmt , there allstar cheerleading seemed way more intense and the coach patty ann came close to being worse then abby. the show focused on Senior level 5 team and they were AMAZING! if the show were on lifetime or tlc it would totally be more well known.

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    coffylover
    Posted December 29, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    Good Lord. I’m loving this show, but can’t watch 5 minutes without wanting to body-slam Ann. I totally believe that she has maids, and is an epic bitch to them. Uggggh.

    If I had tons of cash, I think I’d hire a Hazmat crew to come fumigate those CTR bathrooms. Not to be nice or anything, just for our own viewing comfort.

    I actually really like the relationship between Alisha, RD, and their kids ~ so much of what we see is just the coaching, but at home, they seem like a family that really loves each other.

    @Madelyne27, your recaps rock, and I love your screencaps, blurry Bonnie and all! Looking forward to reading your recaps for the rest of the season.

    Have a great weekend, all!

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    coffylover
    Posted December 29, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    @Lilly19, I missed the show Cheer on CMT, but it sounds really interesting. Gonna see if they’ll re-air it at some point, I’d love to check it out Thanks for the tip!

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    Lagitha
    Posted December 29, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    Since when are customers responsible for the basic cleaning and upkeep of the business that they’re paying their money to? Am I supposed to be scrubbing the toilets while I’m waiting for the McDonalds clerks to packjage my meal deal?

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    edgmommy
    Posted December 29, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    Lagitha-Thank you! All I kept thinking was if I am writing a check each month for my child to go to your gym, I should not have to clean the bathrooms as well! Use the money you made off of the tryout fee and hire a cleaning service!

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    Lilly19
    Posted December 30, 2012 at 9:47 am

    @coffylover on cmt’s website u can watch the whole season for free!

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    whoochile
    Posted December 30, 2012 at 11:23 am

    when my daughter was in gymnastics and we would have a meet in our gym, everyone chipped in with extra cleaning to prepare. There are always horrible bits of dirt, athletic tape, water bottles, etc in crazy unknown places, esp under the tumble track, which a cheer gym would have also. I have no problem cleaning to prepare for the meet or exhibition, etc. Most gyms have parent groups that raise money, so when you can host a meet in your gym, you can make a ton of money off concessions, admission, etc. which then can go towards your child’s expenses.
    For sure one of the gyms (she changed teams once then went on to a cheer gym when she “retired” from gymnastics) actually took money off tuition if parents cleaned the gym. Many families I knew took advantage of that offer.
    That being said, it sounded like the bathrooms were super gross or the lard assed princesses were just trying to brag up about their ability to have housecleaners in their own homes. I tend to think it was the need to brag.

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    brzysmom12
    Posted December 30, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    @ Mia and Whoochile – I can explain the glasses with sunglasses on the head phenomena since I do have personal knowledge and expertise on this. My regular glasses didn’t have the transition to sunglasses when out in the sun so I would wear the sunglasses that fit over my glasses whenever I was driving and then when I would go into a store or whatever, the sunglasses would be pushed up on the head. I know it gets weird questioning looks from people but it is practical. Now I have the transitioning glasses but forget to take the sunglasses off out of habit so I’d go in the store with the glasses dark from the sun PLUS the sunglasses on the head. Not a good look and I just nod in agreement with the weird questioning looks from people.

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    April
    Posted December 30, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    My hate for Ann just grows and grows. Bitch you sure are proud of the fact that you have a maid huh? Maybe if you did more activity like cleaning your ass would not have its own moon. If you want to be Team Mom you kinda have to do shit like clean toilets or make cookies or any other scrub work. That is the name of the game. Yes, you get to be special to have the title and some power, but you also have more work to do too.

    The Mississippi team whooped up on them. I was impressed by how much Team Silver had improved. It did look way better. So that is good. They were still fidgeting waiting for their music to start. That would get you points off before you even started. You come out there with your game face on and its on from the minute your foot hits the spring floor!

