Chapter 1: What are the main themes introduced in the RHOC reunion recap?
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Well, hello and welcome to Watch What Crappens, a podcast for all the crap we love to talk about on your bravs. I'm Ronnie. That is the gorgeous and talented Ben Mandelker. Across from me, side by side from me. Hello, Ben. Hello. Hi. How are you doing? Good. Having a great old time over here. I've got a family in here. I have the cutest little family. Hannah and her family are staying here.
And her husband, her mother. So I've got a whole family in here. I've got a little five-year-old running around, jumping all over me. Taught her how to make cookies, how to play a Nintendo Switch. I saw that picture. We were having so much fun. Yeah, I'm going to be so sad when they leave. I'm going to be family-less again. I'm going to be alone. Alone again. but it's been so fun.
I've been having a lovely family time. How's it been going over there with you?
Um, so much fun. I've been, I built a chair. What? From scratch. Like I, no, not from scratch. Like I assembled one that came from Amazon, but I built it as the wrong color for me. And now I'm like, uh, you know, like when you assemble a piece of furniture and then like, it doesn't fit. Like now the, the,
the process of getting furniture out of like what now I've got to figure out how to get this out, out back, back to another land. So that's like, what's plaguing me this morning. So the point is that nothing is new with me, actually. That's what I mean.
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Chapter 2: How does Tamra's behavior reflect her claimed changes?
It's nothing. Nothing's happening over here. I have a chair report. Well,
We are going to BravoCon next week. That's new. That's going to be fun for us. We are going to make a pilgrimage. We will be moderating the NextGenNYC panel, which is going to be the very last panel of the whole thing. Oh, I removed Ben. Or maybe Ben removed himself. Anyway, we're going to moderate the NextGenNYC panel the last day. We are going to have a meetup at some point.
It'll be free for everybody to just come say, hey, to meet some of you guys. We're not sure of the date yet, but we should know hopefully by the beginning of the week. So just keep an eye on our Instagram at WatchWhatCravinZonkai. And then Monday night, we will be here doing Amazon Live. That will be on Amazon Live. That's where you can watch it. You can watch it on your phone.
You can watch it on your TV, whatever. You also get links over at our Instagram link in bio. So check that out. And today it is. Real Housewives of Orange County reunion part one for season 19. What say you? What are your general thoughts about this here reunion?
Okay, general thoughts. First, I love that we just got right into the reunion. We did not have to see people arrive, people in glam, Andy visiting each room. I love that we just started. I love that. Second of all, is it me? Did this reunion look kind of shitty? It looked. Was it me? The lighting? Absolutely. Shitty. Dog shit.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Emily share about her son's diagnosis?
It looked like dog shit.
Garbage.
Dog shit.
Dog shit.
Embarrassing. Embarrassing.
What was the set supposed to be? Embarrassing.
The set was terrible.
I think it looked like maybe it was supposed to be New Orleans. It was terrible. I don't know. Andy didn't even do a shout out to the set. It just was like, everything looked flat. All the light was flat. All their hair looked like matte and dry. Like there was no gloss. There was no shine. The light, all their, the color scheme, they're all wearing this like Like maroon or pink.
Why would you pick maroon? You can't pull off maroon with a bunch of blonde white ladies.
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Chapter 4: How does the group react to Gretchen's appearance?
And also the coloring of the people was wrong. Everybody was really orange. And I guess part of it spray tan, but Shannon, except for Heather, Shannon was wearing like a weird, like reverse Kabuki mask where she was completely naked. One color all the way up right below her hairline and then with stark white. She looked crazy.
Even Katie, who's the most beautiful hand down, looked a little crazy in the lighting. Everybody looked nuts. She did. Emily, stop it. Whatever you're doing, stop it. You're a beautiful lady. Just stop it. At this point, it's self-harm. You know, it goes to a point where it's like you're hurting yourself. Just stop it. You're so beautiful. What are you doing?
You know, you can't even move your face right. You're blinking wrong. You know, words are coming out of your ears and, you know, teeth are falling out of your mouth. Just stop it. One eye is bigger. Just stop. Whatever you're doing to yourself, just leave yourself alone.
It's self-harm. Okay. I, my, my only real note for Emily, I actually thought by and large, she looked fine. My only real note was it seemed like they had added so much hair to her. Like she had more hair than usual. And I felt like, I just felt like it was like weighing her down. She, it was just like a big pile of hair. Every time they cut her, I was like, Oh my God, there's so much hair.
And the light was hanging in a way where it was just, it just looked like a bunch of big dry hair. Yeah.
I was like,
No.
And we're in California, so we're like fire danger. You know, you see things like that and you're like, you better clean it up or you're going to get a ticket from the city. And this isn't even like, oh, let's make fun of how the women look. It's not even that.
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Chapter 5: What criticisms are raised about the reunion's production quality?
This is a styling issue. These are the women we all know and love and they deserve better. OK, we deserve. They deserve to be treated well. It looks like they just like threw them up there without anybody working on them. You know, and we even saw some of the stylists. And I was like, what are you proud about? How are you even showing your face on camera right now? All of you. Shame.
Yeah. Well, it's Orange County stylist. Andy looked good, actually. Andy looked good. But I think that overall, this entire reunion was was a real was a real dog. My second.
