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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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Are you ready for another round with Jabby and the Dance Moms, Gasmi? Well, before we jump into this week’s shenanigans, I first want to give a shout out to all the great comments last week. You guys crack me up and I love seeing what your thoughts are on the show and these wacko moms.
This week we get a break from the new dance for every competition grind because it’s recital time. Oh sorry, showcase time. Which is really the recital trying to disguise itself so that everyone doesn’t automatically take a five hour nap.
No one wants Jabby to get the bat again.
But before we get to the recital, we have some business to attend to. Yes, it’s time to play “Who’s at the Top of the Pyramid?”!!!
But first, Jabby wants to talk about this past weekend. She tells the girls she’s very disappointed because every single one of them could have done better in their solos. She doesn’t say anything about the mom behavior and I breathe a sigh of relief because I really thought she was going to go there.
Jabby tells us that she watches what happens at the recital and it’s there that she decides which numbers move on to other regionals and the nationals.
All I know for sure is that Maddie will be performing twelve solos.
She tells the girls they will be performing a number called “Sugar Daddies”. I hope she means the candy and not the old man version of sugar daddies. With Jabby you can never tell. Because Maddie won the overall high score at the last competition she is at the top of the pyramid. Nia is moving up on the pyramid because even though she forgot her solo, she kept dancing.
She shows off her best Maddie smile to celebrate.
Chloe has moved down to the bottom row. Jabby tells her she did a great job but there were some other situations; she wants to see that attitude improve on stage because you never know who is watching you. I didn’t think Chloe had an attitude last week, did you guys?
Once again, thanks MOM.
Christi is unsurprised because she figured that Jabby would punish Chloe because of her behavior. Then why behave that way? I don’t get it. Jabby has a surprise for them: coming to the recital is an agent (!) coming to seek new talent, looking for new clients to sign. Everyone is SUPER excited.
Then Jabby lays another surprise on them: the moms will be performing in the show.
Jabby say whaaaaa?
Oh my! Whatever will I wear?
I love the huge difference in Christi’s reaction versus Melissa’s. You know Melissa is just itching to have her moment in the spot light as well; Christi just wants to bitch at the spotlight. Jabby tells Cathy she is going to choreograph the number and she tells the ladies they are in trouble now. I have no doubt about that.
LOL! Did you guys catch after the meeting when the girls were around Jabby she told them “Okay, okay, you’re like mosquitos, get away!” HAHAHAHA! Yeah, you can tell Jabby totally loves kids, can’t you?
I think they got their cooties on me!!!
We start with Sugar Daddies rehearsal and Jabby tells us this dance uses props which are kind of a nightmare. Then she yells at the girls about their emotional execution.
Up in the skybox, Christi tells us it’s very uncomfortable. Well, I for one am shocked to hear that! Know I would be perfectly buddy buddy after someone screamed and carried on and made my kid cry. Cathy tells us that she think Christi is a beast and extremely jealous of Maddie. She thinks Melissa was the victim last week.
Christi apologizes and says it wasn’t her finest moment as a person or a parent and she hopes they can move on. Melissa also apologizes and says she just wants to move on and put it behind them. Christi talks smack behind her back and still thinks that Jabby and Melissa owe her an apology. GAH!
After a quick glimpse into Jabby’s rehearsal (I guess to make sure she’s still barking out her orders?), we join Cathy who is preparing for her first mom dance rehearsal.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
She is so happy Jabby chose her to choreograph this dance. Yes, I’m sure the bribe she paid to production had nothing to do with that one. Her vision is to give the moms very simple choreography that is going to make them look good because she is sure all of them have two left feet.
The ladies (well, Melissa and Kelly) arrive and Kelly tells us it’s weird for her to be back in the studio dancing after so many years. As the two rehearse, their kids get to watch from the skybox; the mood up there is veerrry different than it usually is……..
And here I thought smiling was banned in the skybox.
Holly arrives, but still no Christi. Cathy is not pleased. Christi does eventually arrive and Cathy makes sure to thank her for gracing them with her presence. ME-OW! Christi then tells us she has no desire to be in this dance, her time is over and she doesn’t want to be on stage. Even worse, she has to let Cathy be in charge of her.
