We begin at yet another new studio where the girls are supposed to have practice in LA this week. Both the moms and the girls are just hoping Abby shows up at this point.
Holly makes plans with Aubrey O’Day to cut a single with Nia. Holly has her pimp hat on this episode.
Sadly, Abby does show up and although she has brushed her hair and put on some make-up her attitude has not changed. Abby says she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation for why she was in jail not there last week. Holly has a nuclear meltdown on Abby calling her a liar several times. Then she yells at the other moms for being cowards. This is all very unnecessary. All the moms except for Maddie’s need to leave ALDC with their kids at this point. It’s a joke.
Holly leaves the room and begins sobbing to a producer. She is done. She can’t take this any more. She deserves better. Her little girl deserves betted. Nia is packing up her shit in a Louis Vuitton bag.
Meanwhile, Abby calls Aubrey and says that Holly just threw a tantrum. Basically, she is trying to sabotage Nia’s chance to sing in the studio with Aubrey. Abby seems to think Holly and Nia went behind her back to try to use one of her friends. WTF is wrong with Abby. Seriously? This isn’t normal asshole Abby, this is either hormonal rage Abby or drugged up on something Abby or having a psychotic episode Abby. 
The beginning of pyramid is hilarious. There is Jo Jo with the Bow Bow who somehow is always told when to show up for public ridicule and humiliation. Abby jerks the cover of the lowest picture and says, “Jo Jo you are on the bottom because you are not even on team.!” Yet there she is every week. Abby moves the photo away from the pyramid. She really needs someone if she wants to keep having a pyramid though.
Next is Nia because Abby hates her and her mother. Next is Kendall whose name she doesn’t even call, she just says, “We have you next, you’re good?” A freaked out Kendall just nods blankly. Abby just goes through say, “Next we have Mackenzie, same thing, and then we have Kalani, not a lot to judge you on. And then we have Maddie. Great congratulations. There you go. We’re going to Sheer Talent. I’m sure we’ll be embarrassed and humiliated there.” Kendall gets a solo and Jo Jo gets a solo because she is not in the group. This feels kind of like bad PMS to me. Especially the whole, “I hope you are all happy!” sort of undertones.
Then Abby goes completely psycho. She starts evilly at the girls who appear to be crapping themselves and starts to cry. Then she spits out, “I just pretend it doesn’t matter. I can’t pretend anymore.” Then she loses all control and is screaming at the girls, ” NO ONE IS GOING TO TALK TO ME THAT WAY! NO ONE! I’M NOT GOING TO STAND HERE AND DO SOMETHING I DON’T WANT TO DO! I want to teach dance. I want to be creative. I don’t want to do this (insert weird hand gestures here) anymore.” And with that, Abby waddles off again. Presumably to eat more fast food in the car. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I hope she picks me up a burrito.
Abby shows up the next day for rehearsal. Nia is not there so Jo Jo is in the group dance. The dance is about children who survive an explosion. I’m not kidding.
Holly and Nia show up at the studio and work with Aubrey O’Day. I can see Abby being friends with someone like Aubrey. She seems to be trying to be on her best behavior with Holly and Nia though. Still, this is a bit of out of the frying pan into the fire.
Kendall’s solo is a Bollywood dance. It’s very complex. Jo Jo is doing a dance solo based on Carrie. Abby wants Jo Jo to watch the movie. She’s 11.
The next day Nia and Holly returned. All the girls are thrilled to see Nia. Jo Jo is late to arrive. Jo Jo has been dancing Nia’s part in the group dance. Jo Jo’s mom calls during the practice to say that she had to take Jo Jo to be treated for lice. Jessalynn says she must have gotten it from their kids. Then Abby calls Gia and tells her that Nia is not in the group number.
When they arrive at the competition, Holly and Nia are already there. Abby says she was out shopping the night before and bought something for Nia. She hands her a bag. OMG What is it? A snake? An explosive device? Nope just a long-sleeved T Shirt that says ” Stay Strong.” Weird.
Abby is pissed that Jo Jo didn’t watch Carrie. Both Jo Jo and Kendall are anxious. Kendall has a breakdown in rehearsal because her costume is too tight. Jo Jo is coated in blood.
Kendall’s solo went great. And then the music stopped. She kept right on going without it and was fantastic.
