• We’re in Bali, where Tamra, Heather, and Vicki meet in the library, and Tamra is noticeably chilly toward Heather. She’s still mad because Heather said Tamra made fun of Lizzie’s dress. Yawn.

    Tamra is also mad at Lizzie because, during a game of Fuck, Mary, Kill, Lizzie said Eddie wanted to fuck her. Yawn again. First of all, who plays Fuck, Mary, Kill with their couple friends? That does not sound like a healthy recreational activity. There are plenty of board games. Play Scrabble.

    Meanwhile, Shannon, Lizzie, and Danielle come downstairs, and everyone heads out to see monkeys, which actually sounds awesome. I want to see monkeys. They’re also visiting a temple, although some of the women are dressed in outfits that are, shall we say, not exactly screaming “respectful temple attire.”

    The temple is lovely, but the women don’t seem to take it very seriously, except Shannon, who claims to feel total zen. That won’t last long. They start shopping and I wonder what happened to the monkeys? I was promised there would be monkeys. Oh, yay! There are finally monkeys. They are running all over and climbing on the women and it’s awesome. My husband would never do this, but I am so down.

    Back at the resort, the women split up for some pre-dinner activities. Some are riding bikes, while the others head to the spa or pool.

    At the spa, Shannon and Vicki are in holistic heaven, enjoying what appears to be the most peaceful afternoon of the entire trip. Meanwhile, Heather and Tamra ride bikes around the resort and generally harass the locals who are trying to work. It’s obnoxious. These people are just trying to do their jobs, ladies.

    At the pool, Danielle and Lizzie discuss all the shit Tamra has been talking. Shannon is doing much the same thing, telling Vicki just how poorly Tamra has been speaking about everyone. Apparently, Tamra has told Lizzie and Danielle that Shannon is crazy.

    Shannon then warns Vicki that she should watch out, because Tamra is talking about her, too. So much for Shannon’s total zen. The four of them gather to discuss Tamra’s shit talking. 

    Lizzie tells Shannon that Tamra said Shannon is full of shit and needs an exorcism. Lizzie and Danielle admit that Tamra gave them a tainted view of Shannon, and they apologize for prejudging her. Shannon seems genuinely relieved to hear this, while Tamra’s reputation as the Bali trip’s resident shit-stirrer continues to grow.

    Vicki then tells the women that Tamra has been going around telling everyone that Lizzie said Eddie wanted to fuck her. Vicki also brings up Tamra’s past lack of support for Brooks, and the women tell her that Tamra is still bashing him.

    That’s enough to push Vicki over the edge. She starts crying and says she feels betrayed. At this point, Tamra has apparently managed to piss off nearly everyone without even being in the room. Impressive.

    Later, back at the resort, the women watch a traditional Balinese dance and once again act like a group of buffoons who have never stepped foot outside of Orange County. 

    Then it’s time for dinner.

    Shannon and Heather make nice with each other, which is notable because Heather is, so far, the only person at the table who isn’t mad at Tamra. Everyone else has apparently had enough.

    Tamra notices that Vicki is unusually quiet. She asks Vicki to come to the bathroom with her, presumably to find out what the hell is going on, but Vicki doesn’t budge.

    Vicki is sitting there all teary, and Tamra starts looking increasingly uncomfortable. She knows something is coming. The shit-talking has apparently caught up with her.

    Oh, wait. The nice between Heather and Shannon is over.

    Heather tells Shannon that Terry is pissed about David telling Heather to “spread her legs” on the mechanical bull. Shannon says she’ll have David apologize, which seems like a reasonable solution to what is, once again, an incredibly stupid Housewives problem.

    Meanwhile, Vicki still looks like she’s about to cry. And Tamra is sitting there watching all of this unfold, seemingly realizing that whatever is going on with Vicki is probably not going to end well for her.

    Tamra heads to the bathroom, and Heather takes the opportunity to ask Vicki what’s wrong. Vicki finally admits that she knows Tamra has been bashing Brooks again. Heather just shakes her head, because at this point there’s not much else to do.

    When Tamra returns to the table, the atmosphere is even more tense. Shannon asks her why she’s been saying negative things about her. Tamra insists everything was taken out of context and announces that she has no appetite.

    Tamra then blames Danielle and Lizzie for telling Shannon what she said, effectively shooting the messengers instead of addressing what she actually said.

    Lizzie brings up the Fuck/Marry/Kill situation, and Tamra immediately calls her a liar. That sets everyone off. Suddenly everyone is shouting over everyone else, accusations are flying, and dinner has completely gone to hell.

    This is what I came for.

    Lizzie finally tells Tamra she’s full of crap and calls her the most insecure woman she has ever met in her life. She tells Tamra to get it together.

    Tamra responds by grabbing her shoes and running out of the restaurant, screaming, “You will never see my face again!”

    Vicki cries.

    Lizzie sips her champagne.

    Realizing that Heather is the only person at the table who isn’t currently against Tamra, the other women start filling her in on all the things Tamra has apparently been saying about her, too.

