Now, they have to break the news to Alana. June does say something about them having enough pets, so maybe she is truly concerned about Glitzy being neglected. But, that’s why you don’t buy a glamor pet for a 6-year-old in the first place.
Everyone but Sugar Bear is on board with the plan, but he gets no say in anything that happens in the house or on the show. So, the girls make fun of Sugar Bear looking like he is about to cry over getting rid of Glitzy as he slinks off to get the pig for everyone to say goodbye.
I know it’s totally set up! I can see how set up it is from Alana’s talking head about her loving Glitzy because Glitzy loves her. But, then they do the cheesy flashback to Sugar Bear bringing Glitzy home, and I see her face when she meets Glitzy for the first time:

And, I also see June’s face when Alana meets Glitzy for the first time:

Then, we see Alana crying about not wanting Glitzy to go. And it seems so staged that I start to roll my eyes. But, then Alana, starts crying in earnest. And the scenes are set up differently enough that I realize this was not done in the same take. And, her honest crying is so unexpected that I suddenly felt like I was sucked into watching Pay It Forward again.
For those of you who are unaware, Pay it Forward is a god-awful movie designed to manipulate the viewer with mawkish sentiment. It’s totally manipulative and overwrought, and will force your eyes to get misty even as you berate yourself for falling for it. By the time the credits roll, you suspect that you have been a total idiot. Then, you know you were a total idiot.
Plus, the actors in the movie (Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey, Jim Caviezel, and that kid from the Sixth Sense before he became really odd-looking or had a police record), are so earnest in their portrayals of the characters in this ridiculous melodrama that you hate them all.
Then you hate yourself for even caring– but you get misty-eyed all the same. Before you know it, Jim Caviezel is playing Jesus in a snuff film and now you hate Mel Gibson (along with the entire world). But, your eyes still water anyway even though you try your best to be stoic and joke your way through it.

I felt totally set up by this whole Glitzy thing. I figured they would show Alana crying. I just figured it would be more of a fake crying based on the previews I saw. I didn’t expect her to truly be upset (especially since the fake scenes were mixed with her actually being upset). It was disconcerting. I’ve got my own ideas about that, but I’m going to save them for the comments as this recap is already late.
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awww, i was sad that they returned glitzy, too, and i felt really bad for alana and sugar bear. they really should’ve thought this through as a family before getting the pig.
alana’s door-nut “explanation” was hilarious! so cute. my absolute favorite thing that happened in this episode, though, was the expression “smells like a chain-smoking goat.” i giggle every time i think aout it.
I saw this recap go up, but seeing as how HBB has already played out for me, other than comment #1, I ain’t gonna say another word on this new thread. I’m gonna keep reading the ‘caps, though. Can’t miss those.
June calling Sugar Bear sexy was nauseating.
This show ruined tea cup pigs for me. I used think they would make such cute pets and wanted one so bad. I heard they get really lonely though.
I would like to make a request for the next recap. Please don’t put a pic of June’s forklift foot in it. Or put it on a page by itself with a warning on the previous page. I’m made sure to avoid that scene during the episode. And I would like to remain clueless on what a forklift foot looks like. I’m really squeamish about that kind of stuff.
I’m with S-Kim on the foot. Or just don’t post it. Or send it upon request. Seeing the rest of June is difficult enough.
That said, I am such a sucker for sentiment and cry easily, so I was tearing up too when Alana cried real tears. So sad for all concerned. *sniff*
No Cranky, don’t go!
I like you.
I know I’ll never change your mind, and I’ll never change mine, but I like the discussion. I like that we can forever disagree and still discuss.
Aside from that, I’m sad to see Glitzy go. It’s probably the right decision for the family, but it would have been better if they hadn’t brought him home to begin with.
@Lenouru ——————————— *sitting quietly in corner*
Poor crankyguy. Sugar Mama still loves you.
@Cranky, we already lost Glitzy, we can’t lose you, too!
No, but in all seriousness, you shouldn’t feel any kind of way about stating your opinion at the Gasm. I agree, the welfare discussion has been exhausted but there is still plenty to talk about with regards to the show. Like…six-fingered swamp babies.
Six-fingered swamp babies???? We can come up with something a little more controversial than that.
Well, I can’t because that is pretty darned controversial, but….
Cranky?
The whole Glitzy thing was just temprary from the get go. If you listen closely to June in the episode where they brought Glitzy into their house, June plainly says that Glitzy is just there for a while.
Also, when Sugar Bear is leaving with Glitzy, and he hands him to Alana to say goodbye, the child is smiling.
I think she was crying because she missed him like any little kid would miss an animal that was ot her/his home for a little while.
