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Slade and Gretchen

O.C.'s Real Housewives' Leftovers Leave Bitter Aftertaste

By Sexy Chatty Catty

SexyChattyCattyAS IF WE HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH, BRAVO SERVES UP ANOTHER DOSE OF BATHOS WITH BACK-TO-BACK "Reunion" shows of the O.C.'s Housewives. Didn't the season just end?

Of course, we can never see enough squabbling between husband and wife (Tamra and Simon), mother and daughter (Lynne and Alexa), friend and spouse (Vicki and Simon). So we get to see it all again!!

And there's never enough time to illustrate how slippery slimey Slade Smiley actually is. (Try saying that five times!)

We discover that Gretchenis singing now as well as producing a makeup line. I heard a little bit of her song. Meh. She brought Vicki's jaw to the ground when she tells us she bought Jo's music catalog. Yes, Jo of Jo and Slime. Of course, I'm sure she was urged on by Slime; how else would she know it was available?

And we saw what a great music career he guided Jo to.

Andy says it's funny no one has anything good to say about Slade. Damn right, everyone hates him. All over the world, according to Vicki who swears she heard him being dissed in the Vatican. That's wild, but I believe it. Lynne finally says something coherent when she comments that she thinks Gretchen's being brainwashed and separated from her friends by Slimey. Yes, everyone hates him but as is usually the case girlfriend sees that as a need to protect him more. Let's just drop it.

But no. They bring up how he's an opportunist and famewhore and the worst thing that could happen to Gretchen would be a reversal of his vasectomy. Vicki says she doesn’t want to share the stage with him. But of course Gretchen defends: ""At the end of the day he's the person I'm in love with and I ask that you guys respect and don't talk negative about him."

Hour two begins with clips of Lynne's many famed foibles. Someone wonders if Lynne's so mellow because she's a stoner. These shows really do have the best audience questions. She owns up to drinks and maybe a pill or two. Or four.

Vicki and Don are back in love. Her love tank is full.

Oh god, clips from the dinner party. Who works, who doesn’t. Who’s trash and who isn’t. And we hate Alexis. She's talking about texting her family while in San Francisco. Vicki says she feels Alexis thinks she's superior to everyone. Tamra tries to soften that by calling it confidence. I call it stuck-up bitch as I watch her sitting there rolling her eyes around in that duck head of hers. There's strong personality and then there's obnoxious. She's the latter.

Talk turns to the economy and the woes of folks we thought had money in the bank. All except for Vicki, of course. She works hard, as she never fails to remind us. Her lifestyle hasn't changed a bit. Uh oh, the dinner party again. She knows everyone works but she works the hardest. Then she gets into a tiff with the wives one by one on who does what. Basically she says you can't eat love.

How's Jeanna doing? Well, here she comes. First thing out of her mouth is that Vicki doesn’t visit her anymore. Then they talk about the TP'ing of her house the night of the slumber party. How old are they? Who does that anyway? She's still not divorced and Matt is living in and out of her house. She's so soft. She throws out her opinion that Tamra and Simon should stay together and Tamra pretty much says mind your own business.

Hah, then Jeanna talks about how Tamra cried about her parents' divorce even though she was 27 when it happened. I think she called her trailer trash too.

The husbands come on but Simon is missing. Jim says he just wasn't feeling it. I'm sure. Andy reads a comment that says Jim is controlling and a girl's worst nightmare. Then Alexis pipes in and says that he's actually changed a diaper. He says it's because he’s traditional and Armenian. He’s no Andy.

Don talks about how broken their marriage was last season and how he and Vicki are trying hard to repair it. Andy wonders why Don didn’t defend Vicki when Simon was constantly ragging on her. He mumbles some excuse. It seems he and Simon were good buds but that’s all over now.

Poor Frank, he's trying too. He's just a poor guy who makes bad choices. I think Lynne was one of them.

The bearded Slimey hasn't a clue why everyone hates him. Jim, it seems, kinda envies him. Slimey just likes to dates hot women. So sue him. He didn't even want to be on the show. Gretchen begged him. Right. Why don’t I believe that? They got together about 5 months after Jeff died. Ewwwww. He was supposed to be a good friend of Jeff's.

More Slime. Now he denies influencing Gretchen into music. And also that he and Laurie weren’t seriously dating. Liar. Liar. Liar. Laurie thought she was in a relationship. Ooooo, he looks like a caught fish.

Gretchen doesn't believe any of this. She's in love. Dickmatized maybe more like it. I caught a glimpse of little sumtin' sumtin' when they had that tanning party and he stripped nude. Hmmmm. A Gretchen and Slime wedding? He shrugs and says ya never know. She smiles, bounces and says "yay." Pure slime.

Andy wonders what a normal marriage. We see clips of the couples' commenting on the illfated Florida trip that was supposed to be an all-girls' getaway before it turned ugly. Vicki says again that it wasn’t a couples weekend and that was the problem. Is Jim that insecure? He says there's a temptation when your wife travels alone for her to be a bad girl. Someone's insecure. Tamra says if someone's gonna cheat they're going to cheat. Alexis throws out the best friends line. He's an asshole. Vicki doesn’t believe this shit.

Slime then calls Vicki out. He calls her an attention whore.

Vicki fights to keep it together, says maybe he should star on the House Husbands show. Burn! Vicki says she was told he was whoring Gretchen out, letting the paps know where they are to come take pictures. Back and forth, back and forth. Then it's pile on Vicki time again as Jim and Alexis butt in with their bull. Vicki stands up and says it’s over bitches and I’m out. But she’s not as she sits back down.

Shut up, Alexis. OMG, the work thing comes up AGAIN. And the dinner party.

Vicki, leave. I never thought I'd come to her defense but this season has really done a number on her and she's a better woman than I to hold it together and keep filming. She thinks she pretty much through with the show. For her, the thrill is gone.

SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes on TV, America's favorite snack food.

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