I’m the boss of you and you and you and you!!
Then Cathy tells them they are going to do it one at a time. Christi tells her this is not funny, it’s humiliating. Cathy says it’s very important that we can show we can go out and do something on our own. I love that she’s talking to them the way she probably talks to the kids at her own studio.
Each mom takes her turn across the floor as their kids laugh and laugh and laugh. Holly does a great job and Cathy is super excited to have someone that can dance. She has big plans for Holly. When we get to Christi she of course says she doesn’t want to do it. Cathy tells her she might actually have fun if she’d just shut her piehole and do it already.
Don’t count on it.
Christi says no one wants to see a fat ass old mother on stage dancing. Does she know that for sure? Did she take a poll? Cathy says that the dance is meant to lift their spirits and give them a little more confidence because CLEARLY Christi is lacking that. Oooooo, burn.
No word on whether Christi did it; instead we cut to the next day. Jabby has the moms come into the studio because she has something to tell them. There will be a casting associate from Telsey & Company coming to the studio to look at all the girls. They are casting the new production of Annie that is going back to Broadway.
I’d look great as a redhead, don’t ya think?
Melissa tells us Maddie is definitely more prepared than some of the other younger girls because she has been to several Broadway auditions. And she takes voice lessons every week. Christi is excited because this will give Chloe a chance to shine without being upstaged by Maddie. OY! Again with Maddie?!?!?!? The lady is OBSESSED.
Jabby brings in a photographer to take the pictures of the girls, but it looks like standard dance photos are being taken, not headshots. Maybe this is just her regular picture day disguised as something else. Who knows?
No time to ponder because we’re back to rehearsing. It’s Sugar Daddies rehearsal again and Jabby is still yelling at the girls. Jabby tells us there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a number when you use props.
After one of the run throughs, someone says “They’re really heavy”
Who said that? I’ll make them carry me around, THEN they’ll see what heavy is!
Jabby says that if any of them ever work professionally, a comment like that would get them fired. Deal with it. Oh please, Jabby. Fired? I mean, I know no one wants to hire a whiner, but one comment? I doubt that would get you fired.
She gets them back to rehearsing, and then we hear an OW and see Brooke holding her face and crying. It looks like she got hit in her in the face with the prop.
Ouch! That had to have hurt. Kelly comes down to check how Brooke is, sees she’s not bleeding, and tells her to stop crying and run her dance. Poor Brooke! The kid is falling apart! First her hip, then that nasty tape burn on her neck, not this? No wonder the kid wants to be a cheerleader!
Now we head out to the streets where Christi and Kelly have been told to hand out flyers for the showcase. Okay, so I know that in reality this whole show is staged, but this is really SUPER DUPER staged. I mean, really. Who the hell hands out flyer for a recital?
It soon proves to be too much hard work, so the ladies take break to enjoy a cool beverage. Oh goody! These two handing out flyers drunk is going to be a sight to behold. Sure enough, they run into a guy with two girls and he tells them he’s a dancer too. Well, has he been on any auditions lately? Yeah, it’s called “Naked Boys Singing”.
Yep, he’s sure to come to the show.
We rejoin rehearsal where one of Jabby’s assistants is working with the girls. Jabby comes in and asks what’s the dealio with Chloe’s hair. The assistant says she asked her four times to put it up. Uh oh. Jabby makes her do twenty five pushups for breaking the rules. Every dancer knows you come with your hair up for class. Right. So I think we all know this was totally done for drama, right?
When Chloe is done with her pushups she gets ready to start dancing again. Oh, no way, missy. Jabby tells her to go put her hair up; she can’t come back in until she does.
My mom made me come like this and then disappeared to drink and hand out flyers!
Brooke gives her a quick hug and then Jabby comes into berate her. After all, she could have asked for a rubber band at the desk, right? RIGHT??? Jabby doesn’t understand why Chloe is crying. In fact, she thinks kids should cry when their arm is broken and hanging off or somebody died. That’s it. A Broadway talent scout is coming tomorrow; she doesn’t have time to be nice and sweet.
Or brush her hair.
