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And another thing (my God, it's like I"m having flashbacks!): Why does Whitney insist on calling Nada, whom she's literally just met as "bitch"? Whitney is just so lacking in class, grace, or common manners that it almost defies belief.

I agree completely. The stories just keep changing too much in significant ways. Last week Nada said she actually ordered a wedding dress from England. This week we hear that she was only "almost engaged". This week Whitney says she feels bad for Nada because Avi was obviously so much farther along (you know, "almost engaged" and whatnot) with Nada than he was with her. But last week, Whitney was blubbering about how they'd already talked about marriage (in between Avi's protestations against commitment, I suppose) and Whitney was trying on wedding dresses and Whitney was harassing some poor Rabbi in Greensboro. In other news, Whitney's behavior towards Nada at that "retreat" pretty neatly summarized Whitney's entire decrepit personality and character. Here's a woman whom Whitney considers her newest, bestest BFF; to whom she feels comfortable saying "I love you"; whom she feels comfortable sniffing, groping, running her fingers through her hair, and a bunch of other cringeworth shit I'm sure I'm forgetting; whom she convinced (or so we're led to believe) to extend a trip to a foreign country to stay with someone she'd only Facetimed a handful of times. Now this woman finds herself in obvious physical distress. And what does Whitney say/do? "Well, I was really planning on finishing this "hike" (which is really no longer than her rambling in the parking lot during her "panic attack" last week), but if you want me to stay back, I guess I could." "Wait here, I'll just bark at my production minions to bring a chair. No, don't worry. They're used to having to do that. They always keep one handy."

Flashback: "Avi's great. He only dates fat girls!!!" This week: "Avi's a creep. He preys on fat girls!". So this week we learned that Nada was almost engaged to Avi. Which Whitney, who was shopping for wedding dresses, telling her parents that she's getting married, and was studying to become a Big Fat Fabulous Jew for the guy, says was much further than her relationship. What I see is two delusional, low-self-esteem, getting-old-maids who latch onto the most superficial and minimal male attention they way they do grande frappuccinos. And Whitney's invasions of personal space, inappropriate touching, smelling, and sexually suggestive talk, including asking Fat Girl #3 about sex with Avi, is just so classless. She's just a disgrace.

Yeah. I don't mean to suggest that production is going out of the way to make Whitney look bad. I think that at some point they decided to stop going out of their way to try to make her look good.

Abraham Lincoln said "if you want to test a man's character, give him power". And that's the dynamic at play here. Whitney's "fame" has given her a sense of superiority and "power", and her true colors have come shining through. I've tried to point out over the seasons the subtle and not-so-subtle hints that the production crew has come to really dislike Whitney. I betting that's the result of Whitney treating them like crap (we saw a glimpse of that in the way she barked at the crew when she slid into that hilarious split while trying to ski. As far as Whitey's marketing, I always thought the smartest play would've been to use the first couple of seasons to showcase the BGDC and then try to license to the concept to a big fitness chain. With a few tweaks it'd fit in with Planet Fitness's anti-musclehead branding. Churn out a couple of new "routines" every few months and make a few person appearances as classes are added throughout the country and then sit back and cash checks. I think there's probably a market for a fitness class that's welcoming to people who might be intimidating by traditional aerobic-type classes. Much more so than the poor-quality stuff she seems to be hawking on her No-BS website.

I've formulated a sort of Occam's Razor for this show, call it Whitney's Razor. Whitney's Razor says that the explanation that "Whitney is lying in order to have a storyline to keep this show going" is the correct explanation most of the time. Ergo, in re: Avi: At the end of last season Whitney realized she had absolutely nothing in her life that would justify another season. She sure as hell wasn't ever going on tour with that Fitness Marshall. Around that time the issue of "cat fishing", or online-dating scams in general were in the news. So . . . . Whitney decided to take one of her online fuck-buddy situations and falsely claim that she was being cheated-on. Or, even worse, she solicited an online fuck-buddy specifically to lie about that person cheating on them. After all, Whitney has bragged about enjoying the so-called hook-up culture. Just this episode she said she was sweating "like a whore in Church because I am a whore in Church". Stay classy Whit. This would explain the time gap between season, as it would've taken time to line up enough hook-up times to get photos of them out-and-about, etc. As far as Nada, I'm not so sure she isn't famewhoring this thing herself.

