Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Little Lady Sings the Blues
By Lady Lola | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 09.11.2011
Teresa admits that the parties she's thrown for her children in the past have been extravagant. Now she's adopting an ideology that the extravagance in her kids' lives will be from love instead of money. As such, they're having Milania's party at Joe's pizzeria.. Having seen their Christmas celebrations, though, I'm thinking this strategy is going to go over like a lead balloon.
Bonus footage: Back in Joeboken, we learn that Greg had his first kiss (with a girl, mind you) before Albie did and that Greg would clean up if he were a straight man. (I think it's probably safe to assume he cleans up as a gay man as well.) Albie and Christopher ask if they immediately give off a straight vibe. Albie especially wonders because he has received some lewd Facebook messages. Christopher jokes that Greg should send out an e-mail to his "All the Gays" distribution list (surely they have such a thing, he suggests) to stop assuming. Albie deadpans, "This conversation is getting weird," then buries his face back in his drink.
Returning to the present, Teresa is on her way to the pizzeria. While Milania is passed out in the back (doubtless from the million tantrums she's already thrown today), Gia asks if Joe Gorga will be at the party. Both she and Teresa agree that they hope so, but Gia especially because she has a surprise in store. Hopefully it doesn't involve gymnastics. We don't need any more chipped teeth up in here. Then again, Joe is generally a lot more agile and a lot less blithering drunk than Juicy, so he might be okay.
People begin to arrive at the party, including the Manzos and Wakiles. Kathy thinks her show of support at the book signing has smoothed things over between Teresa and her. Caroline is less confident. She thinks the Punta Cana trip is going to be a disaster, and she plans to sequester herself with a mojito under her own cabana. She quips that the trip should be a battle to the death involving coconuts. Whoever makes it out alive can come back to Jersey. This joke seems to make Kathy uncomfortable, probably because violence really is just one misused coconut away for these people.
As the Lauritas arrive, the kids start getting restless and hungry. Teresa is flustered because she's waiting for the Gorgas to cook the pizzas. Having seen that they arrived about four hours late to her book signing, she should know better, but what Teresa should know and what she actually does know never seem to match up. The kids are literally banging on the tables and yelling "WE WANT PIZZA!" as the Gorgas arrive. The ladies' ensembles seem to be observing a Clan of the Cave Bear theme tonight, with exotic pelts and ponchos of all sorts. Melissa says she's been praying that the Joes won't fight.