I also wanna point out that working at a salon has got to be a helluva lot better gig than some of the jobs I have had. I mean, you get to make people pretty (or ugly depending on your skills and their taste levels) while you hang out and chat about pop-culture and drink coffee... these girls have it way easy already, I don't understand why if Ralph was such a successful salon owner all these years he can't seem to explain to them how to put their business first... ah, but then we wouldn't have a show, would we? Gotcha! I'll quit trying to apply real-world logic to the situation and just roll widdit, alright?

The first thing I notice about Salon Tika as Tabatha goes stalking up towards the front door is that they are certainly not turning down any shred of possible free Bravo! advertising...

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...I'll take down their number in case I'm ever in Rockville Centre, Lowong Oylund and wanna get my hair fried...

Tabatha greets Ralph with a much gentler demeanor than she has most of the other clueless salon owners... my guess would be that it's either because he has a debilitating disease or that she realizes she's going to have to show him proof that his daughters have no work ethic... we'll find out as she takes him down to...

SALON UNDERCOVER

So Lady T sits down with Ralph and wants to know why he wants her help. He says 3 years ago they opened Salon Tika, and right after that is when he got diagnosed with his MS, and the girls had to take over very suddenly, sooner than he had anticipated. Awww, man, I am feeling so bad for this guy...

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...AuJew mentioned Daddy Ralphie is kind of a grey-fox hottie, and I'm starting to kinda get that vibe, too...

Tabatha wants to know where the cash came from to finance everything, and Daddy Ralphie says he had some cash and mortgaged his house to the hilt to come up with the rest. T-girl wants to know how much money the girls put in. "Nothing." he says, quite honestly, "and they don't take direction from me very well." I'll tell you how to fix that, Daddy Ralphie. Get a taser.

It's not as if Daddy Ralph has no clue what he's doing, because he has owned fourteen salons in his 40+ year career, "but nobody wants to hear what I have to say here, so I'm helpless..." Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Jacob, Cain and Mabel! He must have raised two of the biggest bitches in the free world (or at least on Lowong Oylund)! TabathaVoice™ informs us that Ralph just can't say "no" to his little girls... they got their own salon... and Daddy got the debt!

So let's see what the Two Little Bitches are up to when Daddy's not around (or better still, when he's off having some of the lovely and painful intramuscular medical injections required to manage a disease like MS).

Hey, here comes a client approaching the front desk... aaaaand the receptionist chick is on the phone (not talking, prolly getting a psychic reading) and ignores her, so she goes and sits down...

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..."Damn! This fuckin' 'Spider Solitaire' game is haaard with all four suits!"...

Tabatha wants to know if the receptionista is like that with all the clients, and Daddy Ralph says that the woman is regular and they all know her. Yes, I like it when I walk up to people I know and they ignore me. Lady T says it is irrelevant if the woman is a regular client or not, everyone should be made to feel welcome at the salon, and she chides Ralph, "you're experienced enough to know that." Duh.

Hey, check out this sign in the salon!...

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..♪."Summah's here ♪ aaand the ♪ time is ri-ight..♪. for Oompah Loompah ♪ Spray-On tans!".♪..

I am beginning to wonder when people will finally figure out that spray-tanning pretty much looks like crap. I would never want to take on the same golden-orangey-brown-hue of Hungry Jack Biscuits. Better still, guess where you go to have your spray-tanning sessions done at Salon Tika? If you guessed "the tanning room" you're wrong. If you guessed "the lobby" you're still wrong. If you guessed "the back alleyway next to the dumpstah" you're still pretty damned wrong, but you're getting closer...

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...and if you guessed "the shitter" then you get a great big Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding! and a can of Glade!...

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Comments (8)

DrJerkass:

Fabulous recap again J-Mo. You never fail to make me laugh at my computer screen in the middle of the office (it's okay, they all just think I'm insane...wait, that's not okay, hmmm, maybe I should do work).

There's something about a show where someone yells at idiots that attracts me. Then you add someone (you) making sarcastic comments about said show and it's like a confluence of hilarity.

