SERVING UP DISH

Without A Hint Of Irony, O.C.'s Real Housewives Throw Plastics Party

By Sexy Chatty Catty

SexyChattyCattyTHINGS HAVE BEEN TENSE IN THE O.C. Let's catch up.

Lynne's totally blown away that deadbeat dad Slade Slimey questions her parenting. But let's face it, her parenting is questionable. Anyway, she haughtily calls him a "poseur." Hee hee. Both Frank and Lynne know they're too soft on their kids but they're too laid-back or lazy to deal with it. They've waited way too long to begin to discipline their children and now they're clueless. Both girls continue to give them their asses to kiss.

Alexis gets Tamra's side of the Tamra-Gretchen feud, the mean website she won't take down, the mistrust. Both women are willing to play nice in public but will never, never declare themselves friends. Slowly, slowly Alexis plays more of a role in both Tamra and Gretchen's lives. And therefore, my life.

Gretchen throws a 50's style Tupperware party which Alexis attends with hubby Jim.

About six men show up including Lynne's husband Frank and Slade Slimey. The heavily made-up Hispanic drag queen hostess is a riot. Alexis begs Jim to come sit near her and he says he’s not a Tupperware kinda guy. Then Why. Is. He. Here?

Next thing you know, Alexis starts a fight with a woman over Jim: “That’s my husband. He’s married, okay?”

Whaaaa? Lynne’s eyes get all big when she hears what’s going on. And so do mine.

Alexis goes on and on, moving her head back and forth like a real gangster, about how the woman was leaning into Jim and you know, so just back off, bitch. She doesn’t call her a bitch but she might as well have. The other woman pleads innocence, she just wants to have a drink with her friends and check out some Tupperware, yo.

At one point I think the other woman, Mel, asks her to step outside. Alexis hears that too. But the two just move to another part of the house.

How old are these women? What the fuck is going on here? This is an upper middle class suburban party turning into a ghetto mess. But it's fun to watch as Alexis says you should not be leaning on another woman’s man, she’s not trying to start a fight, but, you know.

Slade finally parts the two. Jim takes Alexis outside. Gretchen says Mel was not trying to flirt with her man. Jim tells Alexis to knock it off, she says she’s just trying to protect him, be his bodyguard and moves her arms around like the gangster she’s proving to be, but Jim says that's it.

Vicki continues to toot her own horn, boasting that her home is not in short sale (a la Tamra) and she doesn’t have to downsize (as does Jeanna).

She's on top of the world and loves her life, but she works hard for it. She wants to be a nicer person and I guess that began with renewing her love with Don and their recent, frequent exchange of rings. Nothing says love like carats and carats of diamonds.

Gretchen invites Alexis and Jim to the races with her and Slade. Both woman wear the traditional big colorful hats and sleeveless dresses. Talk turns to the Tupperware incident. Alexis was still hot about it. It seems Jim told her that he had to tell friend Mel that he was married with kids. I wonder if that’s even true now. He didn’t say that at the party. I think he loves that jealous bullshit. Gretchen has a better time than when she did this last year. That’s when Tamra and Vicki spent time indoors talking about her the entire time. As Grechen relates events from her past incidents with Tamra, we see the beginnings of peacemaker Alexis. She says neither’s all right nor all wrong. She and Jim go by how people treat them, not who’s friends with whom.

Lynne goes on, this time to Tamra, about how Gretchen thinks she knows something about parenting but she’s no role model, what with her wagging the vajajay all over the Internets. But her daughter Alexis goes out when she’s been grounded, curses at her mom and acts like a petulant spoiled party girl. So the parents call in a Youthologist. That is a new one on me. Someone to bridge the gap between their oldfogeydom and their daughters youth, I guess. They think it helped with their older daughter.

But Alexia is late for the appointment, then has a hissy fit. The girls want the discipline but they can’t do it to themselves, and they even know their parents have waited too long. So, so sad.

To be continued.

SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes on TV, America's favorite snack food.

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