Ron breaks up with Sam, AGAIN. He calls the relationship toxic. I didn’t get to watch this episode during the VMA broadcast when it aired, but I would imagine they immediately cut to a live performance of “Toxic” by Britney Spears. It was the perfect segue. He said it was so hard because he still loved her so much. This was moments after he told her she didn’t mean anything to him and he had been calling other girls all summer. This is the same guy who accused Mike of playing both sides last week and then “fought” (**cough**) with him over it. Bite your tongue, homeboy. Sam immediately starts questioning Ron about him calling the other girls. The whole Hannah thing comes out. Sammi gets mad and leaves the room. Somehow this surprises Ron because we all know what a rock Sam is emotionally. Ron chases Sam out of the room begging for her forgiveness, but she screams and tells him to go away. So pretty much the same Ron/Sam scene we’ve seen 386 times on this show before.
Ron threatens to leave the house. Vinnie says, “Don’t go.” That’s pretty much all he said, yet he then called Vinnie the “Dr. Phil of the house because he gives such great advice.” If anything he reminds me more of Jerry Springer than Dr. Phil. At least Dr. Phil tries to give advice to troubled young souls whereas Jerry Springer was basically just an instigator. All Vinnie did was tell Ron not to go home after he said he wanted to go home. That’s his great advice? That’s about the most generic and lazy suggestion I’ve ever heard. Anyone could’ve said that! It’s not like he shared some great wisdom that’s going to change his life or anything. If a conversation ever goes down like:
Person 1: “Irrational thought.”
Person 2: “Opposite of irrational thought.”
…then Person 2 is not some great wise man. He’s just really mailing it in. Besides it’s not even good advice! We all know that by staying Ron is only exposing himself to a path of more fighting and drama. Wow he doesn’t say anything constructive and only instigates more trouble? Tell me that doesn’t perfectly describe Jerry Springer. Poor Dr. Phil has to have his name dragged through the mud by this show. As if they don’t already do a good enough job doing that to themselves.
They make a big deal about Mike’s triumphant return to the house. He comes in and tells Vinnie that he’s fine other than some trauma and some sprains. I didn’t know you could suffer hand trauma! He was once again using his quiet, slow voice during the conversation, as he seems to do everytime they make him go out of his way to act on this show. Other than that, Mike looked and seemed absolutely fine. He goes to lie down in his bed to take a nap, but then it cuts to a diary room interview where all of the sudden he’s wearing a neck brace. Speaking of mailing it in, what is up with the editing of this show the last 2 weeks? Last week we had that scene where Jenni was wearing that ridiculous hat, but then she first buys the hat in the next scene. Then this week, Mike comes home from the hospital fine, but then they later show him wearing a neck brace. I would’ve liked to have been a fly on the wall in the production meeting where they discussed this:
Producer 1: Hey, nobody in the house is buying that Mike concussion story. Is there anything we can do to make it seem real?
Producer 2: Well we could actually hit his head on something so that he gets a real concussion.
Producer 1: No, I think he was dropped on his head enough times as a kid to where we don’t need to put him through that again. Is there anything else we can do?
Producer 2: We could just give him a neck brace. Those are usually good for a few laughs. Giant neck braces under unusually small heads just scream comedy.
Producer 1: That’s brilliant! Just make sure you go back and delete all the footage we have of Mike coming back from the hospital without the neck brace. We don’t want to make the show look stupid [giggles]. You got it?
Producer 2: [tuned out as he checks his Twitter feed on his Blackberry] Uhhh…okay.
Producer 1: Are you sure you heard me?
Producer 2: Yeah, yeah edit all the footage together. I got it. Do I look like an idiot to you?
Producer 1: Great. Onto the next topic: apparently there are two giant black guys in the house and we don’t know how they got there.
