RHONJ: MiniCap

45 Comments

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   Andyourlittledogtoo
   Posted August 20, 2012 at 11:59 pm

   My God, the horror! The SNUB! Caro is such a shit stirrer. There was nothing wrong with Tre’s toast. These people just won’t be satisfied until Tre is a sobbing mess on the asphalt so they can all step over her and feel vindicated in their hatred and jealousy. And she simply won’t break for them. Don’t get me wrong, there is SO much I dislike about Teresa, but NO ONE deserves the shit they are heaping upon her, especially when they all KNOW full and well the horrible strain she is under and how JoeGui treats her, especially that night. These are not ‘friends and fambly’ they are jackals. I feel terrible for her. DAMN these asses for making me feel sorry for a woman I loathed on sight. No Fair.

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   MarianMoney
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 3:45 am

   What vineyard was it that Tre and the brown smurf were bumping uglies in? Never drinking anything from there. Ewwww. Ick

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   classy drunk
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 4:47 am

   I can see how THE SNUB could have caused hurt feelings, but it wasn’t any of Caroline’s or the rest of the Manzo’s.

   I wish someone would have said something right then…out loud versus whispering or speaking in code right at the table. Before glasses clinked someone could have said, in a joking manner, “hey Teresa you thanked everyone but your cousin”. Then it’s not the big of a deal.

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   Gypsy
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 5:15 am

   UGH this episode was all kids of wrong. From Brown Smurf and Tre to Melissa’s passive aggressive comments in the RV to Caroline telling Jac that Jac is unhappy if she and Tre have friendship boundaries. STFU Caroline!

   I would hate to have been that cameraman/editor that had to tape that vineyard phone call. This one time, I do feel like it was cruel to air that footage without letting Tre know. Then again it’s Bravo and they are all morally bankrupt.

   Oh and Lapband yelling at Jac in the RV about not hanging around Tre with a list a mile long of Tre’s faults? Um LapBand, I had no idea you were such a pillar of the community.

   Uh, why was everyone doing everyone else’s hair? I found that wierd.

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   Katie
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 6:19 am

   They are on a camping trip in full make up, teased hair and skimpy costumes. Come on!

   This stuff is so transparently concocted toward fooling the audience into believing this crapola that it has become senseless. Stretching this series into 15 or 16 segments when it is also apparent they have run out of gas by inserting their sexual lives into the script is absurd.

   Teresa is disgusting and why Juicy Joe isn’t yet sitting in a jail cell is beyond me. The rest of this cast is equally delusional and the vulgarity never stops.

   They all hate each other for what goes on behind the scenes and the “snub” is nothing more than an opportunity to bring the reason for their real hate out into the open. Teresa, Teresa, Teresa. She is one piece of work who “boo hoos” about her parents being upset with what is happening yet has no plans to pull the plug on her own involvement in making it so.

   The “victims” are those poor kids who must watch their parents behave like idiots on t.v.

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   NotAlway'sPerfekt
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 6:47 am

   Hear! Hear! Well said, Katie!

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   Runswithscissors
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 6:55 am

   wow, these people are pure trash. Sad

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   cherrylipgloss
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 7:04 am

   Embarassing how everyone….absolutely everyone! strained their necks and commented on what tre and joe were doing in the vineyard. Even her own brother…yech….who cares?…making comments about her legs, her chuckie….just leave ‘em alone! I’m convinced they have nothing to say if they aren’t gripin’ about tre

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   Katie
   Posted August 21, 2012 at 7:22 am

   Not that any one of them could ever be accused of having any commonsense or brains to begin with but there is nothing more hyp0critical than Teresa “wailing” in the press about the damage this is doing to her elderly and unhealthy parents.

   Like how thrilled they must have been hearing her asking Juicy Joe if he would prefer to stick his finger up her butt. Or prancing in front of the cameras by dragging him off the vineyard for a little quickie after he just called her a “c#nt, a bitch, and a whore”.

   “My parents are really upset when they see my brother going after me”. Really? You think they are proud of the way their two children and their spouses behave week after week? As if you yourself were not a part of it?

   “This is killing my parents”, St. Teresa laments to the press but has no intention of stopping this charade under any circumstances no matter the collateral damage that her own kids will suffer from watching this family act like disgusting clowns.

   Whoever is holding the gun to the heads of these idiots to remain on this show, please put it down now! It’s too upsetting for Teresa’s parents after all.

