Mention It All - Pump Rules Rewind Ep. 6: Caught With Your Trousers Down

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

It’s another week at SUR, and Dylan and Sami waste no time getting into the shenanigans. Jax and Laura-Leigh are banging in the bathroom, Frank is picking fights with customers, and Kristen is micromanaging Stassi—what a time to be alive. Later, Frank and Stassi’s brief relationship hits a wall, clearing the way for a Jax/Stassi reunion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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everyone, welcome back to the Mentioned All podcast. I'm Dylan Hafer, and it is time for episode six of our Pump Rules Rewind. I'm here again with Sammy. Hey, Sammy. How's it going? Hi, Dylan. I am ready for episode six. We're at the halfway point of season one now. We're barreling right through. A lot is happening. We were just talking before we started recording about how this season is so short that major relationships start and end and it's like keeping everything straight that it's like, okay, so, you know, Laura Lee is maybe only a major player for like two or three episodes, but they burn hot and fast and we might never see these people again, but this season, what a trip.

You know what it is? None of these people are taking any time to process their feelings. So when you're not doing that, you can just skip from one very intense relationship to the next without, you know, with barely a surshift in between. Well, they don't have time to sit and think about these feelings because they are hustling on their other career paths because Kristen tells us Lisa doesn't just want them to be servers and bartenders forever. She wants them to pursue their passions. So I love this little montage at the beginning of the episode of everyone hard at work on their artistic careers. We have Kristen and Laura Lee running a scene together for who knows what.

Sheena is in the recording booth, of course. Tina asks Stasi to style her photo shoot. And Stasi is so excited because she says, that'll be great for my book. I'm like, what jobs are you out here trying to book? Max Vanderpump is playing his guitar, good for him. And then Peter, there's a film screening of a film that Peter produced and Schwartz acted in. No, Sandival acted. Oh, Sandival acted.

Yeah, okay. And then after the screening, they're like, what did you like about it? And Laura Lee says something. And then Jacks is just like what she said. And they laugh hysterically. That was my favorite, maybe my favorite moment in this episode, among many, this was a really good episode. But that was unreal. When they were doing like a focus group of Peter's home movie that Sandball, it looked like an art house film in the worst way. They should put that on Peacock. That should be like a little extra that they just throw out there. Peter, give it to us. Peter was planned to be a main character, clearly. He's very prominent. in every episode so far.

Yeah, I forget, because obviously he has stayed around throughout the entire show. So you kind of think now, like, he pops up here and there. Like, every once in a while he, like, gets a couple words in, you know, like, he might have an episode where he kind of is in a conversation. But I did kind of forget that in the first couple seasons, he was really, like, a part of the group. And while he didn't have his own storylines, like, he really was. present. Right. He had also dated Stasi and didn't he like hook up with Katie. So I think that at that,

he was probably very like loomed large in the group. Yeah, definitely. Who else is looming large in this episode? It's Frank. This is really, this is really like the denouement of Stasi and Frank's relationship. But at the beginning, things are going okay. Stossi's in her new apartment. She's trying to work on her column for the divine addiction. It is not a blog. Don't you dare call it that. In her closet, there is this clothing rod that has fallen on the floor, and thus her clothes are just in a pile. And Frank had put up this rod. And so Stasi tells us that Frank is the kind of guy who puts up the closet rod, but it might fall later, whereas Jacks was the kind of guy who doesn't even put it up in the first place. What a bum Jacks was. Frank's great. Are you accurate?

accurate, but also Frank is just because he puts up the pole, it like makes more of a mess later. Stasi is so clearly like going between these two horrible guys, but it's also funny because she compares them at every single step of the way. Like everything Frank does, she compares it to something Jacks has done and why it's either better or worse. Right. He's making, he's like sort of making fun of her column that she's writing. And she says, look,

Frank loves to have goals. He, like, is super ambitious, but the thing is he doesn't think fashion is, like, serious. Like, he doesn't take it seriously. Whereas Jack's great dresser. He's a model. He knows fashion, but he doesn't have any goals. It's like, babe, both of these dudes suck. Right.

Also, Frank's commercial real estate, and she's trying to ask him about it. And he's like, yeah, he's like, yeah, our development. Like, we own it. It's like, who's you? We? Are you just working for a guy? He just seems like bullshit. It's very cringe-worthy to me.