    Ann was scared when that mom wanted to talk to her. She was making lame excuses about not wanting to step outside. I think she thought she was going to get beat on. My husband said that is about the most redneck thing you can say to say “She better hope I don’t see her in the Walmart or its on!” bwhahaha!

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    April
    Posted December 30, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    I loved the Dad that was helping out. He is sweet.

    Yeah ditch the facial hair RD.

    If someone called me a bitch in front of my kid, there would be no “Ignoring her”. I would demand an apology to me and to my child and anyone else that heard it. I would also make the coach get involved because there should be no swearing in the gym by teachers, parents or students. Period. I would say a ban for a week or two would teach Ann a lesson. Of course, I would need witnesses just to make sure it was said for sure.

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    April
    Posted December 30, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    Unfortunately a lot of places do expect parents to do all this bullshit even with them paying high tuition. Our dance studio always had something like that we had to do and it annoyed me. Team building or something. Now the Team Mom, yeah, she should have to do it, but no one else.

    Part of the reason I don’t have my kids in activities. I am lazy and don’t want to pay money and have to do more labor. Screw that.

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    Merry Christmas
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 8:14 am

    As a mom of an allstar cheerleader, not all gyms can afford a maid service from tuition. That tuition pays the rent on the \gym/storage unit\, the electricity for lights and heat/air. Some gyms don’t have heat and air. It’s actually a very LARGE storage unit and could cost a fortunate to heat/cool. Most gyms include competition fees in their tuition. That money has to go to the Event Producers, that’s not technically income for the gym. Then they have to pay their coaching staff and their certifications. But as far as the cleaning goes, why should the gym be responsible to pick up your child’s mess? It should be the parent’s duty to clean up after their own children.

    As far as cheer perfection, it’s amusing to watch. That’s all I’ll say. I do my best not to talk negatively about another gym. Karma is a bitch. I don’t want to meet her.

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    crankyguy
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 8:28 am

    You mean that you are the mom of an All-Star Cheerleader™, instead of some gym? Anyway, if I’m right about what you meant, then I’m so glad to know that your daughter is a *•-:¦:-•* STAR *•-:¦:-•* and not some run-of-the-mill, garden-variety cheerleader. You should be more humble, like my mother. She is the mom of an All-Star Asshole™, but she NEVER brags about it.

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    Merry Christmas
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 10:26 am

    I was not trying to imply that my child is a star, just that she does all-star cheerleading therefor is an all-star cheerleader, as apposed to a cheerleader for a recreation organization. There is quite a difference. Sorry if I came across as “snooty” or “not humble”. I am most certainly not the “head mom” of the “head star cheerleader”. I choose not to say what gym she is affiliated with because I do not feel like opening that can of worms. All I did was state how/why tuition is expensive and why we as parents SHOULD pitch in and clean up after our kids.

    (forgive me please for leaving off the hyphen in all-star, wouldn’t want to cause a world war)

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    Merry Christmas
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 10:29 am

    Just reread my post. Not sure how I came off as stuck up as it seems you are implying @crankyguy, however, my fingers must not have been fully awake (by fingers I mean my brain) I meant to say it could cost a fortune, not fortunate…but I’m sure all you very intelligent posters understood what I meant

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    Madelyne27
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 10:44 am

    my daughter wishes they focused more on the girls too… but it might be hard since they are all on diff teams… once they all can do back handsprings, i’m sure we can have a youth silver team made up of our favorite moms’ all star kids…

    and okay, so they aren’t elite enough for the elite… but i can’t do a summersault. or a wintersault. so they’ve got me beat. i did try a hurkey before writing this, and no… can’t do those anymore either.

    a couple of the moms aren’t relatable to me. at least not yet. like michelle. i know nothing about her, so i don’t care about her. i just think tlc would have a better show if all the moms they were following had kids that were on the same squad. bc bonnie’s crazy won’t hit the level i want, until she and ann actually have to travel together.

    and as far as cleaning the gym… i get it. my daughter went to a small private school and they would have campus clean up days, and beautify the outside days. i’m not saying i ever went, but i got the memos. and for the frog that ann dropped out of her panties… well, um, okay… but i have three pet frogs (george michael, gob, and maeby bluthe) and i would never pee on them. they pee on me, but alas.

