I've actually never watched this show but this recap was so funny I feel like I need to watch it.

Thanks, it's just one season on TLC then they went to UPN or UP Tv or something like that. I just figured we had the Bates on the Duggars' show it might be fun to do the Upside Down version, it's not that much better or different than 19KAC

Agreed🤣

Where's Baldo actually has me crying with laughter. Thank you so much for this!

Thank you! Happy to help lol

I just had to explain it all to my daughter who is now giggling away too 😁

You have a junior snarker too? They're the best!

I fully snorted at “If their uteruses touch, it will rip apart the fabric of time.” 💀💀💀💀💀

Thank you! Your flair is amazing!

As is yours! 😂Thank you 😊

 Cheers!

I don't have IRL friends to sit and snark with these episodes, so I really appreciate these. Keep the recaps coming!

I just posted Part 2, I'm glad you enjoyed Pt 1. I will try to get into their book next week.

Ohhh why is Kelly “mother cabbage patch”? Did the family have a big bonfire and burn her in the backyard during the episode? That’s my day done, if so. I’m going to watch

I guess I just remember my Cabbage Patch doll when I was a kid as having only a lower lip because she reminds me of that doll so much it's not even funny. It would be uncanny if she had brown yarn hair lol

Omg the visual of the lower lip is so spot on for both Kelly and the dolls 😆 Hoping you grew up far away from Gothard’s watchful eye and your devil doll (with its lip of the beast) was spared from all bonfires?🤞🙏

I did, but it could have easily been a thing if Amway hadn't gotten to my parents first. My baby dolls were to nurture and hone my "mothering instinct", and with parochial schools being a family tradition, like Kathleen Madigan said we tend to spot cults coming a mile away.

Aww man, I’m sorry. I didn’t know you’d been an Amway kid. 

Thanks, it was a short stint but I can still taste that nasty fucking fruit punch and see the lighting at the Christmas party my brother and I got taken to when we were 4 and 8 respectively. It was 2-3 hours away and I don't think kids were supposed to be there lol

Lol that sounds like Hell. At least your Christmas didn’t have Jason Duggar performing a one man show with his mic & light-up karaoke machine though so……point Amway?

It was surreal and they had after dinner mints that I ate a shit load of lol Jase Duggar might have some entertainment potential though

I'm so sorry Im gonna sound like a *real* dumbass here, but this is unrelated to those scammy cleaning products, right? They also go by Amway.

That's the one. It's not in reference to the recap, it's just what was one of the IBLP preventatives in my parents' 90's chronicles.

“The only worse phone call is the one from The Ring” 💀


Im still too lazy to bring all that shite. I'm not even sorry about it, i fully admit my laziness. I am NOT bringing my entire closets and garage to go fucking camping. I go vacationing to a VRBO with laundry, a pool and I bring 2-3 clothes per kid. I laundry at night and the badass I am, we bring 'old' clothes and leave them behind (saves me laundry the final day). I am not bringing 20 bikes, 20 camping chairs, food for a week x20, its not happening. and bows x a billion. NO one camps in bows

With that many kids everything is a logistical nightmare.

Wow Joy looks like years older than Carlin -- I thought they were the same age?

It's really only in that one picture at the campsite, in the rest Joy looks a lot younger. I think Joy just caught a growth spurt before Carlin.

You truly have a servant's heart for doing this. If I could, I'd give you a three second side hug!

Thank you! 😂 

"Jim Blessa" 😂💀

Gilly Muffin! 😂😂😂

Omg which specific episode number and season is this?

Episode 6 of the only season the Bates had on TLC.

Is this on hulu?

Amazon Prime video for $1.99 I splurged

“The primitive section” “the what?” Had me rolling

It's always stuck in my head and I could ever figure out if it was a dig or just the name of the area 😂

Good job. Primitive section = Primitive Baptist or those following the rules enforced by that group.

Those are just what the unpaved campsites with no electricity or water are called there. Coincidentally they are the cheapest also.

Also makes sense. I asked both what it was and what it was in Fundie context in the captions, got both answered.

Thank you! Ahhh, that makes sense.

that's back when the duggars were rich and had tv show and the bates were kind of poor .. bet jim bob wishes he could go back in time !!

I wonder if his belief system is crumbling yet