Does anyone else think Glitzy’s destined for someone’s breakfast table?
There was a Star War’s marathon on Spike the other day and I was reminded of June.
@2muchbravo
A teacup pig even fully grown would not produce enough meat to feel them. Fully grown they are only supposed to be about 65 pounds. When yo consider how little of that is actual bacon and pork chops, they would be better off getting a regular ol’ eatin’ pig. LOL.
OOPS! That should be FEED them not FEEL them…
Dang! That is a whole other thread! Pig Feeling!
Dang. You mean Alana weighs more than that pig will when he’s fully grown?
I think it’s great that her mother tells her that pretty comes in all shapes. It’s good for girls to hear that. Lord knows they beat themselves up and getting eating disorders, etc.
Yawn. This epi was a snoozer. Now that everyone has seen this family, I don’t think there’s much left to work with. So we’ve seen how they spend July – hanging out in the mud and celebrating Christmas apparently. Once the girl has the baby, I don’t see much else interesting happening on this show. My 12 yr old daughter came in the room when it was on and said, “Mom, why are you watching this?” Good question.
@Cranky, what did I miss? I’ve been MIA in the comments for a while because my job has been kicking my ass. So I’m feeling really out of the loop here.
@S-Kim and Snowshoe, I don’t think they have ever showed June’s foot, so no worries about it suddenly popping up in a photo. Normally, I believe that if I have to suffer through a sight like that, I have to share the pain, but even I have my limits – like with Renee’s full body surgery on Mob Wives.
@PlathAddict, they did show June’s foot at the water park. I was surprised that she said nobody in her family had ever seen it, and right there in public she whipped off her sock. It was disgusting with gnats flying around it. I couldn’t tell if the gnats were in her sock or what. Grosss!!
@PlathAddict, you’re making me break my vow of silence. There was a comment war about welfare with respect to Family HBB and then welfare in general where I was in the middle with my politically incorrect opinions in the comments of the last two ‘caps. I thought I might shut up for a while, especially since I agree with Jazzy #15 in this thread that I think we have seen about everything there is to see. I only had this epi on in the background while I was doing something else, and I don’t think I’ll even bother to have it on for future episodes. I’ll definitely be here every week for the recaps, though.
My reference to comment #1 in comment #2 was not about ellemenop, but a mistake I made because I thought I was gonna have comment #1, if that confused anybody.
Gosh I love this show.. This family is hilarious and I really look forward to every week a new episode. At least this child is educated unlike Eden Wood and her drunk ass mother. Anyhow, back to honey boo boo, one of my most favorate parts of this episode is when the girl starts having contractions and June tells her oh no we cant let you go to the bathroom and pee you might have it in the damn toilet… I rolled.. I about lost my supper.. that shit was so funny!! They are one crazy family!!
OMG Ewwww. And to think 4 mens have done her.
@Featherhead, I must have completely repressed that image, because I totally missed it.
@Cranky, I didn’t realize it turned into a full on comment war. I always miss the good stuff!
@PlathAddict, mrs crankyguy was telling me about the foot. It’s in the last episode shown, but you have not recapped yet. I think what you are seeing are requests to not show the foot when you do recap it. Speaking for myself, show the foot. I wanna see the foot, but I don’t want to have to watch the show in order to do so.
OMG Ewwww. And to think 4 mens have done her.
Beautimosity is in the eyeballs of the looker.
Playing in the mud? Great fun for some. My 2 guys take a boys only vacation most years and so they do stuff they know I just will not (rapelling in Utah? Not me). One vacation they took was to a place in West Va. where you basically spend a week 4-wheeling, etc. in these massive mud bogs. They had a blast.
And I had to burn their clothing when they got home. I could not get the mud and mud’scent’ out of anything. Good thing I bought their trip clothes at the Goodwill!
As to HBB, the bloom is off the rose. I’m very ‘meh’ about them now.
@sagittariuskim She didn’t. She called him “smexy.” Here’s a link to The Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Redneckipedia. So we can all improve our vocabulary words.
@2muchbravo Glitzy’s a star now. She could turn into the spokespig for a famous disinfectant like Lysol!
@Cranky, I’m so confused.
Crankyguy, I’d just like to say that Mrs. Crankyguy is one lucky lady. I wish my husband would watch all my crap tv shows with me. He’s all about football and Anger Management these days. Although, he does suffer through Big Brother with me, so he’s a keeper!
@msjacqmills, I draw the line at Grey’s Anatomy and those wedding dress shows on TLC (I think) on Friday nights.
@kthxbai Either way blurgh.
Well, Cranky, everyone knows that any man who’s watching those wedding dress shows just may be sharing a closet with Shane.
I thought Glitzy was the best part of the show, was sorry to see Alana cry over the piggy.
