Candy’s CliffsNotes: Toddlers & Tiaras’ Darling Divas Pageant
Apr 5, 2012 | Filed Under: Television | Tags: Show Recaps, Toddlers & Tiaras
Need a Toddlers & Tiaras run-down in a hurry? Candy’s CliffsNotes™ are the fast, free way to get the scoop! Up this week: the Darling Divas pageant in Brooklyn.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS
Paisley
This three-year-old contestant is a thrill-seeker, driving a plastic car on-stage and wearing a tear-away skirt for her Lady Gaga routine, as well as going to great lengths to extract a booger buried deep in her nose, which she subsequently wiped on her shirt.
Wendy
Paisley’s mom, Wendy, represents fearlessness, the parent who is not afraid to push boundaries with prostitute-inspired clothing for her three-year-old. Wendy embraces every morsel of inappropriateness from the beginning of the show, admitting she “loves living vicariously through her three-year-old daughter” and is pleased the Pretty Woman backlash made her child more famous.
Toddlers and Tiaras’ Clip of the Day: “I Ain’t Never Seen Shirley Temple Like That Before!”
Jan 19, 2012 | Filed Under: Television, Video | Tags: Clip of the Day, I Was Feel Stupid, Toddlers & Tiaras
Pint-sized hopefuls — and their completely sane moms — vied for a $10,000 prize (yeah, count those zeros again) at the Universal Royalty Hollywood pageant on last night’s Toddlers & Tiaras, with the big bucks bringing out an extra dose of crazy for our entertainment-slash-horror.
Behold the Battle of Shirley Temples, in which Mia’s mom (who is also convinced the pageant director is sabotaging her daughter) fumes over another little girl’s attention-grabbing interpretation that includes less “Good Ship Lollipop,” more “HOLY COW, THAT KID IS DROPPIN’ IT LIKE IT’S HOT.”
I suppose we should just be grateful Kayla’s mom didn’t teach her how to “work” that lollipop, too.
Great, now I’ve given them an idea for the next pageant. Darn! I was feel stupid.
Toddlers & Tiaras’ “Lollipops & Gumdrops” Pageant Recap: The Return of “Famous” Mackenzie
Jan 13, 2012 | Filed Under: Television | Tags: Toddlers & Tiaras, Yum
Welcome to another installment of The Laughing Stork’s Toddlers & Tiaras recaps! This week we’re joining contestants on their journey to the Lollipops & Gumdrops Pageant in Texas, where the pageant director helps us, um, get a taste of what’s to come:
“Move over, Pixy Stix,” the director purrs. “Glitz never tasted so good.”
I don’t even want to KNOW how long she worked on coming up with that line.
THE PLAYERS:
Crying she can feel the claws of the kitten she was just torturing, er.... playing with
Mackenzie, 6, from Montgomery, Louisiana
The scoop: You just might remember Mackenzie from her last appearance on the show, where she gained instant infamy for her, um, “independent thinking” and affection for her “ni-ni,” with quotes such as,”Where’d My Ni-Ni Goooooo?!,” screamed at a volume level audible to people in Uruguay. Since that most memorable appearance (which also sparked quite a dialogue here), Mackenzie has been on Anderson Cooper’s talk show and in People magazine, as well as spoofed by Ashley Tisdale on Funny or Die. But don’t worry, folks! All of this attention hasn’t gone to the little girl’s head…
“I’m Mackenzie, I’m six, and I’m famous,” Mackenzie boasts matter-of-factly.
Lest you question her fame, the pageant director finishes making love to her lollipop long enough to wax poetic about Mackenzie’s popularity:
“I know Mackenzie has so many fans her name is tweeting on Twitter,” she says. “That’s big time when you can get … whatever that’s called, you know?”
Indeed.
This week’s highlights: Despite her crushing loss at the last pageant, Mackenzie is as cooperative as ever, complaining about her fake eyelashes — “MY EYES ARE SORE!” — and her hair — “FEELS LIKE NEEDLES IN MY HEAD!” and refusing to practice. “I WANT MY NI-NI!” the distressed six-year-old cries for her pacifier. Meanwhile, her mom retains total control of the situation by smiling complacently.
