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I will fight everyone for the cute denim hoodie blouse vest jacket that is made of cute denim!

I just wonder why Aurora looks like she is going to have a nervous breakdown every time she has to speak to Kody. I suppose it comes from years and years of Robyn training Aurora and Brianna how to approach their volatile egotistical sensitive new daddy, who was kind enough to take them in and give them shelter from their big meanie real dad - you know, the guy Robyn sent them to for a nice long visit right after they'd been adopted by Kody. I get the feeling that those two girls walk on eggshells all the time, for fear of insulting Big Daddy or making Mom cry again (and again and again and......)

My guess is that we will detest the Baldwins, lol. Any interest will be to listen to his wife's fluid accent and to see his eleventy-seven kids run around and scream, from the preview I've seen. Watching two adults pretend to be overrun by the many children they've brought into the world is not must-see tv by any means. I would rather watch Robyn and Kody paint another picnic table.

I guess Plexus doesn't cure cold sores.....

Exactly - Robyn WAS contributing to the family, they just didn't know it yet. She is just that good. And I wish I knew how to do screen grabs, but what was that crazy face she made when she blathered that "I never paid attention to whose house Kody was at! I never knew! The other wives, they would keep track! But me? I never rilly knew!" (insert weird shrug, pulls her chin down to her neck and makes her mouth go sideways). You don't have to keep track of Mr. Pectacular when he's napping on your couch 24/7, lady. Nice try.

I will only watch if my favorite podcaster (Kara Berry of Everyone's Business but Mine) is going to recap it. She has stated outright that she doesn't want to but she feels compelled to give one episode a shot as a favor to her listeners. Honestly, if this show is so bad it doesn't deserve a snarky recap, then I am not interested. Snark and funny recaps are why I have continued to watch Sister Wives for these last 27 years.

I wonder how disappointed Jill's kids are that she and Dave aren't going on the cruise after all. With them gone, I feel like they could potentially relax just a bit and maybe Tessie and Hannah can lay off the heavy makeup for a few days. And they can eat some real food, not speak an octave above their normal voice, not have to suddenly perform for any videos, not be asked to model smelly clothes, and not be asked to stay home with the Nemos while Jill and Dave get taken out for dinner, etc., etc. For the kids still at home, these Plexus trips might be the highlights of their entire year.

Well, Robyn did conceive the brilliant idea of My Sister Wives Closet. It's not her fault it didn't take off like a rocket, that's on her sister wives for not dropping everything else in their lives and helping Robyn design crap jewelry 24/7. How dare they have lives that didn't revolve around Robyn. They could have been gazillionaires. My understanding is that SW is being temporarily replaced by a reality show about Alec Baldwin's family, and the break might be as long as 6 weeks. Can anyone explain to me how the very first thing we saw in the Plotz container was a scarily accurate paper mache rendition of what looked to be Kody's head? Why was it there? How did no one comment on it? Was it a plant by producers? There is no way that was coincidental. Regarding Kody's "flirting".....sigh. Cleaning the house does not "turn a woman on." Unless Kody never creates any mess whatsoever, cleaning the house is part of living in a house as a grown-up. It is not a flirting mechanism and I hate when men are all, "look at me helping! See me washing this dish? Now what do I get in return?" As for walking around in a towel and flexing...that is making your partner stop whatever they are doing to praise your physique - also not flirting, IMO. Kody's admission that he needs a lot of attention - and now he's only got Robyn to give it - makes me think that Robyn is probably fairly miserable, and good for her. She won the prize. I picture him bouncing around the house all day saying, "look at me! Look what I can do! Are you looking at me?" What a doof. And I wish I understood how Janelle, who previously lived in what looked like student housing, managed to buy 165 acres in North Carolina where they are going to "put up a couple of houses?" With what money?? Unless Maddie and Caleb are wealthy, I cannot see how this is possible! Does Janelle - the "smart" one - understand how money works? Aurora asked Kody to "help" baptize her because she knows the game. She's watched her mother simper to Kody's ego for years now - give Kody a starring role in anything and he's on board. What a bummer, though, that we have to wait weeks to find out if he says yes! How will I ever sleep not knowing? 🙄

She's got to earn that sweet cash money to afford those nice vacation dinners out with Hunk! Oh, wait - she's going to be at Nathan and Nurie's house...never mind. She can use the Cream-Of-Ivory money to buy herself a new cute hoodie blouse from whatever port her ship stops in.