I have been looking at pics of Alana in recent pageants… she is getting very chubby, not good!
I can’t write too much Plath as I gouged my eyes out after June talked about sex and biscuits and VULVAS
(see I remembered your lesson) and vaginas and farts and poop and snot- did I miss anything, as I said I went blind….
@PatL, oh thanks. I guess I can just forget about making dinner now.
Blorp.
@ Pat Ledoux: I think you mean deaf…
It’s awful of me but when Sugar Bear said he couldn’t feel his feet after June sat on his lap, I couldn’t stop laughing.
I’ll cast my vote in with the anti-forklift foot faction. I barely glanced at it and still had to have a restorative cocktail.
@msjacqmills – Good one! Think Shane is probably metrosexual & knows that Danielle is a nut.
@Path – When is the “where do babies come from lecture” start? Got the biscuit. Does it go further?
@TG, well between the foot and PatL’s descriptions I got such a case of the vapors that I needed a tonic to keep me from fainting.
I find that I often feel faint around five in the afternoon.
Sorry snowshoecat if I spoiled your dinner, Shana- nope I’m blind from imagining June and SB doing the nasty, perhaps after tomorrow’s episode I will go deaf as well and Honey Boo Boo and her farty family will ride off into the sunset….
@TG
I do hope there was some gin mixed in with your tonic.
It just won’t work without the gin.
There are so many things this show has added to Americana… stuff we never expected to see.
Neck crust as an accessory.
“Eating a Biscuit” will never have the same meaning as it did when grandma cooked you Sunday breakfast.
Knowing what Smexy & Beautimous mean without any explanation.
Eleven fingered babies (who may, by the way, be the spawn of Damien. I know… hell for me.)
Insect infested toes at the water park.
Pigs in crowns.
Hoping to GOD that the water bottle you are drinking your Ozarka from is NOT one recycled from Sugar Bear’s stash.
@PatL, thank you. I’m with you on all counts, and I cured my vapors quite nicely. As W.C. Fields once said, he carried a flask in case of snakebite. Of course he also carried a small snake.
My late Husband had webbed toes.
Flipit has webbed toes too.
Just sayin.
Robin
@Robin, not sure about the webbed toe thing. A college friend had webbed toes, and we always teased her about cheating on the phi ed swimming requirement. The lovely and gracious June has toes that were injured in some sort of encounter with heavy equipment, so they are damaged toes.
Those toes I really don’t care to see.
Damn, Flip, your business is all out in the street. Or shall I call you…Mariner? (The jig is up!)
@Robin – her toes aren’t webbed. And, I didn’t think the forklift toe was THAT bad. What was absolutely DISGUSTING was the nasty sock and then the freakin GNATS stuck to and swarming around her funky toe. WTF!!??
Now, the 6-fingered swamp baby. Holy smokes, that poor thing. Does anyone know if that is something that doctors ‘fix’. Or does she live with 6 fingers on one hand? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
Here’s a photo of June’s foot, for thse who dare: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/entertainment/momma-s-forklift-foot-revealed-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-photo
And here’s the video of the foot reveal (4th clip down): http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-08-30/junes-forklift-foot-revealed-on-here-comes-honey-boo-boo/
@MJM, Anne Bolyn is reputed to have had six fingers on one hand, which she took pains to conceal because it was the mark of the devil.
And look how things worked out for her.
@SSC, I logged in to say that exact same thing!
Also, at least in the book, Hannibal Lecter had six fingers on one hand.
There is a Honey Boo Boo nickname generator at
https://www.facebook.com/HereComesHoneyBooBoo/app_274643699317380
You may all call me Sugar Snickerdoodle.
@ Sharon , I am still laughing, good analogies! You should work on TVGasm!
@TG #48, well there ya go!!! Great minds.
If she didn’t need a forklift to tote herself around, she wouldn’t have had a forklift accident.
Thats all I am sayin’.
Robin
@Robin, I’d like to see a picture of the forklift.
There are a bunch of them on google images; forklift.
TC, Robin
Thank you, Pat Ledoux. That was so nice. LOL! 75% of the fun of watching this show has got to be reading the recaps and comments. I mean there are sentences here that you would never expect to see no matter how long you lived….
Stuff like….
“My late Husband had webbed toes.”
I love this site.
@ jacmills – I agree – her foot didn’t look that bad, but WTF about the gnats?? Under her sock?? WHY??????
And does that baby really have an extra thumb? Is it related to the diet of cheezy poofs??
You aint so bad either, Sharon.
TC, Robin
That was one tore up toe. It happened “years ago” according to June and it is still inflamed and red and it has bee YEARS? (Do they never sell any “Johnson’s Foot Soap” at those auctions?)