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    Karen
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 7:49 am

    @Katie..THANK YOU!! Finally someone with half a brain cell…now please re-post your entire comment on the Bravo website…

    that trashtastic skank has over 150 people kissing her ass each time she blogs and telling what a great wife and mother she is…how they appreciate her “honesty”….oh and before any of you get too angry on her behalf she promises us all he never speaks to her that way at home nor her children…it was the wine talking… everyone has a bad moment where they call their wife the C-word and their secretary baby….EVERYONE!

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    hot cawfee
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:01 am

    well Critterfur is a Mama’s boy– gee and water is still wet I presume????

    @ 5 Katie—hear hear !!!!!!!!!!

    @4 Gypsy– me too. They are travelling with a full crew– there is alot of hair-doing and make-uping in them RV’s. No need to rely on each other–and lets note that our own Lapband didnt do anyone’s makeup.

    Hey has anyone noticed how much she looks like her more attractive Uncle Chris Laurita????

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    hot cawfee
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Oh and Tre didn’t mention Kathy in her toast b/c the world revolves around Tre and somehow this whole trip was about Tre. And her brother. Melissa too–yeah we could put her in there. And her ankle.

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    Katie
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:07 am

    Karen: I am always amazed at the outpouring of “love” for Teresa when it has clearly been demonstrated that she is the “thug in a cocktail dress” for sure.

    She and that plug of a husband can lie, cheat, steal, and the chorus will rise up in defense. Like so many did with Bethenny’s critics when they managed to run off anyone who dared criticize her.

    Teresa is a famewhore: plain and simple. Casting her as this season’s “victim” is hilarious. Bravo promotes her since they get a cut in whatever she earns outside the show. Everthing is blamed on the editing, the press, and everybody else for her “misfortunes”. Since the other castmates are as braindead as she is it is difficult to muster up any “outrage” on her behalf.

    But when she starts whining about the effect this all has on her parents it is just too ridiculous to understand. Who is “starring” in these episodes but none other than their daughter, son, and their respective spouses dragging along their DUIs, “Tarzan”, fraud charges, bankruptcies, and the vulgar language spoken in the presence of their kids.

    How is any of that “defensible” and worthy of “support”? Teresa loves herself far beyond any misery her parents may suffer so she needs to put that complaint to rest.

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    NatPatBen
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:49 am

    While I don’t get any love for her character, I can get why people don’t hate her.

    I see her as delusional, lacking self-awareness as well as the ability to read a situation. She also comes across as self-centered and dim-witted. But I don’t see her as intentionally mean. The mean things she says seem based on all of the qualities above rather than an intent to cause others harm.

    1) Her friendship with Jacqueline. She never seems to ask about Jacqueline or care about what’s going on with her. Mean? No. Self-centered. Yes.

    2) Her not mentioning Kathy in the speech. Self-centered with a few thoughts about others thrown in. Not trying to snub Kathy.

    3) Her supposed attacking of Caroline’s children in the book. Wasn’t much of an attack. Bad attempt at humor that she may or may not have written herself. From what we’ve seen, not sure why Caroline feels so strongly anti-Theresa. Definitely seems to be more beneath the surface.

    With the way Teresa is, I don’t understand why Jacqueline is so torn up about losing her friendship. She does not seem like a good friend at all. But stranger things happen…. like some other woman desiring Joe.

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    jose cruuz
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:55 am

    lauren manzo = 50 year old rosie o’donnell???

    http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/20/rosie-odonnell-heart-attack/

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    labowner
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:58 am

    Andyourlittle – Who cares about Teresa? She doesn’t care about herself nor her children. All she cares about is proving everyone wrong. Wondering just where her basement is, because this happened last year and she is still with that loser teaching her daughters it is okay for a man to treat you like shit and cheat on you especially if you are making money from it. All of this mess is Teresa’s and I would be right there stirring that pot laughing as she falls. What ever happened to “Happy wife, happy life” ?

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    Chickstar
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:02 am

    I think the reason so many people are on Teresa’s side, is because alot of people do not like the gang-up mentality that has been demonstrated by the Manzos/Gorgas/Wakiles. EVERY episode it’s about Teresa and her family.

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    Katie
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:11 am

    People get so invested in these shows they forget that it is all a bunch of made up crap featuring a bunch of low life wannabes all under the delusion that they are “star quality” performers.

    They treat these people like they know them and what they are watching is “real”. Chances are Bravo and Teresa came to an “agreement” of this season’s storyline casting her into the role of “victim” as the others “pile on” for the purpose of building next season’s storyline featuring “reconciliation” to lead the way.

