Episode Report Card Lady Lola: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT New Year's Babies
By Lady Lola | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 08.07.2011
Teresa says she's publishing another cookbook in May. This one will be all family recipes. Melissa asks if Teresa wants some of hers. Teresa knee-jerks, "No." Then asks passive-aggressively, "Do you have any recipes?" Melissa offers again, but Teresa isn't picking down what she's putting up. She interviews, "Pork recipe? We all know that bitch doesn't cook." Melissa mentions that she has her own side project, too, in the album. Teresa is shocked and taken aback that Melissa is a singer. Melissa says Joe asks her to sing all the time, but Teresa just looks at her like she's crazy. Then she dismisses it, saying, "Nowadays anybody can be a singer. Kim Kardashian came out with a song..." Kind of like how Coolio and Ted Nugent came out with cookbooks?
Gia asks Melissa to sing for them, but Melissa sidesteps in and offers to show them the studio instead. She explains, "I feel like she's going to be Ursula and going to take my voice. So no. No, Ursula! No." They head downstairs, where Teresa asks again for her to sing. Melissa says she's been ordered to rest her voice for a couple of days. Teresa criticizes her diva-like behavior, asking, "What? Does she think she's Beyoncé or something?" Melissa brags about how supportive Joe's been. Teresa naturally finds the negative side of things, taking digs at Joe's jealousy and greed.
The next night at Caroline's house, Jacqueline gets ready for the New Year's Eve party with Caroline, Lauren, and some of Lauren's friends. Bratshley sends a text to Lauren asking if she can bring friends to The Brownstone party. Caroline issues back an emphatic no since last year Bratshley and her underage friends got wasted and nearly threw up in Caroline's car.
The Giudices likewise get ready. By which I mean Juicy stands around eating pizza while Teresa gets her makeup done. Those in glass houses, Juicy... Teresa, who has apparently fallen into an amnesiac state from yesterday's histrionics, interviews about how excited she is to take her daughters to the New Year's Eve party because "they're so well-behaved." Witness, Milania is having another of her "horrible fours" moments as she stomps around in Teresa's knee-high leopard high-heel boots. Teresa tells her to be quiet because the baby's sleeping. Her response: "Who cares?" Has Bratshley been babysitting her?
Meanwhile, the Wakiles arrive at the Gorga mansion to primp for the night out. Kathy says it was nice of Caroline to invite the Wakiles to the party. Not content to leave well enough alone, Melissa stirs the pot by bringing up Teresa's stand-offish behavior toward Kathy at her Christmas party. Kathy insists she has no expectations for her relationship with Teresa. She plans to be civil but not go out of her way to try to revive what they had. On the other hand, Melissa seems to be hell-bent on ruining her relationship with Teresa afresh. She tells Kathy that Teresa called and offered to put a picture of Melissa and Joe in the new cookbook, then added, "If I really want to be mean, I could show people what you used to look like." She mimics Teresa's nasal tone, then says that she took the higher ground and didn't say a word. No, because she was saving all her words for now. Then again, by Teresa's standards, as long as she's not talking trash to her face, it's all good, right?