    Tamra has told them that she only had Heather as a bridesmaid for the show, that they aren’t actually that close, and that Heather is anorexic.

    Heather wants more champagne. 

    Heather is upset and hurt, but she feels like she needs to talk to Tamra directly. She goes to Tamra’s room and asks her about everything the women have been saying.

    Heather also tells Tamra how upset Brooks is. Tamra denies that any of it is true and says Lizzie is trash.

    Heather goes back to the lobby and tells the women that Tamra isn’t coming back down. At this point, they’re all ready to go home.

    And just like that, holistic heaven turned into a Housewives’ Dinner from Hell.

  • Teresa Giudice has been on The Real Housewives of New Jersey since the beginning, which means she has had a very long time to provide us with material. And she has.

    There have been table flips, family brawls, questionable accusations, questionable grammar, and enough screaming to make you wonder whether anyone on this show has ever considered using an indoor voice.

    Here are five of Teresa’s most outrageous RHONJ moments.

    5. Ingredientses

    Teresa has never allowed the English language to stand between her and a good recipe.

    Over the years, she has given us a number of Teresa-isms, but “ingredientses” remains one of my favorites. Why use the boring singular word “ingredient” when you can simply add an S and make it sound like there are more of them?

    Honestly, it makes perfect sense.

    Teresa also gave us “come-in,” “dorters,” and numerous other linguistic contributions that have become part of the Housewives lexicon.

    At this point, I don’t want Teresa to learn how to pronounce things correctly.

    I want the ingredientses.

    4. The Christening

    Nothing says “welcome to the family” quite like a giant brawl at a baby’s christening.

    When Teresa’s brother Joe and sister-in-law Melissa celebrated the christening of their son in Season 3, the celebration quickly turned into one of the most chaotic family fights RHONJ had seen up to that point.

    Teresa and Joe started going at each other, and before long there were husbands fighting, people screaming, and enough Jersey rage flying around the reception hall to make you wonder if anyone remembered why they were there.

    It was supposed to be a christening.

    Instead, it was basically a Jersey family reunion with assault potential.

    And this was just the beginning of the Teresa/Melissa/Joe family war.

    3. Teresa Shoves Andy Cohen

    Teresa has never been particularly interested in letting a television host tell her when she has had enough.

    At the Season 2 reunion, Danielle Staub came up, Teresa lost her shit, and Andy Cohen found himself in the unfortunate position of being the person standing between Teresa and whatever she wanted to do next.

    Teresa got up and Andy tried to restrain her.

    Teresa shoved him.

    Yes. Andy Cohen.

    The man who has spent years sitting in the middle of Housewives screaming matches somehow ended up getting physically pushed backward by Teresa Giudice.

    You have to admire the commitment.

    2. The Country Club Chase

    Teresa’s feud with Danielle Staub did not end with the table flip.

    Oh no.

    In Season 2, Teresa chased Danielle through a country club during another spectacularly unhinged confrontation.

    Danielle ran.

    Teresa followed.

    There were tears. There was screaming. There was a broken heel.

    And Danielle eventually hid in the bushes.

    This is the kind of scene that could only happen on RHONJ. You could put a screenplay writer in a room for six months and they still probably wouldn’t come up with “woman runs through country club while Teresa Giudice chases her in a rage.”

    And yet here we are.

    1. The Table Flip

    Obviously.

    There is no other number one.

    Season 1. Fancy restaurant. Danielle Staub. A book. An argument. Teresa Giudice.

    And then, suddenly, the table is no longer where it was.

    Teresa exploded at Danielle, screaming “prostitution whore” and demanding to know about her past before shoving her hands underneath the dinner table and flipping the entire damn thing.

    It was maybe thirty seconds of television.

    It became Housewives history.

    The amazing thing is that Teresa had spent much of the first season looking like a relatively harmless, cheerful Jersey mom. Then she flipped a fully loaded dinner table and screamed at Danielle like she had just discovered a personal betrayal of biblical proportions.

    And just like that, Teresa Giudice became Teresa Giudice.

    The table flip wasn’t merely Teresa’s most outrageous moment.

    It was the moment she announced to the Housewives universe that she had arrived.

    And sixteen years later, we’re still talking about it.

    That’s a pretty good legacy for one piece of restaurant furniture.

  • Vicki Gunvalson has been yelling, crying, whooping it up, and turning minor inconveniences into major crises since the very beginning of The Real Housewives of Orange County. She is the OG of the OC for a reason. Over the years, Vicki has given us family vans, love tanks, surprise visits, questionable boyfriends, and enough screaming to power a small Southern California city.

    Here are five of her most outrageous moments.

    1. The Family Van

    We have to start here.

    During one of the earliest RHOC trips, Vicki discovers that the transportation she arranged for her family is a van. Not a luxury SUV. Not whatever glamorous vehicle she apparently had in mind. A family van.

    Vicki is not pleased.

    “Family van” becomes less of a description and more of a battle cry as she completely loses her mind over the transportation situation.

    This is early Housewives at its finest. There is no elaborate scheme. No complicated feud. No social-media receipts.

    There is simply Vicki Gunvalson, a van, and the absolute conviction that this is unacceptable.

