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I'm not angry with you.
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I'm just sorry that you felt so drunk, jealous.
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You have nothing to be jealous of.
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There are certain kinds of people in this world that you just can't be friends with.
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You can't be friends with people who are jealous of you or your success.
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You can't be friends with people who don't respect you.
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You can't be friends with people who don't think you deserve nice things.
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And you can't be friends with people who are unhappy with their own lives.
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You cannot be friends with any of these people.
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But in Desperate Housewives, Lynette Scavo manages to be all these people.
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So despite not necessarily being a bad person, she is a bad friend to Brie Van de Kemp.
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And as much as folk hate Tom Scavo, she's also a bad wife to Tom.
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And let me be clear, that is not me saying she's worse than Tom or that Tom deserved better.
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No, not by any means.
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I actually think Lynette should serve as a cautionary tale for women who want to steal other women's mind.
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Be careful, because you might get him.
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Yes, Lynette was originally Tom's sidekick when he was cheating on his longtime girlfriend.
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Reap what you're so.
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I'll never understand why women want other women cheating mine, anyhow.
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I've actually come to the conclusion that Tom and Lynette belong together because when you do the math, Tom and Lynette were equally and fundamentally horrible to each other,
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so much so that it actually balanced out.
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But the trials and tribulations of the Scarville marriage is a much, much, much longer analysis for another day and another video.
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For our purposes today, we're going to look at a couple of specific reasons
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that may Lynette bad for Tom because of the same reasons that made her bad for Brie.
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Accepting her friendship with Brie, it was much worse because Brie deserved none of the jealousy and resentment that Lynette spied at her,
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whereas Tom at least deserved some of the shit he got and he gave it as good as he got.
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But Brie did her best to do right by Lynette.
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But the problem was there's nothing you can do to please
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the kind of person who manages to feel inadequate by comparison to you
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but also feel entitled to what you have so they resent you for having it when they don't and that's Lynette.
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So without further ado here is why Lynette Scava was the jealous Fran.
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Roll the theme song Erin.
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It's a lady, it's a lady, it's a lady, it's a lady.
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The show tries to present Lynette like she's some kind of modern woman by contrast to the other housewives
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because she had a career prior to marrying Tom and intermittently throughout their life together.
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But Lynette was just as traditional as the rest of those bitches in her heart and ideology.
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She just wasn't as good at executing it as Brie Vandekamp prepared to be, so it made her sick.
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Brie's life looked together, while Lynette's life always looked like it was falling apart.
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Bree's children appeared to do as they were told, whilst Lynette's children ain't had no home training.
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Lynette struggled to manage the household and her tribe of children whilst Tom worked, whereas Bree was born to be a homemaker.
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So much so that her ungrateful-ass husband Rex and children were all unhappy she was too perfect.
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I don't know why I specified Rex when I said ungrateful husband, because Orson Hodge was just as f*ing grateful, if not worse.
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And even though we all know that in actuality, Bree's home was a mess in terms of her relationships with her husband and kids, Brie was a woman obsessed with image and perception.
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So she made her life look perfect and she made being a wife and mother look easy, which made Lynette, who already spent all of her time judging her own mothering harshly,
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jealous and resentful of Brie because Brie was what she aspired to be.
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And this isn't suspicion.
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It's demonstrated by Lynette numerous times throughout the series from the very beginning until eventually she gets
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so jealous she has no choice but to acknowledge it outright.
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I'm not angry with you.
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I'm just sorry that you felt so drunk.
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Jealous?
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You have nothing to be jealous of.
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Don't give me that.
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You're having the kind of success I only dreamed of back in my aunt days.
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But we'll talk more about that specific incident later.
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We're not there yet.
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But here's the gag about jealous people.
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They will ask for your help in the same breath they resent the fact that you're in a position to help them.
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And they'll have you put your name, reputation, or credibility on the line for them without giving a f* power boards for you.
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Which is why Lynette had no problem begging Brie to use
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her connections to try to get her badass kids into a good school knowing they'd act the ass.
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It's why Lynette asked Brie to take her to her church
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only to walk into them people's service acting like her big
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40-something year old ass don't know better than trying to challenge a damn pastor throughout the damn service
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and making sure to let the whole place know she come with Brie.
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What are you doing?
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I've got a question about a sermon.
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What?
