It’s just a case of one friend not being able to hang out so much with you anymore. It happens, Jill, and grownups deal with it. Maybe you do need a hobby besides gossip. Bethenny's been busy growing her business and being in love and that leaves little time to go swanning around New York with Jill. She also has a very unpleasant lunch with LuAnn that leaves her shaking with indignation.

Bethenny and Jason have drinks with Ramona and Mario. Ramona, totally delusional as usual, talks about cutting her gorgeous long blonde hair and being raped by Jill and the Countess on her yacht trip. The “Countless” remark comes up and Bethenny says she would have said the same thing, especially after her disastrous lunch the LuAnn. She also lets loose that LuAnn and the Count were both screwing around on each other. OOO, didn’t know all that but I believe it.

LuAnn’s former “girl” Rosie comes out to visit. She’s given up (or lost in the divorce) the New York townhouse and is living year round in the Hamptons' house, and that's why they lost Rosie’s services. Although LuAnn talks about how she and Rosie confide in each other, from what I can see it’s all about LuAnn and her troubles. After hinting that she’s like Rosie to teach her new “girl” how to make Rosie red snapper she tells us they’re “friends.” I think Rosie cares about the family but when she names her friends I don’t think LuAnn would come up.

Ramona and Mario's next victims for drinks are Alex and Simon. Simon and Mario show up dressed similarly in pink shirts and white suits. How very Hamptons! Simon says Ramona looks like a young Cameron Diaz and she giggles like a school girl. Alex tells us that she knew Ramona would eat that shit up. Ramona invites them to her Labor Day barbeque. “Countless” comes up and Mario says LuAnn should come off her high horse. But... he does call to invite her to the barbecue but never really apologizes.

Jill and her family spendd the Labor Day weekend at LuAnn’s. Jill was invited to Ramona’s barbeque but doesn’t want to go since her hostess isn’t going. Jill calls Ramona and puts her on speakerphone. Bad move. Ramona goes off after she says she doesn’t want to come to the party. Calls her rude, calls her a slut and says she’s always had men in her life even when she was married and maybe that’s why her husband divorced her! Jill demands Mario apologize for his remark. And it ends there.

Jill also says that people shouldn’t worry about what other people are doing. Exactly what Bethenny told her. Ha. They both diss Bethenny with LuAnn saying men come and go but girlfirends are forever. Which is usually true. But as we get older, ladies, men tend more often to stay. At least we hope they will.

Jason asks Bethenny to live with him and she gets all teary and wonders how she's come to have it all. The great career and the great guy. Sweet.

Ramona prepares for her barbeque and hopes Alex and Simon don't bring their kids. She grouses about Jill not coming. Jill thinks Ramona should understand that since she’s staying with the Countess she can’t come over. Kelly arrives and acts all mysterious and says something’s happening tomorrow. LuAnn worries that she got arrested again. Jill also thinks it’s something bad since she’s acting so weird. Well, it turns out that she’s been chosen to be on the cover of Playboy for their 40th anniversary edition. It’ll be topless and -- LuAnn says -- inspirational. LuAnn turns it around to herself and says she was on the cover of Playgirl hundreds of years ago and offers to go get it. Yeah, they really want to see it. Not.

Ramona didn’t invite Kelly to her party and for that I give her props. She did invite Bethenny, who’s weirded out when she finds out Alex and Simon are coming. She didn’t use Alex’s logo for her company. She immediately comes out with it and thanks her for all her hard work. Alex is OK with it, her only problem was that she’d heard Bethenny said she’d wanted something "better." The group talk about how Jill likes the underdog and that now that Bethenny has a man she doesn't have time for Jill. Some chick named Jennifer tells Bethenny how hurt Jill is by her actions. Bethenny’s reaction -- too bad. Get a hobby. I think Jill’s chosen Kelly for her next charity case anyway.

Alex and Simon, feeling caught in the middle of the 2009 battle of the barbecues, first go to Ramona's but dip out to go over to LuAnn’s. They make no bones about it either. But Ramona gets upset when they leave. She’s pissed that LuAnn invited them. She gets the crazy eyes under her new short do.

Alex decides to stay at LuAnn’s. She calls Jill and tells her she can’t make a graceful exit. Jill pumps for gossip and she says there was no hatefest, that LuAnn didn’t want to be around Mario and Jill didn’t wanna be around Bethenny. They hate her anyway.

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