Teen Mom 2 (from 2/8)

Kailyn is going to her first day of college.  It is scary for her but I’m sure even more awkward since there are cameras following her around. I always wonder if the crew have t-shirts on or signs that say what show they are filming so people know it isn’t “To Catch a Predator” or something.




Every one of those little “rules” you read and hear about taking care of babies are completely LOST on these girls. Over the course of several 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom episodes I’ve seen people heating up bottles in the microwave, babies sleeping on the couch, sleeping with blankets even as a newborn, etc.



Now Isaac is in his crib with a bottle and using a pillow. Two things I still thought were no-no’s for this age.


Kailyn seems completely, 100% ungrateful of Jo’s parents. She’s arguing with Jo in front of them and giving excuses why she didn’t do hers and the baby’s laundry yet. She should be doing everyone’s laundry and cleaning since she’s living there for free and her boyfriend gave her money to pay for school. 

Days later, Kailyn is in her car on her way home from school when Jo calls her to tell her that he got kicked out of the house so she can’t go back there. He’s taking Isaac to his aunt’s house two hours away in Newark. This sounds promising.

Kailyn is able to stay at her friend’s house who has green an pink walls and streamers for curtains. She talks to Jo again who says he’s looking for apartments in New Jersey for them. It makes no sense since Kailyn goes to school and works in Pennsylvania so maybe Jo is hoping to crossover into the Jersey Shore cast.  One show at a time, man!

Please, Jo. Please.

Jo and Kailyn meet at a diner and the only thing I notice is that Jo has long fingernails. I’m so distracted by this that I have no idea what they talked about. Something about living arrangements.



Jenelle’s narrative voice is really irritating.  Speaking of irritating, Barbara is talking to Jenelle while she’s getting ready in the bathroom to go to the college to talk about financial aid. “When you do this financial aid, make shoooowa…..shut the toilet so the baby doesn’t drown. Babies do that.”

Barbara is telling Jenelle to lie on her financial aid application. Wonderful. Not surprisingly, Jenelle takes this advice and tells the Financial Aid representative that she financially provides more than 50% for Jace.

Then she tells the truth about her mother having custody – how did her or her mother think she’d get away with saying she provides for her son when she doesn’t have custody, lives at home and works seemingly VERY part time?

Jenelle is visiting her boyfriend Reefer and he’s having a hard time pouring Sprite into an enormous cup. He’s wearing the same “deck of cards” shorts that he wore when he met Barbara.  They both leave the house with plastic cups of the “Sprite”.

Barbara is PISSED at Jenelle for asking her for her 1040 to apply for financial aid.

Jenelle doesn’t go home because of this so her and Reefer hang out at the beach in their dirty hemp necklaces. Despite the fact that Jenelle needs to “babysit” Jace the next morning, her and Reefer hang out giggling at their friend Amber’s house.  They are sleeping on the floor and Jenelle sleeps through her alarm or answer her phone when her mom calls wondering where she is. Too much “Sprite” the night before?  

Sometime that day Jenelle and Reefer in his deck of cards shorts again head to Jenelle’s house so she can get the forms necessary to apply for financial aid. Not to see Jace, apologize or “babysit”…to get the forms.

Barbara’s boyfriend Mike goes off on Jenelle saying that she only watches Jace 5 hours a week and that is not a mother…a mother is 24 hours a day. Jenelle ignores him and goes into her bedroom to slam the door, leaving Reefer to hang out in the living room. Awkward!!

Jenelle is crying to Reefer because no one tells her that they love her and her mom calls her a whore and a slut.

Warning: corny quote coming, you may need a vomit bag. Baby Bubbles Vomit Bag

Reefer says “The past is history, the future’s a mystery and now is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.”



Did he seriously just say that? Yes, he did. I rewound it to make sure and gagged a little bit.

Barbara comes home in a fit of flames! She’s kicking Jenelle out and tells her she’s the worst piece of shit mother. Jenelle collects some things, doesn’t cry, doesn’t say goodbye to Jace, just leaves. She drives away after a little monologue about getting Jace back and proving her mom wrong and one of them forgot their bottle of water on the back of the car so it flies off. This is what happens when people are baked in the middle of the afternoon.


Leah is taking care of the twins alone while Corey heads to work. She’s wearing enough makeup to head over to Toddlers & Tiaras on TLC. Not your typical SAHM.



Leah and Corey invite Leah’s mom and stepdad over for take out. They REALLY need more subtitles during these conversations because I really have only understood like 10 words. What I do know is that Leah has still not given her mother her hairdresser’s name and number.

Leah reveals that she thinks Corey is afraid to be alone with the twins. She decides to leave him alone with them while she goes shopping. 

He can’t find bottles so he saunters into the living room to tell the babies that he “can’t find nothin’”.  That will suffice, Corey. They understand.

He calls Leah twice during this time because he doesn’t know where anything is, he had to change a poopy diaper and doesn’t know what to do when the girls are crying.

Leah also calls the dad watching the babies “babysitting”. WTF?

Please, MTV, please put subtitles on when Corey is speaking. Otherwise, I don’t know what’s going on in their segments.


Chelsea and her friend Megan are sweeping. It is definitely a two person job. They then make a list of things Adam needs to change when he moves into the house.

1. Get a job

2. Treat mom & baby good (not ‘well’…’good’)

3. Don’t cheat on mom (Chelsea doesn’t believe that this is part of #2 for some reason).

Chelsea says how difficult it is to finish high school on her laptop because it is hard to concentrate with Aubree around. I actually think a bigger problem is that one of Chelsea’s eyes is completely covered by her bangs. She might be able to get things done if she actually can see out of both eyes. These headbands are cute.

Also, the class she’s taking online right now is “P.E.”. Yes, somehow she’s able to take PHYSICAL education class on her laptop.

Asshole is moving in. I mean, Adam. He hangs his clothes up in the closet and we see that Chelsea has no clothes hanging, hers is all over the floor. Apparently taking P.E. online took up so much time that she can’t even keep her house clean. Or put sheets on the mattress. Or comb her hair.

Adam is changing a poopy diaper. He throws the poopy diaper aside and we see it all spread out on the floor. For some reason seconds later, the poopy diaper is blurred out. Did someone go and write “fucking idiot” in the poop?

Chelsea doesn’t want to tell her father about Adam living there because she’s already disappointed him so many times, she needs to spread out the disappointments.

While Adam takes Aubree to his parents’ house for the day, Chelsea and Megan get mani/pedi’s.  I think this is the laziest girl so far. She says she hasn’t gotten her GED because of Aubree distracting her, but when she’s gone for the day she gets her nails done instead of studying (or cleaning the pig sty of a house).

While they are gone, Chelsea’s father stops by and just walks in since they apparently left the door unlocked.  There is no car in the driveway but he is inside yelling “Chelsea?” He went upstairs and saw Adam’s stuff in the house. Busted!

Sadly, her Dad caves and doesn’t force Chelsea to kick Adam out of the house. How disappointing. He’s supposed to be the strong one.


All in all it was a tame Teen Mom episode except for Jenelle being kicked out of her house.

Tune in next week to see her mom invite her to Jace’s first birthday party and Chelsea cries some more mascara.  She apparently doesn't use waterproof kind.