Friday, July 2, 2010

Bethenny's Getting Married? And Is It Making Jill Crazy?

I have watched all of the episodes of the new Bethenny's Getting Married show now, and I have to say that the first several shows were kind of boring - somewhat like the first few shows of each Real Housewives franchise. It's getting better...

I liked last night's episode - although I have to admit to active dislike of Bethenny's tendency to tell her fiancee that she'll rip his dick off. It's just crass, and while I do enjoy her snarkiness and her wit, I hate it when she's just crass for the sake of saying something "pithy" (this isn't). She said it once to her wedding planner and I thought - ew, yuck, mildly funny but yuck. The second time, I just thought, OK, this is part of the lexicon, and it's such an unattractive part.

I hope that language doesn't come out in front of her daughter.

Can I just say the idea of ripping someone's dick off is so anti-male in so many ways? If some girl was saying this to my son, I would completely make sure the wedding didn't happen. I understand that this is for TV, but it's ugly and mean and just so Rosanne Barrish.

But the time is flying toward the time of the wedding and things are getting interesting. So many opportunities for good taste (or bad)! Picking centerpieces and linens and table settings and all of that.

There is one overwhelming thought that occurs to me for the entire run of this show. It gets louder in my head as the show moves toward Bethenny's wedding - Jill Zarin must be full of, well, whatever Jill Zarin must be full of. How horrible it must be for someone who wants so desperately to be a kingmaker to be completely on the outs when the call for bridal shower, wedding dress shopping and other exciting and tastemaking events take place!

This is an aside from that show - it certainly looked as if Jason and Bethenny left their gyro wrappers and other garbage on the City Hall stoop. Perhaps one of their stooges picked it up after the camera showed them skipping off camera, but it really, really, really bothered me that Bethenny didn't make a point of not littering.

Appear naked for the sake of PETA but leave your garbage all over the place? That makes me wonder: were you just appearing naked for the sake of being naked? Because your GARBAGE sat there for how long???

Really, even with the joy of seeing Alex at the shower (I hated the tampon comment when Bethenny decided to borrow Kelly's outfit for the shower), all I could think was, she left her garbage right there. What a pig, or what a diva!

Either way, it bothers me....

Add: Somebody pointed out to me in a different blog that Jason picked up the trash. I am sure somebody picked up the trash, but that's not what we saw. They left is on the stoop, went to get their license, and walked away from City Hall with the garbage still on the stoop. It would have been better, from a publc perception point-of-view, if they had made a point of picking it up. Surely Bethenny is not so grand now that she can't pick up her own trash?