It was a drag-out, smack down finale for The Real Housewives of New York City tonight with enough booze, insults, and bruised egos to qualify as a WWE championship fight. While I won’t indulge with a tale of the tape (that would be the previous 17 episodes of the season), I will give you the top fights of the night. Ding! Ding!
Round 1: Aviva vs. Aviva
The night started with Carole hosting an event which involved a ping-pong tournament, which all the women were invited to. Still incensed over Ramona throwing George out of her charity event, Aviva didn’t want The Queen of Pinot Grigio to show up, as if the event was thrown by Aviva herself. After the event was over, Aviva couldn’t help but bring up being disgusted by Ramona to Heather’s husband, who clearly didn’t want any part of that nonsense. Luckily, Heather arrived just in time to save her hubby and tell Aviva to drop the damn theatrics when it comes to Ramona.
Winner of this round? Heather. Because Aviva just does not know when to let things go, beating herself up socially in the process.
Round 2: Aviva vs. Heather
Heather’s fashion show was coming up and she chose Aviva to end the event by wearing the last outfit in the collection. After realizing that Heather had honored her with such a task, Aviva’s anxieties started to get the best of her, since the outfits revealed a lot of leg and Aviva just wasn’t comfortable with it. She asked to wear tights to ease her apprehension, but Heather nixed that idea since it would throw off the look and feel of the show.
Later, Aviva asked Heather to give the jacket of the last outfit to someone else, because she felt with the jacket, all attention would be on her legs and not her arms. Hmm… Heather firmly told Aviva “no,” because again, it would ruin the flow of the show. Plus, I’ve never heard of a model not wearing whatever a designer puts them in, so excuse me if I thought that Aviva’s demands were way past asinine.
As the time came for Aviva to stomp the catwalk, she decided to not wear the jacket after all. Heather, or course, looked hella pissed, but she got over it quickly out of respect for who the event was really for: her children.
Winner of this round? It’s a draw, because despite Aviva being complete diva in this situation, her apprehension was plausible in this instance. I even got a bit annoyed at how the cameras focused mostly on her leg while she tried on the outfit at Heather’s office. As for the Yummie Tummie creator herself, I secretly wanted her to call Aviva out on disobeying her, but at the end of the day she was right for letting the issue go in light of her kids. Plus, it could be a good instance to show Aviva that you can move past things no matter how much they annoy you.
Round 2: Heather vs. Sonja and Ramona
With the packaging art for Sonja’s toaster oven venture being finished, Heather and her creative team were ready to show the finished product to their client. There were two photos Sonja could have went with: one that had her posing with the toaster and the other with her posing with the toaster with the bare-chested guy in the background. Personally, I would have went with the former photo, because the bare-chested guy didn’t make sense to the overall use of the oven. Just a thought.
Sonja announced that she preferred the packaging art with the guy on the cover (go figure) and that she was satisfied with the results. At least she was at that moment…
During Heather’s fashion show, Sonja and Ramona cornered the photographer who shot the pictures for the toaster over package to ask him why weren’t there more pictures to choose from. Ramona asked most of the questions while Sonja interjected every so often. Mind you, the guy was hell uncomfortable and was missing the fashion show, the true reason everyone was there to begin with. Not good, ladies.
After the fashion show ended, Ramona and Sonja were gabbing about the photographer’s answers and how it was moronic for the guy to not have more photos to choose from. Heather walked up and the two ladies made the mistake of not dropping the subject, which pissed Heather off to no end, prompting Heather to say to Sonja, “Take your ungrateful ass and get out of my face about it!” As much as I love me some Sonja and Ramona, Heather simply owned their asses with that line.
Winner of this round? Heather. Hands. Down.
Round 3: The Title Match – Ramona vs. Aviva vs. Almost Everyone
Now we are at the final match, which took place at Carole’s “book baby shower” in celebration of her new book being finished and ready to publish. It was the perfect gathering for a Real Housewives of New York City finale, albeit the venue being a bit claustrophobic.
While the party was in full swing, Ramona and Heather ended up standing beside each other in the most awkward moment of the episode, saying nothing at first. Ramona broke the ice and tried to apologize to Heather for the night before, but Heather wasn’t having it. Ramona even admitted that Sonja was guilty of backpedaling on the situation, a quote which Heather most certainly filed for later, but didn’t let it take Ramona off the hook. Seeing that their wives were about to make complete fools out of themselves, Mario and Jonathan tried to calm their significant others down. In the process Jonathan made a joke about Ramona taking her argument to Aviva (uh oh…) and all hell broke loose.
As soon as Ramona responded back to Jonathan with Aviva’s name in her mouth, Aviva Diva appears out of thin air as if she was an Once Upon A Time reject. Seriously, either Aviva had to be eavesdropping pretty hard or she has the hearing of a damn canine. Aviva got in Ramona’s face quick, making George’s banishment from Ramona’s event her weapon of choice. Ramona stood by her claims of George being rough with her, which Aviva shouted was a lie and that an 80 year-old man couldn’t hurt Ramona. It doesn’t matter Aviva if he bruised Ramona or not, he shouldn’t have touched her. Period. The most alarming thing of the argument came when both LuAnn and Carole backed Aviva into saying that maybe Ramona overreacted when she bounced George out of her party. Are you freaking kidding me?
While Aviva and Ramona were going at it, Heather and Sonja discussed their own issues, which Heather was appalled at since Sonja didn’t think there was an issue. After Sonja said her peace, Heather revealed what Ramona had just told her, but that piece of info didn’t seem to deter Sonja one bit.
At the end, all the women (sans Carole and LuAnn) were at each other’s throats, but dropped their arguments long enough for Carole to give her speech about her book. But as Carole said in her confessional, the group is most definitely broken and it would take a lot to get them together again. Carole, my dear, that is an understatement…
Winner in this round? The viewers, who are in for one hell of a reunion…
So what did you guys think about the Real Housewives of New York City finale?
Photo Credit: Bravo/Michael Rosenthal
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