I will say this, June’s foot was no more “jacked up” than Steven Tyler’s…
http://www.celebrityplasticsurgery.tv/steven-tyler-feet
i kind of doubt there were gnats on junes toe actually inside her sock … I have a feeling that was staged for extra shock value.
Staged? You could be right. But then my brain went there…OMG! What on God’s earth would they smear on that toe to draw the gnats like that? There just aren’t that many gnats at our local water park. (Well, not that I have noticed.) Did they catch gnats and bring them?
That foot had just gotten through soaking in water for quite a long time and was still vomitously dirty looking.
My Honey-Boo-Boo name is Princess Heaven.
As it should be.
My yogi name is Daydream Journey Spirit.
Think I’ll stick with Princess Heaven.
Hey don’t knock the cup holders in the couch! Ours looks a lot like theirs.
ps did you hear that the sister had the baby and it apparently has 2 thumbs? OMG! Inbreeding at its finest.
ok to embarass myself, my husband has a webbed toe thing too. He passed it to one of my sons. We are not related as far as we know. He comes from hillbilly moonshiners from Kentucky back a few generations. The story is his great grandparents were third cousins. Then his mom basically had to move out of that small town because she was related to everyone and therefore could find no one to marry.
The second and third toe is slightly webbed about halfway. So not really noticeable unless you really look at it. I blame his family’s inbreeding down the line.
Actually April, I have two thumbs. The anomaly of this child is that she has three. Don’t mess with her! She is high on “go go juice”, has a crown, and is dangerous. (Just kidding… your posts crack me up, girl!)
My HB2 name is Stuedel Beautimous. I am so proud. **sniff** So is mom.
I’m sorry but your recaps suck. Calling “setups” every five minutes ruins everything for the viewers and your recaps aren’t even funny! Go check out the work of DearCrabby and learn!
I don’t even watch the show but still come here just to read PlathAddicts recaps because I like them so much. So……there!
@hmmmmmm, and YOU are…?
A very loyal fan of Honey Booboo, how do you do?
How are people getting HBB names?
@Hmmmmmm, and I have been reading Plath’s posts for years and just don’t understand why you had to be so rude. We frequently disagree with the ‘cappers and with each other, but we do try to keep it civil.
@ Snowshoecat. I don’t think I’ve been rude. I’ve expressed my opinions rather straightforwardly. Which I’m entitled to, don’t you think?
@Hmmmmmmmmm, You are def entitled to your opinions as are we all. My opinion is that you were rude. Let’s look at your post, shall we?
“I’m sorry but your recaps suck.
Calling “setups” every five minutes ruins everything for the viewers
and your recaps aren’t even funny!
Go check out the work of DearCrabby and learn!
You might benefit by less invective and more exposition.
Ok, maybe it was a little too blunt. But it really ruin things for me as a viewer that the recapper keeps calling setups! It’s like saying that Robin Williams doesn’t really fly. We all know that, no need to rub it in our face every five minutes so we actually enjoy watching Hook, know what I mean?
Also, I honestly do believe that a recap should be more than a mere summary with added research on June’s financial situation.
I take immense pleasure in watching Honey Boo Boo. I love this family, I think they have something amazing going on. They are who they are, they love each other and they have plenty of fun together. I would like to see that reflected in the recaps. With more humor.
That said, I am a DearCrabby die-hard fan. She made me love recaps (something I’d never thought I could enjoy) and the fact that Plathaddict has a different style threw me off (which is my problem and shouldn’t be hers).
Anyhoo, I apologize if my message was too harsh. I didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. I was just trying to express an honest opinion.
@Hmmmmmmmmmmm, Now THAT was a comment worthy of reading. You love HBB and thought Plath did the show a disservice, which is just fine for you to say because it is your personal opinion, doesn’t sound harsh, and doesn’t drag the rest of us into it. I love both the Crabby Dear Orange and the PlathApple.
Now stop reading these ‘caps for the sake of your blood pressure. We need healthy Gasmii.
Hahahahhaha
I think I like you, Snowshoecat
*preen*
What’s not to like?
How do you do.
@Jazzy #70,somewhere earlier in the thread I posted a link to the HBB nickname generator. Somehow I found it on FB. I’m too lazy to scroll back up to copy the link–sorry.
@SSC & @Sharon, my late afternoon tonics are always medicinal. Sometimes I find that vodka works better than gin. That faint feeling around 5 PM must be contagious.
If we had had a sofa with cupholders when I was little, I would have thought it was heavenly. We had unsnuggly antiques.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-honey-boo-boo-redeemed-reality-tv/
I wanna have sex with Crazy Tony…I bet he would love a good bj.