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['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'Not So Fine Print']

'You have a friendship contract and you're getting married with dinosaurs. It's something wrong with Cynthia.' - NeNe

Things that were surprising, even at the end of the season:

1. Kim's face without makeup
2. Phaedra's supposedly copious database of Miami-based male strippers
3. Cynthia's plans to get married beneath a T-Rex and brontosaurus

Par for the course: The argument at the spa, especially centering around baby due date-gate. Yet, really, why did it all land on Kim's shoulders? Everyone else, including NeNe, wouldn't dare to open their mouths, even after they'd been talking trash for weeks. But Kim knew why Phaedra came at her specifically, so at least she wasn't totally at a loss.

Countdown to Festivus on Dec. 23: On the eleventh day of Festivus, TV gave us to ... 11 'Real Housewives' feuding.

They're "done" with each other. Headed towards divorce. Foaming with passive aggression. Pulling weaves. Hitting poles. They are the beloved stars of Bravo's 'Real Housewives' franchise.

These ladies love to fight, whether woman vs. woman, group of women vs. woman, woman vs. man or man vs. inanimate object.

Here are our top 'Housewives' feuds of 2010.

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'Contract Player']

Shereé declared she's on her way to "film." Kim decided that burning fat means eating pizza and wings while little red boomerangs of light spin around her body. NeNe and Peter kissed and made up. Dwight visited Phaedra to see the baby and stir the pot. None of these things were surprising.

Cynthia's friendship contract? Seems like a joke with good intentions that went horribly astray. Maybe it was all in the too-serious presentation. She should stick with the candle next time. Is she too fixated on NeNe, as Shereé and Kim said, or just trying to be considerate?

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'Auto-tuned-up']

"I know a lot of actors and actresses probably start out working for free, but I'm a grown-ass woman with some grown-ass bills over here." -- Shereé

Phaedra's kid knew how to steal the show: Poop all over it. What did they expect, anyway, with all that pristine white and a diaperless baby that can't control its bodily functions? What baby can? And why would he care? He's probably pooped on something from the Oprah crocheter, too.

At least before the excrement incident, Phaedra appeared rather happy. Is that because Apollo had assumed all baby duties from Ayden's birth? The sleeping picture was adorable. By the way, has anyone else noticed how she keeps upping the ante on the eyeshadow each episode?

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'NeNe Get Your Gun']

No wonder they called this one "super-sized." Besides an extra few minutes, we got plenty of closure: Divorce, saying good-bye to the non-doctor. And beginnings: New Kim-and-Kandi song, new job for NeNe, and welcome to the little fiery ball of beautiful, Ayden Adonis.

"Mr. Luscious?" What the hell? Can we have Dwight back in the fur pants? That'd be a little less disturbing.

Poor NeNe ... everything non-work-related hit the fan on her first day at work. And, as she saw, as a new TV reporter, it suddenly became work-related.

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'Is There a Doctor in the House?']

"Oh, gross." -- Phaedra, seeing her baby for the first time.

Phaedra is actually pretty funny. She didn't sugarcoat anything about giving birth. She also never had any romantic expectations about the experience.

Somehow it seemed reasonable to assume that Apollo would have to gift ATL's lawyer to the fallen stars countless fancy bags, extra mani-pedis, a few more ballet performances and truckloads of roses from Publix before she would consent to having another baby.

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'Trashed Collection']

Is it possible to already be sick of "The Ring Didn't Mean a Thing?" I'm sorry, Kandi. Love you, really. It's only because of that atonal Kim version that sticks in the head just so ...

As if Kim's voice weren't enough of an insult, during her aside to the camera on last night's 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' she acted jealous of Lawrence, intimating he wouldn't be marketable. C'mon, Zolciak. Kandi wants to focus on her Kandi-Koated "entertainment empire," so why would you (candy!) rain on her parade? It's not like Kim jump-started Kandi's career: the lady's a veteran songwriter, performer and fully functioning solo artist. Besides, even if Kim may have had a point about "The Ring," that "closet freak" song sounded pretty good. Kandi rolls poppy joints off her tongue faster than Phaedra can recite a line from her résumé.

