S19.17: Love is Patient, Love is Kind

[Mod-Tranquilizer]

The day is finally here that Christine is getting married! It’s a joyful event on the banks of the Colorado River as Christine and David say “I do”.

Kody discusses missing out on the Brown family celebration, and has a scary close call while cutting down a tree.

[surfgirl]

Anyone else nearly piss themselves watching that tree cutting scene? I mean, I guess even the tree knows a derp when they see one. 

[laurakaye]

I just started reading a book called The Hidden Life of Trees.  One of the first quotes I saw was, "if a tree falls in the forest, there are other trees listening."  That said, I hope the next time Kody decides to take his FOMO rage out on a poor unsuspecting tree that happens to be blocking the Queen's view of the mountains from the veranda of her mansion, the other trees band together and start dropping heavy spare branches directly on his head.  

If you didn't watch/fell asleep/thought you were watching a rerun (you were), here is a recap:

Kody: I invented the Brown Family Mosh Pit and I can't believe they're actually  gonna do it without me!  I have to cut down this majestic tree but I have cut down 1000 trees in my day, plus I've got on my trusty work gloves and visor, so this should be a piece of cake. *takes 15 pulls to start chainsaw, revs it like a he-man*

Robyn: KO-DEEEEE!!!!  KODEEE!!!!  STOP CUTTING!!!!

Kody: *cuts down tree so that it falls onto another tree, throws visor on ground in rage, sits down on forest floor and pouts while the other trees start making a plan*

Robyn: So now that Christine is getting married, I'm guess I'm pretty sure this means that she won't live on Coyote Pass with us.  Meri is also finally done (direct quote, or very close to it).  Janelle - well, I am terrified of her but I am going to pretend that she might still be our next-door neighbor for just a little while longer in order to not have to sell this land and divvy up the proceeds.

Christine: I'M GETTING MAHHHHHHHRIED!!!  I'M GETTING MAHHHHHRIED!!  (repeat 14 times over the next hour)

Janelle: The wedding was beautiful.  Perfect.  Awesome.  Great.  Did I already say beautiful?  Beautiful.  Also it was beautifully awesome and awesomely beautiful.  

Meri: I am decorating for Halloween because when I decorated in Vegas and Flagstaff, no one ever came over to see it.  I am repurposing this hideous dusty old bunch of crappy paper and plastic flowers from the Commitment Ceremony as decorations on the fake graveyard in my front yard, since our commitment was crap!  LOL!  This is so fun!!  (giggles awkwardly with Jen and Blair).

This show is really circling the drain.  Also, I never ever asked to have to re-watch Christine bump and grind on David so thanks a lot, TLC.  Just what I want to watch while eating my Cheerios before going to work.

 

[VioletNevermind]

The tree-cutting scene was the most Kody thing I've seen in a long time.  The pridefulness, the arrogance, the denial of one's limitations, the barreling in without considering the consequences- it was all there.  I get that he ultimately got the tree down, but when we heard that he'd already effed up the felling of one tree and it fell into the house, I think we're right to be concerned.  Time to hang up your chainsaw and call in a professional before you hurt one of the few kids you still care about, you asshat.  As someone who is currently dealing with the poor decisions of her elderly parents, I shudder to think what he'll be like when he's older.  Watching him pull the cord on that chainsaw with such vigor over and over and over again, hair flying in all directions, made my shoulder hurt.  Kody Brown is not going to age gracefully.  He'll fight every bit of it every step of the way, to his own detriment (speaking of my parents . . . ).  One thing is for sure: This show is less fun to watch with each season.

The wedding.  Christine, I like you more than any of these people, but I am respectfully done with your wedding.  Please go away and hump David to your heart's content, hopefully not in front of both of your kids.  I still have no words for that.

Meri.  Girl, he didn't want you then and he doesn't care about you now.  This constant discussion of Kody with different groups of friends really highlights the fact that Meri doesn't have much in her life that she can focus on outside of her former role as a sisterwife.  I cringe each and every time she starts another "divorce project" for her friends (who must be getting paid for these appearances because oh my God).  Even the most supportive friends get tired of hearing about the same dusty man on repeat and Kody is the king of all dusty men.  The cherry on the sundae was the dismantling of the quilt from last week.  Kody wanted her to send back literal patches of his old t-shirts?!  Meri is a better woman than I am because I would have tied him to a tree stump and force-fed him that entire quilt before sending those patches back to him.