    Every franchise has used that method. Year 1 of BH had Camille as the bad guy: season 2 she became “the saint”.

    OC had Gretchen and Tamra at each other’s throats. This season had them both “battling” back at Vicki.

    Where Bethenny and Jill were cast as a “team” by season 3 they had divided into camps.

    Same old, same old recycled “storylines” with different casts.

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    labowner
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Chickstar that is how Teresa wants it so she can play “victim”.

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    Jason
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Caroline is just above it all. Not involved with all this drama. And her kids are such legal, entrepreneurial and fashion geniuses. And her husband is so thin. She really is a regular Mother Theresa who’s spawned such fine, contributing Americans. I’m sure Gabby Douglas’ Mom and Bill Gates’ Mom and every Asian Tiger Mom can learn something from Caroline, non-shit stirrer and Mother of the Century.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:32 am

    @14 Nat–good points– I was surprised that the COOKBOOK caused so much acrimony–Tre took a dig at Critterfur and truthbetold–only if you watch the show would you understand the reference. How many digs have Closeted Albie, Lapband and Critterfur taken at Tre??? And her kids—”a little terrorist” is what Milania was called. Ok, yeah I know. Tre didn’t throw that back at Tiny nor did she ever go after any of the adult Manzo “children”.

    @ 18 Katie– you have something there– I have been saying that Tre is being handled professionally. We hear her speak as though she has been briefed by lawyers and PR people. There is no way she has the vocabulary she is utilizing on this show. And from being victim now she can get a spin-off, write a book on parenting or “Life after Divorce” or what have you. I’d like to say she is delusional, but I see her to be focused on putting food on the table and providing for her girls post bankruptcy. Her parents and brother are secondary. Her marriage moves up and down the priority scale.

    Sigh…….I miss the first season Guidices–happy Smurf–not this dreadful drunk, loopy Tre who loveslovesloves her girls (well she totally does–that hasn’t changed), Milania just being herself.

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    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 10:05 am

    Wow. Talk about INVESTED in a show! This outpouring of pure vitriol toward Teresa is more telling than our mild discussion about how we dislike the pile on we see on the show toward her. I’ll take my more than half a brain cell and remember it’s a television show and not have a complete hissy fit over what is happening on my tv screen thanks ever so. In other words Katie et al – calm the fuck down and I’ll thank you for not insulting the intelligence of people who may disagree with you ever so mildly. Jeebus.

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    aliens.rock
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 10:23 am

    I must admit that I despise everybody on this show equally. However, it was sad to see Tre acting oblivious to her husband’s disgusting behaviour. Is she acting, or is she really trying to revive her marriage (you know, the old crap about enough sex, sexy lingerie, dinner on the table…).?
    The toast drama? It looked to me that it was more to do with editing than actual words. So what, Tre didn’t mention her cousin. She didn’t mention Bravo network paying for the trip, nor did she mention me – watching this crap. Cry me a river…
    I am looking forward to shit going down in the next episode. I literally rubbed my hands while watching the trailer for the episode. Oh, sad state of our society…:-)

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    Karen
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 11:05 am

    @ Katie YOU PREACH ON SISTER!!!!! I really can not stand this new PR stunt for Teresa…hell they even have someone writing her Bravo blog for her..no way she actually knows english well enough to write that way. I wish they would get a clue and re-cast….or give her a show and let her see what a true failure she and her criminal husband truly are….TRASH!!!

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    labowner
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Have you no shame Teresa? Poor Gia and the shit she is going to take after this episode which conveniently airs just before school starts.

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    classy drunk
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    Teresa knew he wasn’t talking to any one from work. That’s why she ran over there.

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    featherhead
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    I ran (well drove, I’m lazy like that) to the grocery store and guess who was on the cover of InTouch magazine? You guessed it. Theresa. Boo whooing about how Juicy embarrassed her. I didn’t even bother to read it, especially since Theresa told all of us – she just goes for the pictures, she doesn’t do anything else but answer questions. I bet InTouch really loved that, it’s good for business.

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    miz
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    Caroline,
    Please for the love of God (and my eyes!) do not ever go strapless/braless again, EVER. I’m about 1000% sure your nipples and kneecaps are not supposed to touch. You have the money, buy a good bra.

    Also, I have never been a huge Andy Cohen fan or hater, but he is really showing his true, lazy-eyed self this season. He gets his panties in a twist because a gay slur is uttered, but has no problem airing “retard” or “cunt” or any other slur towards women/mentally handicapped. I know a lot of people who would be more pissed to be called a retard (in the derogatory sense) than a faggot. I hope he reads internet boards, and scraps this cast. The only one I would watch now is Teresa and her family, and I am not even a Teresa fan!

