S05.E23: Secrets Revealed

[emma675]

This episode is what I wanted the season to be. Fun, funny, lighthearted, full of house porn, fun parties, shopping, lunches and fabulous clothes. That tennis party at Camille's looked like a blast and I loved how loose and joking those four ladies were with each other. Brandi and Kim change the dynamic so much and just drag everything down.

 

I won't lie, I ff'ed through every single scene with Kim and Brandi last night (except for the quick bit where Kim crawled over the cement guardrail. That shit was too funny to pass up).

[prettybird]

Loved this ep! What fun they are without Brandi and Kim.

One thing about the grand baby lunch, I think Lisa V is setting up a storyline for next season. Anyone notice how Pandi came in with a large purse, held conspicuously over her middle the whole time she was standing? Then at the table, she had a large napkin over her whole belly, not just flat I her lap. Lisa knows how to work this program to showcase just what she wants, Lisa the over donating grandmother.

[LizDC]

Are you saying that Pandora was concealing a pregnancy when that was shot?

[nexxie]

Loved this ep! What fun they are without Brandi and Kim.

One thing about the grand baby lunch, I think Lisa V is setting up a storyline for next season. Anyone notice how Pandi came in with a large purse, held conspicuously over her middle the whole time she was standing? Then at the table, she had a large napkin over her whole belly, not just flat I her lap. Lisa knows how to work this program to showcase just what she wants, Lisa the over donating grandmother.

I wondered if she was pregnant, kept waiting for the announcement - you're right; could be something they're saving.

[prettybird]

Are you saying that Pandora was concealing a pregnancy when that was shot?

I know the timing would put her as delivering now if that was summer but it would not surprise me if this tid bit was filmed recently to set up for summer baby planning episodes.

It would be complete manipulation but I'm ok with that. It's just set up. The crib shopping & mommy advice will be real & fun to watch. Just like whe ep when Lisa & Pandi set up the sangria display. It was probably contrived to have the discussion about Max & his background search but I thought the conversation & emotions expressed were very real.

[Me Too]

 

One thing about the grand baby lunch, I think Lisa V is setting up a storyline for next season. Anyone notice how Pandi came in with a large purse, held conspicuously over her middle the whole time she was standing? Then at the table, she had a large napkin over her whole belly, not just flat I her lap. Lisa knows how to work this program to showcase just what she wants, Lisa the over donating grandmother.

 

Yes, I think both Lisa and Ken will be the kind of grandparents that over donate to all of their grand babies.

[prettybird]

Oops. That should have been doting. Freudian slip?

[nexxie]

Just rewatching the show and my husband walked in during the scene where Kyle and LisaV are googling LisaR's Playboy pics - their silly laughter cracked both of us up. Such a fun scene - hope we have lots more like that next season!

[msblossom]

I don't why, but I get a kick out of Lisar every time she has a conversation with or about Kim and she refers to her as Kim Richards. It's strangely funny to me.

[Persnickety1]

 

I don't why, but I get a kick out of Lisar every time she has a conversation with or about Kim and she refers to her as Kim Richards. It's strangely funny to me.

 

Me, too!

 

I used to crack up at RHOC when Shannon always referred to Heather as "Heather Dubrow" every time she said her name.

 

So, I finally got around to watching this episode.

 

THIS is what the viewers were robbed of, tennis at Camille's...Eileen receiving her Emmy...Rinna picking her own wardrobe for a role, which we also got to see being shot...LVP and Kyle engaging in organic interactions...etc, etc?

 

Oh, a gigantic fuck you to Kim Richards for her goddamned 100% pain and taking "a pain pill" and an even more gigantic fuck you to Bravo for deciding the viewers would rather see all of the ensuing bullshit instead of the actually, you know, entertaining footage they obviously had.

 

Hell, the women started off the season at the White Party pretty effectively freezing out Brandi by being cordial and then ignoring her, then Poker Night happened and obviously changed the entire dynamic for the season.