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No, put your hand.
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We'll just take a sec.
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Lynette, please, we don't do that here.
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Uh, yes, can I help you?
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Hi, I'm Lynette Scavo.
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I'm a friend of Bree Hodge, and your sermon was lovely, especially the part about the trees.
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Thank you.
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But here's where you lost me.
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This how Lynette is carrying on in church, and she had the nerve to act shock her children were regularly being considered disruptive in class?
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And somehow that storyline still involved with Bri apologizing for being rightfully shamed and that no broad of C.A.V.A.S.
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And also to apologize.
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Uh, you don't have to do that.
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Yes, I do.
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You were right.
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Faith shouldn't be blind.
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You don't threaten it by asking questions.
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You make it stronger.
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And I lost sight of that.
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And I want y'all to know, I am not religious in the slightest.
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I am actually pretty anti-religion and I don't be in nobody's church.
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But I know how to carry on in people's church.
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Nevertheless, none of what we've discussed thus far demonstrates the depths of Lynette's jealousy.
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It's just shit that I wanted to complain about from the moment I watched it.
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We see the depths of Lynette's jealousy and how
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and why you can't keep people like her around you no matter how much you love them.
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No matter how sympathetic to their plight you are.
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And no matter how mindful of their jealousy you try to be.
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When Brie started becoming professionally successful.
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Baby.
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Brie.
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Brie Vandekamp's career success triggered an existential kind of hating Lynette.
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The same hate Tom's success would always trigger
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because Lynette Scarborough cannot stand other people's success
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and she needs to be the most successful person in the room or she just don't know what to do with herself.
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But the reason that Brie in particular, her professional success triggers the out of Lynette
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because not only was she already jealous of Brie because she felt inadequate to her as a mother and a wife, career was the one thing she thought she had over Brie and the rest of these hoes in her friend group.
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She had internalized this idea that Brie had beat her as a mother and wife, which hurt about enough, but in her mind,
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at least she knew Brie could never accomplish what she had professionally.
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So to cope, Lynette convinced herself that some women were excellent wives and mothers
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and some women were excellent career women and never both and
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that brie was the former and she was the latter so
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when that bitch brie had the audacity to start mrs van der kamps old-fashioned foods
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and that took off proving
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that brie wasn't one of the other kinds of woman she
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was every woman it's all in all lynette didn't just feel
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jealous she felt like her claim to fame how she defined herself as a woman
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and a friend in the group had been taken from her if you look closely into the faces of your friends, you'll see it.
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What?
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What's up?
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Right behind their smiles, you will see a certain green-eyed monster,
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and then you'll understand how envious they are of your well-kept home,
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your delicious recipes, and your tasteful possessions.
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Here's my cookbook.
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But you'll have to work hard to see the jealousy, because good friends always work hard to hide it.
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Brie was not a superior wife, mother, and career woman, and she transcended the limitations Lynette had convinced herself they couldn't.
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And remember I said earlier we're gonna talk about the specific similarities between how Lynette treats Tom and how Lynette treats Brie?
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Well, when Tom becomes the breadwinner, gets a promotion at his own office, instead of feeling happy for him,
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Lynette felt threatened because she quite literally survives on feeling superior to him and having the control.
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And not like Tom because they think he's incompetent.
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But the gag is Lynette needs Tom to be incompetent.
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So when he invites her to see his office, the way she deals with the feelings of inferiority are to decide
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that she would design his office because Lynette needs to feel needed and in control.
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And at that point, Lynette had started a design business with her ain't shit friend, Renee.
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We'll talk about Renee's trifling ass one day.
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So Tom agrees to let Lynette and Renee design his office because he thinks he's supporting his wife, not realizing that his wife actually resents that he has an office for her to design.
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So she decides f*ing everything he asked for.
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She's gonna design the office how she wants because she knows best.
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Because the project isn't about Tom or his office or what he likes.
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It's about Lynette establishing dominance again.
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And that's exactly how she tried to move with Brie when Mrs. Vandekamp's old-fashioned foods took off.
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What are you working on?
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Was this Brie's ad stuff?
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Oh god, no. Her agency really whiffed.
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So I'm coming up with a whole new campaign.
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I was looking through my old portfolio for inspiration.
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Oh, I remember this one.
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Feet, meet your new best friends.
