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This is it for me after being a fan way back into the '90s. Bill can make the whole show a monologue if he doesn't want to let anyone else talk. My husband will have to watch without me if he wants to keep taping this dreck.

I'm not much into newborns, but wee Mylah is PRECIOUS. Wow, that is a really beautiful baby.

You mean being a mediocre cheerleader for the satellite campus of a crappy no-came Christian college isn't a higher aspiration? It's clear that Tyra thought it was. I wouldn't care so much if being a parent were the #1 priority of a girl like Lilly. The problem is that they aren't prioritizing being a stable parent. They don't have any notion about getting their relationship, education, and finances in order before having the child. A multigenerational home might be a wise part of that plan -- if it's actually a plan and the grandparents have a voice! Instead, they're just inviting chaos and poverty into the kid's future. Call back in 14 years when Aaliyah and Layla are having their first...

Mike’s BS was pretty clear from the start, so I was mostly watching for Collette. I wanted her to talk with HER therapist about why the hell this is what she chose. At the intervention, when she was giving her bottom line, she said “I can’t subject this innocent soul to the hell of your addiction.” I’m like, Collette, you already did! There’s no scenario here where the baby avoids the misery around this. If he dies tomorrow and she never even meets her dad, she’ll still always know he wasn’t willing to stay clean for her sake. That’s going to fuck her up. Maybe she’ll at least get to have a relationship with her sisters so they can all suffer Mike’s absence together. Pregnancy aside, Collette was knowingly having unprotected sex with a dude shooting drugs in a homeless camp every day. That’s an HIV/hepatitis death wish before you even factor in the delusion that he could be trusted as a dad. I wonder if she has a family, or if they’ve all written her off over her addiction to Mike. The one thing I respected Mike for was saying “I wanna say I’d do anything for my kids, but clearly I haven’t given up drugs for them.” Yep. That’s actually a pretty rare admission from addict parents on this show.

Tristan had me going back and forth between pity and contempt. He went through more grief in his first 20 years than anyone should have to deal with in a lifetime. Then he was such a vicious, sexist little monster. When he was telling his sister (mom of Brave) that she didn’t do anything to show her love for him, I wanted to yell back: how are you showing love for HER? Who taught you that love just means women serving and caring for you without ever getting anything in return but a yard full of shit?

This episode tells very little if you ask me. We still don't know what actually happened with Extended Family Myrka. Not cool, TLC! We need a follow-up with facts!

Yes, she had a previous pregnancy with Alex but had a miscarriage. Then she got pregnant with Layla awfully close to when her sister and cousin got pregnant with theirs. Layla was clearly a planned baby, but the other two might well have been, too. OF COURSE adding 2+ hours of distance to a fragile teenage parenting relationship was going to break them up. OF COURSE. Tyra’s BS about how her going away to college to cheer was all about what’s best for Layla is revealed as the idiocy it was from minute one. Her unwillingness to give up on college cheer is even more foolish in light of the planned pregnancy. Now Layla lost any chance of growing up in an intact family. Oh well, Tyra got to go to Miami with her sad cheer team, so it was all worth it.

Agreed. Jenna's mom has this part right. It's a significant risk for any parent to take time away from their careers to be SAH parents. That's true even for married college graduates: the lifetime earning penalty for those years out of the work force is a serious trade-off that those parents (mostly moms) have to consider. For an unmarried high schooler like Jenna, it's bananas to count on a fellow teenager to support her and Luca. Maybe he'll be willing and able to pay for her forever, but that's not a wise bet. MAJOR side-eye for Ethan this week. He's been so kind and supportive, but he's still an ignorant kid.

I see that your post is almost a year old, but if you haven't seen Tressa's episode, it's pretty heartbreaking. Her dad denies any role in his gay daughter's meth addiction, and persists in framing her addiction as sin rather than as a disease.

I don't know why I never googled him before this, but on top of going to Stanford, he did his clinical psych PhD at the University of Washington, which is a world-class, top-5 place to get that degree.

For some reason my DVR just taped this now. WOW. I have seen every episode of Intervention, and this was the most colossal cannonball of crazy we have ever seen. It was like five of the sickest families they’ve ever found all rolled up into one. By the middle of the episode, if they’d said “Dawn fed her habit by filming child porn with the kids and Chuck paid off the cops,” I would have said, “Yeah, that checks out.”

Here's what I don't get. Who didn't know that obesity was a risk factor for covid complications? Bill talked like this was some suppressed secret, and if only people knew about it, they would (in Bill's mind) have found the motivation they'd been lacking to lose weight. But who are these supposed fat people who didn't know? This was about as well known a risk factor as age and race. Fat people knew about it! They were shamed about it. It didn't suddenly make them get skinny.

We've seen Dr. Paradise standing next to some short poundticipants when he was showing them out of the office. I think he is a proportional little person, well under 4'10". And hands down the wisest person associated with the franchise, including Dr. Now.

