If It Makes You Happy

The clip above is from one of my all-time favorite TV shows Girlfriends…. I just wish the complete series wasn’t like $300 O_o @ Amazon. Anyway in this particular scene, it’s Toni Childs wedding day and her maid of honor (MOH) Joan Clayton is going around acting like a little bitch. See for those that haven’t seen this show or episode Hulu or YouTube is your friend. But here’s a little back story about what’s going on.

As I said Toni is getting married to a little (because he’s short) Jewish Doctor name Todd Garrett. See Toni in all her vain glory was thinking about getting some plastic surgery and he was her doctor. He basically told her to get the fuck out his office because there was nothing wrong with her being that she was beautiful already. So they don’t start dating immediately because Toni is shallow and Todd is short and those two things don’t mix very well. But one day he comes to her rescue (like they always do in real life, lol) and she start to look beyond his handicap of being short, to see he’s a really decent guy and they fall in love and shit. Well after dating for a few months Todd purposes to Toni and they’re getting married. This is where things start to fall apart for her bff Joan.

See Joan is the typical I want to get married and have babies type of girl, I do believe that on the show she had a wedding trunk. In this trunk there was all types of shit that a bridezilla would have, including a wedding dress. So now that her bff is getting married this has left Joan on the edge of glory and about to lose her damn mind. She’s in a relationship but the shit isn’t what one would say is solid like a rock. As her boyfriend just found out he’s former jump-off is pregnant, so as you can imagine Joan and her bf Ellis are going to some things. So now she’s faced with being the MOH to her bff, while her relationship is rolling in the deep. This is only compounds the fact that Joan is a wedding/marriage obsessed crazy bitch and now her friend is getting married, to a man she’s only been seeing for a few months….. this is where Joan becomes completely unhinged.   Well Joan begins to act crazy as hell, she’s tries to sabotage (by acting like a lunatic) her relationship with Ellis. She misses key parts of Toni’s wedding planning things. Such as coming late as hell to Toni’s rehearsal dinner and then leaving the wedding venue to go fix things between her and Ellis. Long story short Toni realizes Joan is being a real heffa hoe/bitch about her wedding. She politely tells Joan since she’s not happy about her wedding she doesn’t have to be there and rudely cuts her bridesmaids dress to shreds. In the end Toni and Joan make up and she and Ellis work things out. At least for that season because her and Ellis breakup for totally different reasons and she and Toni stop being friends for some other bullshit.

Well this post isn’t about a synopsis of Girlfriends season 3. This post is about Joan’s reaction to Toni’s exciting and happy news about her upcoming wedding. Joan’s reaction was classical haterism…. Shit she was at their engagement party asks Toni if she’s rushing into things. Not because she was really concerned about Toni’s decision to get married too quickly but because Toni was getting married and she wasn’t…. that my friends is hate.  Then at her cake tasting party (at Joan’s House) she’s telling Ellis to come get his shit (after they faux-broke-up) in the middle of the party. Why?? Because she was hating. She even admits this to Ellis, when he calls her out on her bs.  All the while damn near screaming “she’s happy for her friend”, as tears are rolling down her face because she realizes just how jealous of her friend she is. It’s a shame, a damn shame I say.  See we all have a Joan in our lives (whether we care to admit it or not ), she’s your friend, sister, coworker, cousin, hell it maybe your mama. I have a Joan or two and although these person aren’t completely a waste of a human being because they do have some really good qualities that make them good people and friends. They have this one fatal flaw and it’s their inner hater. See the inner hater may not raise its head all the time because the Joan in your life knows how to keep it in check for the most part. But then something happens in your life and that inner hater can’t be contained. It comes out with the fury of Nicki Minaj stans after she deleted her twitter account, it’s like a category 5 hurricane.

