Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Book Undermining
By Lady Lola | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 08.28.2011
Teresa heads home, where she's greeted by friends, family, and her very drunk husband. Juicy slurps down wine while Gia does aerials on the marble floor in the hallway. Emboldened by his daughter's gymnastic skills, Juicy decides to do his own trick. At which point I suspect Teresa's next book will be called Recipe for Disaster. Joe does a fairly unimpressive somersault onto a mat, which is all well and good, until he keeps spinning and smashes his head on the floor. Gia freaks out when she sees his chipped tooth, and Teresa likens him to Tales from the Crypt (or, as she says it "Creep-t") with some embarrassment. For his part, Juicy just keeps on a-drinkin'.
A friend asks Teresa how her book signing went, so she mentions that the Wakiles and the Gorgas showed up to support her. She doesn't mention Joe's ultimatum, but Juicy is poised to jump right in and snark about the evil spirits surrounding Teresa. Teresa gets frustrated about Juicy's trash talk and asks him what his problem is. Smart move, Tre. Provoke a drunk to launch into a tirade. Juicy reiterates his notion that the Gorgas only showed up for the cameras, then jabbers something about Joe being jealous that Teresa is taller and has more hair. Teresa tries to defend Joe, claiming Melissa is poisoning the well, when Juicy tells her to shut up. Teresa tells him to knock it off, then goes back to her point. She claims Juicy never tries to sour her on Joe (which begs the question, "What do you think he's doing right now, Teresa?") and focuses her blame back on Melissa. Juicy calls Melissa's family white trash and insists that he would never start a fight, especially not at a christening. He credits Teresa with all of Joe's success and generally curses like a sailor while slugging back red wine. Class act.
Now that she's wound up, Teresa brings up Joe's accusation that Juicy threatened him. Juicy goes to get his phone to show Teresa what he wrote. I'm guessing it's exactly what Joe claimed and that Juicy simply doesn't think he's making threats. That's just how he rolls. A man of few words, all of them horrible. He's also the kind of guy that drops the f-bomb (and not the four-letter one) in mixed conversation while talking about his own wife's brother. Again I say, class act. At which point one of the less wasted guests steps in to arbitrate. Apparently the source of the threats was when Joe (who is, indeed, listed in Juicy's phone as "Fa***t") called Juicy a "stupid ass." Naturally Juicy responded, "Watch who you call stupid ass before I put your jaw on [sic] one of those metal cages." Juicy keeps flailing and pointing angrily, certain that he is in the right, and Teresa realizes that she doesn't have a leg to stand on.