Every week when I hear the theme song for this show, I’m shocked that it has gone on this long. Shrug, I guess we should expect this from the Misogyny Channel.
It’s two days before the wedding and Tommy and MJ are off to see a therapist. Someone needs to tell Tommy that he is marrying an Iranian who speaks Farsi. Not a Persian who speaks Persian. “Persians” have never called Iran Persia. That was what other countries called the region. When Iranians fled to the US and other countries they began using the term Persian to avoid the backlash often associated with being Iranian in the US and other countries.
Anyway, these two are talking about the way that Vida has taken over the wedding and made changes to MJ’s wedding dress and MJ just lets her do it. I do not believe any of this. They also want Vida to finally give her blessing regarding the wedding. The therapist says they need to ask Vida to give her blessing. They decide to do it at the rehearsal dinner. It literally can’t get any more last minute than that.
Destiney and Reza meet for lunch to talk about the mysterious life of her father. The PI arrives and tells Destiney that her father is not in the US. The PI and Reza both think his father has another family somewhere else.
Mike films with his mother at a nice restaurant. They argue over club sandwiches about moving forward with the renovations of the new property rather than just selling it. His mom just wants the brothers to all get along.
Reza and Adam go to meet with Reza’s hair care partners. They drink out of glasses with a heavy gold rim. I used to have cobalt blue ones like that with the gold rim. One day one of the goblets just sort of randomly exploded and jumped off the top of the counter it was on when I walked into the kitchen. I instinctively tried to catch it not realizing it was already broken and had to go to the hospital and get stitches. I’m not much of a fan of those anymore.
It looks like an all cast party as everyone shows up to ooh and ahh about some haircare bottles that probably just have water in them. All anyone cares about is the house. Literally nothing happens in most of the scenes on this show.
Why in the hell are Reza, Tommy and Adam choosing the wedding cake? Also, I’m quite sure they didn’t pick out the cake the day before the wedding. The oddball non-linear editing of this show is disruptive to the viewer.
Only Mercedeh would get a blood facial the day before the wedding. I totally believe she did this. Shannon had about eleventy billion things done to her before the Orange County reunion. Wait, first MJ said it was the day before the wedding and then said it was “a few days away.” Even the people on the show can’t follow the damn timeline. Ramona did this just before the RHONY trip to Mexico to taste tequila. That said, this is one housewives procedure I might be interested in doing. And also the one that melts chin fat. I don’t need that one just yet, but I see that day coming.
GG shot some sort of ad for her pot products. This is something that is really happening now. The whole “working thing” seems to be overwhelming her.
Nema goes to buy his first gold piece of jewelry. Reza and I both feel bad for Nema’s delayed opportunities to wear gold. I should probably stop ragging on Reza because he gets his gold at a damn good price. Actually, I need to sell off the gold I have. I am really wanting to just sell all my shit and leave the country. I’m a nomad at heart and I think a lot of my depression issues come from being stuck in one place. It’s weird, going to the grocery store gives me anxiety, flying off to some exotic locale does not. The only thing is, all the things necessary to prepare to fly off somewhere does give me anxiety. And the last time I went somewhere I was super nervous because their was a bombing a few weeks before. But the second my suitcase was in the limo and I was on my way to the Delta Sky Lounge? I was in heaven,
Nema’s gold chain is ridiculous tiny. I actually have an 18 carat gold rope chain in my safety deposit box. I stopped wearing it decades ago because the rappers started wearing them. NTTAWWT it’s just a woman of a certain age looks a bit silly wearing a gold rope chain. I should see if Cardi B wants to buy some stuff from me. She and her brood of pit bull puppies don’t live that far away. Reza says he’s happy Nema got the chain he had when he was sixteen. Reza needs to buy Nema some grown up jewelry.
It’s REALLY the night before the wedding and time for the rehearsal dinner. In the real world, this would happen after a REHEARSAL but since Tommy’s east coast friends are arriving late they decide to just do a dinner and wing the wedding. I really don’t understand rehearsals anyway. Everyone knows how it goes. There just needs to be someone to tell people when to walk down the aisle.
Tommy’s family makes me so happy. He emancipated himself from his parents and “adopted” a new family. Vida gives MJ her blessing regarding her marriage to Tommy. Vida LOVES Tommy. MJ says that Tommy and Vida are closer than she is with them sometimes. Tommy and Vida actually hang out without MJ.