Chloe rejoins her class and her hair immediately starts to fall out as she is turning. I wait for the wrath of Jabby. Instead we get a commercial. Phew!
After the break, it’s time for another mom dance rehearsal. Holly is missing. Uh oh. Where is she? They call her on the phone (or she calls them) and Cathy tells her they are there rehearsing because there is a performance tomorrow night. Holly replies that she will not be performing. She is graduating and she says Cathy may not like that but she is not the one that just earned her doctorate.
Too bad, so sad.
Cathy says they really need her in this number because she is like the best at the walk. Nope, sorry. Cathy tells us that Holly is just not dedicated to dance and that is reflected in the way her daughter dances. What does that even mean? SHUT UP CATHY.
Now Jabby’s running around in rollers yelling at everyone and I guess trying to make the place look like less of a dump than it normally does. She tells us a MAJOR Broadway casting agent is coming to HER studio and that is UNHEARD of. Sounds like someone wants to his face on TV.
She tells us this MAJOR casting agent will be judging her kids on their dancing, singing and acting. They really need to impress him because he takes ordinary children and makes them stars. This could be someone’s big break.
Melissa immediately gets to work.
She is so excited that a MAJOR casting agent is here to see Maddie; she is just going to blow him away. Melissa brings him into the studio and Cesar tells them that he works for Telsey & Company and they have cast Wicked, In the Heights, South Pacific; they are always looking for young talent. They also just cast talent for a Disney movie.
The girls head into the changing room to practice and wait for their turn. Jabby thinks it’s understandable that these guys would be nervous; after all, this is a BIG TIME casting agent.
It’s almost as huge as I am!
Chloe’s up first. Christi bitches about it. It’s probably Maddie’s fault.
She dances for Cesar and then like so many auditions that I’ve been a part of she gets a “thank you” and is sent along her way. It’s not good or bad, it just is.
Clips of Nia and Paige auditioning. Nia sings badly. Paige forgets her dance. Again. Brooke goes in and when Cesar asks what it’s like to dance with her sister, she tells him it’s rather annoying. LOL, I love Brooke! She does a reading for him and he stops her to try to get her to look up from the page more. Jabby is very disappointed in how they are doing.
My bat’s coming out the second he leaves!
Now Melissa is telling Mackenzie she’s going to sing and she is telling her mom she doesn’t want to sing. Rut roh. Melissa tries to talk some sense into her because she knows Jabby is going to flip if Mackenzie doesn’t sing. Jabby calls together Mackenzie and Vivi; they are going in to the audition together. She says no matter what Cesar asks tem, the answer is yes. I am more than a little disturbed by that.
They dance for him and then he asks if either of them sings. Yes. Would they like to sing for him now. Mackenzie says Nope. Cesar says she can sing anything she wants to, but she doesn’t HAVE to sing if she doesn’t want to. She doesn’t want to. Jabby storms over saying they JUST talked about this. Cesar kicks her out.
I’m liking this guy more every minute.
Melissa lays into Mackenzie in the dressing room, saying she’s not paying for her to sing anymore. UGH. Leave the kid alone! She’s SIX YEARS OLD for fuck’s sake!!!!
Maddie’s turn.
After she’s done Cesar says he knows she’s nervous but she should just be herself. He’s actually really good at dealing with kids; I can see why his agency sent him because he’s very non-threatening. I’m remembering some of the casting agents I auditioned for back in the day and some of those guys were SCAAAAAAARY!
Maddie is a wreck after which is weird because I think she did well. I think she’s just so used to everyone fawning all over her that when that doesn’t happen she thinks she did poorly. Kid’s gonna have a rough time if she can’t handle this, let alone rejection!
It’s the day of the recital. Cathy and Melissa are out shopping for jewelry for their costumes. Why are thy waiting until the last minute yet again? Also, Cathy wants to just hang out and shop and Melissa wants to hang out and kiss Cathy’s ass.
We join everyone over at dress rehearsal which at Jabby’s studio takes place six hours before the show. That has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Who does that? Of course everyone is super stressed out because it just wouldn’t be good TV if people weren’t freaking out all over the place, right?