It was hysterical that Glenn lee with “you might have to fly for work”, then realized “no, that would never apply to you” and switched to the friend’s funeral.

It’s pure shock value for the cameras. And it’s infantile. The same way a little brat will mouth off to their parents when there’s company around because they think their parents won’t scold them in front of others. Whitney says this shit because the cameras are around and she knows that Glenn and Babs will bite their tongues.

That we can agree on. I do think in the first season or so we heard more expressions of concern from Glenn and Babs. But at some point they decided to firmly sign on as barnacles. Just typical basic-cable famewhores. And I’ve come around from thinking Babs was “cute” in S1 to seeing that she’s a Not-so-stealth nasty piece of work in her own right.

All appearances and evidence to the contrary, Whitney is an emancipated adult. So this isn’t a Honey Boo-Boo (Honey Bon-Bon?) situation. I don’t think they had anything to do with her first getting the show. And at this point it’s taken on a life of its own don’t get me wrong, I firmly believe that Glenn and Babs long ago decided to enable Whitney’s infantilization, so I’m not defending them I think they’ve just decided that rather than having to deal with a broke failure of a daughter, they might as well let her monetize her failure.

I don’t get the impression that Glenn and Babs are hurting for Retirement funds Rather, I think they’re trying to ensure they don’t spend Retirement with Whitney living in their spare bedroom

Setting aside that the narrator sounds like a pretty big dick, he does have Whitney's number. What I found interesting, though, is that in this TedX talk Whitney takes her weight issues all the way back to 5th grade. She really can't keep her story straight. I also love how all of her "jokes" fall flat. And what's with her making fun of a college freshman taking her on a "dinner date" to a Ruby Tuesdays? You're broke and in college, and a hillbilly college at that. You expect to be taken to Le Bernadin? What a bitch.

I think Whitney has just scaled-up all over. You can really tell if you go back to the confessionals from Season 1, where she seems to be sitting in an ordinary chair. We've since seen from later season reunions that she takes up an entire love-seat and more than half of a regular couch. As far as people's mixed perceptions of weight gain/loss this season, I do think that in her confessionals, where she's had the benefit of the Production Company's make-up team and better, longer hair extensions, her face looks a bit thinner. (I think generally her face looks thinner with longer hair). But notice that many of those confessionals are shot in more of a close-up, so we can't see how much space her body is actually taking up on the chair/couch/bench.

Also, any one else catch her still-phony copping to still smoking? Sure. She just keeps an e-cigarette around for, you know, those times when she gets dumped. By her definition of a "relationship" and of "getting dumped", that'd be a 2-pack-a-day habit!

One other thought: what the fuck Tony's brother's hair?!?!? That was some magnificent mess.

Blood Pressure isn't enough to rule out a heart attack. And actually a normal EKG isn't enough either. They would've run blood tests for the troponin enzyme and probably an echocardiogram. At Whitney's size, the echo would've had to be "transesophageal", meaning that they have to snake the camera down her throat because she has too much body fat for the sensor to pick up the heart through her chest wall.

That's kind of where I am about this. Tony and Mykelti are a couple of snots. But Cody deserves it 100% for creating this trainwreck. If this thing wasn't being filmed, I doubt it would be playing out the way we've seen. For goodness sake! If your wedding plans involve taco stand, life-size pinatas, "bro's-men" and "bitches", why in the hell are you looking for a nice venue? You think that's going to make it classy? On the B&B, Meri really should have led her pitch with the fact that she had a chance to bring a house with family heritage back, in the town her great-grandfather founded, back into the family; and use the B&B angle as something that potentially could help pay back the purchase price. That being said, it was funny to see Cody pretend to know what consultants do. (I know, the "consultants" here are probably Meri's Twitter followers). But it's still a riot every time Cody affects this Solomonic, fingers-steepled, pose.

