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I agree. I cannot ever see Kody and Robyn allowing this to become anything but Meri's sad, pathetic ploy for affection outside of her celestial marriage to Kody. I don't know what, if anything, we will see on the show about the catfish incident, but I have to believe that behind closed doors, Kody has completely shunned Meri, Robyn polishes her new tiara every night with an evil smile, Christine takes all the happy pills, and Janelle basks in the warm glow that is karma. I don't see the other wives coming to Meri's emotional aide at all. I firmly believe that whenever one wife takes a fall, the others step on her in order to gain ranks in the pecking order.

From now on, whenever Meri says "the children are the most important thing," I will drop and do 50 sit-ups. By summer, I might just have those abs of steel I've always wanted. I swear, the way she says it, it's like she's dead inside and her brain has programmed her mouth to parrot those words whenever she's interviewed. I am 99% sure this divorce wasn't Meri's idea at all, but that Robyn and Kody, over time, slyly pushed her to go through with it in the name of the "fam'ly."

My DVR cut out partway through the previews for next week - is Meri actually going to discuss the catfish fiasco with the other wives?

I cannot stop laughing!

Well, congrats, Sister Wives!! I usually don't squirm and cringe with second-hand embarrassment until at least 15 minutes into your show. Last night, you bested that by approximately 14 1/2 minutes. Let's see, of the 264 oddities that jumped out at me, here are the worst (most have already been discussed but if I don't repeat them, my head will explode): Kody in that portrait. Was HILARIOUSLY awful. Logan's reaction was perfect - he covered his mouth with his hand in what I can only imagine was an effort to not fall on the ground laughing. Janelle is more giddy and talkative than I have ever seen, and I have been watching this show since the beginning. Lately she's just a chipper, happy gal, isn't she? I wonder why? Could it be because KARMA has come a-callin' to Mean Meri? I can think of no other reason. That's the sickest part of this twisted excuse for a family - the harder one wife falls, the higher the others can rise. Could Meri have BEEN less underwhelmed at the necklace Da'unAuroraBreanna gave her? She could barely muster a smile. Christine needs to back off a little on the happy juice. She is working way too hard to smooch Robyn's behind and it's just embarrassing to watch. I noticed that halfway through the show, the wifely seating assignment during the couch sessions changed. Christine was next to Meri. I wonder if Robyn, Janelle and Christine had to draw straws to determine who had to sit next to the sourpuss. And mostly - Robyn, MAKE UP YOUR MIND. The kids get adopted. Then, they are shown leaving for a two-week visit with their REAL dad. They are shown returning, after apparently having had a good time. Then they give Kody a watch that says "Dad." You can't portray your first husband as a monster, when all other signs point to him being quite the opposite. And I cannot imagine his anger at seeing Robyn unveil that stupid portrait basically substituting him with Kreepy Kody. Oh my goodness, those kids are going to need some serious therapy, and soon. Now off to "LIKE" everyone's comments!

SO MUCH THIS.^ I avoid following any of the cast on Twitter - in fact, I pretty much avoid Twitter during Survivor. I like my Survivor pure and unedited by the players telling us that what we're seeing is not what really happened, or there's more to the story, etc. Social media changed the entire fiber of how the viewers get their information and interpret the game. It seems that a game based so much on secrecy is being spoiled when we learn about things we're not seeing on television. Boo to Twitter. Now get off my lawn.

We didn't find out anything. If this was a ploy to boost ratings, it's beyond reprehensible. If it was some kind of decoy to throw us gullible viewers away from the idea that Meri lost all that weight because she's an emotional hot mess, it's disgusting. I wouldn't put anything past the Browns at this point. They'd better address this whole catfish deal, as it is the current elephant in the room. It would be like Robyn getting pregnant and then ignoring it...LOL, as if that could ever happen. But seriously, the catfish story has been in the magazines, no way can they just pretend it didn't happen and ignore it. I realize that Kody Brown thinks he can spin any story line he chooses into anything he wants, but I also think he believes that just because he said it, the viewers are going to believe it.

When Ciera said that she wasn't thrilled about Savage using her in his master plan, I mentally jumped off my couch and high-fived her. I love when the quiet ones decide they're not going to fade into the scenery.