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It's a classic.
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You know, it's been years since I looked through this stuff.
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I'd forgotten I was kind of great.
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Lynette can't stomach Brie's success in the feeling of being surpassed, so she tries to reestablish her importance by trying to commandeer Brie into taking her marketing advice.
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As you can see, the graphic works just as well on a freestanding display unit.
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Neat, huh?
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Goodness, Lynette, when you offered to share your thoughts on my campaign, I wasn't expecting anything quite so elaborate.
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Well, who knew your marketing guys were such lame-os?
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What they came up with is so tepid.
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Um, I think understated was what they were going for.
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Well, they overshot and wound up and land right on the border a sucky.
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Well, I've got a whole bunch of alternatives.
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Oh, Lynette, I appreciate everything you've done, but I've actually approved the old campaign, and I can't just tell him I've changed my mind.
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You don't have to.
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I'll be the bad guy.
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Just tell him you've hired me and I'll go in there six guns a-blazing.
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So, do we have a deal?
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Just give me the word.
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No. No?
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I'm sorry, but I prefer their campaign.
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Well, mine is better.
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Well, you're entitled to think so, but I don't.
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And if you still weren't sure that Lynette is just trying to reestablish herself as professionally superior to Brie, listen to what she says next.
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Brie, I think I know a little more about marketing than you do.
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When I was in it, I owned this town.
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I had every big account.
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Hell, I was even named businesswoman of the year.
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And just when Lynette thought she picked her pride off the floor with that little woman of the air nugget, Brie finished her off with the kill shot.
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Well, I'm familiar with that award.
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In fact, I'm this year's recipient.
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Really?
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Yes.
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There's a luncheon on the 12th.
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I do hope you can make it.
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Y'all see Lynette face?
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She wanted to dare, you hear me?
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So she takes all that jealousy, all that hate, all that resentment, and she takes it with her to the event where Bree's being honored as Woman of the Year
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so she could show her eye.
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But in the process of trying to humble the kid who used to be her assistant when she was an eye exec,
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she come to find out he's now professionally surpassed her and he's the one responsible for Bree's eye campaign.
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She won't be glowing when that agency sinks her book.
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Lynette.
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I'm telling you, the only thing staler than that ad campaign is this dinner roll.
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Um, this is Stu.
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Lynette Scarrow.
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I thought that might be you.
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Hey.
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Hey, everyone.
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This is my old assistant, Stu.
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Um, Durper.
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Hey.
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Well, this was one great guy.
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He would schlep all the way across town just to get me my Chinese food.
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So, what are you up to?
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Actually, Stu's company is doing all my advertising.
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They're a company.
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You have a company.
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It's three years now.
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How about you?
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You still at Apporture Murphy?
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No, I also went into business for myself.
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Her place makes the best pizza in town.
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You own a pizzeria.
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Well, it's really my husband's.
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And I'm still doing some freelance stuff.
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Well, that's great.
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You know, we're always working late.
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Oh.
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Give me a card.
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We'll order from you some night.
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Oh.
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You know, of course we're across town, so it may be a bit of a schlep.
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No, no, no. It's a great kitchen of Lynette.
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Lynette is a gal who not only likes other people to feel small, she needs them to feel small, or she does.
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Which is why she genuinely wanted so badly to believe that Brie could not be successful without her help.
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But alas, that ain't no true.
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So what does she do?
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Full crash out commencing.
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Stu is doing Brie's ad campaign.
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I rode in his hatchback once.
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It smelled like Gushu.
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I got a word.
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Internet is that with a minimal investment, you actually can reach all your specific target audience.
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Coupons.
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Coupons.
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Do a cross-promotion with some of the major food companies.
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Knock off 20% on some of the items featured in your recipes.
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Then they do the same towards the purchase of your cookbook.
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Yeah, our research shows, you know, people aren't so hot with you.
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Sweet.
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Lynette Jealousy was quite literally oozing from her paws.
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She couldn't even help herself from letting this jealous-ass shit escape her lips.
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Lynette, I am really not able to deal with that right now.
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Oh, I know.
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You got your book and your big fancy award and I'm just a housewife.
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I never said that.
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You know, when I had a high-powered career and you were just a housewife, I never looked down on you.
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If you could all please take your seats.