We'll get more to that in a little bit. But going into this episode, there is trouble in paradise for Jackson, Laura Lee, Paradise, using that loosely. Because Ken says, while Lisa is at home with Melanie, the Sir publicist, who says that they should try doing Happy Hour.

What a concept. She says, Ken comes in and says, it's very, I can't believe that Tom Zanzival, like, it kind of called back to that. That's exactly I was going to say. I think this was his first rodeo at producing, at dropping a rumor that Lisa fed him. Yeah.

So he says, did you hear this, this rumor that Jackson and Lorley were fucking in the sub-b bathroom? Security walked into the bathroom. And they were naked in the bathroom floor having sex. It's, what's funny. is like obvious, from the first moment we hear this, there's no doubt in my mind that it's true. I can't imagine there's any doubt in Lisa's mind that it's true, but we have to do this like, this like extended performance of like, Jack's, Larley, do you know what you had to talk about?

Right. And they still denied it. They still tried to deny it. Right. So in between, we do see them at a different restaurant going and having sex. in the employee bathroom or whatever. Like, I just don't understand if you're two adults with like another place to go, like, Jacks lives.

Actually, I don't know where Jacks lives now because Stasi kicked him out of her apartment. His car in front of their apartment. Like, I guess maybe the bathroom at a restaurant is the most like private place they have to have sex. But it seems like Laura Lee really gets off on this like, yeah, like I'm going to drag you into the bathroom. and like, we're going to do it and then we're going to have dinner. Yeah, I think, well, I think Jack's saying it's at Sandoval's because remember they went and picked up his stuff and the dog. And Sossie's very upset about the dog. So I think Laura Lee gets off on this whole doing it in public thing.

The fact that she's so into it all the time and is just like, this is like new and exciting. And obviously Jacks likes new and exciting things. Jacks likes new and inciting things more than he likes commitment. Oh, yeah. that much is clear. I thought it was really funny just going back to the Lisa, Melanie and Ken conversation. At the end, Melanie goes, as your publicist, this is not a good look for them to be having sex in the bathroom. It's like, wow, you're really earning that paycheck, girl. Melanie does it all. She can suggest happy hour and she can give you crisis PR when your

employees are having sex in the bathroom. Right. Anyone who hasn't watched this yet, go back and look at Lisa's face as Ken is describing the rumor. You're watching her like make sure that he's getting the right, the words outright. And then where she should be surprised or like, they're having sex in the bit because it's the first time you're hearing it in theory. She doesn't seem, she's totally calm. She's like, oh, well, oh, no. You know, it's very, you know this already. Right. It's a little rehearsed where I think Lisa, because obviously she was still on Housewives at this point, and Housewives is a little bit of an atmosphere that she didn't have as much control over. Whereas on this show, I think obviously she has the executive

producer credit. She is kind of like the May poll around which this show revolves. And like she feels like this is a chance for her to kind of move the story along. I don't know where this where this initially like originated. Jacks tells us that it's true. But, you know, Lisa kind of is a little more of the puppet master here, particularly with Ken. But yeah, I think she, you can tell in this episode, she likes exercising her control. She has a meeting with Jackson, Laura Lee to discuss this. She says that they'll be fired if it happens, if she finds out that it did happen, which is like, you already found out that it did happen. They're just lying to you about it.

Right. Like the person told you, they admitted that they got caught. Obviously, like we don't have cameras, but okay. I loved that when they sit down for this meeting with her, though. And she's like, did you have sex in the bathroom? And Jackson's first reaction is, are you kidding me? At the same time that Laura Lee says, At Tacombie?

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Work your magic. So that's a meeting that Lisa has to have. And then Lisa has another meeting later in the episode with Frank, because there's a situation at foot. So Frank was bartending at Sir, and this party comes in, and they're ordering double-chilled cucumber martinis. But instead of charging them for an extra shot in the drink, as you're supposed to bring in a double drink, he's charging them for two drinks, like $30 one double drink, basically.

Have you ever heard of that? No. It's wild. Right. Like he never actually like explains why he did that because obviously he should know the difference. But then so of course the people in this party come up, the guy comes up to him and is like that's wrong. And Frank's response rather than like, oh, sorry I rang it up wrong or I'll fix that or here's a drink on me. He says if you can't afford it, get out basically.