    @merry christmas, i got your back… but i always finds @crankyguys comments to be funny. and @April, you totally get the Spirit Stick for comments this week. (do they still have those?)

    happy new year’s eve!

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    crankyguy
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    Yes, I am an INTELLIGENT poster. I have one high school diploma, two associate’s degrees, three bachelor’s, four master’s, five PhDs, six MDs, seven JDs, and eight post-docs.

    Maybe I got carried away with my fake degrees, but I don’t want ANY pageant moms coming on here saying they have more degrees than I do. That really pisses me off.

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    April
    Posted December 31, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    I got what you were saying Merry Christmas. Just for you guys that don’t know it is just the term that applies to the gym cheerleaders that compete nationally “All-Star Cheerleader”. So she was not bragging just using the term to describe what her daughter does.

    Thanks Madelyn

    haha the captcha is You Rock! I wonder if that is because this is a cheerleader show.

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    coffylover
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 5:18 am

    @crankyguy, you crack me up with your degresssss. You seem like someone my hubby would totally get along with ~ he loves a good-natured snark-fest / sarcasm-face-off. What’s life without the ironies, right?

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    Lagitha
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    I wonder if the cleaning expectations is a regional thing, or maybe within certain subcultures of activities. I own a studio that offers ballroom/latin dance lessons, fitness classes, yoga, and I would never *dream* of asking parents and participants to do routine cleaning. they are politely reminded to put waterbottles in the recylce bin and used towels in the hampers if necessary, But my staff does spot cleaning daily and I have a fabulous cleaning man who does about 3 hours a week of floors, windows, bathrooms, etc. for $25 and all the free Zumba classes his wife wants. And, Madelyne, I’m really suprised to hear that it was expected of you as the parent of a school memeber, as well. I was a headmaster of a k-8 school, and full-time custodial services and contracts for deepcleaning were assumed a fundamental part of the basic budget.

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    Gina Sheldon
    Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:03 pm

    Ann ruins the show for me she is ugly inside and out and yet she thinks she’s a princess puke!

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    newengland
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 10:09 am

    All the drama is mostly made up in this show. Like how \Mississippi\ youth team was better than \Youth Silver\ – well they should have been better, because they were a level 3 team and not a level 2, like Youth Silver. But of course the show does not explain this so you can have your drama. And like last week when Alisha did not know to have a cd of the music for the exhibition, and then did not come prepared and had to use different music? Forgetting music happens, but making the girls perform to wrong music is just idiotic. As a gym owner, how stupid can you be – but this is all made up for the drama of reality tv. And the mom drama – yes some cheer moms are crazy, catty and don’t get along with each other but it isn’t a constant thing happening every day – most people either ignore the craziness or complain to the owners, not have fist fights with each other at the gym. Maybe it’s a southern thing. I would like to see more of the kids, and not the moms. The show could be cute and show a lot about all star cheerleading, but it needs to stop manufacturing the b*llsh*t.

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    Michiganlex
    Posted January 14, 2013 at 11:01 am

    Though my name is Michigan, I actually live in Canada and my daughter is a figure skater. Parents are not expected to clean the bathrooms because the ice time is rented from an arena that has staff to do that but volunteer parents run daily operations including costume production and general cleaning in the public areas during ice time. I also attended a small church school where church members cleaned our schoolrooms and washrooms with kids often pitching in. So I don’t think its so regional as a needed kind of activity on the part of the sports/school/ club.

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    dustbunny123
    Posted May 6, 2013 at 8:53 am

    cambree i swear is the most ugly child ever

    go ashtyn <3