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    wow
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    I agree there is no way Teresa wrote her blog this week. It actually makes sense and *gasp* seems slightly honest. Two qualities I’ve rarely, if ever, seen from Teresa.

    Also I agree classy – Teresa knew immediately that there was something shady about the call and that it was being filmed and that’s why she went over. If only Joe could cooperate and pretend that everything is great between them like she does, at least on camera. I will say that I am no Teresa fan but this is the first time I felt slightly bad for her, but then I remember that she won’t divorce him and still claims he’s a good husband and father and it goes away.

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    wasabipeas
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Tre begging B.S. for sex was the most pathetic thing I have ever seen on television. If those Gorgas were not sexually abused as kids, I will eat my hat. And I am CERTAIN the perpetrator said “I am doing this because I love you.”

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    LaurenB52
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    I’m no Teresa fan but it makes no sense to jump in with the majority, there are already enough people jumping all over her that my opinion would be superfluous. I guess because I defend Teresa against the constant attacks from all her castmates it may seem that I’m a supporter but I’m fully aware of all her faults. They’ve been stated over and over, she’s a target this season so I see no need to be redundant.

    I agree with one of the previous comments that she’s certainly delusional, scheming, dim witted etc., but she’s always been a good friend to Jac, Caroline and Dina when she was on the show. In her fight with Melissa she’s def been wrong on occasion and is probably jealous and threatened but it seems to me that Melissa gives as good as she gets with the passive aggressive jabs. I say let them fight, they’re two grown women. The only other thing I can see that Teresa has done is being ‘fake’ as regards the tabloids and lying about the stability of her marriage and finances. While annoying, I don’t see that as something that should draw the ire of all her castmates. She’s not doing anything TO them she’s only being fake about her own circumstances. They on the otherhand are actively trying to kick her when she’s down and expose her and doing it in a group which is always worse to me. The more she resists breaking, the more they try.

    Lets bet that if Teresa ever did break under the tremendous pressure she’s under Caroline and Jac would be the first to swoop in as sympathetic saviours. They want Teresa to fall in line and it makes them angry that she hasn’t.

    That’s just my take on things. I, for one, am not fooled by Teresa as some commenters have suggested, I just don’t think that even with her being fake, that anything she has done is that bad, or to be more accurate, is worse than the scheming, manipulating and bullying that Caroline and the rest are doing to her.
    What bothers me most about Tre is her bankruptcy fraud, and continued lavish spending (but to be honest I choose to blame brown smurf for a lot of this). I find that utterly despicable BUT that is not something she’s done to Caroline and them so if they’re turned off they should distance themselves, not continue to attack her. Both Jac and Caro’s husbands have been accused of some shady dealings themselves so they should stop throwing stones.

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    LaurenB52
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    And yes Tre begging for sex was one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve ever had to watch. If anything it shows she’s not good at faking this happy marriage. If she had any self awareness she’d stop doing that because it comes across so pathetic, but as we’ve all said, she’s dim witted. Melissa and Joe are much better at shoving the whole happy marriage facade down everyone’s throats. In fact I think Melissa and her Joe are in general much smarter than Tre and BS but this is not saying much is it?

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    labowner
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    “Joe doesn’t want her in the bedroom, why would he want her on gravel?”

    Zero reaction from the table. Are we all being played? Why do I feel at some point this is going to end ala Monty Python’s and The Holy Grail movie?

    What is the point of editing in a scene with Vito with wine all over his shirt, but not show us how it got there?

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    Annie
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    Ehhhhh. The more I watch these shows, the more I know every fight, every “dramatic moment” and almost every word out of these ladies’s mouths (and their hubbies) is somehow manipulated by the produers. EVEN SO I still like to watch, comment, and laugh at everyone else’s comments!

    Lately I take everything with a grain of salt…..even though what might have happend prior (off camera) to every conversation might be producer-made, what’s happening THAT MOMENT on camera is what I really pay attention to. I find myself paying more attention to the dumb, less obvious things like Chris Laurita’s dumb wrist tattoo.

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    Gypsy
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 4:46 am

    Good call on Lapband not puttng Cafface on everyone ther much less HER MOTHER! Didn’t happen to notice but the Lap’s speech sucked as well. Girls has got to cut the cord.

