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


Melissa’s former crush Jeff is happy to be on tv, but he isn’t quite sure why he’s here. He figures out that she’s never had a boyfriend and she feels him out to find out why he kept suggesting they go out for drinks but never did.

Because I’m a flirt and I was being nice, Melissa.

Luckily, Melissa accepts he’s not interested and says she knows better than to waste her time with someone who might be able to give her the vagina tingles but won’t be getting any ball buzz in return. Surprisingly, Melissa admits to Jeff that she was seeing a nice guy and made a mistake by giving him the boot, but that she’s trying to get him back. Steve is pleased with her ability to be straight forward and actually prevent an awkward situation.

Despina is still out on the street waiting for an ex to show up.

Sadly, Steve tells her no one is coming for her, since the only men she’s ever known have felt so chewed up and spit out by her that none of them wanted to come. He can only suggest she go in the house and join the others.

Woo hoo, man eating is fun!

Danielle is talking to Kevin, her baby’s daddy. It actually turns out that he’s cute and sweet. He asks her direct questions without any judgement and she’s honest about looking for a serious relationship. He’s happy to hear it, since whoever she’s with will be around their son. The conversation is going really well, but it seems like it might be confusing Danielle. This apparently is not the Kevin she knew a few years ago. They both rejoice that they appear to have matured.

Aw, I bet their little boy is super cute.

And now, of course, it’s time to turn the screw a little tighter and add our Tough Love Lab Experiments to the mix. First to arrive and find his girl is Aubrey.

Is this where we get to make a Shalana sandwich? Sweet!

I can already feel the testosterone levels rising in the house as Carl enters the picture; chest puffed out. He seems to already know that Elizabeth is being wound back up into an old ball of dysfunction.

Where’s my girl?

Carl finds Liz and Paul on the terrace and Paul introduces himself as Liz’s ex of many years. Carl is not impressed.

Elizabeth is freaking.

She says she can’t handle the pressure and tries to run away. Except both men follow her. Then Carl requests that Paul give him a minute alone with Elizabeth. Paul reluctantly agrees.

Paul realizes Carl is a man and he’ll have to use
more than a mind fuck to get Elizabeth back.

Carl seems to have recognized that Liz needed to compose herself, so he’s sitting with her and they are discussing Paul. He understands her pressure and seems to be able to relate as he was with his ex for five years as well. Liz tells him that Paul has just reappeared behind him.

“I know, I can feel him.”

Seriously, the atmosphere is buzzing with the tension. Paul asks Carl to do him a favor and get lost.

I spent a lot of money to fly a long way to get into
her head again. Give me a few minutes.

Poor Elizabeth. It’s clear she has no idea how to stand up for herself or how to say no.

Seriously, if I gave Elizabeth enough bling, I bet
I could convince her she’s a lesbian and that we are in love.

Luscious
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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.

  6. 6
    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.

  7. 7
    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?

  8. 8
    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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