Chapter 1: What is the premise of Vanderpump Rules Season 12?
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Well, hello, darlings, and welcome back to What Would Crappens, a restaurant you meet your mistress.
I'm Ronnie. That's Ben over there. Hello, Ben. Hi. How's it going? Good. Welcome home, Ben. Welcome to the warm, pink-lit home of Vanderpump Rules.
Ooh.
Oh, yes.
We're back.
We are so back, baby.
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Chapter 2: How has the cast changed in Vanderpump Rules Season 12?
Everyone, we're doing Amazon Live every Monday at 4 p.m. Join us this Monday. Our bonus this week is talking a bit about Thanksgiving. And then we went into a list of top housewives who entered the show at season five or later. Written by Ben. So we went over that. That was super fun. Go check that out on our Patreon bonus episode.
Yeah, check that out. And if you don't like the list, that's a-okay because you're not alone. Yeah, just continue to be dragged.
If you don't like it, just leave Ben a tweet that says you're a real motherfucker.
Okay? Seriously. But that was actually really fun to do.
Chapter 3: What are the highlights from the trailer breakdown?
It was a fun list. It's a work in progress. Maybe we'll revise and revise and dote on it and come up with a final list. Who knows? Or not, because it's just a list. Who cares? But wow, Ronnie, what did you think about the return of Vanderpump Rules? Most importantly, what did you think about that?
Oh, I was pausing because I thought you were going to continue a sentence. I really liked it. I think it has a lot of promise. I mean, I really loved the preview. We did a trailer trash for this over on our Patreon a while back, and I loved the trailer. I had all the feels in the trailer, and I ended up really liking it. I mean, my overall notes, I think the kids have promise on it.
Chapter 4: What are the first impressions of the new characters?
My overall note is fix that restaurant. I mean, the restaurant just looks so bad. Doesn't it? It just looks so dirty and it looks old. I mean, I think if you're going to reboot, you really need to reboot the restaurant too. It needs to look new. I mean, Lisa's like kind of limping out of there and like maybe, I don't know, are her pants too tight? I don't know. Something's going on with her.
She's kind of limping and the restaurant's limping and it's a sad time in West Hollywood right now, which we find out, which is so sad. It's like Vanderpump Rules post-COVID, you know, and it's really just horrible. But overall, I liked it. What did you think?
Yeah, I thought it was good too. At first I was like, I was a little bored at first, I'm not going to lie.
Chapter 5: How does the restaurant's atmosphere impact the cast dynamics?
But I think it's because, you know, it was like a little sizzle really in the beginning. And whenever we say sizzle reel, it occurs to me like it's not everyone knows really what a sizzle reel is, but like...
a lot of times when shows are trying to get like an order from a network to do a pilot, what they'll do is producers will go and they'll shoot footage of some people and the people sort of like, my name's Cindy, I'm a waitress, but my real passion is croquet. And you just sort of see like quick, it's kind of like a loose 15 minute pilot.
It's like a presentation you show to executives and they decide whether or not they're going to throw money at it, make it a pilot. And so like, there was that vibe here because we did get reacquainted and I was like, I kind of wanted to like jump right into like story. But once it kind of got past all that, I actually felt surprisingly like fine with it.
Like I didn't, I really was not having moments of like, this is nothing like the old magic. Like I was like, I honestly was like, I thought it was fine. I actually thought I, my favorite part, my favorite part was how poor they all are.
We got back to what like struggling actors, like when those two guys were on the beach talking about like acting, I was like, I mean, the amount of times you hear these conversations with two like beautiful idiots in Los Angeles, it's like, You go to Starbucks and you hear guys talking about acting classes or like how they got this gig.
I'm going to be famous because everyone says I look like Robert De Niro, you know.
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Chapter 6: What drama unfolds during the episode's main events?
It's like, that's kind of like what this show is built on. So I was really happy that they tapped back into that.
I was too. And I'm really into the whorish men. Like, I love that they just got straight up whores this time for the men. Like, we've got two OnlyFan cousins who are probably fucking. Like, let's admit it. They've at least tried to monster twice on each other. And I'm into it.
They literally were like, God, I want to go to Thailand after watching The White Lotus. Yeah, let's go together. I'm like, you did see that scene, right?
Yeah. Yeah, so there's something weird there. And then you've got, you know, it was also fun to take the trailer and take all of our initial thoughts that we just got from the trailer and seeing what was right and what was wrong.
Chapter 7: How does the cast deal with past relationships?
Because I think that everybody is going to look at this and say, how does it compare to the original, right? You're going to try and...
see who they recast as what character and we were really off on some of them and some of them we were kind of on about but you know it's going to be hard to kind of let them do their own thing and not judge them as the old cast but it's also been nice in recent weeks to just watch the old cast they're just such assholes you know like Brittany does her whole like well Lisa Vanderpump never called me one time about my son or nothing and then you've got Sheena by the way a restaurant manager has never called me to see how I'm doing
Okay. I have one that I'm friends with and she's called me occasionally, but like that just doesn't happen. And then Sheena who wrote her book, who's like making it sound like the worst thing that ever happened. They took her trauma and built a show off of it and all of this.
And so to me, it's like seeing all those ungrateful assholes having their paychecks taken away and handed to new youthful people who could, you know, be ungrateful in 10 years. It's just nice. It's nice to see the cycle begin to repeat again.
Yeah. I actually felt like, um, It felt... The big fear is that there'd be people who are going to be aspiring to be, like, the next Stassi, the next Jax, whatever. And I actually felt that people were more or less authentic to who they are. I mean, I feel like what seems to be our main girl, Natalie, she felt a little, like, fake at times.
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Chapter 8: What are the predictions for the season based on this episode?
Like, I felt like she had some stuff that she had brought into the interview room to be, like, funny with. Like, I think she needs a little bit more work, a little more time in the oven. But I think that, like... It's like it works.
I think she's going to be great. I see what you see about there being like an air of fakeness about her and just being too on. But I also think that's who she really is. I think she is fake and too on.
And that's bad. And I really there was like, yeah, like there was like she wasn't quite like I think she thought she was maybe a little funnier than she was. But she wasn't bad. My favorite was Demi, the staff manager, because she looks so over it. She's been there for eight years.
And I think that matters because she's seen all these other idiots go on and drop by the restaurant to pretend to work and then going off. And now all their lives are imploding. And she's like, oh, well, here we go again. A new cast of idiots that I got to look after.
Yeah. And then you've got the one I think that is the most like the previous cast is Natalie. I think she's very Kristen. You know, she's very like Kristen, the hurricane, just always being angry and flying off the handle and stuff like that. But then she's got some Sheena mixed in with the singing thing and the desperation and the fucking old guys. She's got that going on.
But she actually is a decent singer. I mean, she's kind of like a hum singer. She's all right. But she's a pretty good singer. I mean, I was actually surprised to hear some talent.
But it was also funny to hear her. Yeah, she was all right. She was definitely better than Sheena. But it was also funny hearing her being like, let's do a little bit more like a. I like that.
And then she's like, is it this?
No, is it like this? Is it like that? It's like that. Let's do this. It's not like, I don't know that she's going to be on like a stage without a microphone projecting to the balcony anytime soon, but. I don't know.
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