Wow, Family Taylor is super trashy. They have a lot of nerve being so judgy about Armani's family and their propensity to endanger children. Armani and Desmond have been in trouble, too, but Parents Taylor are grown ass adults. https://starcasm.net/16-pregnant-taylor-luck-mom-tina-dad-corey-arrest-lawsuit-history https://starcasm.net/16-pregnant-taylor-luck-desmond-armani-arrests-update/ Now it makes a little more sense that Corey went running to the legal system before there was even a custody conflict...the damn courthouse is his second home.

Humblebrag is a kind way to describe that mama-belly post. Come ON. You bore six children and you're able to pinch a tiny amount of belly skin in a sitting position? Yeah, that's so relatable. All I get from that is that you had a really aggressive tummy tuck and/or you are planking every day for hours and hours that other moms don't have.

What do these kids have against pronouncing consonants? Taylor is so dull, it's a miracle she managed to attract two different would-be baby daddies. I suspect Desmond figured out that a pregnant girl definitely puts out. Who else detected more than a whiff of racism in Dad Taylor's assumptions about Armani's likelihood to be a danger to Taylor and Monty? I didn't blame Armani for walking out at that point. It's hard to believe that MTV would hide a history of abuse or violence, so it's a safe bet that there wasn't any. Dad Taylor seems to think that unilateral decision-making is the way to go. He'd rather go to court than even try to let the parents work out visitation, which they achieved with zero conflict. Parents Taylor managed to take uneducated, broken-up, reluctantly parenting teens and ADD drama and conflict. It's no small feat. Let the church say AMEN.

You have to be freaking kidding me. Who spoils the Oscar movies? WTF? We were planning to rent Minari tonight and made the mistake of viewing Real Time this afternoon. We were still impressed by the movie, but it would have been a lot better without the spoiler. Every single actor in Minari was better at their job than Bill Maher.

Based on her 16&P episode, I thought Maci would turn out better than she did, so maybe Teen Mom OG screwed her up. Then again, she's no Farrah or Amber in the trainwreck department. I mean, both of her subsequent children have the same dad, and she's still with him. By Teen Mom standards, that's practically equivalent to earning a Ph.D.

I have previously given Aden credit for being less dumb than a bag of hair, but I take it all back. You don't get to be tired or sour or over it while another person is IN LABOR with your baby. You don't get to roll your eyes when she is writhing in pain. I'm over Aden at this point. What a tool.

Eh, I don't begrudge them free balloons and cake. Any social media post about a birthday party is going to show decorations and cake. I'm way more worried about the Busbys' SM promotion of MLM scams and BS weight loss supplements. Promote whatever bakery you want; don't promote lies and garbage.

Yeah, to me it looked like either cheesecake or lemon squares (key lime squares?) It was ridiculous. We just have a _little_ bit of heroin for you here, Maja. Just a taste! Justin's a superstar. No wonder they want him to speak at the expo. Good for him!

Right?? What movie could possibly be worth missing the birth of your child in person? It is not 1977, and this isn't your only chance to see Star Wars. Absolutely nothing came out in theaters in 2020 that you'll even remember next year. And it really doesn't matter whether Kyla was being unreasonable and trying to control you. She wasn't, but suppose she had been. Suppose she said you couldn't come in the hospital unless you gave away your favorite Air Jordans. She's bearing your child; you freaking humor her until said child is out of her body. Kyla's extended family was pretty great, though I felt like I couldn't live with her mom Monica, either. I'm usually pretty invested in honesty, but if Monica wanted zero children and ended up having three, she needs to shut up about not wanting the children. If you can't muster the enthusiasm to tell the children that they were wonderful surprises, you should give them to someone who actually wants to be a parent. It's obvious that she didn't do a great job suppressing her resentment of Kyla. Hopefully Kyla can fake it a little better if she doesn't love parenting, either, because that was one darling nugget of a baby boy.

There wasn't much to this episode. I wonder if there was a bunch of Reanna drama in the original cut, and they had to stuff it with a bunch of proposal-related filler. I mean, Lilly's parents chatting in their car? That's not why I tune in. I started fast-forwarding through those segments like this was 90 Day Fiancé. I appreciated Myrka's mom cooing properly. I wasn't sure what to expect from her.

Shelby said she knows April didn’t raise AJ to be a garbage human, but that’s what she did raise. Presumably he has an absent father, too, so that prick can get half of the blame for AJ’s pathetic behavior. A well brought up human being could not completely ignore his own child. Shelby was even willing to leave her newborn with his family so they didn’t have to be in the same space! And April kept saying she wasn’t making excuses for him, followed by making excuses for him. “I guess he wants to come to it in his own time.” The child is here NOW and needs her parents NOW. If you want to do things on your own time, wrap it up. We saw one brief shot with Shelby’s niece Astraea, but there was no explanation of who her parents are or whether Shelby is not the first teen parent in the family. She was not nearly grateful enough for living in that big house rent free.

If the show is to be believed, she gave Aaliyah the big dollhouse during the baby shower, which is an extremely thoughtful thing to do for the older sibling. Maybe they taped the talking head before the shower? I’m actually down with pretending to care about the baby mama’s older kid. She’s only three; pretending works. You don’t have to love her the way you love your grandchild. What you have to do is show kindness and generosity to both siblings equally so that you don’t feed into their rivalry.