Yeah, that's on the production. My second thing beyond, you know, the production of how it looked and stuff is the energy levels real weird. Everybody was just, like, super low energy and, like, whatever. You know, Tamara's just like, whatever, yell at me. I'll just tell Shannon to shut up. And no one was really there or present.
And the whole having Gretchen come on and everybody just kiss Gretchen's ass, like, did no one else watch the last episode? Like, what is going on? What is happening?
Like, I didn't understand what was happening or how people came in with the personalities they came in, why people are mad at Katie and not mad at fucking Gretchen who's sitting there or Tamara who just got the whole blog leaking thing out. I was just very confused.
Well, they don't know about that. They don't know about the blog leaking thing. They said, that's going to be, I think it was teased that they're going to reveal that. You're right. But, um, I, um, I actually didn't really mind the energy.
So I need some kind of, I need like, let's not kiss Gretchen's ass the whole time.
Well, it also just goes to show how transparent they kind of all are about that stuff. And I was really surprised that Heather was actually quite friendly towards Gretchen and was helping her out with some answers. That was a surprise to me. I think we'll probably get more insight into what's going on with their relationship in a future episode.
But the energy was low, but I think that's because Tamara set the tone.
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Chapter 6: How do the cast members address accusations of hypocrisy?
I was, by the way, also surprised that Jen got first seat. I honestly think as much as I can't really stand her this season, Emily should have been first seat on that sofa because I felt like really so much of the season was about Emily. When you talk about, oh, my God, the season's not good. Like everyone goes, oh, well, yeah, Emily is this. Emily's that.
It feels like Emily was really driving this season, whether we like it or not. And she should have been first. I think the only reason why they put Jen in first chair is because I think sometimes they like people if they have a beef to be able to fight across the sofa, like eye to eye.
So I think because Tamara's first, they had to put Jen first, but like Jen did not, Jen did not earn first seat at this for this season.
No, you know, and I'm wondering sometimes what they're doing with first seat now, if they're trying to make it less important and just like, well, everybody's, you know, someone's going to get it, you know, because there have been a first few seat choices that have been odd this year. So, yeah, who knows? But here we go. Real Housewives of Orange County.
We start with Tamara coming in and she's like.
I've been on this show 15 fucking years. I'm so tired. I'm tired of it.
And then we see a flashback to Jen and Gina and Shannon finding out that Tamara has leased the season to bloggers.
Bloggers!
And then flash forward to Tamara.
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Chapter 7: What controversies arise regarding Katie's actions during the season?
And also, she's so pretty. We're like, well, I mean, how could they discard someone so pretty from Orange County? That's so rude.
They're just such hypocrites, too. But I guess that's the name of the game this season. So let's do it. Bring it on.
So then we also see, we're still seeing these flash forwards and flashbacks. And the next flash forward is Tamara. Now, of course, having her classic hyperventilating in the back, in the back room. And Katie's like, okay, just go home. Decompress the day. Let Eddie, you know, when you over with a sparkling personality, just relax a little bit.
It's not what the show is about.
It's not what the show is about. The show is about me ripping other people to shreds, not them ripping me to shreds. Come on, guys.
So she's crying her big crocodile tears.
And tonight is the three-part Real Housewives of Warner County reunion. I'm Andy Cohen. I have children.
Oh, I just have to say one thing. Cause I wasn't sure if this was a preview of what's to come or if this was a, like a little flash of like, we're getting the reunion ready, but in case it never shows up for the next two episodes, I have to say there was this, they had this one shot of Heather sitting down on the sofa and she's like, this is neither my slip side nor my nose side.
She was so mad about being on that side of the, of the set. Yeah, they're like, that's where we had room.
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Chapter 8: What unresolved tensions are highlighted in the reunion?
I liked when she looked in the mirror and she goes, who is that girl I see staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know? I feel bad for my reflection.
Oh, my God. Why is my reflection putting up a sheet in the middle of the mirror to make the mirror big enough for a whole family?
You know, in horror movies, when someone stares in the mirror and then like the thing in the, in the mirror, like comes out and grabs them by the neck. Yeah. This is the first time we actually saw the reflection be like, it's like, here, here's a towel. Please put it over your outfit. Please. Reflections like I'm filming, but here's a towel to help out.
We both look better. Yeah. So we, some, we see some flash forwards of what's coming in the reunion, which I think we can probably skip because guess why we're going to see it over the next three episodes.
And I already kind of flash forward glimpse. And I accidentally said some of it already with Heather. So, okay. Five, four, three, two, one. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Real Housewives of Orange County Season 19 Reunion. I'm Andy Cohen presiding over a time-honored ceremony that'll be equal parts solemn and revealing like getting married in a white bikini.
ha ha no one wants to Jen you're not even laughing at that joke wow I love that he said that he's like he gives a Jen line and then it cuts to Jen and she's like um
Who got married in a white bikini? Who did that? That sounds so fun. Solid. I wish I could have come to that wedding. That would have been great. Thank you so much. I was disinvited.
Thank you so much. Okay. Hi, Shannon Storms Bedour. How are you? Oh, Andy, I am good. I am just here in this red, which I'm not very comfortable with. If I'm not dressed in black or yellow, I don't really know what to do with myself. So I'm just going to spiral here in the corner. Thank you very much.
I'm just hoping a lovely bald man with a giant mansion will come adopt me.
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