I'm sure in her warped mind Whitney thinks that she's coming across as empowered in this Avi/Nada situation. But, as usual, she just looks pathetic. She looked pathetic when she was talking marriage with a guy who'd been blowing her off, led with the fact that he's a "commitment-phobe", and hadn't even proposed yet. She looked pathetic when she refused to take the "he's just not that into you" message and get on with her life. She looked pathetic "teaming up" with Nada to . . . what I'm still not sure. And, any bets on how likely Whitney is to follow through on her "conversion" to Judaism?

I could buy that. I could also buy Whitney being on-board 100%, as well as Nada. What's suspicious to me is that Whitney supposedly had all these great times with Avi which just coincidentally stopped happening as soon as filming began.

Oh Lordy, Lordy. Where to begin? Chest discomfort, jaw pain, shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting . . . yeah, I think a doc-in-a-box can handle that. And I'm sure they'd just check the patient's pulse and blood pressure and send them on their way. There's no way. That whole thing was a set up. I'm surprised that they got the health center to go along with it. Otherwise Whitney lied to them about her symptoms. You know you needs a hug? That Bridal Gown Saleswoman. You know who else needs a hug? Everyone who shopped there and is now feverishly looking at their calendars to see if they might have sat in Whitney's ass soup. Game Night. First Game: Everyone gets to say what's great about me! Without having followed Whitney on social media, the whole Avi thing seems just as contrived as the radio job, the dance contest, the gay-for-a-day date, the incest-is-the-best date, the fake awards, etc. So many tells. Last week, when Whitney supposedly has no reason to doubt her relationship, and thus no reason to think she wouldn't be flaunting her new guy around on-screen, we got that ham-fisted exposition during the road trip back from Indy. ("you saw Avi and I, right? we were all together, right? tell the people he really exists, barnacle tell them!!!!)

You are most certainly not alone. I too was initially drawn to the show because I was interested in seeing someone "of size" not letting their size completely define who they were and what they were capable of. That's how the show was initially presented. I'd have to go back to my earliest posts on this show, but it was somewhere either near the end of Season 1 or mid-way through Season 2 that I was purely hate-watching. Also, seeing Ashley return, and thinking back to her role as Whitney's side-kick in the earlier seasons, reminded me of something else. IIRC, Ashley accompanied Whitney to go shopping for a two-piece bathing suit. We then saw Whitney lumbering all over a deserted beach and heard how liberating and empowering she felt to be so comfortable and accepting of her own body. From what we've seen in the ensuing seasons, that bathing suit actually covered more skin than the sports bras she insists on wearing as tops nearly all day, every day. She's just. so. full. of. shit. I get that it can be something that the person going through the break does. My point is that, as far as consolation from your supposed best friend, its shit.

Before this week's episode, can we just pause to appreciate that, when attempting to console her purported best friend in the midst of a purported serious break-up, the best that purported adult Whitney could come up with was "you should change your relationship status on social media"? That, in a very large, cotton/spandex blend, nutshell, sums up Whitney's arrested maturity.

I'm guessing that famewhore Terra had very little to do with the financing, purchase or payment for renovations of this house. If everything went smoothly there'd be no show. This is just for show.

"How can I keep up with people who dance every day for a living?" asks the woman who claims to . . . dance every day for a living. I'm not a quitter, but . . . And, haven't the Jews (and Glenn) been through enough Whitney?

Being able to select is only on advantage compared to not being able to select. But that’s comparing the shitty scenario TPTB put into place, with an even shittier scenario they hypothetically could have put into place. The proper comparison, imo, is between the shitty scenario TPTB put into place, and the traditional system of voting. Viewed in that light, I can’t see a single circumstance in which the winner of the Final 4 IC is benefitted by the new format