Toddlers & Tiaras “Precious Moments” Pageant Recap: “A Dolla’ Makes Me Holla’, Honey Boo-Boo!”
Jan 5, 2012 | Filed Under: Television | Tags: Toddlers & Tiaras
Time to prepare for Georgia’s Precious Moments Pageant! A glimpse at last year’s winner:
A beauty, for sure, but overdid it with the spray tan.
:01 – We meet June, mom of six-year-old Alana and the self-proclaimed “The Coupon Queen.” Yes, June is into “extreme couponing” — the only way they can afford to enter pageants, which have cost the family eight or nine-thousand-dollars so far. Yeah. VERY extreme couponing.
“Those other girls must be crazy if they think they’re gonna beat me,” drawls Alana. “Honey boo-boo child!”
She had me at “honey boo-boo.”
:03 – “You gotta practice. Them girls practice every day. You wanna win?” asks the mom of Laci, 8. Apparently, Laci isn’t too worried about her chances because she says she’s “all that and a bag of chips.” (Now we know Laci’s pageant talent: time-traveling back to the ’90s when people said “all that and a bag of chips.”) In fact, the humble child is confident she’s better than all the other girls. “Because I’m sassy,” Laci purrs — followed by a lioness roar.
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Clip of the Day: “Princess Means That You’re a Loser” — Good-Spirited Toddlers & Tiaras Pageant Mom
Dec 20, 2011 | Filed Under: Television | Tags: Clip of the Day, Toddlers & Tiaras
I watched last week’s Toddlers & Tiaras: Island of Dreams Pageant with dismay — not because of the pushy grandmother who seems to think pageants are more important than presidential elections or the parents who used a paint roller to darken their child to a lovely shade of poop, but because there was nothing particularly outlandish or novel to chronicle in my show recap. Same flippers, different week.
So there I was, sucking down a gingerbread martini and laughing at all the little girls falling down on their tutu’d, diapered behinds on stage (yes, apparently Kahlua imbues me with the maturity and sensitivity of a 12-year-old boy), when a savior appeared…
Meet Kelly, mother of 23-month-old Natalie, who provides the only real clip worth watching from last week’s episode. I think we can all learn something about losing with dignity from Kelly.
Most inspiring quote of the show: “Why would I stay after you tell my daughter she’s a loser? She got f*cking princess. It’s a f*cking joke. This is a JOKE. JOKE, JOKE, JOKE.”
Most unexpected plot twist of the show: When Kelly looks like an even bigger loser because her daughter is crowned Novice Supreme, after all — and she is outside pouting and dropping F-bombs when they are called on-stage. D’oh.
Toddlers & Tiaras Recap: Merry Glitzmas to All and to All a Drag Queen-Inspired Night
Dec 8, 2011 | Filed Under: Television | Tags: Toddlers & Tiaras
If you were hoping for some spray-tanned, pint-sized pageant queens — and kings! — on your television this holiday season (because, really, what embodies Christmas better than fake eyelashes on toddlers and hot pants on fourth graders?), you’re in luck! Last night TLC kicked off its fifth season of Toddlers & Tiaras with a very special look at the full-glitz Southern Celebrity Glitzmas (see what they did there?) pageant in New Jersey. And if you missed all the fun, you’re still in luck because I just so happen to have the in-depth play-by-play for you:
:02 – We open with pageant mom Katie, who tells us that when she found out she was having a boy, she was “quite upset” because she “actually had the kids so we could do the pageants.” A reason as touching as having children for the tax breaks! But never fear: Katie soon discovered boys can compete in pageants, too.
Meet Bob, 6, and 5-year-old sister Riley.
:03 — “Bob went through a period where he did wear dresses. And insisted he was a girl for quite some time,” confides his mom. “Well, we just went with it.”
I’m sure the forums are going nuts over that bit of information and people can say what they want, but I’ll tell you this: that boy can pull off a white top hat, in a way nobody has since Flavor Flav in ’09:
