#3459 RHOC S20E02 Part One: Thank You For Being a Fiend

**Ben Mandelker** (0:21)
Hello and welcome to Watch What Crappens, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to talk about. I am Ben Mandelker, and joining me today is the one, the only irrepressible Ronnie Karam. Hi Ronnie, how's it going?

**Ronnie Karam** (0:35)
Good. How you doing?

**Ben Mandelker** (0:37)
Fabulous. We made it to the end of our work week here, and we're here to talk about Real Housewives of Orange County.
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**Ronnie Karam** (1:28)
Good.

**Ben Mandelker** (1:28)
How are you feeling?

**Ronnie Karam** (1:30)
Heading back to LA today. So I'm tracking Bueller on his little trip. He's making it in a car before me. He's driving to LA. Just tracking Bueller along.
Yeah, he's driving the car.

**Ben Mandelker** (1:40)
Everyone get out of the way.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:43)
And so I'm tracking my little doggy and watching when he goes boo-boo and watching when he eats his dinner. So that's pretty fun. It's my mom's 75th birthday. It was yesterday. So happy birthday to my mazza. And so celebrated that, you know, did that stuff, fun birthday stuff. And that's, I mean, that's it. Really, what more could you ask for? And then to go to your mom's birthday and come back and the Orange County ladies are like, we're gonna dress like old people.
Celebrate Emily's birthday. That's what Bravo really needed. And that's what I needed was just to see an dress like old people plot. They really don't do it enough on Bravo.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:23)
Yeah, they don't. It's really too bad, but we definitely got a good amount of it. I really enjoyed the different looks of senior citizenship that they went for. I thought that was a really, they showed a nice spectrum of geriatric looks and feelings.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:42)
Yeah, I think Heather's was the most realistic.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:47)
Yeah. Actually, I thought Gina's was very realistic. I was like, you know what, I can see Gina looking like this when she's like, honestly 63
She doesn't have to wait till she's 81

**Ronnie Karam** (2:59)
You know what's so weird is that I blocked out Gina.
I think I just do that now. I have a filter in my head that will just block things out. I don't even remember Gina and I literally finished watching this episode 15 minutes ago.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:12)
That's kind of her brand though.
It's like, oh, I don't even remember Gina. I mean, I'm just going to say this. I didn't think that it was an amazing episode, but I don't hold it against the show because I'm like, don't forget this was a party that Gina organized for Emily. So it was never going to be good television to begin with.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:32)
Yeah. It was nice to see Vicky without an Instagram filter though.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:37)
It was nice. And also seeing what Vicky might have actually wound up looking like, had she never gone into reality television, because I actually do firmly believe she would have become mama for mama's family.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:51)
Oh, Vicky Lawrence, stay with us forever.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:56)
So we get taglines today.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:57)
Vicky to another.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:59)
Yeah. Yeah.
From one super problematic Vicky to a less problematic Vicky.

**Ben Mandelker** (4:08)
Does Vicky Lawrence have any problematic qualities?

**Ronnie Karam** (4:11)
I don't think so.

**Ben Mandelker** (4:13)
I hope not.

**Ronnie Karam** (4:14)
No, she even did a one-man show last year called, like, Come See Mama.

**Ben Mandelker** (4:21)
I was going to say, if Vicky Lawrence was problematic, that would just wipe out just so many warm memories of win, lose, or draw. So yeah, I'm just really hoping for the best.
Yeah.

**Ronnie Karam** (4:34)
All right, here we go. We get some taglines today, which is pretty exciting. Love a new tagline, Sesh. They have a lot of people too this season. They have them all lined up.