Jo Jo’s solo was good. It was very intriguing. I could not stop watching her. There were some tricky acrobatics that were great. I liked it.
The group dance was good. At the end everyone dies except for Maddie. It was one of the weirder ones they have done.
Jo Jo took fifth place in the solos. Kendall took second. The group dance took first.
Wait? Next week is the last week in LA? What happened to “I’M MOVING THE STUDIO TO LA?” Maybe Abby somehow lost her studio? I’m so confused.
This isn’t Philadelphia! Rent in LA is crazy expensive-If you want to be in a nice area. If she wants a huge studio like she has in PA then she’ll have to move to the desert! That group from Murrieta is essentially in the middle of nowhere! It’s like a 2 hour drive from Murrieta to Downtown LA With NO traffic! Abby might have to eat her own words once these moms find a real manager and agent for their kids. Everyones replaceable even Abby!
Her studio is in Penn Hills, PA. A suburb of Pittsburgh. Way cheaper than Philly. It’s also not huge. It’s also beside the High Schools bus garage. Where everyone from the high school goes to party. Fun fact? Probably not. I’m drunk.
So, if Abby looses Nia then the only dancers left that “she’s trained” is the Zeiglers? Back when I use to watch, that use to be a big thing with Abby. So and so didn’t train her dancers. She’s a studio hopper. Blather, blather, blather. I hope Abby looses Maddie! Holly pull your friggin head out of the clouds and get Nia away from Abby!
I remember when Nia was just a baby, and boy has she come a long way.
Abby is off her meds or something.
I think Nia has come as far as she can with Abby. I don’t think she can grow anymore because Abby will beat her down if she improves too much. I am not sure what Nia’s goal is though. If it’s to be a professional dancer, leave. If it’s to be some other type of performer, use your time wisely seek out professional training while in Hollywood. Holly, please don’t sign Nia’s future away to Abby! Nia is the last one of the originals that I care about! I hold out no hope for Kendall because Jill is going to ride or die with Abby.
So it took this long for Holly to get it? LMAO
I figured that out the first two seasons, that is why I stopped watching it.
If Abby loses niashe will be up a creek. I was watching the girls without Mia and I realized this show would be crap once she loses her original girls. Who would watch it with mad die and Kendall and Mackenzie. I lovedchloe . But Abby is crazy if she thinks she is some god sent choreographer.there are plenty of studios that could make a tv show.this Abby saga will be interesting to see when it plays out
I hope Nia has a successful career in music, because Abby is going to punish Holly by replacing Nia with Jo Jo and her lice ridden bow bow. Abby is going back to PA ’cause she can’t be the big frog(toad) in the mud puddle in California.
I wonder who else wound up with lice? Hell, my head started itching when Jess said JoJo had it.
That word is itch inducing. I remember when getting change of shift report and the magic word lice was said, all the nurses would surreptitiously start scratching.
It spreads like wildfire when it hits the kindergartens.
I went on an interview in the county I later agreed to teach in once. The principal was a giant cuntsatchel. She said everyone was expected to stay until 5 or 6 PM. I’m just mmmhmmming my way through a long interview from hell. In the office portion she said that every Monday each teacher was required to do a lice check on every child.
I had a really aggressive college interview once that she reminded me of. I had driven several hours and checked into a hotel at my expense to interview with a satellite junior college that was part Of University of Kentucky. He asked about my first job (when I was in HS) and what the dates were and why I left. He continued on through every single job. able two decades worth. I wanted to walk out I hated the guy so much. then when I left there I was supposed to go on to another interview. I told them I was no longer interested in working there. They tried to tell me that the guy had just read a book on interviewing and putting people under pressure blah blah blah he was really a nice guy. I was not having it.
Sorry the lice thing had me thinking about all the worst interviews ever. I also go in trouble once for sending a kid to the nurse for a lice check because she didn’t stop scratching her head all day. Um, really?
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Didn’t Abby tell Joe Joe to give Mackenzie a bow a few weeks ago. She said something about Mackenzie needed more sass.
I mean JoJO!
I FINALLY caught up on all my Dance Mom’s. WTF?! Abby blew my mind…yes, I said Abby. No way was Abby not on some sort of Drugs. I HATE to accuse that of anyone, but seriously! Abby was trippin ball’s! That come down was hitting her hard in combo with her fragile ego…not a good combo. I hope those kid’s are NEVER exposed to THAT Miss Abby again. Wow. Just. Wow.
