Beverly Hills Nannies Finale/Reunion – Cat Scratch Fever

Recaps

By PennyDreadful | Thursday, September 6, 2012 | 4:36 pm | 13 Comments
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The baptism seems like a lovely ritual, filled with singing, incense, a procession, the actual baptism – as Amanda says, it’s like a Broadway production.  Tricia is there, but Justin and Lindsay aren’t.

Of course, the part where the put the child in a giant goblet is a bit disconcerting . . .

I have to say I’m not a big fan of Heifer, but I started to like her in the Finale and Reunion.  She definitely has her obsessions (hello, mammaries!) but seems like a somewhat decent person.  Or she’s getting a better edit.  Win-win anyway.

We go from religious significance to skid row:  Drunky sitting at the bar waiting for Jenny and Brian at Porta Via.  Jenny shares that she saw a finished drink in front of Drunky, along with a fresh one.  As soon as they’re seated, the waitress walks over with a drink from a “gentleman at the bar”.  It’s tequila, neat.  Then the champagne Jenny and Brian ordered arrives.  Drunky says she’s going to be a sloppy mess.   Jenny and Brian already look alarmed.

Think we’ll just stick with water.

Drunky then proceeds to clearly drink, in turn, from all three glasses, and repeatedly.  Reminds me of my drinking days.  Good times . . .

At Brian’s question, Drunky says Kristin knows she has a business degree and doesn’t want to be a nanny all her life, she’d rather work in Kristin’s business.  Jenny shares, indignantly, “Am I the guinea pig?  (Drunky) doesn’t want any part of this, so why would I keep her on?”

Commercial.

We return, but not really, to Lucy calming down one of the kids by jumping around saying “toys”, and saying “Presidents can’t handle screaming but I can”.  Which Presidents?  President Obama?  Bet he can.  President Putin?  You know he can!  KGB has ways!  President David Palmer from 24?  Oh yeah, he can.  So perhaps not too accurate a statement, eh, Lucy?  Poor dear wants to be all politically relevant.

Commercial.

Brian and Jenny discuss the matter while Drunky is likely in the restroom passing out hitting on the guy who sent the drink and decide to fire her.  When Drunky returns they give her some song and dance about loving to hang out with her, but there are too many red flags, they don’t think nannying is in her heart.  Drunky is crying now.  Jenny says, sensibly, “Maybe this is Kristin’s passion”, and says if Drunky turned around and left her children would be crushed.  Drunky weeps “tell the girls I said bye” and leaves in a cab.  It would have been so much cooler if she were in a bus, wouldn’t it?  Weeping gal reeking of booze slumped in a seat – she’d fit right in, in LA’s ace transit system.

Jenny shares that Kristin “really missed the mark on this one and it makes me kind of angry”, and says if Kristin is supposed to be Drunky’s BFF, “how could she not have some sort of knowledge” about all Drunky’s faults?  Oh she knows, Jenny.  She just doesn’t care because making a buck off you is her sole concern.

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13 Comments

  1. 1
    labowner
    Posted September 6, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    I have to ask. What is with the pull a few inches of the top of your hair away from your face look? Is that because they are too afraid of bangs? Don’t look good with them? It looks very silly to me.

    Back to reading

  2. 2
    scout
    Posted September 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    I have to ask, are you friends with Ari or something? You basically glossed over the fact that she was a giant superficial cunt and a terrible person. And for someone so obsessed with how people look her makeup last night was atrocious and her hair absolutely did look like a wig.

  3. 3
    ChaCha
    Posted September 6, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    Agreed, Scout, about Ari’s hair. If that wasn’t a wig, then she should sue someone for giving her the ugliest wig-looking hairdon’t ever.

    I hope that if there is a season 2, Kristin and Drunky will be gone, and it’ll be a Nanny/Lady Sitter company run by Scott, Amanda and Justin.

  4. 4
    kthxbai kthxbai
    Posted September 6, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Kristin and Ari are such a good match for each other! I bet she’d still be there too. If it wasn’t for this show. So she should go back.

    Then in season 2 Ari could call up Justin’s lady sitting rogues to do her makeup and plan parties etc. You know his company will be super popular. So his big challenge every week can be finding somebody Kristin and Ari both like!

    Amber might not be 100% ready for the working world yet. But once she is she’ll be better suited to stuff like interviewing people than baby sitting. There might be some jobs Justin could send her on though.

    But on the condition that she moves back home 1st. So she can learn stuff like how to manage $. And not agreeing to a pay cut the day your car gets repo’d.