Oh and look. Here comes Jabby to say she is already behind schedule. Imagine that. Jabby notices Holly is missing and asks Nia where her mom is. At work, Nia replies. Cathy jumps in to tell Jabby that Holly has been at work all weekend and BTW, she is not dancing in the mom dance.
I’m hoping you’ll kick her ass.
Jabby doesn’t seem like she really gives a crap, and tells Cathy she knows she is upset. Of course she is upset, she had to repaginate! But she has a brilliant idea…..would Jabby do then the honor……
Oh no. Not gonna happen.
Jabby tells her she couldn’t even if she wanted to. For insurance reasons. Yeah the venue is afraid she’d break their stage.
They start a second run through of the show and it’s here that we find out that the Sugar Daddies props still aren’t done. Jesus Christ! I would lose my fucking mind with all this last minute bullshit!! The moms try to figure out to cover the pops while Cathy tells us this would NEVER happen at her studio. I hate to agree with Cathy, but this wouldn’t happen at my studio either. It’s beyond ridiculous.
Show time! Cesar has come to see the performance. I wonder how much Jabby is paying him. The show starts and we see clips of the dances, and they look really good. Jabby’s bitchiness and the mom’s wackiness aside, these kids are really good little dancers.
Time for the moms!
It starts out well enough, but then Cathy decides to change things up a bit and give herself a solo in the middle of the routine. She thinks the other moms should have expected that. What’s even better is Jabby’s reaction because I thought she’d be pissed and instead she is cracking up laughing at Cathy in the wings.
Now it’s time for Sugar Daddies. But wait! There’s five kids and only four lollipops! Whatever will they do????? Melissa decides that Maddie should dance without a pop since she is in the middle and it will look planned that way. Melissa is not wrong in her reasoning, but I cannot help but think it can’t possibly be a coincidence the way this is turning out.
I was up all night planning this!
Of course Christi thinks this was done on purpose so that Maddie could be showcased and Chloe could be upstaged by her YET AGAIN. It seems to have worked because after the show Cesar wants to talk to Maddie.
The other girls are super excited for her.
Cesar thinks she’s great and he can totally see her in New York. Melissa knew Cesar would love her. Christi is pissed and Chloe is hurt. Melissa thinks it’s ridiculous that Christi is jealous of her kid. Christi is sick of this bullshit and refuses to keep her mouth shut anymore. Her mouth has been shut?????
YOU HAVE NO IDEA!
And that’s it for this time, Gasmi. What did you think? Were you impressed that such a MAJOR Broadway casting agent went all the way to Pittsburgh to see Jabby’s girls? Were you appalled at Holly’s lack of dedication to dance? What did you think of Cathy’s impromptu solo?
I can’t wait to hear from you guys!
SWAK, PottyMouth
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How sad that the kids were more excited by a Disney movie than a role on Broadway. However I am a bit biased b/c I find Disney stars repulsive and talentless.
Melissa was right but who broke the fifth prop is the burning question since they had five at the dress rehearsal?
My mom and I are having disagreements about how old Cathy is. I say 55, she says 40. And how laughable was Vivi’s and Mckenzie’s duet? Vivi was four counts behind the whole number. Give it up already Cathy, Vivi sucks!!!
I still think Mckenzie is the cutesy little thing and Maddie is the most talented. Suck on that Christi!
Vivi so so so so so does not want to dance and can’t and it is so funny how Cathy was all up in arms over the phd woman’s kid and vivi is like the bottom of the stupid pyramid, under the sand that is holding the pyramid up and about twenty layers down. There is not enough chalk board room.
Tap – I think that Cathy is def. in her 50′s.
I was also surprised that Flabby let Cathy choreograph the mom routine. You would think Flabs would want to knock her down a peg or two. You know she hates it when Cathy refers to her as a colleague.
If I were Holly, I would’ve told Cathy to F off too. The fact that she wasn’t in the mom dance (that Cathy made a solo) was not that big of a deal. Cathy should be grateful that Holly wasn’t there b/c it made her look that much better.
LOL hlesczyn!
Potty, I LOVE your screenshots and captions. You truly capture the essence of this show!
