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Judging by the photos she has posted to "promote" her "business," I don't think Meri should be wearing a small in anything. LLR is not supposed to fit skin tight like all of her clothes seem to (except the leggings, of course!)

Oh my gosh. I would have so many questions!

I assumed this was referring to the broken chain of Robin's purrritty locket, forever discarded on the HomeChurch floor. ;)

Seriously, sometimes I will begin to tell Mr. 201 a story, and I can't remember if I've already told him, or if that was my mom I was talking to...or my BFF... or the neighbor, or my son. Can you even imagine trying to keep your conversations straight when you have FOUR WIVES (tm)?!?

Meri's makeup is positively ghastly. I was shocked when I saw how young, thin and lovely she looked on some of the couch session clips during the road trip show compared to now. I feel like they've all aged a lot but Meri really does not know how to work with what she's got. On the same token, WTF is up with all the older girls' dark hair and terrible eyebrows? I'm all for people looking the way they want to look, but man, Madi, Mykelti and Mariah were all absolutely beautiful with blonde hair and natural brows. Now it seems they all go in on the jumbo size burgundy Miss Clairol, and Mykelti and Mariah draw their brows on with Sharpie while Madison's have disappeared completely. Not a good look for anyone.

I used to think Kody was the biggest narcissist I'd ever seen, but I think Meri may have him beat - or maybe she just seems worse because, despite the bazillion sessions we've seen with Nancy and all of her therapy-speak, she is apparently completely unaware that the world does not revolve around her and her "fillings." Mariah still comes off as a brat, but as the child of two narcissists myself, I can understand why she's so pissed off. Meri always has thought of and treated Mariah as an extension of herself, and is STILL doing so. Meri is just, in everything she does, in every relationship, 100% Meri-focused. She wants to know what Mariah feels...about Meri. She wonders what Mariah is thinking...about Meri. Even my 12 year old son could see this when he walked into the room midway through the porch conversation. Why, why can't Meri?!

Interviewer: "Did Meri have an emotional affair?" Kody: *dead long-division eyes as the dusty, rusty hamster wheel in his head slowly turns* ee-moe-tion...? *geico caveman brow*

Wanna-be-model's mom looks like the Cryptkeeper.

The Browns technically belong to a fundamentalist Mormon sect known as the AUB (Apostolic United Brethren.) They hold "home church" as there are presumably no AUB congregations in Vega$.

Mark is such a horrible ass. "We aren't going to have any guests, so the dress is basically just...FOR HER." He said that with utter disgust written all over his face. Obviously SHE isn't worth $2300 to him, nor is her happiness of any importance. Vile.

Nothing like a reunion show to make me wonder why exactly I watched this entire season. What an unlikable bunch!

Somehow I manage to hate Kody more with every episode that airs. Loved how Garrison called out his insufferable, arrogant prick of a "father."

Ha! C3P0 dress! Maybe Ashley is working on a theme - could that have been an R2D2 cape last week?

The boat with Kody at the helm goes round and round in circles, chasing its own tail. No leadership, no direction. The boat Janelle is in charge of, led by Logan and Hunter, charges with purpose and skill toward its goal. Such a fitting analogy!

I'm pretty sure she said "Good hell, Kody!" Which I've been told is a "Utah swear." LOL

Drink every time J'Chelle says "Mother-of-the-BRIDE!" It's always about her, isn't it? Also, eyeroll at "Michelle is going with us to look at wedding venues, as our chaperone." A parent going along to help with the wedding plans is actually something normal families do just because they, you know, love each other. But it's always gotta be about "modesty" and "purity" for the Duggars! Joseph looks EXACTLY like Jimbo. Poor kid. What was up with the Lost Girl building a Soap Box Derpy car in her first communion dress, or whatever that heinous lace concoction was?

As told by Tamron, Christine walked off the set due to her feelings of discomfort regarding her request that the other wives leave Kody and Sobbyn alone to answer baby questions. Supposedly Sobbyn followed her off and when she returned, insisted that none be asked. *eyeroll*

I feel like what Christine wanted was a FAHHHmly. No? ;)

I sheepishly admit to having searched for ATI/IBLP literature online but haven't had much success. If you have access to illustrations of the above I would love to see them. Giant-collared frumpers, I presume?I also have to admit that while the modesty panel is just plain wrong, I think J'Chelle did wear that MOB dress better than Kelly Bates. In her pics it's pretty apparent that not only is she not endowed well enough to fill our the dress, but in addition to her (much more reasonable) modesty fabric, Kelly added some extra stitching to close the plunging V-neck a little higher, giving it a strange sideways-Y shape. Imagining J'Chelle in that dress with nothing underneath (shudder) I think she and I are built about the same, which is why I try not to wear plunging surplice necklines myself. It's really not that hard to find 'normal' clothing with a crew neck, seriously! Yeesh!!

I totally read this post in Christine's voice. Fahhhh-mly! My fahhhh-mly!! *snort*

I am kind of a name nerd myself, so I "get" it, I think. But she could have at least gone for Paydn. :P

Would I watch? Yes. Do I think such a show would be the best thing for Jill? HAIL to the NO. I feel like Jill's best chance for breaking free of the Big Duggar Circus is to get away from the TTH and away from filming as much as possible. It would be pretty much impossible for she and Derick to live a somewhat normal life, to get used to one another, and to possibly veer away from the extreme teachings of ATI/IBLP if they were on television. Too much pressure to uphold the family image, because let's face it, the only other way they could make a Jill & Dill: Newlyweds show that people would actually watch is if they took the "fish out of water" angle and did things like send them to a nude beach. Or a Jeans West. Statistically, I'm thinking, at least ONE Duggar child is going to leave the religion they were born into. Does anyone know how often this happens among the Quiverfull/Gothard/Vision Forum types? With 19 kids, I feel like it's safe to say that some will ease up on the legalism and turn fundie lite, some will stay in the cult, and some will leave completely. And I'd like for those kids to have as much space to do that as possible, which I just don't think they could get if they had their own show, KWIM?

May I just say that it has always baffled me that Christine (Chrystyne?) put all those superfluous and/or ill- placed y's in her daughters' names, yet she took an ACTUAL Y out of a perfectly good name for her only son (Payton) and turned it into alphabyt soup?!

There are a few different versions of that kiss shot floating around. Based on the umbrella in the corner and the photog on the ground in this particular crop, I'm thinking they were posed this way on purpose, possibly to show off the bouquet in the shot or just make it look interesting.

Completely third hand info, but a friend of mine who follows Rose Marie on Facebook said that she posted that Polygamy USA would not be returning. :( I agree with you about the Browns. There is just something that keeps me coming back. Mostly, for me, it's the kids; I can't wait for the scenes from one of the teasers that showed Logan and Aspyn living it up at UNLV. How such remarkable children came from this train wreck is quite a mystery.