    And somehow, it became one of the most enduring moments in Housewives history.

    2. Whooping It Up on the Boat

    Before the franchise became obsessed with lawsuits, cheating allegations, Ozempic, and reunion receipts, there was Vicki getting absolutely hammered on a boat.

    Early RHOC gave us the birth of “Whoop It Up Vicki,” as Vicki enthusiastically embraced drinking, partying, and generally behaving like someone had just informed her that sobriety was being discontinued.

    It was one of the first times viewers really got a glimpse of the Vicki who would eventually become a Housewives institution.

    Vicki doesn’t simply have fun.

    Vicki WHOOPS IT UP.

    And once she gave the phrase a name, there was really no going back.

    3. “I’m Being Nailed to the Cross Like Jesus”

    Season 10 Vicki is where things take a much darker turn.

    The women are questioning Brooks Ayers’ claims about his cancer, and Vicki is furious that anyone would question either Brooks or her relationship with him.

    At one point, while defending herself, Vicki declares that she is “being nailed to the cross like Jesus.”

    It is an absolutely enormous statement to make about a Housewives argument.

    But this is Vicki.

    The situation eventually became one of the most infamous scandals in RHOC history. Brooks later admitted to fabricating medical documents, and Vicki ultimately said she believed she had been deceived about his illness.

    The “Jesus” line, however, remains peak Vicki: emotional, dramatic, completely lacking in moderation, and delivered as though the fate of humanity depended on whether Meghan King Edmonds believed Brooks.

    4. The Surprise Visit to Michael’s College House

    Vicki has never been particularly interested in the concept of personal boundaries.

    When her son Michael was away at college, Vicki showed up at his house unexpectedly. Michael was not exactly thrilled by the surprise visit and essentially told his mother that she should have called first.

    Vicki’s response was, in essence, to continue being Vicki.

    Then she ended up doing a keg stand with his college friends.

    Because apparently the appropriate response to your son asking you to respect his privacy is to join the fraternity.

    It was one of those early RHOC moments that was simultaneously hilarious, embarrassing, and completely believable. Vicki loved her kids enormously, but she also had a spectacular inability to understand that they might occasionally want her several hundred feet away from them.

    5. “Love Tank”

    Before Vicki had Brooks. Before Brooks had cancer. Before the screaming matches and the reunion warfare, there was the love tank.

    During a trip with Tamra and Simon, Vicki and Donn’s marriage became a major topic of conversation. Vicki explained their relationship in terms of a “love tank” that needed to be filled.

    It was supposed to be a serious discussion about marriage.

    Instead, Vicki accidentally created one of the strangest pieces of Housewives vocabulary ever.

    The love tank became a permanent part of Vicki’s mythology, because apparently even marital dissatisfaction needs to be explained using the language of automotive maintenance.

    And honestly, that might be the most Vicki thing of all.

    Vicki didn’t just participate in the creation of Housewives.

    She created an entire dialect.

    Family van.

    Whoop it up.

    Love tank.

    Being nailed to the cross.

    And somehow, after all these years, we still understand exactly what she means.

  • Dorinda Medley has given us some truly spectacular Housewives meltdowns. From screaming about making it nice to heckling Luann’s cabaret, she has rarely been boring. Here are five of her most outrageous RHONY moments.

    1. “I MADE IT NICE!” — Season 8

    This is the obvious choice for number one. At Blue Stone Manor, Bethenny and Luann are fighting, Luann mocks Dorinda’s mother’s birthday cake, and Dorinda finally loses it. She launches into a full-scale tirade about everything she did to make the evening special, culminating in the immortal “I made it nice!” It is one of the defining RHONY moments of all time.

    1. “CLIP! CLIP! CLIP!” — Season 9

    During a lunch in the Bronx, Dorinda is hungover, drinking, and increasingly irritated with Sonja. When Sonja keeps talking, Dorinda starts yelling “Clip!” while making the accompanying hand gesture. The situation escalates until Dorinda is calling Sonja a fool and an asshole. It is completely ridiculous and completely Dorinda.

    1. The Mexico Dinner — Season 10

    During the Mexico trip, Dorinda gets extremely drunk during dinner and ends up stabbing her own hand with a knife while arguing. There is something uniquely unhinged about watching someone get so angry that they accidentally turn the argument into a fight with their own hand.

    1. “Not Well, Bitch!” — Season 9

    Dorinda delivers one of her greatest lines during a confrontation with Sonja: “I’ll tell ya how I’m doing: Not well, bitch!” It became one of Dorinda’s signature phrases and perfectly captures her particular combination of anger, alcohol, and verbal precision.

    1. “JOVANI!” — Season 10

    Dorinda attends Luann’s cabaret and repeatedly heckles her by shouting “Jovani!” Dorinda was angry because she felt Luann wasn’t sufficiently appreciative of the role she had played in connecting Luann with Jovani, which provided her dresses. The heckling became so memorable that Luann eventually turned “Feelin’ Jovani” into a cabaret song.

    Dorinda may have made it nice, but she almost never made it peaceful.