I love watching this show for the train wreck that it is, but it so bothers me how staged it is. I like reality TV for its entertainment, and I hardly ever fall into that “oh it’s so scripted” or “the results are rigged” sort of conspiracies, but this one is so overtly blatant. Come on, some serious manufactured drama here! No way some of these moms would normally do these things (a “moms” dance? really?) and a lot of their reactions seem so fake. And I REALLY hope that they don’t normally do everything so last minute, because that would drive me crazy and seem so unprofessional for a “prestigious dance company.” But I still love it overall, I just don’t like when they make it seem one way, when it’s obviously not – like the one episode where it looked like Maddie beat Chloe (AGAIN), but then someone pointed out that they weren’t even competing against each other. Don’t be lying to me Dance Moms!
If Maddie ever goes missing, at least it won’t be hard to find a suspect.
Christi is one of the those people who always finds something to whine and complain about it. I mean she was complaining about Melissa wanting to move on and not talk about it, isn’t that what she wanted? Isn’t the point of a apology to move on?
I liked the broadway agent, it was nice seeing someone actually good with kids on this show.
Cathy’s list of crazy just keeps growing.
Another great recap, PottyMouth!
I’ve seen both “mom” and “daddy” dances before so that’s not impossible.
Anyone else think Melissa needs to stop squishing up her nose like a bunny? Not cute at that age Melissa!
Am I the only one who caught them using the same clip twice? Melissa says “I’m so glad the casting director is here to see Maddie, she’s going to blow him away.” twice.
Also, I am fed up with the obvious fact that Maddie is the golden child of the Ziegler family. Not once have I EVER heard Melissa say something nice about/to Mackenzie!
@Emmi, I know! I felt bad for Mackenzie when her mom got all mad at her cause she wouldn’t sing!
@Tapnfeet99–OMG, YES!! I totally said that in my last diatribe of complaints about this show on the last episode recap! And I know…I had a lot of complaints but I held my tongue for four episodes so after the last one I felt like my head was gonna explode with all the comments I had swirling around.
And it totally bugged me how Melissa kept saying how glad she was that the casting director was coming to see Maddie. He wasn’t coming JUST TO SEE MADDIE! It appeared he was coming to see all the kids, not just her. But then again, I wouldn’t doubt that it WAS all orchestrated behind the scenes just for Maddie. And I felt sorry for the rest of the girls when, after the “showcase,” he came back and immediately whisked Maddie off to the corner. However, I am wondering if he spoke to some of the others as well but the clever editing team just omitted it.
I would guess that Cathy is around 50. And what a beeyotch to do what she did during the dance. And to say that the other mothers “should have expected it”? The reason for rehearsals is so everyone knows what to expect during the dance, psycho. At my kids dance recital there is a mom’s dance and I know another place nearby that does a dads dance. Of course the moms and dads volunteer – no one is forced to do it.
What appalled me in this epi was the handing out of flyers. NO ONE does that for a dance recital. Recitals are only for the family and friends of the dancers – you don’t want creepy men off the street coming in. Strange.
I thought they kept putting the “agent coming to see MADDIE” comment in to show that it was really set up for her and no one else. Truthfully, she really is the best of the group. I think Brooke’s mom should call a modeling agency – Brooke is really pretty and she’d get paid for modeling, rather than paying to dance.
The fact that Holly “isn’t dedicated to dance” prob means that Nia will turn out the best of all these kids. She might actually get an education!
That flyer thing puzzled me. I’m not in dance and have never been to a recital, but I thought that was just really strange. I mean, Pittsburgh has some very nice areas and very nice people…but there are real scuzzballs, too, so why would you go up to random strangers on the street and say “Come look at my little girl doing her Sugar Daddies routine!”
On the plus side, their drinks looked delicious.
I live in Pittsburgh and they were handing out flyers on Walnut street in Shadyside which has long been an exclusive shopping area/neighborhood and it is no where close to where this studio is in Penn hills. A few weeks ago Cathy and Melissa had lunch at the church brew works which is even farther from Penn hills than shadyside…interesting, has given me some insight on how these ‘reality’ shows are staged.
