Tough Love N.O. Recap: Family Time

Tough Love

By Luscious | Thursday, June 21, 2012 | 9:07 am | 8 Comments
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Greetings Gasmii!

This is it – the last episode before the finale. What do you think about our Louisiana Losers at Love? Are they ready to be launched into the real world and do they stand a chance at eternal happiness? My spidey senses still say no and Steve must feel the same way, since this week he decided to test their new education by thrusting them back into their home environments while dragging their dates with them.  I’m sorry to say I don’t think things look good for many of these match ups, but only time will tell. So let’s get down to business and see what happened when the real world collided with our Tough Love bootcamp girls.

The episode picks up with the girls calling their Tough Love Lab Experiments and inviting them to meet their families in their hometowns. Nothing too exciting happens except poor Melissa doesn’t know how to end her conversation with Chris, so she concludes by saying she will “pop his Boston cherry.”

 

Maybe he’ll just think I’m a comic genius.

Yeah, it’s possible.

Danielle is still all confused about the emotions that were brought up with seeing Kevin (her kid’s babydaddy). So JoAnne sits her down for a talk to try to straighten out her head. JoAnne’s advice is to confront Kevin with the idea and see what he says so she can move forward one way or another or something like that. I’m not really paying attention because I’ve just realized the girls are probably living in squalor with only a facade of a gorgeous mansion in the parts that are typically on film.

 

Someone forgot to close the door to a real part of the house.

So everyone flies to their respective homes and the first couple we follow is Donna and George. Well, really the guy’s name is Chris, but since we already have a Chris, I like to call him George. In the last few eps I’ve been referring to his as George Herbert Walker, but today I discovered I had my presiden’t mixed up and what I really meant was George Walker. How is it no reader ever caught that? Maybe we all share the same opinion that a Bush is a Bush….

 

This resemblance is uncanny.

Donna isn’t worried about her mother and brother meeting George W, since she has already met George Sr. and Barbara (which the show completely skips over in the meet the folks episode). But then George is introduced to Donna’s mom, spitfire Sheila, who immediately informs George that Donna usually dates men significantly younger.


Forget her, honey. I will rock your world.

Back off, Mom! This one has clean sperm and it’s all mine!

Honey, you’re too neurotic to keep him.
Let me just live out a little presidential fantasy and then he’s all yours…

Elizabeth is back in New Jersey and her first order of business is to find Paul and make sure he understands that she won’t be getting back together with him. Paul starts a trend that appears to be a statewide phenomenon in New Jersey: never answering the phone. Since he won’t take her calls, Liz writes him a Dear John letter and makes it clear she will be starting over and becoming independent after she gets out of bootcamp. She says writing the letter lifted a huge weight off of her. But I’m saddened to realize Elizabeth is in her home town, where her family still lives

and she has to stay in a hotel.

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Luscious just got back from a one year backpacking trip around the world with her husband (TVgasm fill-in specialist, The Professor). She spends her days writing, knitting and sewing. She's only good at one of those hobbies, not saying which.  Her secret dream is to write romance novels and have critics say her brilliance is wasted on such a pointless genre. Also, she'd like to create a pair of pajamas for her niece where the sleeves actually work.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    LyndaB
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 11:19 am

    These are just the best recaps….. my gut always hurts from laughing so hard.

    Alas, poor Elizabeth. Although she “seems” to be coming around, I don’t see how that girl can give up her bling and roses long-term. She’s a hot mess, that one is.

    I’ve been a huge fan of Tough Love since the first episode. Usually, this far into bootcamp I can make a fair estimation of who will stay together, who will go back to their old ways and who has at least learned something. I’m just not sure this time around. They all give me reason to doubt.

  2. 2
    Patty
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you for also recognizing Donna’s date looks like George W! I thought I was the only one! I feel so bad for Elizabeth; I hope she gives Carl a chance because he seems to be a really together and caring guy. Great recaps!

  3. 3
    labowner
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    Oh My GAWD I almost cried when Elizabeth couldn’t get a hold of anyone in her family. I am putting my support behind her seeing it isn’t the bling, it’s the small moments, like him bringing her breakfast after a shitty evening. And if she doesn’t want him, I do.

    Danielle – what the fuck chickee? Steve, JW and Danielle’s mom need to get together and slap some sense into her. Although I am assuming mom has cracked her upside the head for the way she was talking throughout her adventure.

    Stephanie is looking better and better with less makeup. You are right Luscious, why hasn’t Steve mentioned the gobs of makeup on Elizabeth. Another reason to believe he is trying to keep her for himself….. ha. My male friend thinks he is gay because his pants were so tight during panel. :)

    And does Donna’s man dump her or do you think we are being set up?

    Thanks for the enjoying and very funny ride Luscious.

  4. 4
    BSparky
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    Can’t believe this is your next to last re-cap for the show. I’ll miss your snarky humor. It always makes me laugh! “Let me just live out a little presidential fantasy and then he’s all yours…”–hystrical! Keep up the good work and thanks!!

  5. 5
    sardini
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 7:57 am

    I can’t believe this season is almost over! I totally agree with the GWB comparison, my husband and I have been saying that all along.

    I felt so bad for Elizabeth, too. Like I wanted to cry. But, I have to wonder what the full story is. I think there is a lot more that we’re not hearing. Why else would not ONE person show up? And did I hear right that she has a twin? You have to mess up pretty bad for your twin to disown you!

  6. 6
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 10:05 am

    @sardini stole the words right out of my mouth.
    Elizabeth had to have done something. Even if her family were complete douchebags, there’s no way that not ONE person would text or show up. They would write back, even if just to say “haha, we’re not coming”. For them to completely ignore her, including her twin sister, she must have done something. Either she didn’t tell anyone the whole story or the producers are keeping it from us so that she can seem more sympathetic. I did feel bad for her though, because that must have been so horrible and shitty to go through.
    Also, has anyone ever seen Elizabeth without her makeup? Maybe Carl didn’t show up that early, but dang…her makeup was done, hair freshly blown out…who has time for alladat?

    Interesting that Despina was Miss Mass.
    She’s completely the opposite of what I would think a beauty queen would be. I bet the other contenders for the title were mad when she won.

    I forgot that Stephanie was husband-hungry until she mentioned that thing about Good John. They are so cute together though, and I was happy to see that Stephanie laughing at how foolish she looked on that bull. She almost had a meltdown the last time she had to make a fool of herself, so I call that progress.

    This season has been weird as hell.
    Usually, you feel confident that the girls have learned and changed alot, but this season, I feel like very little has been accomplished.

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    spinal11
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 11:19 am

    It may not be that Elizabeth’s family disowned her, but just that they either didn’t approve of her coming on the show or didn’t want to appear on camera. It’s not exactly your typical “meet my new boyfriend” situation, and if her family is as obsessed with keeping up appearances as she implied on many occasions, I’m not surprised that they wanted nothing to do with the charade of a reality show.

    And it is a charade. The challenges have way more to do with watching these women act silly on TV, than helping them change any of their issues. If I had trouble finding love this show would be the last option I would turn to. The vast majority of women are only on here for publicity.

  8. 8
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 8:41 am

    By this point in the show I hate one person, but I’m actually rooting all of these women on.

    I felt bad for Danielle. The vague answer is worse than a yes or no.

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