"I'm not really embarrassed when Olivia yells, hits and throws a fit because she's still young and it's still kinda cutesy."

Um, no. Your 3 year old needs her bottom smacked.

That child was terrifying. And Haley's dad needs to come out of the closet.

OMG! If I could, I'd grab that little girl Olivia and give her the spanking she so richly needs for her behavior. Screaming and hitting her mom? Are you kidding me? And mom allowing that behavior? Oh hell no! If my child raises their voice or hand to me like that would be the last time they'll ever behave like that. BRAT does not begin to describe her. That mom should not be allowed to have kids or raise them.

Here's an article about tonight's episode that I read.
Yes, Olivia's mom really did say that about children with cancer and other debilitating illnesses. I also forgot about the horse. What the hell was she doing with her kid painting that poor little horse? Oh Sweet Jeesus.

LOL! You weren't the only one thinking that. My gaydar was going off like crazy.

That multicolored dyed pony was RIDICULOUS, but amazing.

Olivia seems to be following in MaKenzie's footsteps as far as being bratty is concerned.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that these kiddie glitz pageants are borderline drag shows?

They are like drag shows, exept the drag queens I like to go see have more talent.

Olivia's mom needs Super Nanny. I want to go kidnap their darling pony though.

THANK YOU!! i have wondered that myself.

To quote Sophia from the Golden Girls: "He's as gay as a picnic basket!"

have you all seen this? it's my favorite-makenzie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KgWX...feature=fvwrel

Something tells me this little girl has never been socialized with kids her age.

off topic.... Is that Topenga????

Yes, it sure it. Danielle Fishell hosts the show.

Why does he sound like Big Gay Al from South Park?

"I can buy some cheese dip." Best line of tonight's episode.

Awww, I missed it!

i know-i keep forgetting it too. does anyone know if they come on a second time?

I think they do over the weekend. I'll have to DVR it.

I have finally watched an epi thanks to TLC On Demand

The mama needs to be smacked! When Olivia said "I see it, fool" to her mama, I was like
Oh. HELL. naw! I wish I WOULD talk to my mama like that. She'd beat me like I owed her money

Don't get me started on flat ironing and coloring the horse. I was too through

Word! To quote Love Actually: "He's gayer than a maypole"
To quote Seinfeld "not that there's anything wrong with it"

Now to download the other epis...

I love Alaska. What she said to her mother was the truth:
"You ARE one of the crazy moms!"
It is such a train wreck

Jill - you HAVE to see the rest of them. I'm slowly watching as them come on TLC. I watched the "cheese dip" one last night. OMG, it was sooo funny when the little girl won $100 and said she wanted to buy some cheese dip and the mom said "do you want to buy some cheese dip for everyone"?' What do you think the bratty little girl said, "NO." One of the original shows had a little girl from my county here in Georgia. These moms are CRAZY!!!

Last night's episode wasn't as bad as some of the other ones in regards to insane & crazy pageant parents. Something that keeps bugging me is when parents compare their pageant kids to each other b/c there is always one that they claim is way cuter, smarter, better than the other and in the case of last night's sisters, the older one was aware that her mom was certain the younger sister was going to win Grand Supreme & she would maybe get a recognition award. Why do parents do this? Some episodes back, there was the mom who was certain her bi-racial son was the CUTEST thing to walk this planet & her blonde haired, blue eyed daughter was average. WTF is wrong with these parents?

Although we never did pageants, my mother was notorious for comparing her kids. I was not only compared to my siblings but also to my cousins. I grew up knowing I was never pretty enough, popular enough or smart enough for my mother. Wish these parents could look into a magic ball and see how much it permanently affects a child when you are always comparing them to each other rather than relishing in what your child has accomplished on their own.

DaffyKD

WORD!

My grandmother needs that memo. Not only does it affect the child, it affects the relationship between the siblings

I was watching it when DH came home. He just said: um no! Hell no! Really?
Then retreated downstairs :D

I caught up on some more episodes I haven't seen and also last night's episode. Some of them had me laughing at some of these moms. Talk about being catty & bitchy! Bad mouthing other little girls for winning when clearly, their daughter is way better looking than the little girls who did win. Obviously, you can only win if the judges are your friends. :rolleyes:

The little girl who kept wanting to be spray tanned b/c she wanted to look like Beyonce was interesting. And who the hell lets their kids dress like Lady Gaga? WTH?!?

I'm confused as to why Baylen won Queen when she didn't do anything on stage. She'd go up there & try to run off, not smile or just sit on the floor. Were the other little girls worse? Her mom is in serious denial about how cute she thinks she is and how she loves pageants. It's pretty obvious Baylen doesn't care for them.

Good for Emerald winning the Supreme title. I liked her. She was a cutie.

I'm confused as to why Baylen won Queen when she didn't do anything on stage BetteDavisEyes

me too!(and i am not being factious)-could it be rigged?

Was it the Sparkle girls? That mother - there were 5 girls in that family doing pageants - said one of the girls had a bigger nose and wasn't as pretty. If I recall correctly, the "favored" twin acted up and got hauled off (pretty appropriately) by the dad.

Was that the episode with the babies whose mother said she spent $250,000 on pageants? Because I believe she said one baby won more than the other.

it's on right now.

is it a requirement that t & t contestants have a speech impediment? i can't help but think that the kids would be better off if all the money spent on entrance fees, clothes, hair spray and "flippers" was spent on speech therapy.

I just watched this episode right now. The little girl who started crying when she lost the High Supreme to the baby needed that loss. LOL! It's horrible for me to laugh but kids who think they're the best at everything need to get knocked off their high horses once in a while.