Fuck you, you peasant. Fuck you, you peasant. Go back to your fucking ugly girl. friend before I embarrass you by pulling your underwear over your head, you fucking nerd. And then he and then the guy threw a beer at him and Guillermo sent Frank home. Like what's just such egregious behavior? It's like the guy didn't even, the guy was right, first of all. Right.

And he wasn't like doing anything that bad to Frank. Frank has an anger issue. I think that's what we ought to say. Frank has an anger issue. And Lisa's like, Lisa's like, well. you know, this is unacceptable. And like, obviously, and he's like, no, but I always get good tips. And Lisa's like, well, this guy didn't tip you.

And he's like, well, I don't know. And she's like, well, don't you know? And he's like, well, yeah, he didn't tip me. It's like, what are you talking about? Like, this guy threw a drink at you. Obviously, he didn't tip you for charging him wrong and like being nasty about it when he brought it up. But it's, it is just watching him like be cagey about this situation in which he was like

extremely in the wrong. and Lisa just at that moment to be like, you know what, this is over. Yeah, I mean, it was such an obvious fireable offense. Like, it's so offensive that he would do that and just so terrible. There's this, again, I think production kind of comes into play because there's this back and forth later in the episode of like, well, so Frank got fired for that. But Jackson, Laura Lee got caught fucking in the bathroom and like they just got like a slap on the wrist.

Like, that doesn't seem. And it's like, well, Frank. Well, the customers don't have to know about Jackson, Laurel. That's true. But also, Frank is not a main cast member on this show. So Lisa doesn't have the like production incentive, whereas like, if she fired Jack's six episodes into this season, Jack still has to stay on the show. Whereas Frank is only on the show now because of Stasi.

And, you know, he's got about 10 minutes left. Yeah. I also just think that like the customer forward. if this really happened, like, in a, not on the show, like, and he genuinely did this just because he did it, that's like really, really bad Yelp review. Let's just say that. Right. Right. You get a Schwartz and Sandy's style Yelp review. Yeah. Exactly. But like rightfully. It's violent. Yeah. Backpedaling a little bit, though. It was, it was so funny to me that they're on the way to meet Stasi's parents. It's the first time Frank is being introduced to them. But Lisa has. has called him in for this meeting, so they have to make a pit stop on the way, basically. And Frank is like, I have no idea what this could be about. And it's like, sir, you got sent home from your last shift because you verbally assaulted a customer and then got a drink thrown in your face. What do you mean you don't know what the meeting with Lisa is about? Right. His whole act,

like, this is the best thing that could have ever happened to me. I didn't do anything wrong. I wanted to get fired. I threw the drink so I could get fired. It's just absurd because he's like, oh, he's like, this commercial real estate thing going on. I don't know. This was very... Did you notice the Sir Alley was not even purple yet? Yeah. The Sir Alley looks so different.

I love that Stasi's just like hanging out in the alley while Frank has his chat with Lisa. And then she thinks he's pranking her when he says he got fired. And then she's like, great. I have to introduce my parents to this unemployed douchebag. And, you know, Dana and Mark, I think his name is Mark, are like... They're drunk, so they don't care. Okay with it. They got a bottle of Stoli on the way to lunch.

It's like, okay. Where are you just drinking this vodka? Like, are you B-Y-O-B? Right. I'm like, did they drive there? Like what? Right. That's what I was also very confused.

I was, yeah, how are they getting home? I was very worried about that. What are you drinking? Is that a, is that a mohito? Just vodka. Right. It was very much interesting. Interesting parents.

It was interesting. Frank is, you know, was spinning. Like, you know, sir was basically a side hustle that was getting in the way of his commercial real estate career, which I don't actually think is any career to speak of. We'll see. We learn the story. He's talking to her parents about how she has pretty girl syndrome.

Oh, my gosh. That she, like, relies on other people, aka him to do shit for her. But then we find out that she was not always such a pretty girl because she was like a loser in high school. got a chin implant for her high school graduation. She had a round face. She had a round face. She didn't date. And she was a goth-looking nerd.

I think she had black hair at one point. That's like what that amounts to. But then the most troubling part of this scene is that her dad pulls out a flask that has a gun embossed on it and attached to the flask with a rubber band is this childhood photo of Stasi. He tops it off. Frank turns it over and it's like, is that a gun? And Stasi's dad just goes, you're not a Democrat, are you? And Frank's like, no. And they're like, woo, thank the Lord.

