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By Potes | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 05.20.2012
Oh, and then Joe Gorga takes a minute to talk to Gia about how he and her mom are going to fight, but eventually will make up. Gia wants to know when, and stands up for her mom by saying that she tries, and that sometimes Joe hurts her and she cries. Joe says that he cries too, and Gia tells him to stop the arguing. We then have one of those little mini-segments between commercial breaks in which Joe successfully dunks Gia in the dunk tank, and in response she calls him a "rere." I mean, it's a lovely family. I believe the children are our future, and right now the future is grim.
It turns out the most popular sport at field day is looking at Melissa's ass in her short-shorts. She's cool with that! All the participants divide up into teams. Chris and Albie are team captains, and Albie somehow manages to get Joe, Teresa and Melissa all on his team. The teams gear up for a big tug o' war, and Albie's team wins. They celebrate, and Gia gets a very sullen look. Then there are potato sack races, and who can invest in a family feud when there are field games happening? So all is merriment and fun, and people are flopping on the ground happily, until Gia yells that Joe cheated. Teresa calls Gia a sore loser, and she should know. Gia will not let up about the cheating, and is clearly very invested in a field day victory.
The final event is the three-legged race, and if you didn't think that Joe Gorga was going to make a penis joke here, you have absolutely no knowledge of humans. I don't know what kind of cheating actually occurs, but Gia is still in a giant snit and screams to Zio Joe that she hates cheaters. Melissa wants her to take it like a man, and actually gloats a little about beating a ten year old. Gia starts screaming and crying, and Teresa kind of laughs at her. In a comforting way? Teresa points out that Gia is a kid, so doesn't realize that this is all just in good fun. Jacqueline says that she didn't want Gia to take it so seriously, and so tries to joke around with her a bit. Gia is in no mood, however, and tells Jacqueline that if she thinks it's funny she can go outside. Jacqueline points out that it's her house, and then says that she was having good times until Gia brought her down. Gia snits that she wanted to go down the shore with her dad, and also wants her mom to come. Caroline tries to give Gia some tough love and lessons about respect, to no avail. She tells us that Gia is very angry, before adding a totally non-judgmental, "Children learn what they live." So, Lauren learns crippling body issues, then? Jacqueline starts reading Gia a book about bad sports that is clearly meant for four-year-olds, and in this instance I think Gia's eye-rolling is totally warranted.