The mom who spends the fortune on her twins & the pageants is really a woman? I swear I thought she was a man in drag.

Mackenzie needs a good spanking.

About last night's episode, Rumble in the Jungle. Just some thoughts:

1. I find it interesting that the pageant director also just happens to be the talent agent for both Eden & Alexis who coincidentally just happen to win the top 2 titles at this pageant. :rolleyes: While I don't agree with the mom who said the pageant was made just for Eden's benefit, I do think it was ultimately set up so that the top winners were members of this woman's pageant agency & since Eden is their headliner...

2. I laughed when one of the judges said that absolutely the director influences how judges vote. Gee. You think? :rolleyes:

3. To the whining mom, if you're unhappy your child took only the title of Princess, maybe next time work with her so that she doesn't just stand in front of the judges with a "deer in the headlights" look. That doesn't tend to impress judges. Also, her being upset & saying she never would have competed if she had known Eden would be there was lame. If you can't run with the big dogs, then get out of the show.

4. Was anyone one else disturbed at the scene where Alexis was at the chiropractor's office getting an adjustment? :eek:

5. GROSS to seeing Eden shave that man's belly. Just nasty.

6. Lastly, I'm still trying to figure out the "mystique" that is Eden b/c frankly, I don't find her that cute, I don't see any talent whatsoever in her (though to be fair, I don't see talent in the majority of the contestants) and her stage "presence" is actually mildly creepy.

Co-sign on everything you said.

Eden: Hubby had to walk out of the room when Eden started screaming her song. Which, by the way, sucked on so many levels. Her "agent" wrote that? All the kid did was yell incoherently (for a fun time, check out Eden's interview on "The Talk". Leah Remini's face is priceless).

They actually dragged that little girl to malls to sing her wretched "song". I wonder how many people left the mall early that day because of her "performance".

Mikki Wood - Eden's mother - is a freak. Sorry, lady, but a "TWO MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT!" is nothing these days. Your kid isn't an actor, singer, or entertainer in any form. She walks around a stage like she has a pole up her bum while blinking at the judges. It's not a talent. I think that everyone has a talent, but the entertainment industry isn't the place for Eden.

And the moment when Eden was throwing a hissy and her mother put her head to Eden's, my stomach literally dropped. I thought the poor kid had gone catatonic thanks to the stress that witch puts on her. "She had a choice", Mikki said. Yeah, she chose not to disappoint her freak of a mother who has spent more than $100K in exchange for some cheap plastic crowns and dubious titles.

Gabrielle
That poor 3-yo. The way her mother was pulling and yanking and throwing her around on camera made me wonder just how rough she is with her when the cameras aren't rolling. The mother got so mean, and the way she spoke to her - she could barely control her anger then, I don't want to know how much she lets it out on that kid. It made me very, very sad. :(

And what was up with the kid sticking her butt out like that? She even did it while being interviewed. If we had done that as kids, my mom would have smacked us til kingdom come. Ladies don't do that. Not even 3-year old girls. The mother thought it was funny. I found it vulgar.

Alexis
Now she is a gorgeous girl (and very poised) but she needs to stop telling everyone how pretty she is. They all do. It's their damn mothers telling them that they are prettier than everyone else, because conceit isn't pretty. Right now, she seems very sweet. I don't remember her throwing any fits. She was a little kid without being a brat like most of the kids we see on the show.

Will Eden make it to her 20's. The pressure she has been put under by creepymom leads me to believe that heavy drug use or suicide is in her future. It is scary that her mother is supposedly a teacher-- would hate to have her teach my kids. Can you just see her, "Suzi, you smile is not big enough to compete with my little Eden." "Johnny, you can't be in the school's talent show as you are no where near as talented as my little Eden." "So and So, no sorority will accept you when you go to college. You are not as pretty as my little Eden, you weigh 5 pounds too much, you don't know how to put on glitz, etc." Pity the poor special needs child who gets stuck in her classroom.

DaffyKD

i am so surprised that my brother and sister in law did not put their only child, a daughter, in these pageants when she was younger. she participated in dance and gymnastics, and when recital time rolled around, the owner of the dance/gymnastics school had the kids sell ads in the recital program and various prizes and trophies were awarded based on the $ amount of ads sold. my brother and sil bragged every year that my niece had "sold" the most ads and won the biggest trophy, when in reality(something their lives were lacking at the time) they had sold the ads for their daughter and she got some tacky, big a** trophy. same mentality as the pageant parents.

I don't know how Eden's mom is a teacher when she uses phrases like "fixing to". I know there is no such thing as a perfect teacher, but at least could she speak standard American English?

I agree, I had to mute my TV when that song was on. Instead of being a "recording artist", maybe mama ought to buy her child some singing lessons.

As for the three year old with the pushy mother, did anyone else get the feeling that the little girl didn't want to do pageants, and had no concept of where she was half the time?

Question: Last Night's episode was billed as Eden's retirement from pageants. But in this episode she is still only 5 years old. Whereas in the Summer season premiere episode where she competes against MaKenzie, she has turned 6. If she continued to do pageants after her 6th birthday, how is yesterday's episode indicative of retirement? :confused:

I can't stand Eden's mother but I was glad to see her being kind to Eden's hairdresser when she was about to have a meltdown. I was expecting her to lose her mind on the poor woman.

Does anyone else think MaKenzie is going to grow up to be a really manipulative woman? She can change her mood in an instant! She goes from being a little weirdo (telling her rolling suitcase to "hush") to screaming at her mother to being a little on-stage charmer.