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Real Housewives of New York: Reunion (Part 1) at a Glance

Oh man. I needed earplugs for this one. Just so much screaming and everyone talking over each other. The look of horror on Neil Patrick Harris' face during Watch What Happens Live really spoke volumes about the insanity that unfolded during this hour and a half of vocal adrenaline. Because of all the screaming, it's hard to take anyone's side on anything... and perhaps after my RHONY-induced migraine subsides, I'll be able to process who is right and who is just trying to get more screentime. But for now, here are the superlatives and all-around most insane moments of the night.

Highlight of the Night
Jill calling Alex a fucking bitch straight to her face. Could I get the uncensored version of that as my ringtone?

The Don't Speak Until Spoken To Award
This goes to Cindy, who basically sat like a lump until Andy addressed her specifically. Then she kept waiting for a break in the yelling (like that was ever going to happen). She did get her yell on, but then immediately resumed sitting quietly on the couch like a well-trained housewife.

Whatever Your Hair Color, You're Still Horrible
The whole Team Brunette vs. Team Blonde thing is ridiculous, complete with the women even splitting into couches accordingly. Particularly when it turned into team vs. team squabbling. Why would Alex forgive Sonja but still hate Jill or the Countess? Because of peroxide? That's ridiculous.

Someone Doesn't Understand the Point of Reunions
"I'm not going to scream like an animal, like they all do." - Cindy.

Someone Thinks This Is a Competitive Eye-Rolling Competition
I counted no fewer than five actual full eye-rolls and at least that many eyebrow lifts, and twice as many bugged out eyes... all done by Alex. I'm worried that she's going to need an optician to put them back in her head.

Runner-Up for Quote of the Night
"Would you wear a dead man's suit at a wedding?" - Ramona Singer, everybody.

Quote of the Night
"Sonja, was your vagina rude to Kelly?" - Andy Cohen. Genius.

TMI
Apparently Sonja's toilet had been clogged for two weeks before she decided to call a plumber. Her excuse? She was waiting for it to soften. Man, the look of horror on Jill's face was priceless as Sonja explained how she stuck her hand in the toilet (after two weeks!) to retrieve a blackberry.

Panting Or Laughing? You Make the Call
Alex got in some sort of "witty" retort to a remark that Kelly made, and was so proud of how she jumped in with her comment that she started panting because she was either frustrated, or like hyperventilating with laughter at just how clever she is. And she wonders why people worry about her.

A Magazine Says It, So It Must Be True
I love Kelly and appreciate that she genuinely believes that she's a nice person. But she should have known that if she told the other girls that she was picked as one of the five nicest celebrities by Cosmopolitan that these hyenas were going to run all over that.

TMI, Part 2
How many times exactly do we have to hear about Ramona getting her period and why that gives her a youthful glow? I don't need to know exactly how frequently she menstruates, and I still don't understand why she had to pee on a stick on a boat.

Andy Finally Cracks
After hosting dozens of these, it was really only a matter of time. He basically just had to scream "Shut Up" repeatedly. Usually he laughs it off, even when he's in the middle of a wrestling match, but here he just seemed to want to go home. The extended version he showed on the after-show further demonstrated his utter impatience with these ladies. We feel his pain.

Check out this bonus footage from the reunion:

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23 Comments

July 26, 2011 1:07 PM
megslin
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I'm sorry, are you the only person in the entire nation who is a "Team Brunette" fan? I completely agree that both sides are insane and hope that none of them ever appear on my tv again. But as weird as Alex, Sonja, and even Ramona can be, I'll take them any day over the utter horribleness cattiness and pre-planned bitchiness of Jill and Luanne...and for the love of GOD please get Kelly into a mental institution STAT!

July 26, 2011 1:18 PM
Lynne
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Quote of the Night
"Sonja, was your vagina rude to Kelly?" - Andy Cohen. Genius.

Agreed!

July 26, 2011 1:32 PM
Melissa M.
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Thanks for this. The screaming, rudeness, and abject hypocrisy was too much for me to watch, but I wanted to know what happened.

July 26, 2011 1:40 PM
Anne
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Alex and Ramona are girls I could hang out with. Alex is smart and is truthful and Ramona is zany and likes to have fun but she 'tells it like it is'. Sonya is a 'little out there' but is true to her 'true' girlfriends. Lu Anne lives in a dreamworld thinking she is a great singer & I don't think Jacque is as into her as she is him. Too, Lu Anne does cause division at times among the girls. Kelly's socially stunted and needs to get help. She tries to come up with a solution but it sounds like somethng she has recited from a 'self help' book. It's too early to cast an opinion on Cindy and last but not least is Jill. On one hand I think she is TRYING to be nice and then she undoes it with something petty and catty. I CERTAINLY would never tell her a secret and expect her to keep it.

July 26, 2011 2:26 PM
jack
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The hatred was both flowing and the only real thing about this reality horror. I loved that Jill abandoned her fake-nice finally, almost as much as I loved how transparently flimsy her loyalties to the witch LuAnn and the truly insane KKB were.