The inner hater in them won’t allow them to be truly happy for you because you’re getting married, having a baby, got a new job, got the last mint green sorbet nail polish at target, whatever the fuck it is. These people aren’t the everyday haters you deal with, like that bitchass coworker that tried to throw you under the bus in the weekly meetings. No ma’am/sir… this person is your friend, bff, homie, buddy. In my opinion these people are the worse than the typical haters because as your friend they’re supposed to wish you well but they don’t. they should be happy for you but they aren’t. They over there wishing it was them instead of you or wondering what makes you so damn special that things great things are happening to you.  They may say they’re happy for you but you know deep down inside that shit is eating them up…. They’re hating!! They don’t wish you well because they can’t, they may honestly really want to be happy for you. But something in their genetic makeup just won’t allow them….it’s a fatal flaw. They hate on people that are they’re friends and people they claim to love because something deep in their bones just can’t allow them to be happy about their friend’s happiness. Their eyes are green and it’s not because they eat a lot of vegetables… shot out to Erykah Badu. You have to able to identify these kind of people in your lives… there are no real tell-tell signs. This person could be your friend for 17 years and if your ass ups and gets married or something, they may just show their ass like Joan. You just have to keep you spidey sense updated and know when someone isn’t really there for your happiness. With that kind of haterism there’s no concealing that for too long, so you’ll know. I’m not saying you need to drop this person from your like Kanye wanted to drop Kris Humphries from the Nets because he is/was in love with Kim K. I’m just saying be aware of these types of people sometimes your biggest hater is right their kicking it with you. So be mindful and that’s their issue not yours and if you need to check their asses like Toni did with Joan, then so be.   

        

Game Over

Where do I begin??? Well I guess from the beginning duh. The Game cues Common’s I use to love her. I was a huge fan of this show once upon a time; well really when it was on The CW. I’ve been watching this show since Girl Melanie and Derwin were introduced on Girlfriends as Joan’s cousin and her boyfriend. Since the pilot episode when they had the dark-skin Derwin( I think that guy is on one of those TNT shows I don’t watch ), I’m so glad they didn’t go with him. I think Pooch Hall makes a better Derwin Davis.  Anyway like I said I was a huge fan, I made my friends that didn’t watch the show watch, hell I even made my Mom watch and the only things she likes to watch on TV are the news and old episodes on Law and Order. But they loved the show and so did I.

Then The CW decided they were going try to become the sexy 2.0 version of Teen Nickelodeon or something and focus on programming more like Gossip Girls and 90210. They moved The Game to the grave yard shift of time slots, aka Friday night at 8 or 9. When nobody is at home watching TV, after that season the show cancelled. Everyone saw that coming and people still lost their damn minds (I’m included in this bunch) like LA riots were happening all over again. Petitions were signed to bring The Game, so after a two year break The Game comes back to television on BET and this where things take an ugly turn and the sugar most definitely turns into shit. Now before I go any further I would like to commend BET for bring the show that people loved and wanted to see back to TV, which was cancelled in my opinion because it was a black show on a white network and they wanted white shows on their network. Nothing more and nothing less.  So for attempting to do this BET gets a hand clap from me. Now onto the fuckery that has now because The Game on BET. Honestly the best analogy I can give about how this show has desegregated. Would be to say you’ve been listening to your music on the latest version of an ipod touch yesterday but today you’re downgraded to a Walkman. Or let’s say Beyonce was going to perform at your Birthday party but now you’re stuck with Keri Hilson. Like that’s how I feel about this show now, everything about it pisses be off and it pisses me off so much because I know the show was once an amazing show now its empty promises and boulevards of broken dreams .

So why this show is such slaughtered pig mess?  Well I think there are a number of factors and here they are.

1)      The writers: I’m assuming that during the two year hiatus, a lot if not all the writers found other work or just didn’t come back to the show when it started to air on BET. The writing on the show is just horrible, I tell you!!!! The jokes ARE NOT funny, like most of Lil’ Duval’s jokes on twitter aren’t funny. The plots are all over the place, the shit just isn’t cohesive. For example, Derwin gets mad at Melanie for having an abortion. Now the baby wasn’t his and they had broken up at the time she slept with Trey Wiggs and got pregnant. Melanie didn’t disclose this info to Derwin until after they got back together. As a matter of fact she never tells anyone, until they go to the doctor to try to figure why she’s having a hard time getting pregnant. Melanie then tells Derwin all about the abortion, he gets pissed. Somehow and someway they run into Trey Wiggs and invite him and his family to Derwin’s son b-day party. Notice I didn’t say their child’s party because welp Derwin got the girl he was dating when him and Melanie were broken up pregnant. So he has baby with another woman but is mad as hell at Melanie because she aborted another man’s baby. So mad in fact that when Trey Wiggs shows up at the party Derwin sucka punches him outside. We never hear about Trey Wiggs again.  Now what kind of shit is this???  So there’s no explanation as to why shit is happening it just happens. Did I say the jokes are funny because they really are not. I swear Lostmade more sense than this show and I still don’t know what the fuck happened on Lost.