After the dinner, MJ went to a hotel with her BFF and maid of honor. MJ still hasn’t seen the final look of her dress. No worries. It’s one of the prettiest dresses ever. Oh, also, MJ has not written her vows. Then she stalls and wants to go get her dogs and take a swim in her pool.
Next week, it’s the finale and MJ’s wedding day. She’s late and Tommy is drunk.
I’ve thought the same about the theme song since I started watching it (caught up a few years ago). Thanks for helpfully providing the lyrics, I hadn’t yet looked them up. I thought the last line went ‘We’re running late’, which kind of softens the ‘do me a favour, lose the dress’ and ‘I’mma sip this, you do the rest’. Well. Not really, but ‘We run LA’? No. Awful. Everytime I hear it, I feel that it’s part of Mike’s contract and non negotiable that the series continue in perpetuity with this theme. I actually see Mike singing this and fist pumping. Ergh.
Waaaaaait a minute….are you telling me MIKE SINGS THE THEME SONG???!?!
No! No, it’s my imagination. It is exactly the song that Mike will probably have tattooed on himself in a couple of years, as his profile declines while his waistline expands, to remind himself of his glory days on Shahs of Sunset. i don’t see much else in Mike’s future that could be interpreted as success by the usual metric.
It starts with “cut a lot of girls, cut a lot of checks” “cutting girls ” means having sex. It’s followed by a lot of other entitled male references. It’s just disgusting.
I KEEP SAYING Asa’s Terangeles song should be the theme song. The chorus is about Terangeles
I have extreme eyebrow envy every time I see Asa. She’s a very beautiful woman and I enjoyed the video
Hi all…I’m a nonregular jumping in. I also think the theme song is pretty atrocious. But I kind of view it as a joke on them…as in ‘look at these posers’.
The information Tamara posted about the terms “Persia” and “Persian” is fascinating btw. Not to be politically incorrect, but a whole ‘nother issue with terminology is the use of Islamic to refer to Persian or other cultural art, music, literature. We have Iranian friends who get irate when universities and museums re-name departments to eliminate more accurate names like Persian. (The changes are funded by big Saudi donations.)
A more gritty take on the Iranian migration to California is portrayed in “House of Sand and Fog”. Worth your time.
Hi Rio! That movie haunts me to this day.
The book is even more amazing
Yes, the book was amazing.
I always thought it was ‘Tehran – LA’ versus ‘we run LA’.
DOC HOLLYWOOD
We Run L.a. (shahs Of Sunset Theme Song) Lyrics
One for the money, two for the show
Hit the Louis store right on Rodeo
White SL, the color of Yayo
Pass the cup to my girl and told her to sip slow
This my show, watch me baby, the way i go can’t stop me baby
Seatbelt beside me baby, LA just drive me crazy.
We could float through the city night, I’m drunk and your lookin real
pretty right.
Make love I ain’t for the fight.
Not once, we can go till we get it right.
What it cost I can fit the price
Got a house in hills you can spend the night.
When they ask who turns you out.
(Chorus)
She came from overseas
To be a star on the boulevard
She wants sex on the beach
We can share, its only fair
Ive got paradise on call, its ours, its ours!
She got a little taste and she wants more, some more
We run L.A!
Yeh, cut a lot of girls, cut a lot of cheques.
Thats the life here on sunset
Rich and famous I am success
Met her at Les Deux and she do love sex
Ima sip this, you do the rest
You know what you do, you do the best
Do me a favour, lose the dress
Its nice by the way, Chanel i guess.
LAMB handbags i know where they sell those
Maybe later on we can hit Melrose
All you gotta do is hit me on my cellphone
Baby girl me and you can kick it like a field goal
Know who I be, call me YB.
Red carpet i don’t need the I.D
Cazals on my face, you dont see what i see
(Where) Girl you know where i be
(Where) Hollywood Swingin’
(Thats right) Hollywood Swingin’
(Thats right) Hollywood Swingin’
(Where) Girl you know where i be
(Where) Hollywood Swingin’
(Thats right) Hollywood Swingin’
(Thats right) Hollywood Swingin’
Wait a minute! Did I miss something? Did we know about Tommy’s emancipation? Are there any details about his past? Everything revolves around MJ as it should on a show about persians but was that never discussed? It made me cry dammit, i love me some Tommy!
