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Why do Tim and Heidi need 6 apparatuses for making coffee? I mean I get that it seems to be Heidi's thing, but she'd better make darn sure she lives at least 100 miles away from her future mother-in-law, otherwise Jill will be over there with her waifs ordering skinny vanilla lattes with a dusting of cinnamon and extra whipped cream from Tim every other day until he has to file for bankruptcy. As for Jill giving anyone a lecture about the proper use of a smart phone..... 🤐 EDIT: I thought about it for a minute and realize that I also have a drip coffee maker, an electric kettle and a French press, so... 🙃

Schwartz's hair might not look so stupid if he didn't seem to be styling it with melted butter and axel grease. In the dark. I kind of dig Jo showing up for her confessionals in leggings and a t-shirt with minimal makeup and regular hair, as opposed to some of the questionable fashion statements from Katie, Sandoval, etc. And when Jo asked Schwartz if he was embarrassed by her, his "NO!" didn't seem at all convincing to me. She deserves way better.

Jill asks, "How many of YOU have graduates this year?" 😉 And then she disables the comments. I look forward to not being able to recognize Samuel if/when he ever gets to escape to college and eat real food for a few months before Mahmo yanks him back home because reasons.

That baby doll is terrifying, and also that's a lot of perm rods in Jill's cosmetology table. Haven't seen a colorful selection like that since the early 80's.

I like Venus for these reasons. The men are aware that she's not going to follow their instructions and then it becomes a dog-pile situation where Q at the water well is pontificating like "that's it then I am voting Venus and that's just how it's going to be, period, that's it, that's the decision, end of story." Man, get Q a win, some fire and half a blueberry muffin and suddenly he's running the show. I'd like to see him leave sooner rather than later. Old School - I can pretty much recall the winners and place most of the cast on their correct season from season 1 - 40. New School - I was listening to RHAP recently and Rob was discussing some NS players...Gabe? Lydia? Matt? And I'd have to look them up to remember who they were if I cared (but I don't). Look, you don't know that papaya's backstory and what it had to do to find its way to a tree in Fiji. 100% agree, but I miss his old banshee-screaming shtick like, "Penner! Talking back to me!" Or "Get a load of this guy, can't even make it up the rope wall! He's literally the slowest person we have ever had on this show, what an utter disaster for the Blue Tribe!" Now he's all "Sunshine and rainbows! THAT'S how you do it on Survivor!" I miss Snarky Jeff. But I think he's gone forever.

This bugged me, along with Kody not sitting in between his own mother and Robyn. I saw the snarky comments, and I understand why the comments were made, but those pictures that the National Guard published (and I am not clear on whether or not Janelle okay'd that beforehand) should have had the comments turned off. But I found the body language interesting, as usual. David and Christine were holding hands, as were Logan and Michelle and Aspyn and Mitch. There was no actual need for Kody to grip Robyn's knee in the front row, in my useless opinion. Both Kody and Robyn could've taken a hot second and reflected on how that physical demonstration might appear to Janelle and the rest of the family. It could have been a simple adjustment to holding hands for support. The hand on the knee seemed out of place for the somber, sad occasion. Either those two have absolutely zero self-awareness, or they honestly just don't care.

Came here to say this. So each kid probably gets to share a couple of scoops of Superman ice cream with their siblings, followed by a ride on Sandy, regardless of how old they are - while the customers give a wide berth to the crazy blonde lady screeching at her kids to smile while she films them each taking a turn on the horsey and the employees are like, oh no - they're back.

Personally I would love a downstairs cellar basement attic to store the things that don't fit in my pantry closet, like my collection of sweat blouses and baseball bonnets.

I don't know why I feel the need to look so closely at these pictures that Jill posts but they are oddly fascinating. In addition to the highly inappropriate "memorial wall" in a child's bedroom, I notice what looks like a doll's detached head in a bucket, a flat yellowed pillow on a shelf that Jill is keeping for reasons? And why does a 6 year old need an industrial-type clock in her room - something you would see at a bank? Outside her room in the hallway, what am I looking at - a lighted set of shelves containing Willow Tree figurines? What is this woman's obsession with lamps and cabinet/shelf lighting in multiple spaces of every single room? How is their electric bill not $15,000 a month? I always did like those "hidden pictures" pages in my Highlights magazines as a kid...this is the twisted and scary version of that, I guess?