That was so, like, shocking. You just didn't expect it. You didn't expect that on one side of this flask was going to be a baby picture. And the other side was a gun. And the next comment was going to be about his political stance. And then they're like rejoicing. that he is, you know, Republican. I mean, whatever, that's their thing.

But all of it makes a lot of sense where Stasi came from. It's crazy, though, in like 10 seasons, you can probably count on, like, one hand, the amount of times politics have actually come up on Vanderpump rules. And the first instance of it is just Stasi's dad being like, you're not a Democrat, are you? And then being like, thank God. That was just so, I mean, this is a guy who just called his daughter, homely as a child. So the guy is, yeah. And her mom was like, she came home and ate bread from the

inside out. She'd starve from the inside of the loaf and work her way out. Like, it all makes sense how Stasi became Stasi. Yeah. Like, I do think maybe we, we get to see people's parents on these shows and it can really be illuminating about where they come from. And while Stasi, I think, has made a lot of poor choices and set a lot of things that are. are not great. There is something to this where it's like, Stasi is stressed about this lunch because it's the first time she's introducing her like questionable boyfriend to her parents.

Meanwhile, her parents are like just wasted. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And they're like, yeah, it's been a successful time. This was the best time I ever introduced my parents to my unemployed boyfriend. And then she, so they're in the apartment later and Stasi,

Stasi's like, so, you know, what did you think of my parents? And he's like, oh, she's like, are you going to give me anything? And he's like, they were the best people I've ever met. I love them so much. Like, he's like a shithead. He's so over her. But also it's like, what were you supposed to glean about her parents from that lunch? That they kind of, that they like kind of treat you like shit and they're wasted all the time?

Like, okay. And they're Republicans? Right. Right. I honestly think that that he is like so clearly over her. And she knows. She's saying like, I feel like you're being so rude to me today. Like everything you're saying is just rude. And obviously people get in bad moods, but he was so obviously like, I don't want to be your bitch anymore. Right. It's, I mean, it's funny that in the same episode, Jax and Frank are both getting sick of their great new relationships that, you know, Laura Lee is telling Jacks, like, you're my favorite person

I've ever dated and all of the things that I've been wishing for for the last five years. It's like you heard all those things and are, like, created just for me. And Jack says that he's definitely not 100% of the way there with her

and probably not even 50% of the way. It's like, okay, well, that's a failing grade. So that relationship is not C-worthy. And then Frank and Stasi have been together for, like, we talked about last week,

the timeline is unclear, but like certainly not more than a matter of weeks. And we're already like, okay, so he hates you. And you're like mad that he's not basically being your servant. So this is not going to work either. Yeah. Frank won Vanderpump Zero. And I think that what they're also setting up very conveniently is that Stasi reconciles

with Katie. they go over for, they have, you know, a wine, a wine and a cry, basically. And Katie's like, I really cared about you. I didn't think Frank was good. I really think Jacks was better in this situation. So they're setting it up for like, Jacks to be sick of Laura Lee, Frank and Stacey to be like no more. And now Stasi and Katie are reconciling, which kind of will like lead the group back together

conveniently for the second half of the arc of the season. Right. And there's like this, you know, Katie is sad because right now they can't hang out as a group of six. They can only hang out as a group of four. And they're, you know, the group of four is out together. And that's when they find out that Frank got fired. So it is, you do kind of see the strings at work a little bit that this season, there's only two more episodes after this and before the reunion. And like the arc is sort of coming back around. And it is like, it's skillful in the way that it's working. I don't know how much of this was kind of able to be planned or if it just worked out really well. But the fact that these kind of two, you know, sham relationships are happening and then they're going to like fizzle out. And then thank God we can get back to as the Lord intended Jackson Stasi maybe together. Barbie and Ken driving off in their Malibu convertible with her ponytail flapping in the wind. Oh my God. As Katie described them.