On a bitchy note that necklace width/style that Nema got I also got when I was sixteen. Thank you Reza for pointing that out! But I’m a scottish female so my standards were low 😎
I’m pretty sure last season theres a whole scene with Tommy and MJ arguing about kids (i think they are both drunk) and Tommy mentions his mother died of cancer and she was a single parent when he was 13? Then his friends family adopted him kinda. Its a really sad scene and Tommy is just so great
There are no “Persians” on this show.
Thank you for explaining the Persian reference on the show. I have tried looking up the history of Iran and it didn’t fit. On another note , thank you for sharing your exploding glass incident and I’m sorry I laughed. I hope you were prescribed something for the pain.
Iran is original melting pot. We have Turks, Armenians, Kurds, Lurs, etc., and “Persian” is an ethnicity and relates to a people and language; so when I call myself Persian, it is correct. I can also call myself Iranian and that would be correct (Iran was called Persia until 1935).
Iran was NEVER called Persia by Iranians.In 1935 the Shah of Iran asked that the Western world stop calling Iran Persia and use the same name the Iranians use. The dysphoria adopted the westernized term when they fled in 1979 and later years because at the time Iran was associated with terrorism and the Walt Disney “Persian” nonsense was more accepted by westerners.
There is certainly a group of people from Iran that live in other countries that have created a Persian culture, they are Iranian and simply choosing to call it by another name.
Right…Cause the Persian Empire came after 1979. Lol.
We were Medes and Persians before we were Iranians.
Xerxes the first even used the term.
Persian is the Hellenic version of Parsa. Which is also the same as Fars/Farsi. i.e. Persian Gulf AKA “khaleejeh Fars”.
The term Persian is still historically used to designate the predominant population of the The people in Iran peoples living in the Iranian cultural continent.
So you saying there are “no Persians on this show” is misguided and incorrect.
What does Walt Disney have to do with anything? You referring to Prince of Persia? If so, again, that is correct use of the term.
This false narrative you’re pushing is not only offensive but it is wrong.
Expected more from you.
And how are you relating the revolution or even the hostages taken at the Embassy (by some radical students who were against the Shah’s regime (who was installed by the US) and were holding the US responsible for his actions to terrorism? No one died/was killed. Were their actions justified? Not in my opinion. Terrorism? No.
You are just regurgitating what you’ve been fed.
Well one of us is.
i am very sorry for my ignorance, i thought it was a regional term? Nothing bad just a term.
That’s twice this week i have effed up geographically and terminology wise. I have always thought illegal immigrant/alien were the same thing—Someone who came into our country illegally.
My anti-depressants were stolen along with 3 other boring scripts from my car last week and I am really trying to keep it together. my misunderstandings are magnified in my mind by about 1000% but i got refills tonight so hopefully i’ll be better in the next week😥
Aw Beets. I have no idea what you were apologizing for but you are just fine. We are all a shit ton crazier than usual in this country lately. It’s not just us.
xo
The old gold chains are new again. Just watch Empire! But there are lots of ways to wear them that look new and fresh. Seriously.
I remember seeing Vida on TV, (was it WWHL) and she said if MJ didn’t marry Tommy, she would. It SEEMED like it was before this season was filmed. So my memory is wrong or this storyline is bogus.
I DETEST that song. “When they ask who turns you out” and “cut a lot of girls” especially. They could keep the music and change the lyrics, rework it somehow. I looked up who wrote the lyrics (conflicting info) but it appears the royalty rights were sold in July for $17,000+.
Your memory works just fine.
Every time I read that there are new and fresh ways to wear gold chains I imagine nipple clamps to be involved.
Sorry, not quite sane lately.
I have been meaning to ask, what is the jewelry that Reza always wears that looks kind of look a gold coin? It seems important to him. Thanks.
It’s either a gold coin, or a more expensive brass coin from Iran.
It’s a Pahlavi turned into a pin. The Pahlavi is the gold coin with the last Shah of Iran’s (arena Pahlavi) likeness on it. They are very valuable both in monetary and sentimental terms and are often given as presents at Nowruz and other celebrations.
From many angles, MJ’s blood plasma therapist looked uncannily like Jessica. I don’t think this was accidental. If my memory serves correctly, most appointments this cast books are with Persian businesses. And MJ can be messy.