    Why did Vito have that scene? AS a mood lifter from the drama? AS IF! And, they kep vascillating b/w the dusk and nighttime shots in and out of order.

    The one the Juicy said that made sense was “I think Caroline would have a better view if she said at this end of da table, no?”

    Who this is a sham of a GD mess. Let them scream it out next week and then end it already.

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    Mimo
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @Lauren Very well thought out and eloquently written post. (are you Tre’s ghost writer?)
    I understand for the most part where you are coming from, but I guess my take on it is somewhat different. When Tre does those magazine articles and even her book, she isn’t keeping her comments all about her. There have been several times when she has snarked about Caroline, Melissa and Kathy in her articles.

    The cracks she made in her book about Caro and Chris are the reasons why Caro started hating her so much. The crack about Caro being as Italian as the Olive Garden wouldn’t have bothered me, but then I’m not Italian. I have a friend who is so proud of her Italian heritage that someone saying those words to her would have been justification for cutting her badly. And the crack about the stripper car wash I would have taken to mean exactly what Tre meant it to mean. That Caro’s son is a loser. Hate Caroline, but her adoration and blinders for her children are something I can relate to. No matter how many times my kids fuck up, I always am positive “this time” will be the time. My husband asked me how long I can keep that up. Til I die.

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    labowner
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    I wonder how long In Touch Weekly is going to keep using Teresa as she admitted on TV that she lies to them? Or did her PR team do a quick spin and say what she said on TV was a lie and everything in the articles are true………

    Seems like a pickle she is in if she understood what she did.

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    LaurenB52
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Thanks Mimo! Tre’s ghost writer, noooo! We can all agree Tre is too sincere and honest to hire a ghost writer! *looks around nervously*

    and you make some good points as well. I think I just have a thing for supporting under dogs lol

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    Dawn
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    For all those who are just incredulous at the notion that poor, retarded and brain-dead Ter would be piled on and just hate to see people piled on, she’s getting what she deserves. No one made a peep when they were piling on Danielle Staub. Supposedly, it was because Danielle was such a trouble-making train wreck – that these ladies were just all happy friends who drove the loony one out of their midst and now everything was going to be fairy dust and ice cream.

    Well, Ter is just a mean girl, and the chickens are coming home to roost. I think its hilarious that all she did was talk for 3 seasons about how her grunting, sweaty husband couldn’t get enough of her and now, its caught on camera that he’d rather douse himself in lighter fluid and strike a match rather than touch her. And she continues to try and run after him for sex, debasing herself in the process far more than even his cruelty can. She’s a pig, so is he and they deserve each other.

    Karma. Its what’s for dinner.

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    Closet Fan
    Posted August 23, 2012 at 1:28 am

    I take every word out of all of their mouths with a huge grain of salt. I never take the time to try to figure out what is real, what is fake, I just sit back and enjoy the crazy, but when I read that Teresa said that Joe has never ever called her a cunt I threw down the bullshit card. I think she has been called that and more many times.

    Then I read that Caroline has a book deal. WTF? I could see if it was still the first season. I admit that I liked Caroline and I would have been interested on what she had to say. I read that she said that she is constantly asked by fans how to have the perfect marriage, relationships, life… That she decided to write a book so everyone can be as happy and tiny as she is.

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    Gypsy
    Posted August 23, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    ^ yeah eff that. The day I read or take advice from that truly souless Ginger is the day I book my one way flight to hell.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted August 24, 2012 at 7:55 am

    @ 40 Closety– yes– I am quite sure that the “C%&#” didnt just pop-out. I think he calls her that alot among other gems b/c he is so literate, classy and stuff like that.

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    Jilly
    Posted August 24, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    I hate to say it, because I love ChickBomb’s recaps, but I am getting tired of waiting for the full recaps on this show. Here it is Friday, and we only have the mini-cap done on timely Monday. The first few times they were late, I understood, crap happens. But it seems to be becoming a regular thing. I lose all interest in a recap when it comes in right before the next episode, or Dog forbid, after the next episode.

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    NewYawka
    Posted August 27, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    WOW! I’m embarrassed and I wasn’t even there. If this is what money does for peoples morals, values, behavior, blah, blah, blah…….I’D RATHER BE POOR.

    My dog behaves better than this chuck wagon full of assholes.

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    NewYawka
    Posted August 27, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    “Cuz ya neva go against fam-il-ly”….It’s just a damn label. These people enable the douche-bag behaviors of each other in the name of Fam-i-ly”. All the more reason family should walk away from the problem people. TEACH RIGHT, DON’T ENABLE.