Cheer Perfection Premiere (from July 11, 2012)

Recaps

By Madelyne27 | Thursday, December 20, 2012 | 10:14 am | 19 Comments
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Coach announces that try-outs are coming up and that means things are going to get competitive. No one is guaranteed a spot, regardless of how long they’ve been there. The YOUTH SILVER TEAM (YST) is the place to be. YST is the team that Coach will run, and it will be the best of the best. And shockingly enough, if the fame of Abby Lee Dance Studios level of competitions, the YST will be going to the biggest national competitions out there. It’s the Ultimate Grand Supreme Star Power of Glitz of competitions. (If any of you readers watch RHONY, did you notice that Coach has a slight tendency towards Ramona’s crazy eyes when she gets intense. I call it the Adderall look, but that’s only because I speak of experience… my ex-boss got those eyes on a daily basis. Usually around 3:00pm.)

Bonnie really wants Alana on the YST. Duh. If Torrann doesn’t make the YST there will be an explosion in that gym. (Bomb threat? Or will Ann just pass out? That might sound like an explosion)… Ann reminds us that she “gives” Alisha a lot of money. I give my electric company a lot of money, but that doesn’t ensure that I get priority during power outages.

Ann goes on to discuss that the better the kid, the higher the mom’s status (and she’s clearly putting herself on the top of that totem pole). Ah, memories of Kelly Bensimon telling Bethenny Frankel that Bethenny is ‘here’ and Kelly is ‘here’. How’d that work out for ya, Kelly?

 

We get to go on a trip to Torrann’s home. Torrey is paying bills and has some questions about if he is already paying $100 a month for the gym, then why does he have to pay more for Torrann to tryout, since she’s already there. Ann just says that’s the way it is. (And if they are in the pageant world too, you know he’s writing a lot more than just two checks). He mumbles that he’s screwed. Ann gives him her devil-may-care smile tells him to take his blood pressure medication. (She might want to as well, I think her body is putting the same, if not more of a, strain on the ole ticker.)

Back at the gym, a fully capable teacher is working with a group of girls, which includes Bonnie’s newbie daughter, Alana. But rather than letting the teacher do his job, Bonnie is yelling non-stop at Alana to “do it, do it, come on, DO IT” as Alana stands on the back handspring helper wedge mat (that’s the clinical term) terrified to throw her body backwards.

Alana interviews that she likes to win because it makes my mom feel good. (My mom feels good when I don’t say embarrassing things in front of her tennis friends.) But as of right now, she can’t do a back handspring, even on the wedge mat, with a spotter. She can’t do it. It’s clear that she still has that ounce of fear that keeps her from doing it. Bonnie readily admits to living through her child, and I see the similarities, as they both kinda have this out-of-it/drunkish look.

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19 Comments

  1. 1
    hot cawfee
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 10:34 am

    Madelyne27–welcome welcome welcome!!!!!!!!! I am so excited this show is going to be recapped!!!

    and ready…….OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ya know Shannon— ole Cawfee is no doctor but am pretty sure that your daughter losing weight will help her back and um…..am pretty sure all the doctors you went to “that found nothing wrong” with your daughter also told you she needs to lose weight. Coach never told her to slim down?????

  2. 2
    hot cawfee
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 10:59 am

    “drunk hair”–bbwwaahhaaahhaaaaaaaaa—classic-she looks bombed!!! And yet with a touch of Duchess Sarah Ferguson!!

    Torrann bears watching–she let the flyer drop?? Just “let her drop”–shudders…..this kid has “serial killer in training” written all over her.

    What is up with Bonnie and her daughter (Olivia??) being called by their surname??? For this reason only I am giving the Stuckey gals a few weeks so I can get to know them better–I see Momma Bonnie’s intensity and get that her kid chokes at the moment of truth in competition.
    As a gal who takes her wine in a pint glass ( er…….less tippy that way) she should have had a wine spritzer to be cordial and given them a little more time. But obvi she isnt whoring for face time so—-BRAVO Bonnie–good for you.

    Oh Shannon–how much sabotage will you do to your daughter??????

    Cant wait to check back and read the rest of the comments—and welcome again Madelyne27.

  3. 3
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 11:05 am

    I just got done watching the episode from last night…. oh my we are in for a treat…

    I remember all the moms from T&T and that is all I can think of.

    Is it just me, or does it seem so wrong that there are such tiny girls on the Silver team. Alicia’s daughter Cambree is on the silver team. But she is like 5 and looks like she weighs less then a 20 pound sack of potatoes! Must be why she is a “flyer”

    Shannon is the shit stirrer of the bunch! Yeah your daughter could stand to loose some weight. I was a thick 13 year old. By the time I reached high school it all seemed to even out. Then again I was not trying to do back hand springs. I was that chunky kid in ballet and tap, but I was having fun…

    Can’t wait for the next recap! Welcome to the family Madelyne!

  4. 4
    PageantLurker
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 11:22 am

    Time for me to throw my 2 cents in about this OVERLY STAGED, and VERY FAKE show! My daughter attends CTR. This WHOLE show is a scam! These mothers are all friends ALTHOUGH, Bonnie, Ann, and Michelle really do have a love/hate relationship. Ann is EXACTLY how she is being shown….there is no acting there. Torrann is the gym BRAT!! Ann/Torrann have run off some very talented girls from the CTR gym because of they are both downright bitches!! This gym is NOT like this at all! The YST wasn’t a team that had ryouts, they just did that for the show. This is a team made up of kids who wanted to be on TV. The VERY BEST OF THE BEST at that gym will not be featured because those parents had common sense by not exploiting their girls! The drama is staged! The producers asked for and got what they wanted. They even did several takes of some scenes until it seemed elievable! I can reassure everyone that there are lots of kids in that gym that are way more talented than the girls featured! I hate that you only get to see the fat, psychotic moms….and their poor daughters who are following very close in their footsteps!