Edited Monday at 02:31 PM by VioletNevermind

[ginger90]

So, we had Kody removing Robyn’s helmet last week. Now we have Kody starting a chainsaw incorrectly. The man is ridiculous.

 

 

[Roslyn]

Kody really did choose the wrong wife to settle with. Janelle would have had a chair at a safe distance with a lovely beverage while Kody made an ass out of himself proving what a manly man he was threatening trees with a chainsaw.

Instead, there was Robyn wringing her hands till all the rings fell off screaming Kody Kody Kody over and over while he has both hearing protection on AND a running chainsaw in his hands. She's trying to create an accident so that she can tell him "I told you that's too dangerous".

[Granny58]

1 hour ago, VioletNevermind said:

As someone who is currently dealing with the poor decisions of her elderly parents

Ah, you have my sympathy.  As much as I miss my parents, who were never a burden to me, I have to admit that there is a freedom when you're no longer someone's "child" but now are at the top of the ladder yourself.  Both mine and my husband's parents are now gone.  We're the old folks now.  

Quick observation...Maddie was wearing a Cross.  LDS do not typically (ever?) wear a Cross which makes me wonder if she has joined a standard Christian church.  Probably  nondenominational, but "standard Christian" theology is somewhat different from LDS.  I'd love to know the process happening there.  

[Shelbie]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

So, we had Kody removing Robyn’s helmet last week. Now we have Kody starting a chainsaw incorrectly. The man is ridiculous.

 

 

The man is a danger to himself and everyone around him.

He is a fool who believes himself to be smarter than everyone around and his anger when they don’t obey him leads to reckless and idiotic behaviour.

[toodywoody]

Amazes me he won't part with some money to have someone else to cut the tree down, but will spend thousands on ugly paintings and jewelry.

Hey Kidney, maybe if you hadn't of pushed and not talked to your children, you'd have some people to help you with the tree.

[laurakaye]

1 hour ago, Shelbie said:

He is a fool who believes himself to be smarter than everyone around and his anger when they don’t obey him leads to reckless and idiotic behaviour.

100%.  This is Kody in a nutshell.  

However, this begs another question - when the chainsaw got stuck in the tree and he was trying to remove it using an axe, was the chainsaw still running??

 

 

 

[surfgirl]

7 hours ago, laurakaye said:

However, this begs another question - when the chainsaw got stuck in the tree and he was trying to remove it using an axe, was the chainsaw still running??

Yup. And not only was the way he did that the dumbest and most dangerous thing I've seen this idiot do on camera, the chainsaw DID jump out of the tree and just miss him. He could have been killed. His precious Queen could have been killed. He also could have cut his own legs off given he was jerking around like a psycho maniac when trying to get the chainsaw started up. He keeps yanking it towards his legs, inches away. He is quite literally 'a menace to society'. Robbyn is standing right there, no head or eye protection, just clutching his precious woman's tennis visor. These two...

ETA: It is totally worth it clicking on the below and going to reddit and reading all the comments on this video, they are hilarious! We are not alone...

 

Edited Tuesday at 01:57 AM by surfgirl

[mythoughtis]

1 hour ago, toodywoody said:

Hey Kidney, maybe if you hadn't of pushed and not talked to your children, you'd have some people to help you with the tree.

They are safer being as far away from his antics as possible.   

[DanaMB]

Did I seriously watch an hour of a wedding we already saw and cutting down a tree? 
I’m the idiot. 

[kassa]

4 hours ago, Granny58 said:

Quick observation...Maddie was wearing a Cross.  LDS do not typically (ever?) wear a Cross which makes me wonder if she has joined a standard Christian church.  Probably  nondenominational, but "standard Christian" theology is somewhat different from LDS.  I'd love to know the process happening there.  

On her podcast she's mentioned being in a Christian (though nondenominational) church, and having left a cult. 

[JoannKBC]

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Kody really did choose the wrong wife to settle with. Janelle would have had a chair at a safe distance with a lovely beverage while Kody made an ass out of himself proving what a manly man he was threatening trees with a chainsaw.

