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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Tagged: April Fool's, F-Bombs, funny, humor, kody brown, reality, reality show, recaps, road trip, sarcastic, sister wives, tvgasm, utah
Greetings Gasmii, and welcome to part TWO of the Sister Wives June 10 recap! I meant to get this up last night, but there is some sports nonsense going on in my hood that created crazy traffic and it took me almost two hours to get home (it normally takes me 35 minutes). SCREW YOU SPORTS!
This episode centers around my favorite Browns, the TEENS (or Brown Cohort A, whichever you prefer). It’s Spring Break and since they’re not fans of ARIs (Alcohol-Related Incident, a commonly-used acronym for the Baldy family), Logan, Mariah, Madison and Hunter are road tripping back to Utah!
“We’re goin, goin, back, back to Lehi, Lehi! REPRESENT!”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: these kids are AWESOME! Even though they had no time to process the fact that they had to drop everything and move to Vegas, and even though they hate Vegas, they’re coming to terms with it and being as mature about it as possible. To me, that’s extraordinary. My parents moved me from California to a small town in Arizona when I was in junior high and you know when I finally came to terms with it? Never! I’m happily residing in California now. As for my time in Arizona, I dressed and acted in a manner that screamed “FUCK YOU PARENTS!” for years after we moved.
Enough about me. ROAD TRIP! The episode opens on Janelle’s teens packing their bags. Hunter gives Madison a hard time about packing more than him.
“Not everyone wears the same pair of underwear for a week, Hunter.”
What’s on the agenda for Spring Break 2012? Hiking and hanging out with friends and family. Whoa! Buckle up because it’s going to be a crazy ride in Utah! Or not. If there’s ever a “Polygamist Spring Break” movie on DVD, I have a feeling a lot of perverts are going to be disappointed.
Kody informs us that the teens are going to visit the house they grew up in back in Utah. If you’re a long-time viewer of the show, you remember their ginormous house that had areas for the three wives and their kids (Robyn lived in a different house). Kody is hoping that this doesn’t upset them.. Me too! Props to Kody for being concerned about his kids’ emotional wellbeing.
I know they’re siblings at all, but letting four teens road trip by themselves? That’s an awful lot of freedom! I certainly would not have been allowed the same privilege. Before you can accuse the Browns of lax parenting, we get to see Janelle tell Hunter that there is no way the parents would allow them to do this if there wasn’t family all along the way and at their final destination. That makes much more sense; the road to Utah is lined with parental informants. As if these four would get into any real trouble!
In typical teenage contrarian form, Hunter says they’re going to California for Spring Break next year. THAT’S how he’s pushing his mom’s buttons? These parents are so lucky.
“We’ll try not to get anyone pregnant or arrested!” said no Brown teen ever.
Meri and Janelle see off their teens and acknowledge how weird it feels to let them go on this trip unsupervised. They grow up so fast, amirite?.
This is the perfect segway to remind us why the Browns moved to Vegas in the first place. In a nutshell, THE MAN was investigating the Browns for bigamy and other crimes. Not wanting to risk their family being split up and imprisonment for Kody, they decided to hightail it to Vegas – literally. Once the decision was made, they were out of their house in mere days. None of the kids had time to come to terms with what was happening before it was already over.
As we’ve seen all season, living in four houses is taking a huge toll on the family. The kids, especially the adolescents, are not just suffering from the separation. They’ve left behind their friends and their youth culture. When you’re an adult, adapting is hard but not impossible. When you’re a teen, it feels like life is OVER. Moving means a new school, a new social hierarchy with a new set of rules about what is cool and what’s not.
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GAAAGH! The sentence that starts “Kody’s favorite thing about My Sister Wife’s Closet” is supposed to have strikethrough font where is says “is that it was Robyn’s idea.” Teachable moment – don’t proofread in a hurry.
Carry on
Actually, LB – I thought the part about everyone being really excited about it was what was supposed to have the strikethrough. Ha!
So, if this is how Christine reacts when the kid *says* “fuck”, will her head explode when he stops saying it and starts doing it? Actually, I think that Logan probably wouldn’t do anything that would disappoint his parents, but those two brothers that started kicking each other’s ass – you know the girls will fall all over the tough guys and they’ll be able to get a little sumthin’ sumthin’.
And did we only see Janelle’s Utah house? What about the other sides? Who lives there now? Do they still own it? Now that THE MAN isn’t out to get them just for that and they can’t seem to find 4 empty plots together in the middle of the friggin’ desert, will they move back? I need answers, yo!
One other thing – how is Robin handling the bulk of this episode not being about her? I hope she hasn’t taken to her room and has become dehydrated from all the tears she shed.
@chickenlips…Not possible. She keeps LIV products by her bed, in her purse, diaper bag, & her lady parts, so since it helped Truly stop throwing up because she was always dehydrated, she has a good chance of survival.
@Fancyface – Oh my sugar, I can’t believe I forgot about LIV. How could I be so dumb?! LIV keeps you hydrated and removes the sting when the attention isn’t on you constantly. Boy, I wish I could get myself some LIV. Think the Family Brown might be able to hook a sista up? =)
I’ve got a theory that a lot of networks have been trying to decide if “fuck” is enough like “butt” and “boobs” yet to quit beeping it out. Because this week between getting featured on this show and The Bachelorette you can find a lot of people talking about it.
And just like you’d expect it’s mostly older religious people that even notice it anymore. Plus it’s gotten so international that you can say
“that fucker was so fucked it wouldn’t fucking do fuck till those fuckers spent all fucking night fucking around with it and now it’s like fucking new so for fuck’s sake get the fuck away from it and don’t fuck it up again”
and everybody in the world will understand it. Even if English isn’t on even their little bit list.
Kthxy, I really do wish that you would watch your language. I mean REALLY. I simply cannot tell you exactly how fucking offended I am.
Hmmmmmmph.
My grandpa would swear in German and it sounded so much better than in English. And merde has such a lovely ring to it. Scheiss sounds like a skiing term.
It won’t be long before fuck will be as accepted as damn or hell.
Unless a language police takes over if we become too conservative.
As a battle-scarred veteran of teen acting out, I am so impressed with the Brownlets. They are such amazing kids, and I am sure they aren’t following a script. It’s just too natural.
Think I’ll go shopping for a couple of sister wives.
It appeared that the Utah house is still in the family – I believe one of Meri’s sister’s owns it now if I recall the captions correctly.
I LOVE Janelle! Her parenting skills are awesome. I think she needs her own show – imagine Janelle teaching Teresa Guidice how to control Milania. I would pay to see that!
I agree….. I want answers too. Plus, I can’t believe that they cant find them a builder for one big house. Maybe the wives don’t want it anymore.
Ooh @Closet fan good point. I had wondered the same thing but never considered they don’t WANNA. Now that I think about it the wives have all mentioned (this or maybe last season) they thoroughly enjoy their OWN homes.
Awesome recap, BTW!!!
I kinda pride myself on my parentingskills– but I would so send both of my teenage boys to janelle-land if it meant they’d turn out like her kids. Even hunter,who struggled so much with the move, seems like he’s going to be okay. This show wouldtotally be watchable were it not for k-douche. I’m even sor of starting to like Robyn.
LB PLEASE hurry with last night’s recap (6/17). Meri said something awesome and I want to see if you caught it!