But yeah, Stasi and Frank's final collision is pretty, it's a little tough to watch. He makes a driving Miss Daisy reference about taking her everywhere, which is just like, okay. And then she's like, I'm going to beat your face. So she storms out of the apartment first onto the sidewalk. But then when he comes outside and is starting to like walk past her, she's like, don't run away. Like, don't. And it's like, you've left the building. Yeah. He's like, you're bipolar. Are you kidding? You're walking away like a coward. She's just very, it's like Stasi. They both are not really functional in this. They're not great communicators, one might argue. I don't think either of them are terribly invested in this relationship. But I think for Stasi, it just is more of a thing of like the last thing didn't work out. So now if this one doesn't work out, then it's going to be embarrassing. Like, I'm on camera with this guy. I told all my friends.

that this was like the better guy. I introduced him to my parents. And then when he finally walks away, she just says, going through two breakups in a summer, God is literally trying to kill me. Okay. No, girl. God is not on Stasi Schroeder's side.

He's cruel. He's trying to teach her a lesson. I mean, hey, you got to do what you got to do. One moment earlier in the episode that I thought was, really funny was when it was at Sir and Stasi, Sheena, and Kristen are all there. And Stasi's shift started at 6. Sheena's shift starts at 630. So Stasi clocks in at 6 and then is sitting down to just leisurely eat with Sheena. And Kristen complains to Peter and it's like, that's not fair. Like Stasi's supposed to be working right now and she's sitting there eating Peter. Like she's

eating. I'm doing all the tables. I'm doing all the tables. Stasi says it's only three tables. I know that Stasi is a reliable narrator. So besides the point. Right. I mean, it is pretty out of pocket to clock in for your shift and then sit down and like eat your salad for 20 minutes. Yeah. Well, it was really 10 minutes.

Right. I mean, it was 10 minutes. Kristen wouldn't, would do the same. And she also wouldn't care if she wasn't mad at Stasi. Right. But it's just funny because she tells on her because she's mad at her. And then Sothy's like, you're such a micromanager. You're so right that she wouldn't care if she wasn't mad because she specifically is like,

no, no, no, Shina can stay. I wasn't talking about Shina, only Stasi. And Peter's like, no, no, no, you guys can't be eating like in front of the customers at all, even if you're not late for your shift. And she's like, yeah, that's why I didn't change it to my uniform yet. Peter trying to wrangle these women. And like, Kristen just basically being like, no, no, no, I tattled on Stasi, but I didn't want you to carry it out in that way.

Like, I needed you to only be mad at her. Right. And also, Stasi's like, why are you tattling on me? Why don't you just tell me yourself? And she's like, because I'm not a manager. It's like, okay, this weird hierarchy, like some rules apply, some don't. I just had to point that out because I think it's so funny. Obviously, there's bigger relationship storylines and stuff at play.

But the kind of the daily drama of just who's mad at who, who's stuck at the restaurant, who doesn't want to work their shifts. who's leaving early. You know, I think in last week's episode, Stasi is like begging Peter to cut her early because she doesn't want to work out in the lounge with Jackson, Laura Lee. It's like having, like I used to work a retail job

and it's like, honestly, shit like this happens. Like it's like people are so dramatic. And watching that like in a closed environment is so funny. Yeah, I love watching them have to grapple with the like confines of work. and money, it's more exciting to watch their relationship dynamics, also because they're younger, within the confines of that, rather than now where they're sort of working within the confines of like maintaining their image as public figures because that's now their career. Yeah.

But that's less exciting for us to watch because it's not as like, there's nothing for them to say in a lot of these. Well, and I think something that a lot of the reality shows, this happens on Housewives to bump up against is that these women don't have a reason to be in the room together unless there's like an event or a party or like a like filming schedule. But the fact that these people actually had to see each other at work, even if they weren't getting along, really kind of moves forward the plot in a way because it's like we don't have to wait for Sheena to have a dinner party where people are going to come together. It's like, well, I have work in the morning. So I guess I will see my arch nemesis waiting tables. Right. You don't have that like natural reluctance. If

she just throwing a party, it's like, okay, well, then just don't go if you hate her so much. And that's another reason I think that this show has been so successful and was from the beginning, is that it was truly an organic environment. It's truly an organic environment. You know, Frank is going to go work on his commercial real estate property in Manhattan Beach. Best of luck to him. And best of luck, Frank. Best of luck, Frank. Laura Lee, I think you're... I think Laura Lee's number is coming up next.

But we will find out next week. But in the meantime, Sammy, thank you so much for joining me as always. Of course. Thank you everyone for listening. Don't forget to rate review and follow the show wherever you listen. You can follow us on Instagram at Bravo by Betches. And until next time, be cool. Don't be all like uncool.

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