Cathy Jean Nesbitt-Stein is an accomplished dancer and actress….according to many online references, but I don’t know why they left out comedienne, because her “solo” was one of the funniest things I have seen on TV in a long time! Is she self taught? She must be – given the dated jazz hands and outrageous mugging for the camera! Quite the endorsement for her own dance studio…I’m sure the phone was ringing off the hook the morning after this episode aired!!
How do you not mention the opening ‘meeting’ between Abby & Christy? What a train wreck! lol..Christy went from trying to apologize & smooth things over to insulting her & calling her stupid..And how did you also not mention the ‘READING COMPREHENSION’ moment???? Melissa validating it by saying Abby insist that they miss school for dance ALL THE TIME?? Crazy!
I think the “mom” dance was Jabby’s way of punishing the moms for all their attitude these past couple of weeks–having Cathy in charge was meant to embarrass Cathy who is too stupid in the end to notice. I bet Jabby expected what Cathy would do and couldn’t wait to see her showcase her old lady body and old dance routines–it is why she didn’t care about Holly not coming. And Cathy not understanding why Holly wouldn’t come to perform a dance with no purpose behind it (after all, Holly isn’t looking for a career change for herself, and it isn’t like she didn’t let her daughter participate), in favor of attending her own graduation is alarming. She says that Holly is not “dedicated” enough? Well, Cathy is dedicated enough for three mothers, but it doesn’t seem to make her daughter a better dancer.
As for the girls–I have wanted to pull them all aside, feed them yummy food, and then let them run around outside and play and get dirty and laugh and just have fun. Afterward, let them climb into a soft bed and rest until they feel refreshed, and then let them do it all again. These kids need to eat, to play, and to sleep. The stress on these kids–physical, mental, and emotional–is just beyond heartbreaking to see. I cannot stand these mothers–not a one (except maybe Holly).
And Pottymouth, I don’t mean to be too judgmental, but I wasn’t surprised to find out you danced too. After recapping this show maybe you (and anyone else who watches the show) will be encouraged to ask your kid if this is truly what he wants to do (competitive dancing), and not what you think he should do because it was how you spent your childhood. Every parent whose child does an activity that takes a lot of discipline, time and all kinds of sacrifices, needs to be sure of the child’s affirmative answer to these questions first (except in the case of some swimming and self defense classes, because I believe every child should grow up knowing how to be safe and defend themselves from harm). If the answer is yes–great, continue…but if not, tread carefully.
I watched an episode of Dance Moms while on vacation (haven’t been able to watch this show but started reading the recaps because they are so great!) Holy crap, Cathy looks like a rabid chicken! What is going on with her ugly-ass hair? Does she KNOW she looks like shyte? And since the episode I watched was the most recent (I think, the one with Where Have all the Children Gone?) I’m only going to say that, based on that episode, if I ever saw Cathy walking by me on the street I’d have to punch her in the throat, even as a total stranger. That chick is a psycho!
i think that abby is trying to make them a better dancer but she is to harsh!!!!but maddie is so like “omg i am in the spotlight again and i kn ow a am better than anyone else hehe!!”my fave is chloe!i hate cathy and vivi.to weird to me.and stupid.vivi pees her pants when she goes to the studio!!lol!!!!!!
@ Saffie: Amen.
Hi Gasmi! Sorry it’s taken me so long to respond to your comments; we are coming down to the wire on my sister’s new dance studio and life has been JUUUUUSSSST a little insane. Anyway…….
Tapnfeet99: I also find Disney stars repulsive and talentless. And I also thought it was sad that they were more excited about a Disney project than Broadway. Sad, but not surprising. Unfortunately.
hlesczyn: I think Cathy has a few screws loose. I feel sorry for Vivi because she SOOOOOOO doesn’t want to be there. LOL to the sand under the pyramid comment.
plockeness monster: I think Jabby let her choreograph it as a big fuck you to the other moms. It’s obvious she didn’t give a crap about it since she was cracking up when Cathy turned it into an impromptu solo.
Sahara: Thanks! I also hate the manufactured drama ESPECIALLY because they don’t need to manufacture it!!!! There is sooooooo much drama involved in these types of things all they really need to do is sit back and let the cameras capture it all. It is so frustrating that they make shit up!!
sagittariuskim: I was surprised at how much I liked the agent; I thought he was going to be a total fame whore and he was surprisingly really great with the kids. Amen to Christi getting over it, but I don’t think we’re ever going to see it.