 

I hope that scene of Kim scurrying away over the concrete wall like a cockroach from light is the last we see of her ass, and I hope Bravo tells Brandi to exit stage left and never return as well.

 

After seeing this lost footage, I don't think Brandi nor Kim need to be replaced.  It looks like the remaining crew could bring more than enough to the table to fill up the episodes.

Edited April 24, 2015 by Persnickety1

[Mozelle]

I finally got around to seeing this episode, and I have a question: The second house that Mauricio showed Yolanda looked familiar. Was that the same home that Rachel Zoe rented when she had her show on Bravo? It looks so familiar to me. 

 

Also, I immediately thought Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous when Yolanda commented that the bedroom in that house is small. I think that bedroom is about the size of my apartment!

 

And all the talk of Kim going over the cement divider still didn't prepare me to see it in person! Oh my goodness. Talk about an exit. Only Kim Richards would exit stage cement divider.

Edited April 24, 2015 by Mozelle

[mbutterfly]

Don't you just know the Bravo production crew were high-fiving each other when they got that footage?

[Persnickety1]

Don't you just know the Bravo production crew were high-fiving each other when they got that footage?

 

I cannot even imagine how many WTF moments the production crew filming Kim must have in a day.

 

They have my sincerest gratitude for capturing her Escape from Rehab Mountain exit.  

 

Absolute perfection.

[LotusFlower]

Don't you just know the Bravo production crew were high-fiving each other when they got that footage?

Then why did they throw it in a bonus episode, which are kind of throwaway scenes? (I loved the scene, too. Just speculating). My guess? They were saving the texts for a dramatic reveal at the reunion (hence Andy's "smoking gun" promo), which this scene would have hampered.

[msblossom]

Then why did they throw it in a bonus episode, which are kind of throwaway scenes? (I loved the scene, too. Just speculating). My guess? They were saving the texts for a dramatic reveal at the reunion (hence Andy's "smoking gun" promo), which this scene would have hampered.

I don't know except that the planets must have aligned for this footage to be released this week. A producer couldn't have orchestrated it better if they tried with the way the current chain of events have unfolded.

[LotusFlower]

I don't know except that the planets must have aligned for this footage to be released this week. A producer couldn't have orchestrated it better if they tried with the way the current chain of events have unfolded.

I know what you mean:

"One day, someone is going to hold you accountable, Kim Richards!"

Who would have guessed Dr. Phil?

[Avaleigh]

The ratings were down for this episode. The ratings always go down for the last footage episode but it's also lower than the last footage eps from the past two seasons. 

 

Not sure that this necessarily means anything but I hope it isn't interpreted as the showrunners thinking that there wasn't enough of Brandi. 

[Lola16]

Fun show - lot's of great scenes - I want to play tennis with that group in an inappropriate dress!

So very RH of Melbourne.

 

Overall a fun episode.  Guess they aired all of Brandi's scenes during the regular season.  Yawn

[EVS]

Oops. That should have been doting. Freudian slip?

Isn't that what Brandi wore to the reunion?

[Cosmic Muffin]

Isn't that what Brandi wore to the reunion? (A Freudian Slip.)

 

Sorry I can't get the quotes to work. This reminds me, in college a bunch of my friends and I were all in the same Intro to Psychology class. When the class was over, we had a party to celebrate, and everyone came as something we'd studied in the class. For example, the three perfect people for this went around as the Id, Ego and Superego. My friend's boyfriend was wearing a short, black filmy, lacy thing, and he told me he was a Freudian Slip. I told him he looked more like a Freudian Negligee. So then he was running around telling everyone that he was a Freudian Negligee...good times! And also possibly what Brandi was wearing?

 

Semi on topic: I think Kim, Brandi and Kingsley are pure Id. Not sure who'd I'd nominate for Ego and Superego on this show.

[prettybird]

I think that was a scene from When Harry met Sally. Didn't she dress in a slip as a "Freudian slip?"