While I am very satisfied that the title of this episode was called "Bunking With the Devil," I would've also 100% supported a title called "Oil Up, Joe." I loved this episode (except for Terry being pulled - relieved to see his son is doing well). I loved Ciera saying, "Sorry, Savage - you picked on the wrong girl." I was hoping she'd follow through with her threat by trying to get him out. I don't understand the logic in taking out Woo, who seems very swayable as far as alliances go. I do not remember Savage being all annoyingly whispering intensity when he played before, but man, I am over it now. I would love to see Kass and Spencer somehow align and go far together, even though I can't stand Kass and her self-appointed nicknames and accompanying personality traits. "Chaos Kass" versus "Calm Kass?" I mean, what the ? Chaos in this game is great if you're doing it with a purpose, but in remembering Kass' previous season, creating chaos just for the sake of living up to the image you want to create for yourself is pointless. I was surprised that she was the one to clue in Spencer as to Savage's plans. Interesting. I always love the gross-food eating challenges. Tasha shadow-boxing the balut down her throat was awesome. Reminded me of Gervase slapping himself upside the head while eating grubs in Borneo.

I have never understood why the other wives sit there during those stupid couch sessions and listen to Robyn cry time and time again (well, I know why - because it's in their contracts or whatever). But given the skewed timelines this show force-feeds us, the wives are usually discussing events that happened months ago, yet there's Robyn with yet another fresh set of fake tears. Typically, emotions become somewhat dulled by the passage of time, but not for Sobbin'. I know this will never happen, but I keep hoping one or more of the wives will rise, rip off her mic, and storm off when Robyn turns on the dry waterworks for the 285th time. Robyn's need to be the center of attention during the couch sessions boggles my mind, and watching the other wives just sit there and look at her while she wipes eye-boogers yet again...sheesh. Now, as soon as she starts crying, I chuckle. She must have to squeeze a lot of muscles to make those pretend-crying faces.

This is perfect, except I think that Meri still wants everything from Kody and now realizes that bringing Robyn into the fold was the worst mistake of her entire life, and is miserable.

When they showed Meri in her office, even though her computer screen was angled away from the camera, I swear I recognized the familiar blue and white Twitter screen on her monitor. And I am so over Meri talking around her situation using such vague statements. I want to take a nap every time they interview her about how she's feeling. She seems to be talking through a slow haze of medication, and always says things like "I have all these fillings. And I am surprised that I have all these fillings, and the fillings - they surprise me because I didn't think I'd have so many conflicting fillings about things that are happening in the fam'ly. I am full of surprising and conflicting fillings." YAWN. I know she can't come out and say what's really going on (at least not yet). but all the filler of her using lots of words but saying nothing is really getting old. Plus it's insulting to the viewers, who know exactly what's going on.

This scene enraged me with the white-hot flames of a thousand suns. Kody professes to want SO MUCH to adopt those kids. When his newest "son" asks for help tying his tie, for one very brief moment I actually thought that I was about to witness a lovely scene between Kody and Dayton. What a fool I was! When a son asks his dad to teach him to tie a tie, it's a very small but very important moment of manhood: the father is teaching the son a skill that will last a lifetime, and someday the son will teach his own son, etc. I kept waiting for Kody to do SOMETHING meaningful in that moment - tousle Dayton's hair, give him a quick hug, tell him "good job..." ANYTHING. Instead, after the most ridiculously pointless hair-fluff in the history of hair-fluffs, he dismisses Dayton with a brusque, "tuck in your shirt." I was livid on Dayton's behalf! LIVID, I tell you. Kody is completely awful. So is his new "wife." The way they dismiss Dayton - a smart, thoughtful and confused 15-year old - is reprehensible.

Why, I thought part of the joy of having sister-wives was the free baby-sitting? Perhaps every time Robyn looks around for a sitter for King Sol, everyone senses the disturbance in the air and vanishes. How old is her niece? Old enough to become Wifey #5? I'm seriously hoping Kody takes another wife just so I can watch karma come around and bite Robyn firmly on the butt cheek.