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And Lynette does go and apologize for her actions and tries to take accountability and own her jealousy, but the only value that apology served was that Lynette admitted to exactly what I'm trying to prove to y'all.
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Give me some guidance.
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Do I grovel, send flowers, or just move?
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I'm not angry with you.
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I'm just sorry that you felt so...
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Drunk?
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Jealous?
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You have nothing to be jealous of.
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So, give me that.
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You're having the kind of success I only dreamed of back in my aunt days.
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That doesn't mean I looked down on you.
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No, but watching you, I looked down on me.
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When I held your book in my hands, I felt so jealous.
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My stomach hurt.
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And I thought if I could just hitch a ride, have a piece of it, I wouldn't feel so bad about your success.
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It doesn't matter that Brie doesn't look down on Lynette.
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It actually doesn't matter what Brie says or does, or how sincere Lynette seemed when she was apologizing.
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Because at the end of the day, Lynette gonna just keep projecting onto Brie to justify her own internal insecurities and nothing Bri could do to change that.
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For God's sake, Lynette, stop calling me a success.
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There's nothing successful about me.
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Friends think I'm gonna drop them.
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My partner resents me and my husband.
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It's gonna get to the guest before everything I gain comes at some horrible price
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and I'm starting to wonder if any of it's even worth it.
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It is.
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You're at the start of an incredible journey
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and I am going to be there every step of the way cheering you on,
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telling anyone who will listen that the Brie Vanderkamp is my friend.
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Thanks.
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And the rest of the stuff, you'll find a way to fix it.
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Just know that all your friends are very proud of you.
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Unfortunately, no amount of baring her soul could stop Lynette from aiding on her.
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No matter how even Lynette herself tried.
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Which is why, despite Lynette's apology and her acknowledgement
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that she's jealous of Brie's success and her promise to support Brie going forward, she's still spin right round and gone back to the same shit.
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And Brie had the f*ing nerve to pull up to her old house
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and her new whip after Lynette just happened to have to sell Tom's car because they were broke.
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This bitch Lynette was ready to shoot up the neighborhood.
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She was so hot.
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town that we call a restaurant.
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I thought Skavlo's was doing well.
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When times get tough, people do without things like pizza and sports cars.
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I am so sorry.
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I had no idea.
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It's okay.
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Just keep it under your hat.
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It's a little embarrassing.
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You should not be embarrassed.
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This is a horrible economy.
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We're all in the same boat.
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Hello, ladies.
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What do you think?
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You bought a new car?
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My book just made the Times bestseller list.
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Now they're talking three book deals, so I got the urge to splurt.
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Oh, and look what just blew on my windshield at the stop sign.
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Life is good.
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And poor Brie was just trying to share success with her friends, which she had every right to do.
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She didn't know Lynette was going through it financially, because despite how easily Lynette told Catherine they were broke, that's not something she would have freely volunteered to breathe because she's too insecure when it comes to breathe.
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Hey, Ego wouldn't let her do that.
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Was it just me or was that a little abrupt?
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Don't take it personally.
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I think she's got other things on her mind.
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Oh dear, something wrong?
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She and Tom are having financial problems.
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They just had to sell Tom's car.
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And here I am rubbing my fabulous new car in her face.
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I feel awful.
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But remember how I said nothing you could do about jealous
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friends no matter how understanding you try to be about why they're carrying on like that?
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Well, Brie decides to give Lynette a loan to try to help her friends with what they're going through.
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What's this?
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A check.
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I understand you and Tom are going through some rough times.
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No. Thank you, but I can't accept this.
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However, I would like to know how much I'm not accepting. $20,000?
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How many cookbooks are you selling, woman?
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We just went to a second printing, and now they're talking a three-book deal.
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So seriously, I am not going to miss that money.
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Wow.
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That must be nice, but I can't accept it.
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Why not?
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What's the point of success if you can't share it with the people you love?
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Because the people that you love may not be able to pay you back and then you stop loving them.
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But despite Brie's kind gesture
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and the way Lynette tried to make it work for her
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ego by turning it into an investment in the business rather than a loan,
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the mere fact that Brie is even in a position to lend her $20,000 breeds so much resentment in Lynette.
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Jealous people don't receive the love of like, wow, my friend loved me enough to give me $20,000.
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It's wow, this bitch have $20,000 to give me and I don't That's how she feel.