  5. 5
    Helena Handbasket
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 5:17 am

    I didn’t think Amber was all that bad. Kind of hard to defend her regarding the Nicki Minaj “interview that never was”, though…

  6. 6
    Stumblebum
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 8:15 am

    I TOTALLY agree with the posting that you must be friend’s with Ari. You completely bashed Amber, but didn’t call out Ari for her disgusting behavior. She seems like a really SHITTY person and I’m surprised that you just “glossed over” her awfulness.

  7. 7
    PennyDreadful
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 8:22 am

    No, I don’t know Ari, have never met her and have no connection with her. I just liked her, that’s all. YMMV, which is why we welcome your comments!

  8. 8
    jp
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 9:13 am

    @PennyDreadful Hah yeah I thought you might be friends with her too since she has commented on this site before too. I liked her most episodes. I think she should fire whoever did her up for this show though, the get-up was pretty bad.

    I LOVE reunion shows with inexperienced reality stars, they divulge way more than they are supposed to and it makes me happy :)

    Uhmmm what was up with that email and the Cindy thing? One of my friends belives they actually slept together but I don’t think so. I just think she went WAY out of her way to embarrass the poor guy. It was a little weird how that was strung together.

    I am so so happy that Justin and Lindsey are bestest buddies who go on vacation together!

    Interested to see if there is a 2nd season and who ends up being on there.

    I feel bad for the shawn guy. He isnt on or off the show… just awkwardly there.

  9. 9
    labowner
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 10:20 am

    JP I wondered if the families that Shayla and Sean work for said no to filming and that is why they didn’t get much air time.

    Why does Jenny look so familiar to me? Ari – you have tons of money. Why the cupie doll look? Heif you grew on me. You are harmless, but contain no filters. I see Tricia is in Heif’s circle of moms who think nannies should get paid around $15 an hour.

    So glad things worked out for Justin. I believe he fits so well because it is like his home growing up – he was the only boy. I am sure Marshall was iffy until he found out Justin is gay. No competition.

    Was Kristin pushed out of the nanny job at Cindy’s? Where is she currently working. Wonder why Ross didn’t ask her that.

    I hope after this airing Amanda is in high demand and gets another family that pays her more.

    Amber – wow you give shit to Kristin for bull shitting and you were doing the same thing. Tackey

    Professional tip – cut down on the drinking off hours. I know you like to unwind, but it seems that is all these nannies do in their free time.

    Is Lucy still with the nutty boy friend? I guess I could spy on her FB page, but too lazy.

    Congrats on your new show Penny. Please get rid of your cats stat if you start thinking about suicide. How crazy is that?

    Kirstin – if your story were true, way to advertise to every guy you got some nasty ass habits.

  10. 10
    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    Oh, damn. I’m going to finish reading the recaps and comments, but first I have to get something off my chest…PD, I’m stunned, even after watching Ari on the reunion show, you continue to find reasons to defend her – she’s a HORRIBLE human being, one of those nasty elitist twats who cares nothing about anyone but herself. Every single nanny appeared to feel the same way, and even Ross was obviously repulsed by her. He pretty much came right out and said it.

    Okay, I should go back to reading. I just had to rant. I adore Amber and am fine with her crappy “reviews” in the recaps, but the Ari thing was too much :-)

    Oh, and I haven’t gotten to where its likely talked about in the recap, but I totes believe Maggie that that bitchy ass “I’ll ruin you” mother created drama for a invite next season. That woman’s another mean girl.

    Oh shit there’s one more thing (and apologies to all if this has been discussed in the ‘cap or comment), but Ari was obviously wearing a wig to the trained eye :-) It didn’t fit her very well, either.

  11. 11
    Layla
    Posted September 8, 2012 at 5:58 am

    After seeing this season, with the big fat cherry on top being Kristen’s litter box story, why would anyone let her be responsible for who nannies their children??

    The reunion show made me warm up to Heif, but Ari was terrible. It was almost as if she tried extra hard to be an elitest jerk with the “cute accessory” comment and thought the other moms might back her.

    Jenny really looked like Jen Aniston’s much older sister that wears too much make up.

    It’s no wonder to me that Maggie and Kristen have been BFFs for so long….both seem like miserable human beings.

  12. 12
    darlingclementine
    Posted September 9, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    @Layla good description of Jenny.

    Heif did end up being an alright lady. Still would not want to be her child though!

    I think Justin gets paid more than Amanda probably mostly because he looks after more kids than she does. When I babysit I have different rates for different numbers of kids so that would make sense in this situation too. One kid when the mom is around all the time isn’t that hard at all. Just because of the extra assistant stuff and the fact that it is BH, you would think that she would get paid at least $20 an hour though.

  13. 13
    Truetexan
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    Does anyone else think that Ari looked like one of the simpering girls who hang on Gaston in Beauty and the Beast? The plastic looking hair, the dress….

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