I can't tell if I am angry that this shocks me, or I'm angry because I allowed it to shock me when I should be completely numb by now. So you now have to be a married white man with a hundred kids to be qualified for a job? Okay, Real World Boston.

I feel like every day since Jan. 20 is now straight white man day. Does Hallmark make enough cards for us to send out? They should get on that.

How jarring it is to see Sean Duffy from The Real World speaking about this horrible tragedy in his new position as secretary of transportation. I sure hope he's ready and qualified...... The desire to disconnect and go completely numb is overwhelming me, but I also feel like I have to stay vigilant because it seems there's danger everywhere.

Am I right in assuming that Jill leaves her kids in the RV, parked in Nurie's yard in Florida, while Jill and Dave go cruising? I suppose that puts Nurie in charge by default, while Nathan's wallet purchases food to feed an extra 8 mouths or so while Jill is gone. I highly doubt Jill or Dave contribute to the food bill before they sail off into the sunset and hit the buffet to their heart's content.

I don't know if whoever is naming these episodes is just having a giggle but I am over trying to puzzle out what they mean. "Behold, I come like a thief?" Does that refer to Kody, who is trying to screw his exes out of their share of property? Is this Kody's sentiments about Meri and Janelle? Or is it Robyn, thieving her adult kids of their independence? The pond, stealing away Kody's dreams of skinny-dipping with his family by having the audacity to be empty of water? Worse, the episode names have all been taken from the Bible. Why? It's not as if these people are religious anymore and even if they were, it seems at odds to use Bible verses to name episodes of a show where their religion has caused the complete deterioration of the family. Sorry, I am just venting. But call a spade a spade. A more honest title of this episode could have been "Watching Paint Dry."

I wonder if it ever occurred to David that people might not like to sleep in a room decorated with "shrimp." They are not the cutest of the crustaceans. Good thing David's favorite critter isn't the cockroach or the tarantula.

He just wanted the pond drainage ditch because Meri and Janelle both thought it was cool. When Kody was bro-ing down with Realtor Justin and they were looking at the "pond," it was a hill of dirt surrounded by a dusty moat. How did he think he was going to keep fish alive in that? Oh, wait -the cistern. He was probably going to run Christine's water line into the ditch to keep it filled with muddy water 24/7. And there's nothing like an unfenced pool of E. Coli to bring the grandchildren running to visit Grandpa Kody's house! He's such a moron.

This bothers me - I guess whatever works between Maddie and Janelle is cool, but I got the impression that this was Janelle's big dream, so why is her daughter - who has three kids and one on the way - in charge of Janelle's "chaos?" And isn't the entire thing on hold right now anyway? My understanding is that somehow Janelle bought 160 acres of land to "farm" (insert eye-roll) without looking into whether or not she actually could use the land for that purpose. Perhaps do a little bit of research before committing to something on such a large scale? Janelle could've bought an acre, grown some flowers and decided if it was something she could maintain...I get the feeling that she thinks you just throw some seeds into the ground and wait for the beautiful flowers to bloom. The whole thing sounded ridiculous from the get-go. I also find it hilarious that the only thing she's selling from Taeda Farms is logo t-shirts, for a place that doesn't yet exist. These people.

Kody LOVES those types of projects. Then he can just goof off all damn day while maintaining the illusion that he's actually working very hard on something important. Same with him stringing lights over the cuddle-sac, or destroying innocent trees, or moving large cars into small trucks, etc. etc. He is a professional time-waster. OMG, I forgot about that, lol. Does Kody ever actually listen to himself babble? If Ari is so brilliant, why did she have to be told to remove her pile of dirt and earthworms from the table where the food was? And I hate how, for 1/27th of a millisecond, I thought that Kody was being a decent human when he said he wasn't trying to screw over Meri and Janelle regarding Coyote Pass - until he said "I just don't want to deal with it." Silly me, I totally know better. I am ashamed. Kody is exhausting to listen to on my tv for 20-ish minutes every Sunday. I cannot imagine what it's like to live with him 24/7.