Instead, there was Robyn wringing her hands till all the rings fell off screaming Kody Kody Kody over and over 

Well, he chose the right wife for someone who needs a lot of attention. At least he finally admitted that about himself.

[goofygirl]

45 minutes ago, DanaMB said:

Did I seriously watch an hour of a wedding we already saw and cutting down a tree? 
I’m the idiot. 

Me too.  I think I slept through MOST of it but did catch the tree business.  I think all Janelle has to do is say she's going to build on Prairie Dog Plague pass and Douchie would immediately want to SELL that land!  It's worth a shot anyway.

[General Days]

15 hours ago, laurakaye said:

 

This show is really circling the drain.  Also, I never ever asked to have to re-watch Christine bump and grind on David so thanks a lot, TLC.  Just what I want to watch while eating my Cheerios before going to work.

 

 

 

That might have been the worst episode of Sister Wives in the series. It was certainly among the most pointless.

And I'm saying that as someone who has found the new content (i.e. not the royal wedding) this season reasonably interesting.

 

9 hours ago, DanaMB said:

Did I seriously watch an hour of a wedding we already saw and cutting down a tree? 
I’m the idiot. 

 

Yeah, me too.

 

14 hours ago, VioletNevermind said:

Meri.  Girl, he didn't want you then and he doesn't care about you now.  This constant discussion of Kody with different groups of friends really highlights the fact that Meri doesn't have much in her life that she can focus on outside of her former role as a sisterwife.  I cringe each and every time she starts another "divorce project" for her friends (who must be getting paid for these appearances because oh my God).  Even the most supportive friends get tired of hearing about the same dusty man on repeat and Kody is the king of all dusty men.  The cherry on the sundae was the dismantling of the quilt from last week.  Kody wanted her to send back literal patches of his old t-shirts?!  Meri is a better woman than I am because I would have tied him to a tree stump and force-fed him that entire quilt before sending those patches back to him.

 

I think Meri probably has a fulfilling life outside the Brown family. She has a pretty big group of good friends (Gwendlyn has talked about Meri's friendships, too). I think LulaRoe runs a predatory business, but because she has name recognition and a large following, she has made some pretty good money with it. She travels a lot, etc.

Part of the issue with Meri's life as shown on TV is that Leon and Audrey want no part of the show, and don't want to be discussed on the show, so we don't see that part of her life. That makes Meri seem more alone than she is. If Logan was Janelle's only kid, the view we get of Janelle's life on the show would be different too. I don't think Meri's is mostly focused on life as a former sister wife.

I think her friends like Jenn, and Brandy, and the other women know that Meri needs content to stay on the show, and are just giving Meri something for the show to film. (And they probably enjoy bagging on Kody after watching him mistreat their friend for years and years.)

Also, the show asks questions, or asks the Browns to do or talk about something relating to their relationships. They prompt the scenes we see, especially when it's people getting together to talk about thing.

I suspect Meri chose to wreck the old yard sign on TV a few weeks ago, and go to the cul-de-sac, and talk about Kody with her friends, etc. in order to make content to keep getting paid by the show. 

 

 

13 hours ago, Granny58 said:

Quick observation...Maddie was wearing a Cross.  LDS do not typically (ever?) wear a Cross which makes me wonder if she has joined a standard Christian church.  Probably  nondenominational, but "standard Christian" theology is somewhat different from LDS.  I'd love to know the process happening there.  

 

Yeah, Maddie is a non-LDS Christian. Her husband, Caleb, was never any flavor of Mormon. 

The mainstream LDS church is starting to change its tune about crosses, though. They've changed their symbol on a lot of Google maps locations from an outline of Moroni with a trumpet, to a cross. Mormons are starting to wear crosses, too. I think the church is trying to rebrand.

Edited Tuesday at 05:13 AM by General Days
typo

[Ms.Lulu]

I really want to know why Robyn assumes that she and Kody weren't invited to the wedding because they were voted off the family island, not because they are grifters. 

Who invites their ex-husband to their wedding?

Did Robyn's ex-husband attend her wedding to Kody?

 

[ragingpixie]

Kody: WELP I hate to say it, but the reason I was not invited to Christine's wedding is simply because I would out-dance the groom. I hate thinking about the family moshing without ME, the inventor of mosh, but fax are fax. I would definitely be the center of attention with my dancing.

