Million Dollar Listing LA Recap: So Much Poopy

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By PopePhilly | Saturday, August 4, 2012 | 11:34 am | 22 Comments
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One of the brokers tells JA that she thinks he’s a little on the higher side when it comes to price (drink!). Two more brokers tell him that the price is too high (drink twice!). 

Madison is at a private showing at Chris’s property. He’s gotten a lot of new interest. That was a pretty short and boring segment.

We come back to JF. He’s with Joshua and Adrian, his intern and his assistant respectively. Adrian is sent to get soy milk while Joshua is going over a few things with JF about the Rodeo Drive property. JA wants to send out an email blast to all his clients who may find the house to be a good fit. Joshua tells us that he’s wearing Givenchy. I wish I could be an unpaid intern and still afford to wear Givency. Not really. I’ve never had a need to own designer clothes. I just wish I had the money to do it if I wanted to. 

I’m guessing trust fund. 

And more JA. Dammit. He’s holding a private showing at John’s property. JA tells us that there is nothing more annoying to an agent than selling a house that is overpriced (drink!). I don’t think that’s the most annoying this for an agent. I bet JF would be able to tell us that having other agents make a scene and throw drinks at people during an open house is waymore annoying. 

Then John shows up and pulls a move even douchier than his last one. He pulls up in his white limousine, rolls down the window, and just says, “Get in. ” I can’t even deal with this anymore. This man could top Heather and JA combined when it comes to douchebaggery. JA explains to John that they’re just not getting any offers at the current price. If John wants to sell this house, it needs to be priced at $3.4 million. I wish I could put into words how obnoxious this entire interaction is.

JF has had a lot of traffic on the Rodeo Drive property. Once again, a lot of the agents are worried about the floor plan. The single bedroom on the second floor is a deal breaker for people with kids. Then JA shows up. JF utters the best sentence of all time when he says, “I’ve nailed the furniture down so you or your girlfriend can’t throw it at someone.” Yes! I love JF even more than I did 30 seconds ago! 

This is JF’s forced smile.

JA apologizes for what happened at JF’s open house. Why the hell is JA following the other agents around? I get it that he’s a real estate agent and may have a client who would be interested in the Rodeo Drive property. However, in light of what he did at JF’s open house, maybe he’d be smart to just stay away. I guess we can never accuse JA of being too smart. 

Madison and Aaron are back at Chris’s studio to give him an update the house. There are no new offers, but the first buyers are still there. They’ve come back at $6 million. Chris still seems rather pissed at this offer (drink!).

JF is meeting with Ina about the Rodeo Drive property. She has an offer for $2.9 million, all cash, and a 10-day closing. JF calls Sandy to see if the offer is acceptable. 

Back to Madison and Aaron. This show needs to stop it with the short segments. These three-sentence paragraphs are driving me nuts. Chris explains that he’s not happy about the offer being $1 million under where they started (drink!). Madison explains that if Chris wants to wait for a better offer, they’ll wait. Aaron tells him that, in this market, they can’t guarantee that there will be more offers on the house. Reluctantly, Chris agrees to sell the house for $6 million.

JA leaves his house pissed at Madison. Apparnetly, Madison thinks that Heather is running around town bad mouthing him. Why the fuck is JA going to take care of this? Heather is an adult and probably should be handling this herself. I think I’d have a little more respect for both of them if they just acted like adults.

Not that JA could have less respect from me.

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PopePhilly

Aside from making fun of reality television on a weekly basis, PopePhilly is a legal assistant by day and avid kickball player by night (well, at least on Thursdays). On the nerd front, she is an active member of the forensic speech and debate community. She spends her time judging at tournaments throughout the country and serving on the board of directors for the West Chester University alumni chapter of Pi Kappa Delta (yes, speech nerds get to pretend to be cool by having Greek letters).

22 Comments

  1. 1
    debbie hedges
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    I think the reason JA is so mad at Madison is this: he didn’t realize that he was going to end up supporting Heather! All of a sudden she prob is not making any money and he is footing the bill. Visits to the hair salon, mani-pedis, car payment etc. This is why he is hounding Madison to pay Heather money Madison does not owe to her! Yes, JA is tired of supporting her but what’s he gonna do? If he breaks up with her he looks really bad. He’s stuck with her and he knows it.

