['The Real Housewives of New Jersey' - 'Season 2, Reunion Part 2'] "It's the biggest crock of sh*t I've ever seen in my life." - Caroline

Danielle HUGS Teresa??? If Caroline's eyes are watering and rolling around in her head it's because they're looking for the pigs that are flying and the second coming.

Last week it seemed as though Kim G, with her polite-demure voice and open admissions of stirring the pot and liking it, was going to be the star of reunion part deux. All-over-bejeweled, souped-up in her blue, off-the-shoulder prom dress. Or maybe that's what she wanted. She didn't get it. Danielle outshone her in a sequined miniskirt, white tank top and exactly 80 hair extensions.

Controversy over the fa-word was par for the course since "gaylord" made an appearance last season, but when Jacqueline whipped out her phone over the tweet accusations it moved to some other level. The level where tweets are used as evidence in the court of housewifery. All we're saying is that the guy who tweeted Danielle a few times a day must be happy as a pig (might as well use that animal because it's in the show's vocabulary) in, well, you know, for even having been acknowledged.

As Kim G. explained the "her stepbrother is my ex-husband" logic of how Kim D. is her sort of relative by not-marriage, Caroline's squinty look of "huh?" was priceless. Teresa impersonating Danielle is also worth a rewind. Now we need an impersonation of Teresa impersonating Danielle.

What do you think inspired Jacqueline's sudden about-face in deciding to apologize to Danielle? Do you think it was her strategy to prevent any more crazy from taking over via Danielle? It also didn't seem very Jacqueline-like when she initially pulled a Teresa in trying to approach Danielle backstage.


Caroline became visibly fed up, stewing the way she does when she has a whole lot to say, or feels pretty strongly about what she wants to say. When Andy asked her, she did call B.S. and say it was a crock, but was the crock Danielle, or was it also Teresa and Jacqueline reaching out to Danielle in a small way, almost violating Caroline's "familial" pact to steer clear of the woman?

As we're to understand it, if they approached Danielle on their own, Caroline would no longer go to bat for them. Not sure the reunion applies. Was she upset that Danielle acquiesced to Jacqueline and decided to call the lawyers off only now that it was reunion time, but couldn't do it at the big sit-down between "matriarchs"?

Danielle, or the idea of her, has been shaped into this larger-than-life mythic evil force in Manzo-Laurita-Giudice conversations over the season, but here we saw the woman (or "women") shedding tears -- manufactured or not -- offering to own up to any wrongs she's done. Didn't this sound familiar? What would forgiving Dina say?

Since we know the show has been renewed, what would you like to see next season? Kim G.? Kim D.? Replacement housewives wholly new to the franchise? No mention of Danielle whatsoever? More ham game? A visit from Dina?

Who else got the "OMG it's 'Fatal Attraction'!" vibe from Teresa and Jacqueline when Danielle hugged her a little bit too long, actually professing her love for Jacqueline? She acted like they just lived through the Normandy landings. Then again, the woman has a tendency to become catatonic over panini.


The last words of the season:

"We're back, and everybody's staying on their couches, okay? Okay?" - Andy Cohen

"I don't like when people put their hands on me." - Teresa

"We're never going to be friends." - Caroline, as she shook hands with Danielle.

"You're like the Wizard of Oz." - Caroline to Kim G.

"You looked pathetic on the pole." - Teresa to Kim G.

"You attacked me, I attacked you back, that's it. Am I trying to hurt you in a bad way? No." - Teresa to Danielle, right before Danielle hugged her.

'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' airs Mondays at 10PM ET on Bravo.