Can we talk about Christine's rental house having a "shrimp room" and a "giraffe room?" Actually, never mind - I pretty much doze off when Christine and David are on my screen. I do feel bad for Kody and Robyn's kids, especially Sol and Ari, who only get trotted out onscreen to play "pretend happy family time." The fact that they have the weirdest body language when they're all onscreen together tells me that game night, picnics and simple discussions are not the norm in that house. Sol has never, to my knowledge, looked comfortable around Kody - I am only speculating but he seems like a quiet, thoughtful kid and if Kody is the same babbling nutso at home that we see onscreen, they probably don't mesh well together. The best thing about this episode was the flashback to Kody installing the tv at Janelle's house, flailing around like a doofus maniac for hours looking for the parts he needed, only to find that the parts were on the back of the tv the whole time. If that doesn't encapsulate the personality of Kody Brown, then I don't know what does.

But don't you know, Coyote Pass is where they have Happy Family Time! Just look at the fun they're having painting picnic tables - well, except for Kody instantly getting mad that Ariabeeliobla is painting herself, that wacky kid! And look at Brianne, chopping wood like a pro because Big Daddy showed her how to do it - as long as she doesn't do it better than him, because - well, then, hohoho, there will be trouble in the Mansion on the Hill, don'tcha know! And where's young Sol? Oh, he's off by himself on the shores of Plague Pond, quietly skipping stones and contemplating how many years he has before he can run away like his brother Day'un. I mean, Norman Rockwell couldn't have created a better scenario than the Happy Brown Family. So in addition to wanting to stick it to Meri and Janelle, Kody can't think of selling this land because of all the happy memories they are forcing performing creating on it.

About as fascinating as watching paint dry....oh wait 🙄

Back off, ladies. He's taken. What Very Special Jill Day is it that Kaylee and Nuri have to post about how wonderful their mother is? Jill's half-birthday? The anniversary of the bathroom podcast? The fact that she "cooked" dinner? Where's Renee's post? She's slipping.

Meri and Jen did a semi-cleverly edited video (I saw it on Tik Tok) and they have their own page called Salty Birches. Jen ends the video by saying "F*** you, Kody!" I guess I have mixed feelings with Janelle selling t-shirts based on Kody's quotes and now Meri's Kody-bashing channel. On the one hand, might as well make a profit over the stupid and vile things that Kody says, while he lives in a multi-million dollar home with his pretty shy wife and tries to screw them out of whatever money he can. On the other hand, it feels like dirty money - these women will never be able to cut Kody out of their lives if they are marketing off of things he says. On the third hand, if Kody could just keep his horrible stupid thoughts to himself, his exes would have nothing to profit from and we all know that he can't do that, so - well played, OG's.

I needed a good chuckle so I watched the chicken video. My favorite parts were the still shots at the end of Dave, Tessie and Gabriel with open mouths captured in mid-chew. And after watching a close-up of Dave biting off a chunk of chicken, it's no wonder Jill is so worried that we all want her hunk. I watched with the sound off so I assume when Jill was cutting a head of iceberg lettuce in half, that was for the "salad." Which I am sure accompanies every dinner. So I guess this means that when she does cook, it's performative for the sake of her social media. In that case, I hope Jill tries to become a cooking influencer because at least then we know her kids will get fed.

I agree, while also remembering that the worth of these women in Kody's eyes was to give him children, and I feel like Meri was being punished by Kody for something she could not control. I do think she was selfish but Kody treated her like crap on the bottom of his shoe for decades, so she took what she could and when no one stopped her, she took more. Did I black out for a minute or did I hear Kody tell the realtor "I went skinny dipping with my daughters!" That entire segment of Kody's disturbing stream of consciousness with the realtor made me so uncomfortable, I had to actually look away at times. He put on that macho-man deep voice and proceeded to babble nonsense for who knows how long. Kody turns into a very different person when it's just him and another man. Make of that what you will. He basically turns into Tigger and can't stop bouncing around. Janelle buying 165 acres of land and saying she's going to plant flowers, maybe build some cabins, put up a meeting space, blah blah....on what cash? Are Maddie and Caleb funding this? How does a woman who had to move into an RV and later a college apartment suddenly have the money for such a massive endeavor? And she's supposed to be the smart one? I loved how the editors cut in stock photos of beautiful flowering gardens while Janelle talked...those must've been the imaginary flowers that only grow in Janelle's mind. Kody calling Meri's friends bitches....wow. Hope Robyn's friends don't take any offense - oh, wait. She doesn't have any. Huh, I wonder why?