Tough Love NO Recap: Bayou Bellylaughs

Tough Love

By Luscious | Thursday, May 24, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 7 Comments
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Steve tells the girls that the one thing they can do is laugh it off. If you shut down in front of a guy, they will feel like there is nothing they can do to help. He explains that handling bad situations well will increase a woman’s stock in the eyes of a man. It’s a great lesson and the girls all seem to get it. I wish more of Steve’s lessons were this educational.

With the lesson over, Steve has a new assignment for the girls. They will be going to a comedy club and they will each have to perform a set of jokes, making fun of themselves! The girls are freaking. Most are scared but Stephanie is pissed because she was made fun of for the way she looked her entire childhood and that isn’t a place she wants to return to. To help out the girls, Steve brings in two professionals.

The jokester on the right looks to be hilarious.

Elizabeth is petrified.

My story isn’t funny.

I’m a pervert  and a virgin … I’m a pervirgin!

This shit sucks.

Stephanie is truly upset by the whole thing. I can understand if she was tortured for her appearance as a kid that voluntarily humiliating herself would be hard. But what I don’t get is why she then chose to turn her lips into cartoon balloons and then emphasize them with shiny pink plastic lipstick. Maybe she just wants to control what people choose to make fun of about her.

In any event, she goes so far in her tantrum as to actually pack and decide that she’s going to leave the house. Elizabeth talks her down form the ledge by explaining that she will be crying and terrified right up until the moment she goes on stage and she’s not even sure she can go on stage. But at least she’s going to try. Finally Steph realizes she needs to stick it out and do what it takes to complete boot camp and agrees to perform.

The girls head over to the comedy club and they are in the green room, Elizabeth is practially peeing her panther skirt with fear, but it is Danielle that has a great attitude and fires up the girls, giving them suggestions and boosting their egos. I just can’t make this girl out. One minute I adore her and the next I want to punch her in the face.

She’s like the third sister I never had.

Poor Elizabeth has to go first but she saunters out on stage like she hasn’t been trembling back stage this whole time. She does great. Lots of jokes about being a trophy wife, dating men who need viagra, etc.

My girl nailed it!

Donna is freaking hysterical! Her timing is fantastic and her bit is a mix of raunchy and clean humor. Not only that, she paces the stage, engages the audience and even alternates holding the mic and using the stand. She also looks really great up there. She’s an absolute natural.

You’ve got a lot of material – this could be a good career for you, Donna.

Shalana jokes about being short with a short but cute set. Despina jokes about how her longest relationship happened because she forgot to break up with the guy. Danielle says she likes her felons to look good for when she shows her friends their mug shot in the paper.

Steph does a great job of explaining that Steve has it all wrong that she doesn’t show emotion. She’s just had too much botox for anyone to see what she is doing.

For being so scared, she did a great job!

Poor Melissa was not genuine. Her act was a complete bomb.

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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.

7 Comments

  1. 1
    PopePhilly SweetRoisinDubh
    Posted May 24, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    I had to slam my head on the coffee table when Stephanie said she didn’t expect to fall for someone on this show. Sweetie, I love you, but you came on a show hosted by a MATCHMAKER who spends the entire season of said show setting up women with potential partners! Have you not watched the other seasons?!?!?!

  2. 2
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted May 24, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    I adore all the girls this season. It is so easy for us to sit and (mentally) tell them what they should and shouldn’t be doing, but I know that I really don’t completely understand what they are going through. This group, I think more than any other, has really been open and vulnerable– willing to expose their failings in order to heal.

    I want every one to succeed.

    But I DO have a couple of faves.

    BTW does anybody have inside information about lip augmentation gone wrong? I feel so sorry for lovely Steph, and hope that her lips will somehow deflate. Also, I have seen several poor women with botched lip jobs and I really hope the problem can be fixed. I worry about things like that.

  3. 3
    Novi
    Posted May 24, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    I feel bad for poor Melissa. Its got to be difficult knowing that the guy is nice, but that you’re completely not interested, and having to constantly defend your disinterest to everyone you know. A guy could do everything right, like Chris, and still only give you friendly feelings. And her agreement for another date is like that girl who’s boyfriend proposes in public – she says yes to not embarrass him in front of everyone, but when they get home it may be a different story.

  4. 4
    labowner
    Posted May 24, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Not sure what Melissa is expecting, but I do know it is never going to happen for her with her attitude. Steve needs to kick her to the curb as she sucks. I thought Donna was going to fail, and look at her turn around.

    Danielle, stop the yo-yo behavior. I want to like you.

    Snowshoe that is why I love this show. It is positive, up-lifting and helping to those on it and those watching. God did I just type that? I need a drink. Compared to the tearing down on the housewives and other shows, this is a nice change of pace.

    Luscious, thanks for recapping.

  5. 5
    BSparky
    Posted May 24, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Love your post. It’s so nice to read something positive. And the screen-shot of Donna made me laugh. Too funny!

  6. 6
    Kimmi Paul
    Posted May 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    Stephanie kinda pissed me off. She sits there with Good John and he’s all like “ummm you got something to tell me about the other night” so she tells him about her hook up which I applaud her for, but in the next breath she says “so I want a commitment from you right now…” Stephie honey, timing is everything. Is she that clueless and self centered that she feels that in one sentence she can tell him she had her tongue down some douchebag’s throat and in the next say I want a long term promise? Poor guy is still trying to digest the fact that you were acting like some coed on a Girls Gone Wild video, you are not commitment material at the moment… She really had no right to become all hurt and offended. He was right to tell her at the end to stay and finish bootcamp and work on herself. If not she will be a black hole of insecurity that no man can fill.

  7. 7
    Tough Love Recap Fan
    Posted May 25, 2012 at 8:12 am

    As stupid as it was for stephanie to ask for a commitment after that, it seemed like she was looking for a change of subject- anything to distract him! She probably could have picked a whole bunch of other topics, the weather maybe??

    I thought that neither of them expressed their feelings very well vocally but while they were talking John had his hand either around her back or on her leg so I still have hope for them. It seemed very sweet. Hopefully neither of them f*cks it up.

    But I love your recaps Lucious! Thanks!!

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