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And people don't interpret you giving them big money as being a sign of just how much you love them, how much money you willing to give them.
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All they ever think is, look how much money you have to give.
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They think you're rich.
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So when your next look, Lynette unilaterally decides she's gonna advertise Brie's shit at she and Tom's floundering pizza restaurant to attract business.
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So they advertise that they're gonna be cooking Brie's very successful food without running it by Brie
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or even bothering to get the real ingredients Brie uses with Brie in the building.
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I am so excited to be tasting your food tonight.
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My food?
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What are you talking about?
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Oh, well, it says here the chefs of Scavos are going to be making recipes from your book.
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They are?
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Look at that.
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I understand you and your fellow chefs will be serving my four-cheese pizza tonight.
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Yep.
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I'm just adding the Parmesan.
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That's commercial Parmesan. So?
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So that's like the dust they sweep off the floor at a place that makes real cheese.
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Oh, no, it's fine.
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We use it all the time.
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Perhaps you do, but my recipe specifies fresh grated.
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Brie, no one will notice.
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Parmesan is the fourth cheese in a four-cheese pizza.
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It's the Ringo of these cheeses.
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It was bad enough that Lynette decided to claim she was selling Brie food to paying customers while Brie in the building.
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Knowing customers would see Brie there and assumed she had a hand in the garbage food they would be eating.
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But it was even more disrespectful that Lynette had the nerve to suggest
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that nobody would notice the difference between the recipe
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and food Brie had blown up for and the food Lynette and them was making at the unloved pizza place.
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Brie would have been well within her rights to get upset over that, but she didn't.
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She tries her best to keep it cute and minimize the potential damage and fallout for her.
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I'm sorry, we haven't been introduced.
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I'm Brie Hodge, part owner.
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Hi, I'm Cindy.
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We'll chat later roll out some dough and show me where the basil is.
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We'll be serving three cheese pizza tonight.
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But what about the pizzas that we just made?
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Brie had a serious well-known company built off the back of her recipes and food.
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So how the f* did Lynette not see how dangerous it is for her business?
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For someone to advertise that they're selling her food and it not being up to snuff?
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Lynette was literally trying to trade on on Brie's name to Brie's financial liability or detriment, as though Brie didn't already give her $20,000.
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Why is she trying to play with this woman's professional reputation like she ain't already helping her?
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Because it's like I told you earlier with the school and the church, Lynette's so jealous she like her and Brie's reputation.
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So not only does Lynette do this bullshit, she had the audacity to turn the up on Brie like Brie was in the wrong.
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Hey, can I borrow you a sec?
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Now people are waiting.
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You'll still be a celebrity in five minutes.
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Come on.
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You want to explain this?
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Oh, dear, I was hoping to spare your feelings, but since you know, I wasn't comfortable having my recipe made with substandard ingredients.
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We use that Parmesan all the time.
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You can't go changing things without asking me.
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Hey, you made me partner.
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I can change 15%, and I chose the Parmesan.
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And I don't know if you've heard, but people are raving about my pizza.
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Well, they probably would have loved my pizza, too, but we'll never know because my partner threw it in the garbage.
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What a waste.
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You hear her?
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We use that Parmesan all the time.
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You can't go changing things without asking.
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Lynette was taking offense at Brie thinking those pizzas were beneath her
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because it triggered the part of Lynette that always feels beneath Brie
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and now felt even smaller that she was having to borrow money from her
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and had tried to make herself feel bigger by making her a partner rather than simply accepting the loan.
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If you wasn't sure what was really going on, just listen to this jealous bitch, Lynette.
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Fine, I'll reimburse you if that'll make things right.
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Oh, sure.
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It's only money, right?
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What's that supposed to mean?
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We don't know how well you're doing, Brie.
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You have made that very clear.
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You shouldn't be lording it over everybody just because you've caught a couple of breaks.
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Caught a couple of breaks?
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I've worked my ass off to get where I am.
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I've worked my ass off too.
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I just wasn't as lucky as you.
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Brie been walking on pins and needles all night trying to help this jealous Hayden broke bitch.
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And she's not only accusing Brie of lording her success over everyone, which she never did, she tries to diminish her success by chalking it up to a couple breaks.
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And if you ever doubted the fact
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that Lynette be staring at Brie thinking it should be her because she feels entitled to Bree's success.
