Sister Wives Recap: Kody's Bro-mance S06Ep13

All I have to say is, why can't the producers of this show be consistent with their story lines?

Last week, we the audience were subjected to almost 30 minutes (including flashbacks, flash forwards and whatever else the producers could throw at the audience) of Meri sobbing, Janelle nodding, and Kody pontificating on the high cost of sending a child to college.

And don't forget the Mariah interrogation, where, with tears in her eyes and a choked voice, she told her parents she just had to go to Utah so she could get her Mrs degree and find an eligible man willing  to start a plural family with her.

So imagine my surprise when this week's episode, those very same adults happily...HAPPILY (I tell you!!) went shopping for a venue to hold their re-commitment ceremony!

Talk about a What the H.E. double hockey sticks moment...did the producers not think the audience would remember the Browns moaning and groaning about college expenses? Or do they think we are too stupid to take notice???

To make matters worse, Kody (you know, the man who doesn't want his kids to be saddled in student loan debt but can't seem to figure out how to finance acquisition of 4 expensive McMansions AND the college education costs of his children) was acting like he didn't have a money care in the world.

In fact, to paraphrase Kody, it was his party and price was no object. They didn't even bat an eyelash at the a venue's $10K cost (cake not included) - enough to cover one years tuition and expenses at UNLV.

Say whut???

Kody in mid-glide...

In fact, Kody was so giddy with happiness, he moonwalked across the venue's shiny dance floor.

Who the hell still moonwalks? What's next? Kody busting some more embarrassing moves culminating with him spinning on the bald spots on his head?

Earth to the producers: We are 13 years into the 21st century! Moonwalking is so 1980's.

It's bad enough the producers apparently don't care enough to create a cohesive storyline from week to week, but to force the audience to watch Kody acting like an a$$ was just too much!

If this crap is what the rest of the season is going to be like, we are in for a bumpy ride!

So what else happened in this episode?

Too much botox, Kody?

Well, as you can tell by the title, this episode was ALL ABOUT KODY. Which isn't saying much, because the entire show Sister Wives has always been about Kody. Yep, he's the center attraction, while his four wives revolve around him. Like I've been saying since this show began, they should have named it The Kody Brown Show, co-starring wives Meri, Robyn, Janelle and Christine with special appearances by Kody's 17 kids (and counting).


The object of this "bro-mance" was Kody's LDS

Why is that lampshade askew in Meri's perfect McMansion?

mission pal, Brett. It seems that Brett has been a longtime, monogamist friend of Kody.

Being how Robyn is so quick to condemn monogamists (because they can never understand the joys of plural marriage, don't you know), it was interesting to see Brett's wife speak and not have the need to wipe the tears from her face with her hands or use her fingers to remove an eye booger (hey, don't forget to stare at it before you wipe it on your clothes!)

Mrs Brett was actually a breath of fresh air. Her husband, on the other hand, must have taken a swig from Kody's bottle of  'I'm a Macho Man and I Only Do Manly Things' (with extra testosterone).

Brett savoring a drink from Kody's bottle

This so reminds me of the wrestling scene in "Women In Love"

I mean, seriously, a home's garage is automatically a man cave? And when Brett says that Kody has FOUR man caves to choose from, I chuckled because you know as well as I that the only garage that wasn't mentioned for conversion into an idiotic wrestling room was Robyn's. Three guesses whose garage is Kody's real man cave refuge (and the first two don't count). Hint: Her name begins with an 'R'.


What human being in their right mind would want to wrestle in an non air conditioned garage in the summer when the temperature tops 115 degrees - in the shade?

How much you want to bet these brain scientists will leave the door to the house open to let the garage cool down enough to be comfortable. Or maybe Kody will totally remove the door so as the garage can benefit from the Christine's A/C 24/7.

And FYI Brett. Kody only shares ownership of the house with his legal wife Meri. The deeds for the other 3 McMansions are in Christine's, Robyn's and Janelle's names only. And Kody knows that.

Anyway, this whole wrestling thing between Kody and his friend was so reminiscent of the wrestling scene (and its literary meaning) from D.H. Lawrence's novel "Women in Love" I'm wondering if Kody might be hankering for a little physical contact and closeness with the same sex - not that there's anything wrong with that...

While the men (Kody, Brett, and Janelle's trainer Sean) went off to have fun on the Vegas strip, the wives (including Brett's wife Eva) and the children went on a picnic and visited a petting zoo. Ho Hummm.....

Note to TLC and Figure 8 Productions: Think of how much more fun this episode would have been if the MEN  had taken the children on a picnic and to the zoo while the women went carousing the Vegas strip.

Know what I'm saying?

Some highlights:

• Eva said the word pervert, but Christine changed it to pedophile in her couch interview. 
• The Browns are definitely not the Dargers in showing affection in front of other wives.  Meri made sure Eva understood that when she said "...we don't need to have it shoved in our face".
• Kody is just soooo busy!! Why, he doesn't even have time to watch TV with his kids!

 And I am skipping the part where Meri was crying. Boo hoo, NEXT!!!

Kody girding his loins before his jump

The "men" plus Sean started their night of testosterone driven fun at the Stratosphere. Yep, they were going to jump off of it. Now, if you follow Kody on twitter, you'd know this is the #1 spot he takes all his "friends" and LIV executives and whoever else he can drag off the strip.

No surprise, Kody made the jump all about him. And it was boring as hell.




A triumphant Kody back on terra firma

At dinner, Kody decided to make sure his male companions knew how much of a man he was...he's got four wives if you didn't already know. To listen to Kody talking on and on about how much an alpha male he was, and what a great leader he was, how much he's in charge of his family and no wife is in charge of the other wives, on and on and on was painful. Brett was getting all riled up on Kody's side (Yeah man, you're right man...blah blah blah) but Sean had a look on his face that maybe he wasn't quite buying everything Kody was selling.

Don't worry Sean. The audience wasn't buying it either.

Finally, the show went back to Meri as she goes shopping with her bestie, who happens to be a monogamist LDSer(WHAT???). The only thing I want to say is someone needs to remind Meri that ALL the wives made it a point (including Meri) that all of Kody's children belong to ALL of the wives. Their children would have FOUR MOTHERS. Should anything happen to one wife (like with the passing of Meri's sister) her sister wives would step in and raise her children as their own.


That was a "perk" of plural marriage supposedly.

So what gives with Meri's talk about being an empty nester once Mariah goes to college? What about the other children in the family? How can Meri be an empty nester if she supposedly has 14 other children (subtracting the college students Logan, Mariah and Aspyn) that could call her mother? And why would Kody be considered in this conversation when he spends less time with his kids than their mothers do? Kody doesn't even have a nest to empty!!!

Maybe Meri needs to go back to Utah and get back in touch with her polygamous roots. Hey, wait, that would make for an interesting episode!