Ladies and gentlemen, Kody Brown. Missing the point since the early 2000's.

[Denize]

For Logan's, then Gwen's weddings, he kept changing his mind about whether he was coming or not. Caterers & venues need hard numbers. Ditherers are not welcome.

[SemiCharmedLife]

I wasn't mad about rewatching parts of the wedding again....until the lap dance!  Seriously, people?

[surfgirl]

The gift that keeps on giving...you're welcome!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DExrWohvqj2/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[Jeanne222]

The lap dance was the TLC money maker at that wedding the show paid for!

I've come to the conclusion Christine would do  just about anything for money!  

Actually Christine and Kody.  The rest of them are pretty boring.

[precious pupp]

The title to this episode should be:  Love is Conditional.  There is no patience or kindness to Kody Brown, ever.

[RoxiP]

I thought all the girls looked lovely at the wedding (not sure if I watched the wedding special) and that Janelle absolutely looked beautiful - I've never seen her fully and professionally made up and it was working for her.  I also liked that Paedon walked her down as far as her poor frail father and that they both told her what a good man David was.  

I agree - why would Kody and Robyn expect to get invited to Christine's wedding?  If in the future they are able to attend gatherings together it would be great but a wedding is not the appropriate venue (and good remark about Robyn's ex attending her wedding to Kody).  And that chain saw scene - I am so cautious when I use a chain saw - I can't imagine hammering on one stuck in a tree, running or not!

I also liked that Truely is obviously happy with David and that her hair matched her dress.

[surfgirl]

24 minutes ago, RoxiP said:

If in the future they are able to attend gatherings together it would be great

Given the histrionics and the awful, no good, insulting, misogynistic and outright terrible things that were said to Christine when she told him she was leaving him (the scene with the five of them at Christine's Flagstaff house/a KNIFE to the kidneys), I'd say she has earned the right to never see that ass again. I wouldn't if I were her.

[EastCoast4Life]

I am still laughing at Robyn yelling at Kody during the chainsaw massacre scene. I guess his adrenaline was just running super high and he couldn't control himself! Maniacal doesn't even begin to describe it. He literally has nothing else to do but cut down trees, ride his ATV, and spew nonsense. Hopefully the new owners of the mansion appreciate the "view" of that other house over there...

[Dibs]

I think Meri has a pretty boring life, is now living in a deadly dull place, isn't close to her only child, and has "paid" friends.  Doesn't Jen technically help run the B&B since Meri's mother died?  I can't believe she packed and hauled dead flowers to Parowan...

If Christine had any way of showing Kody her and David doing "the wild thing," she would.  She came close giving the lap dance and practically eating his face off.  She is ridiculous...

(David doing "the wild thing" better than Kody did, it goes without saying.)

Edited Wednesday at 01:02 AM by Dibs

[Meow Mix]

How does Kody still have all his body parts handling a chainsaw like that?  I had a large tree limb come down on my patio and a friend brought his chainsaw over to cut it up so I could haul the bits to the curb.  First, he sent me into the house until he was done sawing, then he actually handled the chainsaw like a sane person instead of a lunatic.  Kody is ridiculous.  I am only surprised he didn't end up with more trees falling on the house since he clearly doesn't know what he is doing.  I did notice the Robyn told him he had to clean up one tree before he could cut down any more.  He loves cutting down the tree because he can be all macho, but it's boring to cut it up and clean up after himself.  I suspect that yard was full of tree debris for a while.  Also, I thought the deck was unusable because they had not maintained it properly, so the view he was supposedly making didn't matter.

They did edit some scenes out of the repeat of Christine's wedding, but why they had to show us the lap dance again is beyond me.  Seriously, I'm thrilled Christine has found someone who gives her the affection she always wanted and if she had just joked around and pretended to give him a lap dance it would have been no big deal.  But that was just too much and in front of both her and David's kids and grandkids is just yikes.  I think Truely won the wedding with her purple dress and matching hair.  I also loved last episode when she said she spends lots of time in her room because she's an angsty teenager.  

Unfortunately, I think Meri is giving the producers the content they want.  It's a shame we can't see what else she is doing because I can't believe she is doing nothing but divorce projects.  I do think she has some skill in decorating, I am just baffled as to why she had that junk from the commitment ceremony still around.