  2. 2
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    From the looks of things, Heather does appear to be the unemployed, live-in girlfriend. I’ve forgotten if the condo she and JA were listing together (the listing that caused Madison to fire her) was shown on the show as having sold. Supposedly, if JA and Heather did a good job, the owner of the building was gonna give Heather her very own listing to sell.

  3. 3
    hlesczyn
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    I was always team JA (sorry). In the past – he always seemed to be the only one selling or working or something – I don’t know. He is shed in a different life this time around it’s unfortunate.

  4. 4
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    I found some website that is called something like celeberty net wort. It lists Madison as having the most $$ something like 14 million and the 2 Josh’s as having 3 and 31/2 million each. I think Josh Flag could care less who has more money ..( I got A Simple Girl today!!! and I haven’t stopped reading it ..I am done with her story and put the book down for the rest of the day/night ..will read about Holland and WW11 the last section of the book next), because in A Simple Girl Edith stated(more than once )..it isn’t money that interested her..and her parents taught her to be humble which she passed onto her son (and I am sure to her step granddaughter and Josh as well). The more Josh grows up the more humble he seems
    …but JA another story ..he is out to sell his mother, Heather anyone to make a buck I am sure.
    I think there are many reasons the shit smelling bully tries to pick on Madison.. 1) Madison is better looking. 2) Madison has a nicer body 3) Madison has a nice family
    ….and last but not least Madison has about 14 million!!!!LOL!!!!

  5. 5
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 5:38 pm

    @TV Junkie: I’m glad you got the book! It’s so good. There is a part near the end where she gets her “revenge” on the Nazis. That part moved me to tears! Also, there are some REALLY funny parts after she makes her fortune – mainly because money never interested her. I just submitted my “TVgasm Investigates” piece on the book. It should be up soon.

    JA seems like he’s the type of guy who always gets what he wants. When something doesn’t go the way he thinks it should go, he gets insecure. That was so clear in all of his interactions with Madison. When Madison doesn’t back down, JA just starts throwing and temper tantrum and tosses out insults.

  6. 6
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    Wow. I’m apparently not literate today. “Throwing a temper tantrum…”

  7. 7
    awfuleyebrow
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    I love JF’s over the top desk chair. It makes me laugh every time they show him in it. I always think of those old SNL clips with Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosannadanna. Or however that should be speller.

    I thoroughly enjoyed JA getting called out on his unprofessional attire by that douchey guy. What kind of an idiot takes advice on professional deportment and comportment from their unemployed drink tossing girlfriend? Is he going to let her cut his hair next?

  8. 8
    Iona Trailer
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 8:33 am

    JA seems the type that he doesn’t like gay men showing him up. That could be another reason why he resorts to insults to Madison. Madison was still very under control on WWHL with Miss Andy. However, what was up with JF’s hair?

  9. 9
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:40 am

    I love the part where Edith becomes a nurse and dresses in the “nurse uniform” What a great way to run her “bussiness” under the Natzi’s noses…I don’t remember the revenge part , but I am going to reread it. I felt badly for her having to have others raise her baby in hiding..I can not even imange what she was going through at that time…and still putting outhers first and saving lives!
    I also loved the part where she was told by her accountant to buy herself a Rolls( that she didn’t want)..I love the fact that after she went to the showroom and the salesman was so bitchy to her and wouldn’t give her the time of day..she and her husband bought one the very next day! No one tells Edith no ..like no one puts baby in the corner!

  10. 10
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:43 am

    I wonder if JA is so “afraid of ” Madison and picks on him is because he is attracted to him???
    I also belive that his puffly cheeks are puffy, because they are filled with the shit he spits out every time he talks…also notice that Heather’s cheeks and face have been getting puffier too..now it’s back to Edith time….

  11. 11
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:44 am

    @TV Junkie: The “revenge” part was such a huge part. She and Josh were in South America (I can’t remember which country) around Hanukkah. People from a nearby synagogue came out and started dancing in the streets to celebrate. When she and Josh got up and started dancing, she said that enjoying her life was her revenge.

    I also love the part when she’s in the elevator in her building getting ready to take out her dry cleaning. When a man got in and looked at the way she was dressed, he said, “The help is supposed to use the service elevator.” When they got downstairs, he walked over to the Rolls Royce that the valet had brought up and the valet just said, “No, sir. This is Mrs. Flagg’s car.” Then she got in and drove away. She is the shit.

