Lauri’s daughter, Ashley, launched a start-up skin care product business that inspired me to create my own line of toothpaste. Like her, I know nothing about the product but am justified in my pursuit by the mere fact that I use toothpaste everyday. When you’ve got a reality show, you can do anything that you set your camera crew to.
If you don’t know what I’m referring to, you must not have seen last night’s episode of the Real Housewives of Orange County. It may as well serve as the pilot episode for a new spin-off series featuring Tamara Barney, as the “hottest housewife” showed us why she can keep a show interesting all by herself. Tamra may not actually be getting a time slot of her own, but her boorish inability to think before she speaks could easily fill an hour of television and bring in the ratings. Her unladylike behavior in the lingerie store and her brash suggestion that new housewife Gretchen left her first husband because he wasn’t wealthy were just some of the sidesplitting scenes that make the case for a seperate Tamra Barney how.
Meanwhile, Vicki gave us a glimpse into her worldview through her frustration with golf and fishing. With her blackberry glued to the palm of her hand, Vicki questioned the usefulness of waiting hours to catch something only to throw it back into the water, or getting a ball into a hole 18 different times. Call it the Vicki Gunvalson doctrine; if it isn’t productive, then don’t do it.
Tamra, of course, had to put in the last word: “You won’t be getting any balls in your hole.”
Briana, Vicki’s daughter, deserves an award for tolerating her mom’s personality. She also deserve a Costco size bottle of Aspirin.
