Below Deck Med – 8/26/24 – Mermaids in a Metacane

They get turned around and head back to the boat when the guests have to be the ones that make the common sense decision to not drive on flooded roads. This poor guy driving.

The guests seem to think it’s unsafe to drive in two feet of water – who knew??

I don’t know how many of your are on these FaceBook Bravo/Housewife chat groups but they are really something else. They’re not for the weak. They’re supposed to be (I thought) fun light and entertaining, but there are so many members that live to suck the life right out of every single post, and would argue with you if you said birds can fly, or Teresa Guidice is stupid.

An example you ask? I posted my thought or my OPINION on a page for expressing your thoughts and OPINIONS, that it was a poor judgment call to have the guests taken to this winery in an active hurricane.

Some fucking intelligence-challenged individual tells me Sandy is only responsible for making weather decisions having to do with being in the ocean??

That a stupid fucking thing to say. Sandy is responsible for the guests’ and crews’ safety while they are on the boat irregardless if they’re on land or water.

Thought this bitch was all about safety safety safety, to points of dozens of extreme hissy fits throughout the years (especially when they involved Hannah whom she had a crush on.)

Yet she seriously thought it was a good idea to travel to this winery during a hurricane. Woman they weren’t going via tender they were going via a van. Automobiles do not float, and nor can they be driven in a foot or two of water. It may have been okay had they been in their Mermaid/Merman gear.

And she did know the forecast of the 30 inches of rain, because she is the one that announced that. Yes, if was said after they had left, as far as the scenes played out but it could have been before. At that point she should have called them to come back. Better yet, checked on that before they left.

Who in their right minds allows people whose safety you’re responsible for, to travel unnecessarily in a hurricane??

Okay, I needed to get that off my chest. I’m right and you know that I’m right.

Look at these roads!!! And the winery was probably closed anyway!! Duhhh.

No issue here!!!

So they decide to have a ‘wine tasting’ on the boat which is what I said last week.

In theory that sounded like a good idea, however everyone gets shitfaced. For a wine ‘tasting’ you are only supposed to give a sip or two.

To circle back to my weather rant, it’s like 5 pm so it would have been dark or getting dark, as they were heading back. In a fucking major storm.

Bad call Sandy Captain Sandy.

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Ellie is totally not all that. She doesn’t even know to keep white wine chilled.

The extra cabin is getting cleaned and tidied so you know what that means??

Aesha pulls out her charm, awesome sense of humor, and quick witted people skills. She does a great job at entertaining, rapping, wine pouring and getting everyone drunk so they forget there’s a hurricane outside. Medicane. Whatever.

Now we got the one dude chugging Fireball straight from the bottle James Kennedy style.

If it’s good enough for James Kennedy, it’s good enough for me!

Gael is beginning to see Joe as a player and not caring at all about Bri nor Ellie. Yeah no shit. Is the good guy act an ‘act?’ Yes. It is.

Dinner is a mermaid theme and did I mention that the guests are shitfaced? The chick that looks like a tall curvy Tamra wanders around the kitchen getting into knives and playing with them like a child.

Well it’s definitely not Tamra. Tamra’ not a fun silly drunk. Tamra turns into a holy terror when she’s drunk. Think the Hulk. If drunk Tamra was playing with knives – RUN !!

Don’t worry – I’m not really Tamra!

That’s another funny FaceBook chat group story if you can deal with one more. I posted something funny about this woman looking like Tamra. I said something about ‘Tamra’ being on Below Deck, and hope this version is a nicer one. To me it seemed obvious it was a joke and that I knew it wasn’t Tamra, OBVIOUSLY, unless she grew six inches and gained 60 pounds.

I can’t tell you how many people said “that’s not Tamra” and then proceeded to tell me I wasn’t funny when I informed them it was in jest and not literal. Of course I see this is not Tamra. I mean – what in THE fuck???

Like I said, bitches gottal suck the life right out of a stupid Bravo or Housewives post. What must it be like to be that miserable and have zero, I MEAN ZER- 0 sense of humor?

And she DOES so look like Tamra!!

Jono thinks she’s more Jennifer Coolidge. I can see that too. Then he goes into quite the imitation of her.

Tamra/Pamela can’t find her room that’s how toasty she is.

What’s with all of these stupid extravagant balloon displays this season? It’s tacky.

I don’t have words for the saggy balls. Yes it’s funny (because I DO have a sense of humor) but gross-funny.

We learn that Aesha loves balls. All balls any kinds of balls she just wants balls and more balls.

Bri can’t find her black serving dress, and the irony is just beyond comprehension.

You would think that they have more than one. And this was a random thought I recently had: Wouldn’t it be nice if they were somewhat stylish or cute? They look so basic, actually kind of ugly Are they just made out T-shirt material? Come on. I guess they’re plain in the interest of being low maintenance. They could still zhuzz ’em up a little???

Pamela/Tamra can’t even navigate the stairs and Aesha is stuck taking care of her. I don’t think she’s going to remember this dinner.

These guests have a great sense of humor. They would totally be laughing at ALL of my FaceBook posts! I know it!

Now the raw seafood drama. Can I just say something?? I don’t think this lady was going to die by merely having the plate in front of her.

Alcohol could also kill me but let’s not talk about that.

Sandy using her typical Sandy shitty judgment, especially when she doesn’t like someone and I don’t believe she cares for Jono, like she didn’t care for Fraser. You do the math on what those two dudes have in common. She tells Jono when he still has to get through all of the remaining courses yet, that he’s probably getting fired.

