Shannon Beador has given us many things over the years: Tres Amigas, a complicated relationship with the concept of a plate, approximately 47 variations of “I’m DONE,” and some of the most spectacular emotional detonations in Real Housewives of Orange County history.

So let’s rank the meltdowns.

1. The Quiet Woman Plate Incident

“THIS ISN’T MY PLATE!”

Nothing says fine dining quite like Shannon Beador screaming across a restaurant and sending a plate flying.

The Quiet Woman dinner remains one of Shannon’s all-time great explosions. The shouting. The accusations. The hand gestures. The plate.

It was less “ladies’ dinner” and more Jurassic Park: Dinner Service.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

2. Shannon Gets Thrown Out of Heather’s House

There are moments when a person realizes a party is no longer going well.

And then there is Shannon Beador realizing a party is no longer going well.

Shannon spirals, gets increasingly emotional, and eventually ends up being escorted out while still trying to make her case.

The combination of tears, yelling, frantic gestures and “YOU WILL ALL SEE THE TRUTH!” is peak early-season Shannon.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖½

3. The “I’m Done!” Mic Meltdown

Shannon discovers that the cameras are still rolling.

This is, naturally, the worst possible thing that could happen to Shannon at that particular moment.

She starts waving her hands, panicking, trying to shut down the conversation and essentially reaches the only logical conclusion:

“I’M DONE!”

This is Shannon in her natural habitat: overwhelmed, furious, emotional and gesticulating like she’s trying to direct air traffic.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

4. The Jamaica Meltdown

This wasn’t just a meltdown.

This was Shannon Storms Beador achieving escape velocity.

During the Season 13 Jamaica trip, the women confront Shannon about her behavior and her friendship with Tamra. Shannon gets increasingly emotional, leaves the dinner table, and then absolutely loses it when the women follow her.

She screams. She cries. She demands that the cameras stop filming. She retreats to the resort, where the situation somehow gets even more explosive.

Kelly Dodd later described Shannon as completely “unhinged” during the episode and said she was worried something terrible might happen to her. Shannon herself later called losing it in Jamaica her biggest regret of the season.

In other words: Jamaica did not get Shannon.

Jamaica got Shannon Storms.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

5. Shannon vs. Lydia McLaughlin

Lydia McLaughlin walks back into RHOC and apparently makes the tactical error of disagreeing with Shannon.

At their first real confrontation, the subject of Vicki Gunvalson comes up. Lydia suggests that Shannon and Tamra are behaving toward Vicki in ways similar to how Vicki behaved toward them.

Shannon does not receive this observation as a neutral piece of conversation.

She gets upset, storms off and essentially decides Lydia is a pot-stirrer.

And this is only the beginning.

The Shannon-Lydia feud keeps resurfacing throughout the season, including the infamous argument over Shannon squeezing Tamra’s leg. Lydia later pointed out that Shannon was the one crying and screaming during that confrontation.

It was the kind of feud where you could practically hear the producers whispering, “Oh, this is going to be good.”

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖½

6. The 70s Party Showdown

Because nothing makes a screaming match more dignified than dressing for a 1970s-themed party.

Shannon and Kelly go at it while surrounded by disco-era costumes and Housewives who are increasingly realizing that they should probably stay out of it.

The fashion says Studio 54.

The screaming says Jurassic World.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖

7. The John Janssen Era

Shannon’s relationship with John Janssen gave us an entirely different genre of Shannon meltdown: the desperate attempt to keep something private while simultaneously being on a reality television show.

There are tears.

There are accusations.

There is panic.

There is Shannon insisting that something absolutely cannot be filmed while, unfortunately for Shannon, it is being filmed.

Reality television remains undefeated.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖½

8. Shannon vs. Meghan

The Meghan King/Shannon dynamic produced some wonderfully tense early RHOC moments.

Shannon becomes increasingly defensive, increasingly emotional and increasingly Shannon.

Eventually, she storms away from the confrontation.

Because sometimes the only appropriate response to a Housewives argument is to leave dramatically while everyone watches.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖½

9. The Tamra Friendship Implosions

Shannon and Tamra Judge have had one of those Housewives friendships that can go from:

“I love you!”

to

“YOU ARE A LIAR!”

with almost no transition time.

Their friendship has generated crying, screaming, accusations, reconciliations and more screaming.

At this point, their relationship is basically its own weather system.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖

10. Shannon: The Entirety of Season 17

Honestly?

This isn’t one meltdown.

It’s a season-long condition.

Relationship drama. Friendship drama. Accusations. Tears. Arguments. More tears. More accusations. Shannon attempting to control what gets filmed while simultaneously providing the cameras with approximately everything they need.

It was exhausting.

It was chaotic.

It was extremely Shannon.

And we watched every second.

Meltdown level: 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

The Verdict

Shannon Beador doesn’t simply have meltdowns.

She has EVENTS.

She cries with her whole body. She argues with her hands. She storms out with commitment. She screams “I’M DONE!” and then, somehow, continues the conversation.

And honestly?

We wouldn’t want her any other way.

Long live Shannon Storms Beador.

May her hands keep waving.

May the plates remain throwable.

And may she never, ever stop being done.