[EVS]

I think that was a scene from When Harry met Sally. Didn't she dress in a slip as a "Freudian slip?"

That's one of my favorite movies but I don't remember that. It just reminded me of all the comments saying that Brandi's dress looked like Spanx.

[prettybird]

OT for just a sec. I'm probably wrong on the Freudian slip movie. Meg Ryan for sure, but now I m thinking Dennis Quaid was the co- star. Anyone?

[msblossom]

The ratings were down for this episode. The ratings always go down for the last footage episode but it's also lower than the last footage eps from the past two seasons.

Not sure that this necessarily means anything but I hope it isn't interpreted as the showrunners thinking that there wasn't enough of Brandi.

I actually forgot about the Lost Footage episode until I saw a thread for it here on Thursday and then I watched it online. I was also pretty burned out on Brandi and Kim after the 3rd Reunion episode, so there's that.

Edited April 25, 2015 by msblossom

[tabloidlover]

Then why did they throw it in a bonus episode, which are kind of throwaway scenes? (I loved the scene, too. Just speculating). My guess? They were saving the texts for a dramatic reveal at the reunion (hence Andy's "smoking gun" promo), which this scene would have hampered.

Allow me to correct this for you, LotusFlower.   It should read "they were saving the textses"  We are in Kimmie's world after all.   In the future, please try to be 100% goddamn accurate  <snark>  

Edited April 25, 2015 by tabloidlover

[harrie]

OT for just a sec. I'm probably wrong on the Freudian slip movie. Meg Ryan for sure, but now I m thinking Dennis Quaid was the co- star. Anyone?

 

The D.O.A. remake, maybe?   

[LotusFlower]

Allow me to correct this for you, LotusFlower.   It should read "they were saving the textses"  We are in Kimmie's world after all.   In the future, please try to be 100% goddamn accurate  <snark>

I am in 100% pain over my mistake.

(I was actually going to write it that way, but thought my snark was in overdrive. Anyone who watches Teen Mom knows about one of the moms who mispronounces practically every other word out of her mouth, with "textes" being a forum favorite.)

[Persnickety1]

I am in 100% pain over my mistake.

(I was actually going to write it that way, but thought my snark was in overdrive. Anyone who watches Teen Mom knows about one of the moms who mispronounces practically every other word out of her mouth, with "textes" being a forum favorite.)

 

And "girlses."

 

I'm still seriously giggling over the scene of Kim leaving on the road to nowhere.

 

And the way she had to turn and yell her parting words right before she crawled her allegedly in 100% goddamned pain ass over that concrete wall.

 

Dr. Phil was a lulzy little story about catfishing today so I was bored and watched it.  I was lucky enough to see the preview of Kim's episode on the big screen.

 

Can.  Not.  Wait.

[tabloidlover]

I am in 100% pain over my mistake.

(I was actually going to write it that way, but thought my snark was in overdrive. Anyone who watches Teen Mom knows about one of the moms who mispronounces practically every other word out of her mouth, with "textes" being a forum favorite.)

Phew!  I actually expected that you would have spelled it in Kimmie fashion, and when you didn't, I wondered if maybe you were in 100% pain.  That would explain it.  And, since you were posting at night,  we don't know what you go through during these hours.  If the pain persists, please have your lungs, ribs, hernia area?, discs, etc checked.  I would hate for you to be hospitalized for 5-7-8-9 days!  Maybe try crawling around on the floor, you might find a random tablet or rock to smoke. 

Edited April 25, 2015 by tabloidlover

[zoeysmom]

The ratings were down for this episode. The ratings always go down for the last footage episode but it's also lower than the last footage eps from the past two seasons. 

 

Not sure that this necessarily means anything but I hope it isn't interpreted as the showrunners thinking that there wasn't enough of Brandi. 

I think Lost Footage Episodes if they even get ratings is a blessing.  If they called Reunion..The Aftermath and More they would get huge ratings.