I gotta say though, there's something in me that just wants people like this to fail. They just seem to plain stupid to be successful at anything. Of course I'm also a mean, cold, jerkass (not a doctor though).

AuJew:

j-mo!

i love it. looove it. p.s. thanks for plugging me twice and linking to my recap!

i still wish ralphie was my daddy. esp after seeing your screengrabs. jealous of tabbs a lil in the kissyface one. and is it wrong that "I'll tell you how to fix that, Daddy Ralphie. Get a taser" was a bit of turn on for me???

as always, you have all of my love. and "OMG, what in Jeebus' name is a "Brazilian relaxer"? Is that like getting your pubes straightened? Ew." BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA LOVE IT!!!! i was thinking the exact same thing. just sounds so terribly, terribly wrong.

p.s. if lovin' your nubile jailbait ass is wrong, i don't wanna be right. although i'm younger than you. and a woman. and not a priest. meh.

p.p.s. oprah still sucks. *MWAH* hahahahahaHAAHAHAAAA

fire@will:

Great recap (of course).

I ended up liking most of these people and I wanted them to be a success.

You are right to point out that hair care is a career that can't be outsourced to India! And I've worked in all those (horrible) environments you named that can be. (Thanks for the nightmares!)

I agree about so many kids growing up without a sense of where money comes from. I think they should just have the basics unless they are willing to work to earn more. No matter how much thier parents have. (But, I guess we'll always have Paris!)

rubinia:

OMG, that screencap of Lauren puking in her mouth was hilarious! Great recap as always!

yentapatrol:

Hi Darling J-Mo,
I think you should write an etiquette book in your own indominitable style.

Love your recap,
Yenta

detinha:

ROFLMAO @ "...hey, she does kinda look like Nicolize Theigl!..."

Thanks J-M0, you're the bestest!

**Mwah**

Val

arizonatom:

J-Mo;

Great job as always! I just can't believe those two skanks were so stupid and selfish before "T" showed up. Spoiled ________ (fill in favorite name here). Keep up the good work.

Lots O' Love

J-Mo:

DrJerkAss... awww, shucks, thank you (and hey, thanks for coming to my aid over on that other thread the other day, wasn't that weird?) you're peaches in my book! Oh, and yes, I agree with you, sometimes privileged people work my last nerve, too, especially when they don't appreciate it like the Gruesome Twosome...

AuJew... no problem, I think we should all be building each other's work up, y'know? Can I say, though, that I would not be surprised in the LEAST to find out that you might enjoy electrical shock in an erotic sense? Oprah would not approve, but fuck her.

fire@will... LOL, sorry about the work nightmares, but I've done time in all those industries as well, and often longed for some kind of talent in cosmetics that would afford me a casually fabulous lifestyle complete with drinking lattés and whizzing around town in a sporty red convertible with the top down and my long luxurious blonde hair blowing in the wind, ready to assist with any kind of hairdressing emergency that may crop up (like, say, StylistMan™!) Alas, those dreams will never come true, and hell, these Medicare D claims ain't gonna just process themselves, y'know, so I plug away at the things I can do and vent my frustrations on these poor people who have foolishly agreed to appear on a reality TV show for our collective amusement. You're quite kind as always, though...

rubinia... Honey, that was too funny, and I wish I could take credit for it as a screencap, but actually it was a still shot from BravoTV[dot]com... but that was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw it (and that's what I usually go with when I write recaps and captions) so I'm glad you enjoyed it, too!

yenta-honey... the love is mutual... maybe I will try to put out "J-Mo's Etiquette For Specific Social Situations" later on this year, although many would probably find me to be in violation of many of my own imagined rules, so I dunno how well it would go over... but you're sweet for the suggestion!

detinha... LOL, thanks... honestly, I really couldn't tell who that picture was supposed to be! Can anyone help me out with that? I feel disconnected from pop culture when I can't identify someone I feel I should know, y'know?

arizonatom... thank you for the love, you're sweet as always...

I promise I'm working on the new episode of Salon Takeover, I should hopefully have it finished by tonight or tomorrow... thanks as always for all your comments, you guys always give me such warm fuzzy love...

love, J-Mo :)

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