Here’s an interesting development, since these two hate each other. Christi says as much, but despite the H8, Melissa was the first one to call her. Christi AGAIN says that she has always been Kelly’s biggest cheerleader and Kelly didn’t even text her when she was going through a bad time. Melissa says it’s almost like a breakup, which she should know about, since she is on husband number three. Christi says again that she feels like an outsider now. She thanks Melissa for meeting her even though they’ve never been the best of friends. It’s like when Sandy went up to Rizzo when Rizzo was singing “There Are Worse Things I Could Do.”
It’s interesting to note that Melissa appears to be drinking water in this scene and Christi is drinking what looks like a beer. Does that mean she is not pregnant, or could she be drinking O’Douls? I know, it’s none of my business, but I get paid to speculate. (No, I don’t.) Christi interviews that right now Melissa is being a better friend to her than Kelly. Well, at least until you get a call from her attorney.
Okay – did I really just see a commercial for Fish McNuggets at McDonald’s? Eww.
Maddie’s solo is You Don’t Know Me because this week, Maddie will be doing an “edgier” dance. Mmkay. I’ll believe that when I see it.
Duet rehearsal. Jabby wants to see how the girls do before she will allow them to perform. She bitches that they’ve had twice as long to practice it as Maddie and that they had better be twice as good as her. She calls Holly and Kelly down to babble to them about “no more bad mom behavior” going forward and says Paige and Nia know what they are getting into with the duet and had better do a good job on it.

Shrill asks Christi AGAIN what’s going on and AGAIN Christi says she was there for Kelly blah, blah, blah and Kelly didn’t call her BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. Shrill asks Christi where she will go from here? Well, Shrill, she’ll probably mention that she had a bad week and Kelly didn’t call her at least three more times before the episode is over. Your guess is as good as mine though.
Christi interviews that she doesn’t know what her problem is. She is crying whereas usually she is the snarky one. She says again that she feels like an outsider and that no one missed them. Well, if it makes you feel better, Christi, we missed you at the ‘Gasm.

In the studio, Jabby screams that the group number is nowhere near where it should be; she calls Chloe “Blondie”; then she screams upstairs at the moms to come down and do something with the costumes. Christi yells back that her daughter has a NAME and Jabby says not anymore, not in her book. Christi says “oh yes she does” and Jabby says “so do you and it starts with B.” As you can see it’s the typical level of elevated dialogue that we’ve come to know and love at ALDC.
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Christi and Kelly have issues they need resolved because those nasty tweets by Kelly makes me believe something serious happened. We might have two moms with buns in the oven…Christi and Melissa!
Something I noticed…Holly is the only one who actually says “costume” instead of “coshtume”. What a doctor indeed!
Did anyone else notice that in her picture, Christi is not wearing any rings??
Because I am just that bored, I went back through every recap with pictures of Christi’s hands shown and a ring was clearly evident in the summer of 2011 (this only means that that was the only other time that hand was clearly visible).
Who are all these random people in the background when the moms are upstairs? They are distracting me from Christi’s emotional moment.
How do I change my screen name? I seem to have the same name (whoochile) as another poster. Yikes, why are the captcha codes so hard to read? Seriously, am I that old?
even though i still don’t think christi looks obviously pregnant, this episode-long outburst makes me think she could be. god knows my entire first trimester was spent RAGING at my husband over the stupidest shit. i’m only in my early second trimester and i am still not “showing,” but my stomach is definitely puffier, so maybe that’s what’s going on with christi. i don’t know. i’m basing my change of mind on her behavior more than on her figure. as for the beer, eh, she could be one of those people who thinks drinking an occasional drink is okay (which it is considered okay in many countries, and i personally don’t think it’s a problem; i’m just too paranoid to do it myself, but i have many cousins from other countries who had a drink every few months or weeks during their pregnancies, as their countries’ obs consider it okay, and everything always turned out fine. *shrug*). anyway! i do feel like that’s the kind of stupid fight i personally wouldn’t have normally but can see myself having had a few weeks ago thanks to good ol’ hormones.
enjoy your vacation — i’m jealous! i was hoping to go on an anniversary trip to spain in a couple of months but now i’m going to have to skip it because of the baby. hope you have a griswold-less vacation, indeed (not that it wouldn’t make for some amusing stories).