Tomorrow, I’m catching up on all the past recaps and comments
Ps. If you have never picked up “Drive-Thru” and ate in your car all by yourself, you don’t know what you’re missing. The combo of guilt, exhilaration and not giving a flying fuck of any of it…is awesome!
Yes but there were cameras filming the experience!
Eating fast food in the car is the best part of a road trip though!
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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New theory, what if Abby started drinking after her mother died and she’s just super hungover now at the studio?
This is a definite change in Abby’s behavior… it’s kind of sad.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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OOOOOOOOO — TT I think you may have hit the nail on the head by saying that Abby’s Mother’s Death probably started a cycle of self destructive behaviour – binge eating and possible drinking and/or pill popping.
One of the girls mentioned that Abbey had a new boyfriend and also that Abby had lost a lot of weight. I’m wondering if she had the help of diet pills? Some diet pills are addictive and can cause erratic manic behavior. I’m wondering if maybe she hadn’t established an LA connection yet? That phone call she had last week about needing to go back home was suspicious, and also the eating in the car, just reminded me of someone struggling with a food/dietpill addiction.
Abby’s car eating reminded me SO much of the Intervention episodes with compulsive eaters or binge/purgers. They would order just copious amounts of food and be too ashamed to eat them in the restaurant, so would pull over to the parking lot and just gorge, all the while looking around to make sure no one was watching.
As I said in a post on the Nia Video article, I suspect Abby never really ever planned on actually moving to LA to begin with. or realized when she got there that people would not be bowing to her every whim and decided to make the “move” into a “visit.”
Maybe Abby got some bad news behind the scenes! Like she could be looking her television deal? Oh to dream lol!
At this point I’m just hoping it is all totally scripted and that Holly signed up to take the “Christi” role with Nia in the Chloe/underdog role. Obviously, they had to work the script around Abby’s mental breakdown, but maybe the thinking is that Chloe got a lot of attention being the underdog/picked on one and they’re hoping to produce the same effect for Nia. Otherwise, the fact that any of these women are putting their kids in the position of being abused by Abby for fame/money is horrifying.
It really, really was *not* this bad the first 2 seasons.
I think that now that Abbys mother has died, she is scared. She now has no excuse for not making it big in LA. When she went to LA she realized that she really was only a small fish and her antics weren’t going to work there. Not to mention she was losing most of her dancers. She only made herself look bad and Nia should get out now and if Jill doesn’t take her daughter and leave after what she overheard, then she has a big problem. No parent should stand for that abuse towards their child and why does the assistant who does most of the work not step up?
These Realty Shows crack me up. EVERYBODY getting paid to perform their part. Then after the cameras shut down someone is crying or complaining about filming that they were cleatly a part of per their contract.
They knew what they signed up for. If they have a problem with the show deal with the producers or simply bow out if the script is not what you signed on for. That’s the power on ones contract.
OTHERWISE- go to the bank and cash your check – or simply SHUT UP!!
Maybe ALM hasn’t changed. Maybe this is the same Abby she has been all along, only she’s not giving production any shots of a “normal” Abby, so they have to show all of her film in her normal glory.
No, she’s really messed up this season. Like Kim Richards sorts of problems.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Wow. While I’ve always thought she deserved a cunt-punch, I hate to see anyone struggle with addiction. But the evil side of me wants to watch now, just to see her lose her shit. I have no problem with serious coaching, but she crossed so many lines for me I had to quit the show. Any idea if her ratings are up or down?
I dunno about ratings, but she is just not showing up to practices and competitions… it’s not normal Abby crazy it’s something worse.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Abby definitely had something going on! That is a side of her we’ve never seen and I hope to never again. It was very worrisome. Abby seemed so lost, it was Abby from another planet! Then, she just bolted and disappeared. From everything.
We need this week’s recap sister friend!
Could you even imagine if Jojo had gotten the lead!? Abby would have gone ape shit gorilla through that set!
Sorry, I totally forgot to do it. I will be a bit busy tomorrow but will try to remember to do it then. I have to go buy some healthy crap for Lent. 🙂
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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