Emmi: I heard that as well! And I could not stand how Melissa treated Mackenzie. Poor kid.
keebler elf: YES! She was so bitchy to her. HATE.
Phartsmeller: I wouldn’t put anything past those sneaky editors.
Jazzy: The flyers were such crap. Who the hell does that, right? My sister and I were saying the same thing.
Chicken Lips: LOL! Those drinks did look good!
miasweetie: Oooooooo, tell us more! Sounds like there is a lot of creative editing going on here.
truthsquad: Yeah, I can’t imagine this show is doing much for her studio’s business either, but who the hell knows? People are so weird.
fancyface: Oh man! My dvr totally cut off the opening scene with Christi and Jabby! Meeting at the donut shop was perfect, wasn’t it? Dang it!
shana: I actually responded to pat of your comment in the next recap, so I hope to continue that conversation there. I completely agree about the mom dance being punishment. She knew no one would dare say no! Well, except Holly who I don’t think Jabby has it in for anyway.
saffie: Thanks so much! Rabid chicken made me laugh and snort at the same time. Love it. She sure is a nutbag for sure.
claire: Your comment confuses me. Vivi pees her pants? Huh?
FREE VIVI!!!!!!
SWAK, PottyMouth
I watched an episode of this show after reading your hilarious recaps but everything is SO staged, and badly, that I just couldn’t get into it. I will, however, keep reading….you’re really done a great job!
Thanks lindaw205! I wish they’d just let it alone instead of drumming up fake drama, but I guess that’s the way of “reality” TV these days, isn’t it? Glad to hear I can spare you an hour of your life!
Hi PottyMouth
. I love reading your recaps, but feel you missed the best joke set up I have heard on TV in a long time! When Christi said she was going to be the “bigger woman” than Abby and apologise I actually snorted and came straight here to see your take on how Christi was ever going to achieve the goal of being a bigger woman than Abby, but there was nothing :-p. She would have to eat her weight in chocolate every day for a year to be the bigger woman 
I went to high school with “Melissa” but she was known as missy. She was fake back then and obviously is still the same
Sad to head she is going thru yet another divorces. It will be her third. I wish she knew how bad she looms on the show
I laughed out loud when you said “Christi just wanted to bitch at the spotlight.” That woman drives me absolutely insane!
“I hate how Maddie is better than Chloe.”
“Maddie always gets the spotlight and Chloe never does.”
“Abby likes Maddie better than Chloe.”
“Guys, stop comparing Maddie and Chloe!”
What?
I would have to say that my favorite is Maddie! I love her so much!!! She truly is the best dancer along with Chloe. Chloe gets put down to much and now has low self esteem. Maddie is a great dancer and is not conceted. She is only 9 years old so when someone is put on a show and is told to say certain things thats what she’s going to do! Mackenzie, as the youngest is hardly competing and never gets attention from her mom. I also love Brooke though. Even though she doesn’t really want to dance anymore, she is very good. She is an amazing contortionist and really does love to dance if she cares enough to keep dancing when ” when her shoulder pops out”. Even though she is amazing, I do feel bad sometimes that she has to keep going to something she doesn’t want to do. These moms I have to say are pretty crazy sometimes but react sometimes how most parents would if this was how they would be treated. About ” jabby” I don’t think she is as mean as everyone says she is. I think she is a great dance teacher and teaches the kids well. They all are amazing now so she must have done her job well! But everyone says oh shes very mean and makes the kids cry. I think she is just strict, and do you think that if she didn’t act like that and was a normal teacher and let them do whatever they would become the dancers they are now. Abby can be nice at times to like when she talks to chloe and tells her she has what it takes to be on broadway. I absolutely LOVE this show and don’t care if this is staged or not but I love the kids and moms …and Abby no matter what they do. They are all amazing and unique in their own way and that’s really all that matters!
PottyMouth, I cannot believe that you went this entire recap without having a screencapped Cathy question Holly’s commitment to Sparkle Motion.