[Mrs peel]

I am trying desperately to understand why it is that Kim felt she was so justified in making Lisa R answer for texts she felt were threatening when she sat in a car and cussed at, kicked at and creeped Lisa (and us) the fuck out but we're not allowed to ask her to explain that behavior.

Like what goes on in her world?

Kim is one of those people whom everything happens to but she never does anything. If I was one of the women on this show I would be done with her. Say hello when I see her, be cordial but that's it. Move to another side of the room when she comes in and regard her as a non entity. She's exhausting.

I'd have thrown myself into traffic after that conversation if I was Lisa R. Jesus.....

Kim: BECAUSE.....

There is no logic, Kim just thinks everything is someone else's fault. Has anyone mentioned borderline personality disorder? Some of it sounds like Kim - flip on a dime, "intense" friendships that blow up, irresponsible and impulsive.

Was this the episode with the Yolanda going back to her childhood home? Yolanda - get a grip!! Loads of people grew up sharing one bathroom for the entire family! And that house (and it was a 2 story house, not a small apt) was NOT 300 square feet total. She has had money for so long she has forgotten how most people live.

I am on the fence about the Kyle takes Portia to the speech therapist scene. Part of me dozen't like it because she is a young kid . Yet though no one here has done it, I can imagine there are people out there complaining that Kyle isn't taking care of her child by getting this help. Just as there are people, again not here, thinking Kyle is exploiting Portia for sympathy. Kyle can't win in that one.

Edited because dense and fence are in fact different. God I hate apple spellcheck - both incredibly aggressive and wrong so much of the time!!

Edited April 25, 2015 by Mrs peel

[Cosmic Muffin]

I wondered if Yolanda's childhood bedroom was 300 square feet, because otherwise it makes no sense in relationship to that house.

[What Fresh Hell]

I don't why, but I get a kick out of Lisar every time she has a conversation with or about Kim and she refers to her as Kim Richards. It's strangely funny to me.

Me too. I hope she never stops referring to Kim Richards as Kim Richards, unless Kim Richards is fired and then she won't have to refer to Kim Richards at all.

[hypnotoad]

 

I'm still seriously giggling over the scene of Kim leaving on the road to nowhere.

 

I finally watched this episode and that was the funniest thing I've seen from Kim all season (I mean Kim Richards).

 

This was a great episode. I enjoyed it a lot. A lot more than most episodes this season. I knew these women talked about more than Kim and BG. Too bad Bravo decided to waste everyone's time with the toxic twins.

 

I FF'd over anything BG and Kim related - except Kim's exit because that was comedy gold.

[Mozelle]

Me too. I hope she never stops referring to Kim Richards as Kim Richards, unless Kim Richards is fired and then she won't have to refer to Kim Richards at all.

It's like how everyone on My So-Called Life referred to Jordan Catalano as Jordan Catalano.

[LibertarianSlut]

Was this the episode with the Yolanda going back to her childhood home? Yolanda - get a grip!! Loads of people grew up sharing one bathroom for the entire family! And that house (and it was a 2 story house, not a small apt) was NOT 300 square feet total. She has had money for so long she has forgotten how most people live!

This bothered me too. As much as I love YoFo, and I believe she brings the right things to this franchise, both monetarily and in personality, she sorta lost all credit with me when she tossed out the comment that she grew up in 300 sq ft. Because the house that they later showed her visiting--you're absolutely right Mrs Peel--appeared comfortable, if not spacious, and was definitely closer to 1,000 square feet than 300. Probably more.