I thoroughly empathise, TT, with the anxiety of not travelling. I’m my usual self right up until I’m seated in the cabin and then suddenly everything lifts and I’m excited and curious and life is wonderful again. I visualise this feeling to calm down. Sometimes it even helps.
So happy Vida loves Tommy! Can’t believe he melted her cold, cold heart. He melted most of ours in the first season. Tommy & MJ are going to be amazing parents! And . . . . Vida will be the the “Faery Grandmother”! Finally a family of his own! 🙂
I ❤️ Tommy! Also, I’d like some of those fat freezing treatments for my midsection. Can’t wait to see the wedding next week!
I doubt I would have noticed without the TT tea that when MJ and Nema were talking on the phone, her name on his phone said “Mercedeh” — with the “H” and not the “S.”
Mike brought up something I have been meaning to ask TT about. The Diamond Water. Unlike most of the products Bravolebrities hawk, Asa looked very involved in many phases of the water. (I really wanted some!) Was it a legit product or another canned product with a face slapped on it?
(I almost didn’t notice that autocorrect, aka autophux, changed Nema to Nematode — it cracked me up and I am glad it didn’t get me sent to the WLS for using a cutsie name.)
Mike is salty about Asa. Her Diamond Water was very popular for a while and was in the Four Seasons in ..somewhere I forget. Alledgedly.
I saw it at Marshall’s.
Me too, it was two for one with Mick Jagger Fart Water. Fabulous! 😎😎😎
Mike made a kinda snide observation about Asa having a biracial child outside of marriage that pretty much everyone just glossed over. Then he was “I love Jermaine, he’s my hommie.” What surprises me about him saying this is that he, Reza and MJ have all made comments about “white” people, hell even in respect to their partners, and talk like they wanna be hood yet this crap came up in regards to a child. No wonder she doesn’t want to share. I bet she’s selling more caftans than he is freaking shoes!
Yeah. Her name is Mercedeh.
I doubt I would have noticed without the TT tea that when MJ and Nema were talking on the phone, her name on his phone said “Mercedeh” — with the “H” and not the “S.”
Mike brought up something I have been meaning to ask TT about. The Diamond Water. Unlike most of the products Bravolebrities hawk, Asa looked very involved in many phases of the water. (I really wanted some!) Was it a legit product or another canned product with a face slapped on it?
(I almost didn’t notice that autocorrect, aka autophux, changed “Nema” to “Nematode” — it cracked me up and I am glad it didn’t get me sent to the WLS for using a cutsie name.)
Ok, I thought I was crazy, so hearing you don’t want to grocery shop but are fine with flying around the world made me happy. That’s exactly how I feel!! Drive to Target? No thanks. Drive to an airport to get on a plane to fly to ((insert fabulous destination here,)) YES PLEASE!!
My head meds aren’t working lately so I’m in a deep sadness/lethargy that I can’t shake. They doubled my meds but it’ll take a couple of weeks to see results. Having messed up brain chemicals sucks dirty balls.
Totally agree with Misogyny Channel. Mike is totally gross. With respect to housewives franchises, I’m in that place where I am sick of seeing middle aged women behaving badly (while wearing clothes that won’t make their children proud) but still watching occasionally because I can’t believe that they allow themselves to be exploited. Shame on Andy for continuing in this vein….guess the money is too good.
Thank goodness for TT recaps.
I can’t see Reza’s hair line being a success. I looked at the site and it’s basically a hair line that he stuck his name on. Why would I order his over priced products when I can get the same thing at CVS? He’s going to sell a gazillion units to turn a profit. Does anyone here buy any of the products that these reality stars sling? I have yet to find one that is unique/worth buying.
I have to agree about Reza, I think that those people are living in that house and have all that money because they found plenty of other mugs like Reza to give them their life savings and then took none of the losses when it didn’t work out.
Bingo,I felt that way as well.
I don’t get the white people remark from the cast. I thought Iran unlike it’s neighbors were not Arabs and considered themselves Caucasian?? Am I wrong here??
Yeah, I don’t get the white people remark either. My mother is Lebanese and she considers herself to be Caucasian, and if I want to get snarky sometimes says she is French.
Your mother is Lebanese? I am available for Thanksgiving. I’m just saying.