  12. 12
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:49 am

    OMG I can’t stop..I also loved it when she was in her building elevator with her dry cleaning and a bandanna in her hair and some snotty man told her that there is another elevator for the help..did Edith tell him off??? NOPE she just said something like “I know” and got into her Rolls in front of him ( after he thought it was his rolls….since he apparently had the same car)
    I can’t wait for the new thread on the book to start up..so many stories…what a wonderful family!

  13. 13
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:52 am

    OMG PP We were writing at the same time! I do remember that part in BA…wonderful I would like to see more dancing on the show..Perhaps Josh F. could dance and push Josh A. off the “stage”
    Let us not forget how the people in the building thught she was a little nutty…her cabbage stuffed with lox hanging outside…She must have a little gypsy blood..no one has that much spirit and spunk
    Bye for now

  14. 14
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 11:35 am

    “. . . and the salesman was so bitchy to her and wouldn’t give her the time of day..she and her husband bought one the very next day!”

    I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t love to see a haughty, condescending salesman get his comeuppance. Please tell me that some other salesman got the commission, though.

  15. 15
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 11:49 am

    @crankyguy: I don’t remember if it was a different salesman or not, but the story was great! Edith and Eric (her husband) go back to the dealer. Eric tells a salesman they want to buy a Rolls Royce and he says they’re almost closing. Eric just says tells the salesman that they better go start the paperwork right away then!

  16. 16
    hutchlover
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    I wonder if JA is really insecure? Why else would he take advice from douchy Heather, when he’s always dressed to the nines. And the way he made poor Mikey dress!

    And I can’t believe I’m defending Heather here, but we only know Madison’s side of the “slander” story. I’m not saying it isn’t true, but part of the reason JA & Heatherwere so upset, could be that madison is making up stories as well. While I admire Madison for the way he’s handled himself, he does exagerate. He told his mother that Heather threw a drin in his face – not true.

    All these clients latetely are really douchy & assholes. They really need to get better cluents to agree to be on the show. Only JF seems to have some luck w/clients that aren’t as bad.

  17. 17
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    @hutchlover: I hope we get to hear Heather’s side of the story too. Not that it would make me respect her more, but it would at least make things even. I’m also curious about what her contract said. If it said she was not allowed to contact Madison’s clients once she no longer worked for him, then Madison is doing the proper thing by getting legal advice.

  18. 18
    katie
    Posted August 6, 2012 at 10:40 am

    So JF’s client was so private that she didn’t want brokers’ opens and people wandering through her house, but she was okay with a reality show being filmed there? That makes sense…

  19. 19
    labowner
    Posted August 6, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    Katie it just stops the lookie loos and time wasters.

  20. 20
    Quinn
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    Uh , yeah,labowner you’re wrong as in Cali real estate you’ve got to be preapproved in a price range to look so….btw, lmao @ Katie’s comment. I could go on a real diatribe about reality t v and how even it’s very low bar has sunk but….I’ll stay on topic! I think j a’s prob is typical of most straight guys. He is uncomfortable in his skin and therefore dealing with Madison is a challenge as well because madison is gay. He’s even antsy around j f andto m o j f is the most tolerable of the 3( keeping the scenario in mind here , reality t v) . They’ve all got something to gain by the show so let’s be honest . I can see, feel, smell those issues with straight guys right away. I’m in the business ( real estate but very much in reality and in NYC at that)…

  21. 21
    Sara Emilie
    Posted September 13, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    I know the type of person Heather is. She think ONLY money, thats why she betrade her Madison for Josh in the first place- she smelled money and sucess. Also in yhe episode when Josh walk out of a client, because they disagree on the price …she push and push to make him call the custumer and ask him directly.. do u want your EGO/pride to be in the way for 100.000dollars. I dont care money-my boyfriend´s repetation and pride is more important. She is all Madison said and i think the job and money,tv gets to her head, she think she is more than she is. To me she is a inmature BITCH. Please Heather look in the mirrow, do some reflections

  22. 22
    Stephen Cogan
    Posted January 30, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    Sandy is Sandra Murphy. As in the murderess Sandra Murphy from the mid 90s who helped kill Ted Binion. Total B&(%H

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