[Granny58]

rewatching the wedding, I was fixated on Tony.  First, the nauseating way he watched Christine dance.  Ugh, ugh, ugh.  Second, open mouth chomping on gum!!!!  If he's doing it at a wedding, on camera, you KNOW he does it incessantly.  I don't mind people chewing gum.  I don't want to HEAR people chewing gum.  It brings out my murderous rage.  

[Jeanne222]

I'm wondering if the guests.  Brown family kids.  Were paid for appearances?

[EastCoast4Life]

1 hour ago, Granny58 said:

rewatching the wedding, I was fixated on Tony.  First, the nauseating way he watched Christine dance.  Ugh, ugh, ugh.  Second, open mouth chomping on gum!!!!  If he's doing it at a wedding, on camera, you KNOW he does it incessantly.  I don't mind people chewing gum.  I don't want to HEAR people chewing gum.  It brings out my murderous rage.  

Tony also makes me irrationally annoyed/mad. Maybe it's his bulging fish eyes, maybe it's his useless demeanor, maybe it's because not long ago he requested a zillion tacos for his wedding. I don't know, he's just kind of "there". 

[RoxiP]

20 hours ago, surfgirl said:

Given the histrionics and the awful, no good, insulting, misogynistic and outright terrible things that were said to Christine when she told him she was leaving him (the scene with the five of them at Christine's Flagstaff house/a KNIFE to the kidneys), I'd say she has earned the right to never see that ass again. I wouldn't if I were her.

I don't disagree with you - I was just thinking in the future at the birth of grandchildren, weddings, etc., there is the possibility of them being forced to be in the same room.  For the sake of their children it is far better if they are civil and pleasant (although at this time I'm pretty sure the majority of the children have written off Kody).  If it is just Christine then I might hold Kody down while she slaps him around for a while.  (I'm really not that violent, I promise you.)

Edited Wednesday at 05:11 PM by RoxiP
Not what I want to put out in the world in the first version.

[Teri313]

1 hour ago, EastCoast4Life said:

Tony also makes me irrationally annoyed/mad. Maybe it's his bulging fish eyes, maybe it's his useless demeanor, maybe it's because not long ago he requested a zillion tacos for his wedding. I don't know, he's just kind of "there". 

For me, it was him telling Kody to re-fi his house to pay for his and Mykelti's wedding. So obnoxious.

[Absolom]

43 minutes ago, Teri313 said:

For me, it was him telling Kody to re-fi his house to pay for his and Mykelti's wedding. So obnoxious.

That's about the time I'd be advising Tony to start saving his pennies so he could pay for his own wedding and it's thousand tacos.

[GeorgiaRai]

I laughed out loud at Kody running around the yard and jumping up to reach the ladder so he could get to choppin'.  He looked like a little troll filled with maniacal glee as if a billy goat was about to cross his bridge. 

Edited Thursday at 08:54 PM by GeorgiaRai
typo

[Jeanne222]

Everyone is surely getting in their say on their social networks.  Greedy aren't they!

[precious pupp]

23 hours ago, EastCoast4Life said:

Tony also makes me irrationally annoyed/mad. Maybe it's his bulging fish eyes, maybe it's his useless demeanor, maybe it's because not long ago he requested a zillion tacos for his wedding. I don't know, he's just kind of "there". 

Don't forget his fish whiskers!  😝  I find him irritating too, along with Mykelti.

[Jeanne222]

Mykelti is like Christine.  She loves the limelight!  Mykelti at her finest when she announced "I'm having twins...look at me"!

Christine announced " I'm getting married...look at me" and thought she had died and gone to heaven!

Truly will most likely end up like those two.

The other two sisters seem calm and quite polished.

Then there's the one that has some kind of grudge and doesn't show up!

David did look shell shocked but then again...he's got his own eight!

 

[Cementhead]

I'm so sorry but I am still irrationally stuck on that wedding dress.  I heard Christine describe it as a 'mermaid gown with no waist' and therein lies the problem.  A mermaid gown, by definition, has a waist:

The mermaid is characterized by a fitted silhouette that tightly hugs the body from the chest down to the knees, where the skirt then flares out into a dramatic mermaid “tail”.