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That's clear when this bitch literally says, for absolutely no reason, I worked my ass off too.
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I just wasn't as lucky as you.
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Lynette is the type of bitches you gotta watch.
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And then I'm supposed to believe that the Lynette that just said
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that just accidentally reversed directly into Bree's car she just finished hating on.
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I understand why you're so upset.
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I know you don't, but five years ago you would have.
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My car.
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You know that was an accident right?
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I promise y'all this would have been the last time Lynette Hayden has ever talked to me in this life
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because you can never make yourself small enough to satisfy people like this
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and people like this always try to convince you the problem is you that's why they try to convince you
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that everyone has this problem with you not Not just them, which is why Lynette says you shouldn't be lording it over everybody.
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But Lynette was the only one who felt like that.
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Everybody else wanted to see the car.
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And here I am rubbing my fabulous new car in her face.
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I feel awful.
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Don't.
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How could you have known?
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Thank God I didn't show her how the car parks itself.
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But you're gonna show us, right?
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Well, it is pretty amazing.
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But Bree still forgives Lynette for this jealous Hayden shit for why, I don't know.
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Because Lynette wasn't even remotely apologetic.
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What's that?
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A check for the damage to your car.
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I can't afford to go through my insurance company.
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Oh, Lynette, don't be silly.
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It's just the bumper.
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You don't need to do that.
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Yes, I do.
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The minute we're back on our feet, I am going to pay back your investment every penny with interest.
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Lynette, stop.
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Wait, please, don't be this way.
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I don't want money to get in the way of our friendship.
448
Yeah, I think it's a little late for that.
449
Imagine you lend a bitch $20,000 fucking dollars and she repays you by talking shit to you, hitting your car, and still having a fucking attitude.
450
And Lynette wasn't apologetic because that's who she is and they and that it was good change.
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Which is why she's a horrible friend to breathe right through the final season.
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But I can't even bother to tell you too much about
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that season because I don't have to fast forward you the whole thing for my own well-being.
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The point is, Lynette and Brie's relationship is a perfect illustration
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of why you can't keep jealous people around you no matter how much you love them
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or even how much they love you.
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Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?
Questo video su "Desperate Housewives" è una fantastica occasione per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e esercitare il "shadowing" (o "shadow speak"), una tecnica efficace per imitare l'intonazione e il ritmo dei madrelingua. Il dialogo è ricco di emozioni e conversazioni reali, come discussioni tra amici o riflessioni personali, che ti aiutano a capire come usare l'inglese in contesti quotidiani. Inoltre, le frasi sono colloquiali ma non troppo semplici, perfette per chi vuole passare da un livello base a uno intermedio. E se usi un shadowing site, puoi ripetere le parti difficili finché non le masterizzi!
Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto
Ecco alcuni punti chiave da analizzare:
- "You can't be friends with people who...": Struttura per esprimere restrizioni. Usa "who" per riferirti a persone e "that" per cose. Esempio: "You can't be friends with someone who lies" (Non puoi essere amico di chi mente).
- "Reap what you sow": Proverbio che significa "Ciò che semini, raccogli". È utile per parlare di conseguenze. Nella video, si usa per criticare azioni passate.
- "As much as folk hate...": "As much as" indica "Anche se" o "Per quanto". Esempio: "As much as I love pizza, I can't eat it every day" (Per quanto ami la pizza, non posso mangiarla tutti i giorni).
Trappole di pronuncia comuni
Nel video, alcuni vocaboli possono creare difficoltà:
- "Jealous": Pronunciato /ˈdʒeləs/, non "jelous". Attenzione alla "ea" che si legge come "e" corto.
- "Resentment": /rɪˈzentmənt/. La "s" è sorda, e la "t" si fa dolce. Evita di pronunciare "rez-ent-ment".
- "Intermittently": /ˌɪntərˈmɪtəntli/. È lunga, ma spezzala in "in-ter-mit-tent-li" per non sbagliare il ritmo.
Esercitarti con questi punti ti aiuterà a parlare più chiaramente e a capire meglio i film e le serie tv in inglese. Ricorda: il "shadow speak" è la chiave per imitare il suono nativo! 🎬
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've actually come · we've discussed · you've done |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who are · people who don · women who want |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | were told · was born · being considered |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.