If Kody and Robyn had even a modicum of sense between them, they would simply disappear from this show because like @Meow Mix said, whatever they do is going to be lose-lose. And I don't think that I would ever want to hear from them again, knowing how deeply they have hurt and manipulated Kody's non-Robyn kids over the years. I have to think that whatever is in the can already for this season will be it for the show. I don't even necessarily need to see "Christine and Janelle: Sister Wives No More!" or whatever we were potentially going to get. Everyone can just move on, shill more MLM stuff and see how it goes. Of course, I also think that Kody and Robyn heavily depend on the show's income, which could sway their decision to keep filming. But the very last thing any of us need to see ever again is Robyn crying, whether or not those tears are real or pretend. She simply cannot. No one believed her then, we sure aren't going to believe her now.

It amazes me that Jill happily posts pictures of the interior of her house with nary a care that bedrooms don't have windows (against fire code, I believe all rooms need two exits, either via door or window), not to mention every single outlet in that place has about 14 plugs and extension cords snaking out of them. I would absolutely love to see them get inspected, but I don't know how that happens unless they potentially get reported? In my mind, this is Jill's twisted way of keeping Janessa dependent on her. By putting her alone in a big house, she could be fostering a fear in Janessa of being by herself, thus needing Mahmo even more. And I am sad that this thought even occurred to me but Jill has her reasons for doing what she does.

Kody may have not had had an inkling, but I guess the question I have is, how hard and how far can you push your child and still sleep at night? Obviously now that question takes a very dark turn. I just cannot fathom speaking so terribly about my children on national television. Say it in private, or to your wife, or in a text, etc. But no matter how angry Kody was at the time, he went way too far with the things he said - knowing that he was saying them for a camera and could not take them back. I would not wish Kody's pain on anyone. He never imagined the outcome of his words, but at the same time, how could he not? They are your children, and words matter, and he seemed to want to really hurt them with his words. I wonder if we will ever hear from Kody going forward on the show.

I assume they feel absolutely gutted, as I believe many of them have probably been with the family for years, but to quote the great Heather B from Real World New York (season one, yes I am old): "they used what we gave them." In other words, Kody could not have been made to be a villain if he hadn't said the terrible things he's said about several members of his family. I doubt very much that the producers told him to disparage his sons on national tv for "wanting to get their pencils wet," among other equally awful things he's said for the cameras. That was all Kody, IMO. I read the article linked above as well as @General Days 's excellent response. If GD is not currently employed as a professional writer/journalist, then I don't even know what to say.....you should be. This show has never been "boring" to me, a watcher since Day One. Initially I was fascinated by the large family, how the wives interacted, how Kody split his time, how the kids got along with each other, and even what the wives wore for their then-purposes of modesty (I am not even going to lie, I sometimes found the way they layered their clothes interesting and - don't laugh - cute). I am trying to think if there was ever a time during this show that I found boring, because I was always watching for the family interactions and dynamics. When things got dark with Meri's catfish, I started to get uncomfortable because her pain and loneliness radiated off the screen in waves of misery. I thought, should I be "entertained" by this over my popcorn and glass of wine? I guess I justified it by thinking that if she didn't want to be filmed so vulnerable, she wouldn't do it. I have no idea if she was roped into a contract, or was getting pressure from the rest of the family...and that was just the beginning. Who knew we were in for a pandemic and Kody's reign of control and all the horrible things that followed. So I don't quite know where I fall on feeding the SW beast by watching and commenting. I know I will never do a re-watch, but if they keep filming and airing, I will likely keep watching. And if they stop filming, I will respect that too and come to terms with this forum slowing way down and maybe stopping altogether. And even though the show used what Kody gave them, I do sometimes wonder about his mental health and how he is handling what happened to his son.