I spent a good amount of time in an apartment that actually was 300 sq ft in The East Village of Manhattan, and the size...is palpable. You are basically in a studio shaped like a shoe box. Spending a few days a week there for work was fine, but the idea of a family of four, or three (after Yolanda's father died), existing in those quarters makes me sad. In a place where real estate is not criminally expensive, such as the far outskirts of Amsterdam, I would think that a family living in an apartment that size is probably poverty-stricken. I think it's a little gross for Yolanda to throw out that number just to convey to someone like Mauricio that she had humble beginnings. It smacks of reverse snobbery, and trivializes living conditions of places like the slums of Mumbai, where multiple families are forced to share spaces smaller than 300 sq ft. Get a grip, indeed!

*If Yo did grow up living in 300 sq ft and the home we saw on the show was just a place she lived for a year or two, a.) I apologize for my rant and I'll step off my soapbox; but b.) the show could have made that more clear, perhaps by putting a caption in front of the house that says "Yolanda's home for ages 14-16" or whatever.

Barring all that, I will now be giving Yo the side-eye. (And, yes, I think she'll be back. She's been reporting debilitating symptoms such as the inability to read or write since S3, and that hasn't kept her off the show yet). Did Yolanda really spend her youth washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant, as she claims, or was she a waitress at a Chinese restaurant? Did she come to the U.S. knowing 20 words of English, as she told that foreign worker, or did she know 2,000 English words? Going forward, I'm always going to question what she says. But if my biggest problem next season is a housewife who fibs--and Brandi and Kim are gone--I will consider myself very fortunate.

[WireWrap]

This bothered me too. As much as I love YoFo, and I believe she brings the right things to this franchise, both monetarily and in personality, she sorta lost all credit with me when she tossed out the comment that she grew up in 300 sq ft. Because the house that they later showed her visiting--you're absolutely right Mrs Peel--appeared comfortable, if not spacious, and was definitely closer to 1,000 square feet than 300. Probably more.

I spent a good amount of time in an apartment that actually was 300 sq ft in The East Village of Manhattan, and the size...is palpable. You are basically in a studio shaped like a shoe box. Spending a few days a week there for work was fine, but the idea of a family of four, or three (after Yolanda's father died), existing in those quarters makes me sad. In a place where real estate is not criminally expensive, such as the far outskirts of Amsterdam, I would think that a family living in an apartment that size is probably poverty-stricken. I think it's a little gross for Yolanda to throw out that number just to convey to someone like Mauricio that she had humble beginnings. It smacks of reverse snobbery, and trivializes living conditions of places like the slums of Mumbai, where multiple families are forced to share spaces smaller than 300 sq ft. Get a grip, indeed!

*If Yo did grow up living in 300 sq ft and the home we saw on the show was just a place she lived for a year or two, a.) I apologize for my rant and I'll step off my soapbox; but b.) the show could have made that more clear, perhaps by putting a caption in front of the house that says "Yolanda's home for ages 14-16" or whatever.

Barring all that, I will now be giving Yo the side-eye. (And, yes, I think she'll be back. She's been reporting debilitating symptoms such as the inability to read or write since S3, and that hasn't kept her off the show yet). Did Yolanda really spend her youth washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant, as she claims, or was she a waitress at a Chinese restaurant? Did she come to the U.S. knowing 20 words of English, as she told that foreign worker, or did she know 2,000 English words? Going forward, I'm always going to question what she says. But if my biggest problem next season is a housewife who fibs--and Brandi and Kim are gone--I will consider myself very fortunate.

I think Yolanda meant to say 300 square meters, not square feet. 300 sm = 978 sf., so just under 1,000 square feet.

[LibertarianSlut]

Wow, good thinking! So she probably wasn't actually lying after all. Team YoFo!

[Mrs peel]

I think Yolanda meant to say 300 square meters, not square feet. 300 sm = 978 sf., so just under 1,000 square feet.

Good catch, I hadn't thought about that. So partial apologies - though 1,000 sq ft is still a decent size place. It is definitely larger than my middle-class childhood home.

[bagger]

OT for just a sec. I'm probably wrong on the Freudian slip movie. Meg Ryan for sure, but now I m thinking Dennis Quaid was the co- star. Anyone?

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