Episode Report Card Potes: A | 14 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT All Work and No Play Makes Joe a Dullard
By Potes | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 07.14.2013
The various couples retreat to their rooms to chat. Teresa encourages Juicy to be cool. Melissa tells Joe that she's going to follow his lead, and he says that the whole situation is awkward. Rich wonders why Rosie is now Teresa's beefusses, and Rosie says that she's not angry with Tre anymore. Kathy feels bad that their beef has trickled down to their parents, and so hopes that this retreat helps to fix the family. Richie then points out that there are plenty of morons in the world, so how did Teresa know that Jacqueline was talking about her? Juicy thinks that Melissa is full of shit saying that she doesn't go on Twitter, and that Jacqueline is in fact the moron. He goes on to say that they use Nicholas as an excuse, and that autism isn't a bad disease because "some of them are like scientists." Teresa looks VERY nervous while all this is happening, and gently tells him that he doesn't understand. She interviews that Juicy doesn't have a mean bone in his body and is just defending her, his cunt wife. Juicy confirms that he's there for Teresa, and not because he cares about making up with the Gorgas.
There's a lunch buffet, and hoo boy is it an awkward meal. Richie finally breaks the silence by asking what they have planned, and Rosie talks about the team builders they have coming to try to teach these people how to act like functional human beings via games and stuff. Then tomorrow Dr. V. will come to help them all communicate better. Teresa thought that the team building games would be a fun way to start off the retreat. Do the fun games involve furry costumes? I think Joe Gorga would enjoy that very much. Then Teresa and Melissa get into it a little bit, which in turn means that Joe and Teresa get into it a little bit, and Rosie tells everyone to just freaking wait for the team builders. Joe and Richie leave the room to get a drink (they serve themselves at the bar, which is marginally better than a ghost bartender), and Teresa doesn't think that Joe is taking this serious. Joe talks about the burning sensation of anxiety that he gets when he sees Teresa. I think that is actually crabs. Richie tells us that Teresa upsets everyone except for him and Melissa, because they don't give a shit about her. Juicy, meanwhile, is talking about his loud farts, which actually kind of breaks the ice a little.
And then poor Stephanie and Steve show up. They are the team builders, and Melissa instantly dubs them as, "Opie and Little Miss Sunshine." Everyone basically thinks they are very ill-equipped to manage this situation. I think so too, but when Stephanie said to Steve, "Got all the names down? When in doubt, Joe," I did think that maybe they would be okay. I was wrong, but I appreciated the glimmer of hope. Steve gives an intro to the group about his fifteen years of experience, and how he has been working a lot in the middle east where team building exercises are all the rage and working ever so well. He goes on about conflict not being a bad thing if you deal with it, and then everyone plays a game involving stepping on various colored pieces of paper inside a rope circle. Teresa describes its purpose to us as, "Team building… doing stuff as a family," before acknowledging, "It was kind of stupid." Juicy is enjoying himself, though, and Melissa theorizes that it's because his little chick-pea-sized brain could understand the content of what they're doing. Steve asks if there is still trust in the group and brings up the issue of loyalty, specifically between Joe and Teresa, which is a huge gargantuan fucking mistake.