That is some seriously messed up six degrees of separation...or in this case, like 1 1/2 - 2 degrees. Just trying to think of cute nicknames for Edelweiss...Ed? Eddie (that's kind of cute). Edey? Weissy? But I imagine if you're going to give a child that kind of name, it's going to be used loud and proud by her parents at every opportunity.

Because Jill will never admit to being menopausal, even when she's 87 years old. You never know when she's going to pop out one last blessing.

I will miss this forum if it goes away, only because I wanted to see what type of white dress Jill is going to wear to Tim's wedding, and if she's going to severely injure something the day before. 😥 EDIT: I will miss it for many reasons. Please, add me to the DM list of alternate forums. ❤️

I have found yet another podcast that focuses on SW - The Sister Wives Professor. He just did an episode about this very thing - asking how it is that we can become deeply saddened by something that happens to someone we only know from television. He had a colleague on the episode with him who specializes in death and dying, and I found it rather interesting. We have watched these Brown babies grow up over the years, and we've been privy to their struggles too. We've watched Garrison and Gabe, especially, practically beg their father to have a relationship with them, to no avail. While we were on these threads dumbfounded at Kody's behavior, I think it's almost too easy to forget that these are also very real people who are being affected in ways we can never know. My biggest hope right now is that Gabe is okay.

That was a profoundly weird scene to me, especially if Bhanu is indeed a superfan. He shouldn't have needed coaching in what to say or not say from Q, but even as Q was explaining things, it was pretty clear to me from the unhinged look in his eyes that Bhanu wasn't taking any of it in. Personally I was disappointed that he didn't tear his "Be Kind" shirt in half. I haven't cringed in second-hand embarrassment so hard while watching Survivor since Philip Shepard walked around in his sagging pink undies. I appreciate the opening segment has gone back to giving us the names of the players. However, episode 4 has come and gone and there are still two or three people that pop up on my screen and I'm like, who the heck is that?? Sigh.....whatever, Survivor. I'll still watch. I just don't want to start hate watching.

Pretty soon, on a highway somewhere between Ohio and Florida, you might just witness the Rodriguez family caravan with a rust-bucket RV in the lead (1), followed by a van sputtering smoke out of its exhaust pipe (2), followed by a muffler-less car (3), followed by another random car circa 1998 (4), and then finally at caboose, someone riding Jill's electric bike (sans helmet) just in case vehicles 1 - 4 break down at the side of the road.

Can anyone explain to me how one should "Bee Humble" when sitting on the potty? I am not sure how those two things intersect.....

She was probably calculating how many women she could feed from two heads of lettuce, a tomato, and a bottle of off-brand ranch dressing.

I saw that video too, along with a comment from Jill that she was trying to get her entire brood to take their first bite all at the same time for her filming purposes. Sure, set some pizza in front of your brood of hungry waifs and delay them eating it until they understand your stage direction and choreography. Just let them EAT. I also saw a picture of the back of Jill's head with the explanation that Sadie did Jill's hair while Jill was busy entering in all the information from the dozen(s) of women attending her retreat and I have to say, Jill's hair has literally never looked so good.

Wait, so that's not how it works? Gosh, I guess I owe Delta an apology. 🙄 To the staff of all the Frontier desks at every major airport...be on the lookout for a bleach-blonde woman wearing a pink bonnet cap that reads "BEST MEME," a sweatblouse with the word "PLEXUS" on it, and a tight denim skirt down to her shins, waddling your way to demand to speak to your manager about why there's not a Frontier airplane parked in her backyard by now with a pilot on standby, what with all the dozens of miles she's accrued.

Leon's tribute was lovely. Audrey's picture was beautiful. I keep coming back to the fact that Garrison was a cat dad, and had just adopted an older cat from a shelter. A young man who is adopting pets to care for is a person with a huge and tender heart. It's so sad that the world was too painful for him.

Maddie posted an IG story, a picture of Janelle holding hands with Axel and Evie, wading into the ocean - I am assuming they are in NC. Maddie mentioned that they were getting some healing via fresh air and water. I am glad Janelle has so many people to lean on and I hope she gets lots of grandkid snuggles.