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'Hot Mama's Day']

Well, NeNe definitely bounced back after her surgery on last night's 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' even if her marriage didn't. "Booojshh, boojsssh-boojsshh boojsh."

What a shame for Peter to have poked a hole in her happy bubble. It really wasn't his place to throw stones. Besides, Phaedra was the one who hurled that generalization about men that come with children and attached mothers.

Did NeNe really say anything to provoke such a dig? Maybe there was something we didn't see that she said first. (Was he mad that she even brought up the topic of cheating for debate? If so, that's shady.) If not, boo to him.

Cynthia "planning" for her wedding without a proposal on the record might not exactly bode well for her would-be engagement to Peter. Either that or she was trying to overcompensate for her tendency -- as her sister previously revealed -- to back out after the ring gets put on the finger. Despite mentions of a ring being crafted, she didn't have one yet, did she?

['The Real Housewives of Atlanta' - 'White Hot']

Did Dwight again take his toys and go home after a housewife spat because one, the wives were calling him out on some double-talk, or two, he wanted to stay in good standing with them in order to maintain his sixth wife status? Either way, it made sense.

Here's what didn't. Why was Phaedra's "love language" gifts? Apparently, for her, it's not the thought that counts, either. Maybe then she would've concurred with the Publix rose comment. Didn't you just adore NeNe's eye-bat after she said "Phaedra, high claaaasss Parks?"

Get ready for the 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.'

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bravo has given the go-ahead to four new series, including a Beverly Hills edition of its popular 'Real Housewives' franchise. (We're already imagining a crossover episode with the nearby 'Real Housewives of Orange County.')

Also getting the greenlight are 'Miami Social Club,' a reality series that chronicles the lives of Miami socialites, but apparently has nothing to do with Bravo's other Miami-based series, 'Miami Social,' 'Million Dollar Decorators,' about high-end designers, and the New York-based 'Pregnant in Heels.'

'Top Chef: Las Vegas' (10PM, Bravo) season 6 finale
No pressure here: The three finalists -- Bryan, Kevin and Michael -- simply have to cook the best meal of their lives to win what the network is rightly touting as the "closest! season! ever!" Will one of the Voltaggio brothers pull off the win? Or will Kevin emerge with the fat check and a huge stash of Gladware? Watch it live on the tube and at Bravotv.com, where the cast will be Tweeting live during the finale.

Alluding to some of her castmates as "mean girls" during last night's episode, Jeana Keough of Bravo's 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' officially left the show.

"I am through with the housewives and all their drama," she said.

Now in its fifth season, the show based around the lives of wealthy women in Orange-County, Calif., was Bravo's first edition of the 'Housewives' franchise. Keough, a real estate agent and former Playboy playmate, was part of the cast from the first season.

"I'm over you," said Keough of the rest of the housewives, when co-star Tamra Barney visited her house. "I think Tamra must like being the mean girl," she added, referring to Barney's refusal to apologize to co-star Gretchen Rossi for derogatory remarks and accusations in previous episodes.

Yet in Barney's solo aside to the camera, she was just as blunt:

Is it wrong of me to be finally, justly, overjoyed at the financial ruin that has befallen the Real Housewives of Orange County? When the Bravo show first started, we were on the brink of a national recession. Now, a few seasons later, we're waist-deep in financial hardship, the likes of which has just hit the overly-tanned ladies of Coto.

After seasons of watching the Housewives -- and pick any permutation you want here, from NYC to Atlanta -- gobble up jewels and homes and indulge in a kind of narcissism that many parents wouldn't even allow their toddlers, it's supremely gratifying to see the house of cards they built on credit come crashing down.