July 26, 2011 7:49 PM
Doug
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I'm sorry, but I feel like you've repeatedly disqualified yourself from being able to write about this show. You haven't even attempted any sort of impartiality...which, fine, okay...but when your opinion is firmly in the minority, all you're going to do by writing about these women is piss off your readership.

July 26, 2011 8:42 PM
Keep Writing, Ignore Doug
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Folks in the minority have readers, too. They are typically the more educated ones. Go brunettes.

July 26, 2011 10:53 PM
Cami
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All of them are nuts and I wouldn't want to know them. However, I would take anyone over Alex and Ramona any day. I don't find Alex that smart either since she became so militant and insistent on shoving what she thinks down everyone's throat. And LMAO about Ramona possibly being pregnant and sharing all about her cycle.

July 27, 2011 2:51 PM
Hitwoman
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I was all about Team Blonde/Bethenny last year, but this year I have completely switched. I'm not sure what world Ramona lives in but it's clearly not the real one, Alex thinks way more of herself than anyone else on the planet, and Sonya is insane. Pecking order = respect Ramona? That is NOT what you meant when you said it, no matter how much you'd like us to believe it is. Go Team Brunette!

July 27, 2011 9:05 PM
Dawn
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replied to comment from Anne

I think you are right on with everyone on the show, Kelly just drives me crazy, she never makes sense.

July 28, 2011 1:46 AM
Sean
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You seemed like you're a witty, smart writer. Then I noticed you're team brunette. You're INSANE.

July 28, 2011 10:36 PM
Gabrielle
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It's not a matter of teams- They're all crazy, but I can't see how anyone who has watched all seasons can say that they would be friends with Ramona or Alex. Ramona is on more than just Pinot Grigio and she's extremely vindictive under her guile of "honesty". She admits to "getting even" as her excuse for saying awful things to and about cast mates. The comments about LuAnn's daughter were extremely uncalled for.As for Alex,she really hasn't changed from the first season, she is just packaging herself a different way. She's the same awkward, social-climbing wannabe who thinks she's physically beautiful and and her husband look and act like something from a horror show!

July 28, 2011 10:43 PM
Gabrielle
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*"And she and her husband look and act like something from a horror show."- sorry

July 29, 2011 9:33 AM
Carmen
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I cannot believe these housewives shows. They are all a sorry portrait of human beings. They talk about each other, hurt each other feelings, pretend to be friends,yet talk behind each other's back, and then want us to believe they are well educated socialites whose life we should envy or aspire to have. It does not matter how much money you have, how many countries you have visited, who you know, who know
you, what business you managed or how beautiful you think you are, if you spend so much time hurting others, talking about them, trying to create conflict and all of this only to be on t.v., make money, and make your show popular, you are a sorry portrait of human being.
Think about all the good these women could do, yet they choose to show us the darkest side of humanity. My heart really goes out to their children. I wish them all well. Fame is only worth it when you have talent, when you see the fruit of your efforts and your hard work and you can say I made it. Reality t.v. might be cheaper to produce but it has taken us back to the stone ages.

July 29, 2011 11:54 AM
marisa
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replied to comment from Keep Writing, Ignore Doug

I was thinking the same thing. It's a little presumptuous that Megslin thinks they know what the "entire nation" is thinking and off putting that Doug thinks that if the writer is in the minority they should not express their take on the reunion because it is going to piss people off. How in the world can anyone completely and blindly defend the blonds even if you don't like the brunettes?

August 2, 2011 1:51 PM
Genius
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Kelly is the opposite of nice. She's also the opposite of sane.

August 2, 2011 9:49 PM
candycone
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No, Ramona is kind of aloof but funny as hell and I really like her...No should apologize to Jill Zarin bcse she is a baracuda that hasn't gotton over Bethany dissing her and remain friends with Ramona and Alex and Jill is as phony as hell, can't stand her and I feel sorry for Bobby!! Alex is the only true educated one there and she is a very smart lady that smears her intelligence all over the faces of he brunettes...LOL...go Alex, you are truly amazing and I love your energy this season, you are also one of my favs...no wonder Bethany remained close to you and Ramona...LuAnn is just as phony as hell, I bet that youngster she is hanging out with won't be around for long...LOL and a Countess my a@@...LuAnn is just as classless as she want to be and CAN'T sing...Sonja is beautiful and sassy and I love her...I really LOVE the blondes...Cindy is as boring as hell and why is she on the show, Bravo should lose her...a coke with no ice personality...and Kelly, she is as Koo Koo as they come and there was a comment on the reunion show that she was more sassy this season, he@@ yeah, she was scared of Bethany because she call Kelly's Koo Koo self out...Kelly had the nerve to call Alex weird, Kelly LOOK IN THE MIRROR THAT COMMENT WAS A REFLECTION OF YOU, HONEY!!!! Kelly should not make such comments because she is as looney as they come with her jelly beans but at least she stopped twinning the hair like a pycho....LOVE THE BLONDES THEY ROCK!!!

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