At long last, The Real Housewives of New Jersey delivered a good episode last night. I suppose we can thank Kim D for that. After all, without her very classy fashion show for POSCHE, we never would have been privy to the ridiculous sequence of events that led up to last night’s much hyped (and totally brief and truncated) altercation between Danielle and Teresa. Of course, things always go haywire when Housewives attend fashion shows, and this episode was no exception. The fun and joy came courtesy of Franklin Lakes’ three biggest twits: Danielle, Kim D, and Teresa. Danielle, as you may remember, always thought of herself as tight with Kim D., but alas, Kim D. has upwardly mobile desires, and so she’s glommed onto the likes of Teresa and Jacqueline, inviting them both to her aforementioned fashion show. Clearly this was gonna call major drams, and it sure did. Danielle was most unpleased to not only see her “enemies” at the show, but to see that Kim D. had elected to sit with THEM instead of her. This was “the ultimate dis,” and being the mature woman she is, Danielle spent the rest of the fashion show pretending to be on the phone and making haughty declarations such as “I will not clap.”
Of course, if there’s anyone who likes to make an authoritative proclamation, it’s Danielle. That’s the best part of her crazy. You see, it’s not fun to be merely paranoid. But to be paranoid and pompous? That’s gold. The best example of this, of course, was earlier in the episode when Danielle sauntered into POSCHE and encountered a new, albeit daffy, employee. Danielle was most unsettled by this and immediately asked to speak with Kim, causing this woman to sort of freeze in panic (as Kim was on the phone at that very moment). Truthfully, the lady was not the most welcoming person — she seemed more apt to be cleaning a ham hock at the local Super Stop & Shop. Still, Danielle went into total diva mode; first storming out of the shop, then storming back in and snapping at the woman, and then storming back out. In the middle of this all, she dramatically told her daughter that she was in the middle of a “situation” as if ten terrorists had suddenly descended on POSCHE and held Danielle’s dented implant for ransom. Keep in mind that the only thing that had happened was that an employee had not said hello to Danielle, and yet this was a SITUATION. Nevertheless, five minutes later, when Kim had returned, Danielle strutted back in and more or less informed her that her employee’s attitude was so horrific that she could no longer shop at the store. Even better, she added a metaphorical dagger of guilt by saying “I love you too much to be treated this way.” And then she was gone, leaving Kim alone with her gum-chewing employee, who summed up the entire situation by saying “She’s wacky.”
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