Ok, so I just re-watched the scene of Melissa and Christi at the lounge! I never see Christi actually take a drink of her beverage, just Melissa. The glass was full in the two shots I saw, and then at the end of the scene, BOTH of their glasses were completely empty. Could it be that the producers were staging that shot to make us think Christi was drinking, but they just emptied the glass at some point since we never see her drink it? Too much CSI type crap for me LOL
Good catch CTRParent I was going to ask if we saw her actually drink it.
May be ginger beer/ale too
Not only is the glass empty, it is clean, with no sign it ever held a beverage. Yet more staged crap.
I hope in five years, once this show has faded into the reality TV graveyard, we see an a article about Abby Lee losing her dance studio because no students wanted to be berated by her. One can only hope!
Ok, so i see the tweets SnoopK8 included here, and notice they match up with conclusions people had already drawn here based on the timeline of the \parking lot protest\ coinciding with rumors/tweets/etc of contract disputes from around the same time. Ok, makes sense, but now here is what I wonder…
I don’t believe for a moment that Kelly ever planned to leave *DM*. Leaving *Abby* sure, as long as she would still be on the show.
So… if the parking lot protest was about the contracts, money, etc… Why wasn’t Kelly part of the protest? Am I wrong and she really was leaving and/or considering leaving at the time? Or did she simply decline to participate in the protest (and maybe this could have something to do with the sudden animosity betwenn K and C)? Or was she part of the contract protest like everybody else and they edited her out of protest footage (and/or filmed/refilmed protest footage after the fact, remember how people noticed the replacements being welcomed in the sign in the background of the parking lots scenes)?
Thoughts???
whoochile: I actually like these new advertising based captcha’s because I find them so much *easier* then the distorted text ones…
(Not sure why I put an apostrophe in “captcha’s”. I wouldn’t bother apologizing for such a trivial typo anyway, except certain errant apostrophe-S mistakes get a lot of flack here.)
I miss the days when this show gave us gold, like Mackenzie’s “I just want to sit on the couch and eat chips”. And episodes where the fighting only took up about 15% of the show. They either need another younger permanent team member to contribute funny interviews, or they need to just have a conversation with Mackenzie and let the film roll (without suggesting things for her to say…) so we can get some new, more enjoyable quotes/moments.
I couldn’t even make it through this episode. Once I realized they were down to a story line about grown ass women unfriending each other on Facebook it was like something fell off the shelf.
I’m not sure where they can take this show now. I just wish they’d get the little girls off of it.
Literally laughed outloud at the make it rain comment lol!!!
Random ppl in the background are parents who are not/do not have a child on the show but still dance at ALDC.
I think Nia will be the only child who makes it out of here without being scarred for life. And maybe Brooke because she genuinely acts like she could give two f***s.
Was the thing about Facebook on the new episode? Or did I somehow miss that? I thought the fight between Kelly and Christi was because Kelly didn’t call a stalker-ish number of times while Christi was pouting…
are there no other dance studios that these talented girls could go to?? It would be a cold day in hell before some fat angry pig yelled at my child!
No, their was no actual defriending on facebook (idk if they even have facebooks) it was just a clever title the producers or whoever decides the title thought up to describe their rediculous fight. Kind of like the Bye Bye Baby title for this week
I know everyone saw Lucas from DMM on stage, but did anyone catch his mom in the audience sitting behind Abby and the moms? I’m sure she strategically placed herself there to get some camera time. I couldn’t find any other DMM kids on stage…but I would assume they were there, since the comp was in Ft. Lauderdale?