"Teen Mom 2" Episode 8 Recap: What are you mad about?

ooook I’m all sugared up and ready for another episode of Teen Mom 2, the show that is one part guilty pleasure and the other part uplifting programming. Why uplifting programming? Because I feel so much better about my life having watched these kids deal with theirs, seriously, therapy? bah, who needs it! All I have to do is watch Chelsea attempt to form full sentences and I’m good to go.

Speaking of good to go, lets get going with this show.

Leah

So the medical drama continues this episode for poor Ali and we find out that Corey is able to go with Leah to Ali’s MRI appointment, and she’s happy because now she thinks she won’t be so nervous. But before all that happens, they have to go and be all cute and adorable and look at a venues for their wedding. I have to say their choice is so much better than what I was expecting. Like, a lot. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but man, it’s a pretty decent location. It has a nice lodge feel to it, and the ballroom is not totally holiday-innesque. Good choice guys. And now we come to the part I don’t like and didn’t want to have to watch. Having been a sick kid myself I can’t imagine what it must be like to have to watch your child go through a test like that and feel helpless. It broke my heart to listen to a sobbing Leah say “mommy would do it for you”. So sad.

Kailyn

So this episode we see Kailyn working her butt off to get enough money for a place of her own. I have to say, she seems to have more personality in her job than in her life. Maybe it’s because of the absence of rapper Jo? Just a thought. As a result of working two jobs, she gets to work with Jordan again. For those of you who don’t remember, Jordan is the nice guy she dated in one of the first episodes, the anti-Jo. So Jordan awkwardly asks Kailyn to go on a date with him and they go to an arcade and are all awkward and cute, and Kailyn is actually smiling! Hooray! But, as is always the case with Kailyn, life can’t be happy for any extended period of time and soon she’ s back in Jo’s house, talking with Jo’s mother, and saying for the eighty-millionth time that she is NOT interested in getting back together with Jo. And what does Jo’s mom do? She basically says, if you date other guys, you’re not going to be living here. Threats against teenagers are always effective of course so this should deter her from going on a date with Jordan. What? What’s that you say? it didn’t deter her at all? What a shocker. So Jordan and Kailyn go rock climbing and seem to have fun. And because the concept of fun seems rather lacking in Kailyn’s life, she continues to meet and have fun with Jordan. The kicker? she lies to Jo and his family about it. Ok, so it’s not good to lie and stuff, but if if this is Kailyn having fun I want more of this Kailyn! She’s laughing and smiling and happy, it’s amazing. Free Kailyn! We need t-shirts.

Chelsea

Speaking of t-shirts, now we come to a girl who needs to wear something other than one. In this episode we find Chelsea and her dad playing with Aubree on what seems to be the sketchiest playground ever, complete with one creaky swing right out of a horror movie. Awesome. So Chelsea attempts to form full sentences and fails miserably, but I speak teenager a little so I think what she was trying to ask is what her dad expects from Adam if they live together. Dad’s answer? the same as it always is, he needs to step up, and Chelsea figures that Adam getting a job is a good first step to doing that. Wanting to prove her dad wrong about Adam, she sends him to look for jobs while she lets Aubree play with a hair straightener, good lord I hope that thing is not plugged in. Geez girl, did you play with hair straighteners when you were a kid? Because I feel like that would explain a lot. Maybe it fried your brain. So after job-hunting for what seemed like five minutes, the prodigal son returns having looked for a whopping two jobs. He slouches and mumbles into the house, promptly telling Chelsea to “do dishes woman” and that he’d rather work nights at a restaurant then have any sort of gainful employment. Way to avoid actual responsibilities Adam, I have to give him credit, he is getting away with it. He’s a pro at being a mooch. If he spent this much of his time actually working, he’d have a better job, or more direction, or- oh forget it. These two. So frustrating. This is the same cycle we always see. Adam doesn’t want to do anything, Chelsea gets upset and cries, they fight. End of story.

Jenelle

So Jenelle’s learning the peril’s of dating guy’s like Keifer, they don’t do ANYTHING. In this episode we find out that they don’t have this “beach house” to live in forever. I love how Keifer was all “well, we have a week to move out, and i’m just telling you this NOW”. Way to be Keifer, way to be. Jenelle grudgingly goes to her mom and asks if they can both move in, and despite the fact that its been “much more quiet in the house” since Jenelle’s been gone, Barbara relents. Gotta love the not-so-subtle digs at Jenelle. I think she should write a book about living with that woman, maybe it would get her out of there faster. That or win the lottery, or marry rich, I know that’s my backup plan! But I digress. Move-in day comes and goes and as soon as they move in it seems that they can’t do much right despite how hard they try. The fighting starts when Jace’s bottle spills on the couch and Jenelle pretends she didn’t know it was there. Naturally this sets Barbara off in to one of her yelling fits, culminating with “I don’t know if you can live here”. That’s a pretty low bar Barbara. If that’s the standard for living at home with your daughter I’m pretty sure I would have been kicked out of my house at five. Just saying. Of course, after that little show they need to take the “edge off” and get caught smoking. Barbara, of course, explodes and the usual tirades continue. You won’t have this baby, this is why I went to court, blah blah blah. But this fight takes an unexpected turn, with Barbara crying and calling Keifer a “loser” and says that he’s “only being nice to you for your money”. So tears are shed, Jenelle gets fed up, and she leaves Again. I don’t know what to think about this. On the one hand, Barbara’s kind of right, like a lot of kind of right, but on the other hand, why the yelling and the constant threats? Love how she asks Jenelle ‘do you need therapy”. Uh yes, you both do. Very much.

Next week we have the police, a wedding dress, more medical problems, and Adam continuing to be a douche. See you then!

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