2)      The Production: Man listen… sometimes when I watch the show it looks like someone took their iphone 4s and just started filming shit in their mama’s living room. Like for real???? This is how it goes down in 2012 on BET, shit old episodes of The Cobsy Show from the 80’s look better than this. Also I may just notice this because I’m from Atlanta and The Game is now filmed there but if they shoot one more damn scene at Atlantic Station I may just kick my TV. Like almost every scene that’s not in someone’s house is shot at Atlantic Station…. Listen there’s other places to shoot in the city. If you’re that pressed go ask Tyler Perry for some time on his lot.

3)      The extraness-  Yes, I know that isn’t a word but damnit it goes so appropriately to describe this show. Since the change every character on the show has become extra. Now these characters were already this way on the old network but they were just way more likable and more well-rounded. For example Tasha Mack on the show has always been hood, ghetto, urban, whatever the hell you want to call it. But now this bitch is about 2 steps away from being Sheneneh from Martin she’s damn near ratchet. Smacking her lips, smoking Black & Mild’s in public, eating Now n Laters and ranch sunflower seeds (and who the hell eats ranch sunflower see??? Show your face please). Ma’am…. What in the world?? They have just turned her into a real hoodrat, she was a little hood before but now she’s like on level 10. Melanie and Derwin Davis, they were a little daft and naïve before but now chile I can’t both of their asses. They’re both about as dumb as doorknobs now.  Melanie has turned into a super bougie bitch. Has she also been bougie? Yes, but now it’s to the power of 10 she’s definitely on her Marie Antoinette Let Them Eat Cake shit. Also this calling herself a doctor and she didn’t do her residency so she could cater to Derwin’s ass has got to stop. Either be a doctor or a Real Housewife of Atlanta, you can be both so pick one heffa.  They also turned somewhat funny Malik Wright into a druggie, egotistical manic, with a horrible ass Mohawk. First it’s not 2009 and the Mohawk has to go, Mr. T looking ass and him thinking he’s Peyton or Eli Manning has to stop too. Finally Jason Pitts the only person I like on the show, he’s still pretty much the same. He’s a little more of an asshole but I still like him the best, they should do more storylines with him and the show would be soooo much better. My only problem with him is that this season it’s revealed as to why he prefers to date white women. Because when he was growing up and would visit his cousins in the hood, the little black girls wouldn’t give him any play but the white girls would. I’m calling bullshit on this the time frame Jason is talking about is the late 80’s- early 90’s. Basically pre Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes days. So you mean to tell me that in prime time Light-skin boy era, this high yellow boy couldn’t get no play ??? Yeah ok. Al B. Sure and El Debarge were running things, light skin boys were in style but he couldn’t get not play. Yeah fucking right. I still like Jason put that’s bullshit my friend.

4)   Kelly Pitts - I want Kelly Pitts back on the show but I want the old Kelly back not the one acting like Evelyn from Basketball wives. I want the Victoria’s Secret pink yoga pants, bedazzling hats for my husband’s team members, coupon cutting Kelly Pitts. That I cut my hair like Rhianna circa 2009, fighting like I’m on Love and Hip-hop, and dropping like its hot Kelly Pitts they can keep. Apparently on the show Kelly has gone to have her Eat. Pray. Love. moment.  So hopefully she can get her mind right and come back as the Kelly Pitts I use to love, if not like I said before keep it.

In summary this show has turned into a black horrible ass rendition of Dallas or something or better yet it’s like two steps above being those chitlin circuit plays that come BET on Sunday afternoons. They’re so terrible that you watch in the hopes that it gets better but it doesn’t, and when it goes off you say to yourself “why the hell did I just watch this for two hours”? Yeah that’s where The Gameis at now…. just fucking terrible. I really don’t see the show getting any better either. Why you might say? Because there’s no direct competition, that’s why? What other semi-success black shows are on TV? I dare you to say The House of Payne or some other Tyler Perry show. This ain’t the 90’s when shows like Martin, A Different World, Living Single, Moesha, and everything else in between are on air. There’s The Game and…… yeah I’m drawing a blank after that. So with no competitionThe Game continues to make this fuckery of a show and people watch must there’s no other alternative. This is a sad thing here, I tell you. I’m sure if this was 1995 and all those other black shows were on TV and The Game (the way it is now) was presented to network execs, that shit would’ve never seen the light of day. But because of the lack of diversity on TV these days any old bullshit will fly. Well damnit I’m sick of and I refuse to continue to support this show. It’s like having a boyfriend that use to take you to nice restaurants for date night, now that y’all are together for real now y’all are sitting on the couch eating spaghetti O’s out of the can and that’s date night now. I’m not about that life so just like I would do if I had a boyfriend that wasn’t treating me right, I would have to break up with him. That’s what I have to do with The Game…. We have to break up. So I guess its game over.