People's choices are the undercurrent driving this week's episode along, so let's start from the bottom up, shall we? Jen thinks she can curry favor with the other mothers by dressing her baby in leather pants (and no diaper, mind you) and groaning about the horror of motherhood. No dice. When that doesn't work, she nearly abducts one of the other children because she couldn't be bothered to look inside her stroller and make sure she had the right child. To her credit, Jen quickly catches on to the fact that she is a God-awful mother and feels pretty terrible about it -- especially after she drops little Jacques on his head. Oopsy babies! Long story, she decides to call it a do-over and flies the coop, leaving a note that Jacques will be better off without her. Good thinking, Jen. Being abandoned by his mother won't screw up that kid at all!
Also in the business of bad choices (literally) is Navid's father. When Navid confronts him about underage girls performing in his pornos, Mr. Shirazi plays it off as if he didn't know better. He promptly fires the girl in question, who comes griping back to Navid and informs that she wasn't the only pretty young thing at the Shirazi Shop. So Navid does the natural thing and enlists Silver to throw on a hooker dress and try her luck getting cast in a skin flick. Thankfully, before she actually hits the couch, she meets a lovely lass named Holly Woodlove, who confirms Navid's suspicions. In his emotional turmoil, Navid blurts to his guidance counselor that his father is a child pornographer and nearly kisses Silver.
Navid's move toward Silver is also a direct result of AAdrianna's decision to ditch him and walk the red carpet with Joe Jonas at the launch party for her magazine cover. She does so because Victor insists that she needs someone higher-profile to boost her image. The middle Jonas shows up and gives AAdrianna an even greater boost -- in self-confidence. She realizes that she's Victor's meal ticket and that he'll never expose her because of his own greed and cowardice. She turns the tables and cuts the sleazeball’s commission down to five percent.
Speaking of sleazeballs, Ausscar gets a well-deserved punch in the face at the top of the hour, courtesy of Dixon. Unfazed, he invites himself to the magazine party as Naomi's date. Ivy sees the unctuous charms at work and warns Naomi that Ausscar is a snake. They devise a plan to get him naked and humiliate him in front of a crowd of people, bonding ever so slightly along the way.
But back to mothers: Dixon accidentally opens a piece of mail for Debbie, which turns out to be divorce papers from Harry. Seeing that Debbie is still wearing her wedding ring, the Wilson kids hold out foolish hope that maybe Harry hasn't moved on either. They pop by his house unannounced and discover that he very much has in the form of a new girlfriend, whom they immediately go squeal to Debbie about. She pretends to have known and kept it from them, but she reveals to Matthews that she was blindsided by the news. At the end of the day, her brave face -- even if it's a put-on -- inspires Annie, who writes a college admissions essay about how Debbie is her hero. And not just because she's doesn't make a habit of hobo hit-and-runs.
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Previously: Ausscar the man-hour set about ruining the bond between Ivy and her MILF -- through sex. AAdrianna's sleazy agent's gamble paid off when she proved enough of a fame whore to do a little soft-core for a magazine cover shoot. And Navid's dad, he of the actual whores and actual porn, took a gamble on hiring underage performers. That bet might not work out so well...
We open with an Annie voice-over: "History is largely told as a chronicle of great people doing great things, but for most of us life is not made up of big moments, it's made up of small moments. And with every small choice, with every small decision, we are defining ourselves. Are we proud of ourselves, or are we disappointed by who we've become? Life rarely turns out the way that we planned. The unexpected happens, and it surprises us with new and exciting possibilities." Under her monologue, we see a montage of what will presumably be the final scenes of this evening's show: Dixon receives a mysterious package in the mail ("small moments"), Silver and Navid allow a hug and a gaze into each other's eyes to last longer than friends should ("we're defining ourselves"), Jen weeps desperately while handing over her baby to Matthews ("are we disappointed by who we've become?"), AAdrianna looks starry-eyed and self-satisfied as she walks down the red carpet with Joe Jonas ("Life rarely turns out the way we planned"), and Naomi looks seductively into Ausscar's eyes before leading him out of a party at the beach club ("new and exciting possibilities"). I'm not sure what's making me groan more -- Annie getting the first word or Joe Jonas existing. At all.
As we cut to one day earlier, Annie VOs, "But sooner or later, reality hits you in the face." Cue Dixon ambushing Ausscar with a beat down. To his credit, Ausscar recovers like his face his made of stone and nods, accepting that he brought that sucker punch on himself.
Elsewhere, AAdrianna consults her ladies about outfits for the launch party of her magazine cover. While she tries on her clothes, Naomi coaches her own red carpet-appropriate posing. AAdrianna walks out in a white one-shouldered number, securing all the girls approval. "I'd do ya," says Naomi, then orders AAdrianna to work on her smolder for the cameras. AAdrianna's phone rings, and it's sleazy Victor, who informs her she's taking Joe Jonas to the party, not Navid as she had previously planned. Victor tells her she has to attend this "major media event" with someone who will boost her profile and won't take no for an answer.
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