  5. 5
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 11:57 am

    *scoots in close to PageantLurker*

    Please please dish!! Even though it is fake, I am still going to watch!! Alicia was cray-cray when she was on T & T, so were Bonnie and Anne. Of course they want to be on tv again. This is probably the only way for them to do it…

  6. 6
    Madelyne27
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    *shoves @thisbuggs4u off the chair and sits down closer to @pageantlurker*…

    I guess i always know things are so staged and anyone who agrees to have a film crew follow them around is clearly a brick short… but i’m so glad they are…

  7. 7
    Frizzypop
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    As a cheer mom this show makes me laugh and makes me cry. First of all, this is NOT an elite team! These kids MIGHT be a level 2 on a good day. To make an “elite” team you have to have a back handspring?! Seriously?! My daughter is on an level 5 team and they have to be able to do a standing full. Lets film a team of that caliber and I’ll watch all day long. Second that coaches screeching is enough to make me stick an icepick in my own eardrums! I can’t take it. This show is a JOKE!

  8. 8
    talk it then
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    @Pageantlurker… I knew it… WOW.. how fake they are.. This show sucks but I will still watch it to see what else kind of fools they make of themselves. Ridicoulous and acting like children. That shit is not cute,, I am sorry.. this show wont last long.
    @Frizzypop.. I so agree.. Where I am from our kids would kick their asses. The ONLY one that would even compare to our elite team would be Cassidee. If she is showing this group and thinking they are something WOW.. you are dumber than I thought you were Alisha. They suck and so does your show!! But loving these recaps!!

  9. 9
    Gracie Lou Freebush
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Did anyone else see the show \Cheer!\ On CMT? (I think that was the name). I was hoping this show would be like that…actually about cheerleading. Watching grown women bully and antagonize each other like mean, insecure 11 year olds (especially Ann with her ring of neck fat) is not entertainment. It’s ugly and depressing.

  10. 10
    Madelyne27
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    I’m not sure about Cheer! But there used to be a show Cheerleader Nation… I honestly thought that Cheer Perfection would have the staged drama we’ve all come to expect, but I thought they would be better. Like other commenters said, they are awful. Not an elite squad at all…

  11. 11
    Tapnfeet99
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    Haha I’m an RN and totally thought Ann must be on blood pressure meds as well! Torann better keep up with Cheerleading or any physical activity bc she comes from not promising genes. It drives me crazy when things come so easy to people who don’t want it as much as others do. Torann appears to care less.

    I am also terrified to fall backwards. Could do a front flip and front handspring as a kid/teen, but never a back handspring without a spot and I was always terrified when doing back walkovers, despite never falling while doing one. Alana should have told her mom that Bonnie should try it first to see how she likes falling on her head since that is what Alana seems to do whenever she tries it by herself.

  12. 12
    Tapnfeet99
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    P.s. yes the girls on the show Cheer were really good. I enjoyed that program and hope it returns, despite the owner being on the slightly obnoxious side of Jersey stereotypes.

    P.p.s. Please don’t shove me off the chair Madelyne! although I like gossip too :-) Loved your take on the EE names. I have a friend who has an EE name and named her daughter an EE name, so it cracked me up and now I want to start calling her Mommee.

  13. 13
    whoochile
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    Ugh, that silver team was B A D bad! ugh! Poor little no-backhandspring couldn’t even have made the CTR tin team, wtf was her mom thinking she could make the silver? Yikes. Also, the chunky one still needs to lose weight and still obviously doesn’t love to cheer. Several of these kids don’t seem to enjoy what they are doing. Pageant lurker, I’m glad to know that this team is a total farce because I was lmao that they were \delusiona\ enough to think this team was high level. I do get a kick out of coach and so far I like the brunette mom with the girl that is pretty good.

  14. 14
    whoochile
    Posted December 20, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    Pageant lurker, also curious if “poor little no-backhandspring” has gotten one since last night’s episode? My daughter who was a high-level gymnast thinks that girl will never get it.

  15. 15
    PageantLurker
    Posted December 21, 2012 at 7:59 am

    No back handspring for Alana yet! Bonnie is seriously one egg short of a dozen! She and Ann are NUTS! I could dish dirt on Ann ALL day long. She is a total whack job and so is her kid!

  16. 16
    hot cawfee
    Posted December 21, 2012 at 10:32 am

    PageantL– then have at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dish to maahhhh luuuuuuu I have a real “need to know” if A) Bonnie is a totes drunky pants??
    B) Is Torann the serial killer in training that I think she is????

  17. 17
    PageantLurker
    Posted December 21, 2012 at 10:48 am

    @hot cawfee….Actually Bonnie is just very vivacious! She is just an upbeat person, and not a drunk LOL….she just has nervous ticks I think ;-) Torrann is just a spoiled brat, all courtesy of her mother and father! She is just used to getting her way, and I think the child has no heart at all…its all about her BUT you can’t really blame her, I mean, you see what she is being raised by!

  18. 18
    whoochile
    Posted December 21, 2012 at 11:50 am

    aw, bless Alana’s heart

  19. 19
    Hannah Ingber
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    1) Bonnie is a pageant director, and both Torrann and Cassadee have competed in her pageants. Odd, isnt it?
    2) the baby’s name is Chanlee (with a c and ee)

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