Exactly, and it's all about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the side of the noggin. Robyn's all, "Hey ladies - not only am I getting ALL THE COOKIES right now from Kody, but I am going to passively-aggressively show each of you how pretty and skinny I am every single chance I get." Robyn is HORRIBLE. And this has probably been discussed elsewhere, but the clothes. They live in Vegas. I've heard it's hot there. We know they profess modesty, when it's convenient, anyway. I will never understand how they can stand the sausage casing layers and sparkle jeans in the heat of a Vegas summer. Aren't they, like, always really sweaty?

That's because when his kids have the audacity to be clever, it takes the big shiny spotlight off of Kody, and Kody can't stand that. Remember the episode where they all went to Hunter's wrestling tournament, and Kody flitted around the entire episode wearing a school wrestling hoodie and giving us - his poor, stupid audience - tips on the rules of wrestling (some of which weren't even correct)? I'm sure there are about 4,276 more examples but it hurts my brain to think too much about this narcissistic, denim-wearing, caveman-like, beady-eyed, nasty-haired doofus.

And yet, as we are told at the beginning of every show, this lifestyle makes each of them better. If by "better" they mean "miserable," then yes, they are correct.

This is most likely the strategy at work here. However, as a viewer, I cannot take my eyes off of Meri.

If Robyn is now Kody's #1, then the best way to ascend to #2 is to slobber all over #1. It's got to be torture for Christine, though, because it seems that all the qualities in Christine that Kody clearly sees as negative, in Robyn he sees as positive. From what I have seen on the show and read in their book, I don't think Kody ever necessarily wanted Christine as one of his wives, but she was plyg royalty, and I'm sure she fed Kody's massive ego by chasing him all over town. You're right about Janelle. She seems very calm and centered now that Mean Meri had her karma delivered back to her in the form of a divorce and a busted catfish scam. I have to wonder, behind closed doors - are the other wives giving Meri one iota of support? Based only on the couch sessions, I would say the answer is clearly NO. The wives chatter and flutter around Kody, with the exception of Meri, with her closed-off body language and silence. Sadness radiates off of her even through my tv screen, but it's as if the other adults on the couch don't even realize she's there.

So...a pretend cancer scare and pretend twins were the pretend plotlines for this episode. Meanwhile, the Browns are all over People magazine and several others discussing Meri and the Catfish. It stands to reason that at some point they are going to have to cover this on the show, yes? If they're out there talking about it, they can't ignore it. I mean, I know they THINK they can because...well, because they're collectively stupid. However, their viewers are not. As for Meri's weight loss...you're newly divorced, your only child is gone, you're pre-menopausal. Let's see, what else - your "husband" has no use for you and what's worse, is getting his jollies at the house next door. You're lonely and sad and depressed and dizzy, and no one cares, because if you complain too much, that only elevates the other wives. You can't discuss it with your "husband" because he doesn't care for whining or, apparently, women who express emotions. Oh, and you started an ill-advised but understandable online flirtation with someone who turned out to be a woman and now everyone knows about it. Huh. 'Tis a mystery.

Did anyone catch Gwendlyn (I think it was her) throw out the name "Hash" for the new baby? I about fell off the couch, especially because by that point, Kody was getting seriously ticked off.

Woo, for sure. Possibly Fishbach. And Joe literally gets prettier by the minute, so...Joe.

My only reason I can think of to not vote out Abi is that I don't want her to go to Ponderosa and torture Jeff and Peih-Gee for the next several weeks. No one deserves that. If the remaining players don't want to vote her out because of her goat-worthiness, then they should be subjected to her histrionics. Having said that, I'm already as sick of her as I ever was watching anyone with the last name Hantz play this game.

I suppose it's the trend now, but I kind of miss the days when the Survivors actually looked like survivors. Shoot, now even two or three weeks without soap or toothpaste, most of them still have pearly smiles, great hair, perfect skin, hairless legs/pits, etc. It goes against the laws of nature. Or maybe I'm just jealous because I know I'd look like a hot mess on Day 2. LOL, that's the edit he's getting. If we'd actually heard Kass yelling something like, "Run, Golden Joey, run! Embrace the Kaos! There's no one in your way!" Well, then we might not be so suspicious that Joe could neither see through his blindfold, nor suspect that he is, indeed, Superman.

Just want to add that I am all for the Malcolm/Ozzy/Joe Survivor season. It could be just those three and I'd be riveted. I am #TeamOzzy, though, because he was the first...as long as Amanda Kimmel is nowhere to be found, that is.