Probably gonna fire you but keep cookin’! Chop chop!!

Who DOES that??

Not to put our fave Ben on a pedestal, but I distinctly remember Ben checking the preference sheet several times as he was preparing the meals. And Kate too would go over it and make sure nothing was missed. And that is the only and last nice thing you’ll ever hear me say about Kate Chastain.

This really shouldn’t happen.

Sandy has been looking for an excuse to get rid of this guy if you ask me.

She doesn’t like ugly people, black people, and she loathes gay guys. This is based on what I’ve gathered and witnessed over the years, and that’s my opinion.

So if this fucking fish plate is so dangerous to be in her presence that it would kill her, why did Sandy or no one take it from her until after Jono gets bitched at, and goes up to retrieve it.

Now Sandy stands there like a drill sargeant in the galley watching every move Jono makes. That’s not uncomfortable.

Aesha feeds the very drunk Tamra/Pamela Primary chick.

I don’t suppose you’ll remember this at tip time.

Sandy is immediately in the bridge pleading for a new chef from the infamous ‘Norma.’

She’s trying to get rid of Jono because she’s desperate to get Rachel back in there so she can love bomb and creep on her again. I did hear rumblings of Rachel replacing him, but I don’t think it’s true.

Ellie is crying about getting nitpicked at by Aesha. I don’t think she’s nitpicking. I think she’s over the nicey-nice act because she’s frustrated about Bri’s laundry incompetency and pissed about Ellie overselling herself and deosn’t seem to know of very basic things.

She might have stepped up the bitching, because they’re laying the ground work for the new stew they want to bring on for added drama since Bri and Ellie have made up. And she is most likely going to be showing up Ellie so why not knock her down a peg or two first? I don’t really agree with that, even if it is Ellie.

Sandy presents the fourth stew idea to Aesha and she’s ‘on board.’ To me she doesn’t really need a fourth stew, she needs one less shitty stew and one more good stew. What’s Natalya doing??

Just as I suspected Tamra/Pamela was completely blacked out and remembers nothing about the previous day.

I don’t know why Aesha acts surprised at that. It was obvious she was in black-out mode shortly after they got back from the winery attempt.

Aesha bitches at Ellie for having her phone on her while working. I honestly don’t notice her on her phone at all. She left it in the guests’ room and didn’t even miss it, so Aesha should consider picking her battles.

I don’t know if she’s actually this irritated with Ellie or following Producer orders since this new stew is coming that I assume is going to be putting her in her place.

I have to admit that I am here for IT.

Gael gives Joe attitude trying to instruct her. Well that’s probs because he doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about 99% of the time.

The very dramatic docking was not even dramatic. What the hell?! Could it be that Iain has finally learned how to dock?

Sandy lurks around the galley and dining room like the creeper that she is.

A stew has been found but no dice on the chef.

Speaking of which, another dessert disaster. Guests had requested crème brulee or

chocolate souffle, but got what appears to be that nasty sponge cake again, (did he have it in the freezer?) with a cookie and ice cream instead. Kind of the same. Not.

Aesha expresses her disappointment to Jono. She doesn’t even know how to describe it to the guests.

The woman whose anniversary it is (not the primary) loudly bitches about it. She actually even gets up out of her chair to get her point across, that’s how worked up she is. Maybe she should get up out of her chair more often for other reasons besides yelling about dessert.

Obviously dessert is very important to me!!!!!

Even though I kind of understand her complaint, I think I would just deal with it. You know, when you’re kind of, out of shape, let’s say, it’s a bad look to be actively whining and getting that upset about your dessert. And that’s bitchy but I’m not here to mince words. And I’m pretty sure this is what Aesha was thinking too.

Having said that, since I’m trying to be Switzerland, and see both sides, I’ve never heard of a cookie on top of a cake-ice cream dessert. It’s not even that it wasn’t bougie enough, it’s just stupid. It doesn’t even look appetizing. I feel like he’s so proud of it, as he assembles them.

Jono’s defense is that he didn’t have ‘time’ to make a better dessert, which is a shitty excuse.

Iain gets made fun of for sending out a weird text that he’s sleeping in to meet his ‘cumulative’ hours for sleep.

Jono attempts for a last second redemption and makes beignets for breakfast which were on their sheet.

I feel a little bit bad for these people. The sun is literally shining on the day they’re leaving.

And on top of that, the anniversary dessert sucked.

The tip envelope looks fat and Tamra/Pamela and her husband have only positive things to say on the way out. To be fair they didn’t seem at all disappointed. It was their guests that were doing the bitching. She was blacked out 50% of the time, so what would she complain about?

Jono gets summoned to the bridge and does not get fired, but only because Rachel probs told Sandy to stuff it.

Supposedly she was planning on firing him, then gets a text from ‘Norma’ that she could not locate another chef.

The tip is huge so apparently the chick almost dying and the lack of souffle or crème brulee wasn’t that important.

Sandy announces the new stew arrival, and Ellie does not look happy.

How many times should I remind the new girl I AM SECOND STEW!!!!

Honestly if Ellie were a stronger second stew and was anywhere near as capable as she claimed and pretended to be, I don’t even think this would be on the table.

Iaian getting his own cabin I fear could go to his head, when really I think it was a matter of logistics.

Aesha knows she’s seething and knows a new stew will be an issue.

But guys – we do have a show to do!!! The bitching must go on!!

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