Tough Love N.O. Recap: Return of the Creeps

Tough Love

By Luscious | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 5:00 pm | 8 Comments
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Greetings Gasmii! I’m back from a Nor’easter tour of family, friends and a wedding. Did you miss me?

I hope so, but I’m really glad I went. The wedding I attended would give any girl who never thought she could get married hope. My cousin skidded into marriage just under the wire of turning 50!

There was no way the Professor and I could miss such a momentous event.

(No, that’s not my cousin!)

And here’s more good news for those of you women who can identify with the girls on Tough Love and think you’ll never find Mr. Right… when you do (and you will), your family will come from all ends of the earth to see the miracle of your love. So don’t lose faith; just save lots of money because everyone will come and it will be not only a celebration of your nuptials, but a family reunion not seen in half a century!

It could happen anytime.

And your big day will still be just as poignant and beautiful.

Anyway, thanks so much to Sugarbush who covered the meet the parent’s episode. Her insights were fun to read and I especially loved her spot on point about a man’s idea of romance. Thanks also to VH1 who decided to run a re-run of Tough Love the second week I was gone. I was bummed to think I would be missing out on the Ex’s episode, a favorite every season, but timing and luck would have it that I get to be the one to talk about the best (or worst) challenge the girls have to face. So let’s see how this season’s crop of woeful women juggled their new men and their old baggage.

As the show begins, Steve calls the girls downstairs to talk about the ex factor.

 

I’d like to talk about the creative make-up the show keeps using.

Of course, the girls are in absolute dread of what could be next.

 

Some are defeated.

Some are scared.

Melissa just chews her cud.

Steve tells the girls this season they will be doing something different. Steve whips out voodoo dolls, which might explain his witch doctor make-up and instructs the girls to use the dolls to exorcise the demons of their past loves by stabbing out the pain.

Seriously, do they not have blending sponges?
Steve might want to save a doll for the make-up department.

Shalana goes first and starts stabbing her doll with a rhythm akin to sex. As she routinely pierces the poor little doll, she talks about how men have always sold her dreams and lies and she’s pretty sure that is all she has to look forward to for the rest of her life.

Should we be worried?
I’m pretty sure pale lips are a symptom of ingesting poison.

Danielle goes next and the waterworks start as she remembers the man who stomped on her heart. She never wanted to have a kid out of wedlock, but after things didn’t work out with the babydaddy, she trusted her heart to another who failed her and broke her son’s heart too.

Her son still axes where the bastard is.

Steve is shocked by Danielle’s vulnerable and non-vulgar side.

Steph wordlessly adds a new tattoo to one of her scumbag exes.
Despina looks like she tossed her doll as she does men.

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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
    BSparky
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Missed you, Luscious! It just wasn’t the same without your recap of the show. Just gotta wonder if the make-up artist had an eye patch on that day, don’t ya?!? Love how you used the telestrator technique to point out the flaws! lol

  2. 2
    labowner
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    Oh my gawd. Going home, but thanks for the snarky comments under the pictures. Will read the full recap tomorrow. You are great Luscious. Glad you had fun at the wedding.

  3. 3
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    Gah! I always hate the exes episode. Yes, you can run into an ex anywhere. However, you usually don’t run into them at your own house where you are hanging out with the person you’re currently seeing. In real life, if you see an ex, it’s usually in a place where you can say a quick hello and then walk away (if it’s in public like a restaurant or store or whatnot) or simply ignore them for the night (say at a party at a mutual friend’s place).

    Rant over. Thanks.

  4. 4
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 2:27 am

    Welcome back, Luscious!
    I’m glad you had fun at the wedding and congrats to your cousin!

    Paul was disgusting. I wanted to pick up Elizabeth and throw her silly ass through the wall for taking so long to tell him to get the hell out. I don’t even understand how she could sit there and feel anything for Paul after experiencing Carl. That’s like someone crying over their rusty old bike after being gifted a Lamborghini. Just foolish.

    And the exes episode is actually one of my favorites. It always yields some of the juiciest moments (I wish to GOD Tiffany had made it to the ex episode…can you imagine her ex(?)-husband telling that story about her stabbing his then-pregnant wife?) and it’s a good litmus test for seeing how much the girls have really changed. Also, I think it’s a good chance for them to concretely see the difference between the kinds of men they’ve been with versus the kinds of men they need to be with, and to see the difference between how they feel when they’re with these men. Like even when a lady is dating a bad guy, she can fool herself into thinking that she’s happy and enjoying it. But after dating a good guy and genuinely being happy, it’s probably easier to tell that the happy feelings with the bad guy weren’t real.
    That’s how it should have been with Elizabeth, except for that she’s a dodo bird and didn’t quite get the point.
    I think the lesson wasn’t lost on Stephanie and Shalana though….their exes were super-douches.

  5. 5
    Amanda
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 6:17 am

    Everytime I see the ‘best of show’ graphic in the recaps I read it as ‘best IN show.’ As if Tough Love Boot Camp is the Westminster dog show.

    I wondered what the hell was up with Chris’s comment about Melissa not being a virgin anymore. Poor guy heres to hoping that he didn’t think getting kissed is the same thing as losing ones virginity.

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    Yvonne
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    I felt bad for Elizabeth but I also wanted to slap her. Shalana should have slapped Omar. I wasn’t too convinced about Aubrey but after I saw how he handled that loser Omar I like him.

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    labowner
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Boo the ex episode means the show is coming to an end. I wish Steve did a recap with the girls from the prior seasons so see how well they have held up their end of the bargain. I can’t believe there isn’t therapy involved for these ladies as the obviously need it.

    Don’t think I could ever have such a reaction to any ex of mine. I don’t get it, but I guess that is why they are on this show.

    Elizabeth in jail? No farking way. Wonder if the other girls thought she was a working girl?

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    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted June 16, 2012 at 7:21 am

    It is just so painful to see these sweet, vulnerable girls suffer. I truly believe that this show isn’t scripted, just an honest program about lives being healed. No drama. No fighting. Just supportive comrades.
    Painful, but uplifting.

    I wish them all, not luck, but success.

    Funny, I recalled seeing my ex. I was at an art fair with a friend, with my year old kitten in a stroller.

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