Episode Report Card Potes: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Happy Campers
By Potes | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 07.29.2012
Melissa suggests to Teresa that they go meet their "neighbors." Haven't these poor regular people who have to camp in this horrible spot been through enough already? Melissa is pretty friendly, but Teresa mostly just is harsh about the terrible spot they've all (including the neighbors!) chosen for setting up camp. The neighbors apparently have a vast quantity of moonshine to get them through this onslaught of insult. Per usual, Melissa wishes that Teresa would shut up. Melissa then goes to talk to the Wakiles, and notes that Rich is working and breaking a sweat for one day in his life. He agrees that this is not a vacation, and Teresa comes over to second that emotion. Everyone is getting along! FOR NOW.
Teresa goes inside the Wakiles' RV, and for a minute everyone talks about what good times they used to have on Joe Giudice's boat, back before it got confiscated by the government or whatever. Teresa notes that she liked the boat more than she likes this RV park, because she likes everything better than she likes this RV park. Richie exits while telling Kathy and Teresa to get along. They're all like, "Of course!" And then as soon as he's out, Teresa brings up something that's been bothering her. It's the fucking recipes. Kathy doesn't remember looking through Teresa's cookbook at the signing and saying, "My mother's recipe!" though of course we have her on film doing just that. Teresa points out that if they were Kathy's mother's recipes she would have acknowledged that. But they're her own mother's recipes. Kathy points out that their mothers always used to swap recipes and bake together, and Teresa agrees. Kathy is secretly peeved, but tells Teresa she's glad that she brought it up instead of harboring resentments. Kathy then brings up Teresa's falling out with Jacqueline and Teresa. Teresa acknowledges that she was most upset with Jacqueline, but that they're cordial now. She's sure that it will work out for the best. Remember that on this show, best always means worst.
Meanwhile, if you think this house of horrors is bad, just wait for the meeting of Teresa Giudice and Renee Graziano on Watch What Happens Live!
After a break, we learn that Kathy and Richie want to get their freak on but it's a little hard with Vito and Greg in such close proximity. Kathy apparently is a screamer. Good to know. Elsewhere, the Gorgas and Giudices are burning up with actual heat. It turns out their thermostat was set at 101 degrees overnight. Joe Giudice is to blame, because he was cold when he came in the RV. Also probably wasted. No one slept well, and everyone is miserable. Except for Joe Giudice. He slept like a baby. Melissa and Teresa fondle each others' boobs for a while, and Teresa maybe likes it but maybe doesn't. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention her full-on Dynasty-wardrobed interview. With her hair shellacked straight back from her head, she looks exactly like the love child of Joan Collins and a macaque.