A dress without a waist is a shift dress:

A shift dress is a type of dress that is typically short, straight-cut, and loose-fitting, with a simple design that hangs straight down from the shoulders without a defined waistline.

So, she basically turned her mermaid gown into a shift dress.  I'm sorry, I just can't deal with that still.

[Absolom]

As she said in an episode she took pieces of five dresses that she liked and wanted and then the poor dressmaker tried to fit them together and it won't work if they're of such disparate styles.  If you let someone with apparently zero comprehension of dress design do that, then this kind of mess is a likely result.  It isn't like substituting sleeve design which is usually easy, this was picking completely different design styles for the top, middle, and bottom.

[candall]

First, I love trees.  I've never once in my life been happy to see a tree chopped down.  So mad, gleeful billy goat Kody cutting down that beautiful pine seriously pissed me off, and then he had the nerve to brag about the THOUSAND OTHER TREES he's felled. . . 🤬

I was rooting for the tree to flatten him.

 

Thank goodness Robyn knew the right way to stop him from sawing down every last tree standing there.  Because he would moved straight on to the next one if she hadn't extracted a promise to clean up one before starting on another.  And even then he whined about whether he could do all the cleanup in six months.  Has this guy just left dead rotting trees on the ground everywhere he's been?

 

Ooh.  Like I needed another reason to despise Kody Brown. 

[Cementhead]

14 minutes ago, Absolom said:

As she said in an episode she took pieces of five dresses that she liked and wanted and then the poor dressmaker tried to fit them together and it won't work if they're of such disparate styles.  If you let someone with apparently zero comprehension of dress design do that, then this kind of mess is a likely result.  It isn't like substituting sleeve design which is usually easy, this was picking completely different design styles for the top, middle, and bottom.

Ah!  That explains it then, thank you!  I missed that episode. 

[Granny58]

@Cementhead  Yeah, I don't think that was the most flattering dress for her.  I've been hesitant to say anything about it, in case she actually reads these and she loved it.  I guess as long as she was happy, but I kept "feeling" the need to tug it into place

[Cementhead]

18 minutes ago, Granny58 said:

Yeah, I don't think that was the most flattering dress for her.  I've been hesitant to say anything about it, in case she actually reads these and she loved it.  I guess as long as she was happy, but I kept "feeling" the need to tug it into place

I, too, hope she felt as beautiful as she looked because she did look lovely.  I imagine she was self-conscious of it being too form fitting without realizing that not only would it have been even more flattering to her figure if she had worn it the way it was intended to fit, it would have also held up much better and stayed in place better, thus making it more comfortable for her to wear.  We are our own worst enemies, for sure.

Edited Thursday at 06:19 PM by Cementhead

[Absolom]

20 minutes ago, Granny58 said:

I've been hesitant to say anything about it, in case she actually reads these and she loved it.  I guess as long as she was happy, but I kept "feeling" the need to tug it into place

Christine did seem to love the dress.  She and her daughters could all benefit from a few lessons on how clothes should properly fit and look and what should be worn under clothes to make them look right.  You aren't the only one wanting to tug that dress into place.  The sales lady kept trying to tug the middle down even during filming because she knew all those tummy wrinkles shouldn't be there.   Proper underpinnings may not be needed every day, but for a wedding gown I do think one should make the effort to have it look right.  That doesn't include a patch of wrinkles across the abdomen or shoving the shoulder straps down your arm because you want to be "sexy."   Buy a different dress or wear enough Spanx to let the dress slide gracefully.  

Edited Thursday at 06:23 PM by Absolom

[EastCoast4Life]

16 hours ago, GeorgiaRai said:

I laughed out loud at Kody running around the yard and jumping up to reach the ladder so he could get to choppin'.  He looked like a little troll filled with manical glee as if a billy goat was about to cross his bridge. 

He isn't that tall, is he? 

[mythoughtis]

What Kody doesn’t want to understand is that the offspring don’t want to see HIM… with or  without Robyn.  Janelle has verified this in a recent talking head.  Now that doesn’t mean that they want to see Robyn - just that she’s not the only issue. 

Edited 14 hours ago by mythoughtis

[Absolom]

The kids grew up and recognized that Kody didn't and likely never will.