Dina scores them a beautiful house to make big Italian meals in, but Jim Marchese is functionally incapable of enjoying himself. He starts by interfering in Nicole’s relationship, picking at Bobby for not marrying her, and then once he’s gotten everyone riled, he drops the bomb that he heard a rumor Teresa’s husband Rino once slept with the twins’ mother, Santa.
Ah Marone! Dina invites the Marcheses to leave, and once the season ends, Nicole drops Bobby back at the Dunkin’ where she found him.
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There can only be one Punta Princess, as Kathy Wakile points out, but both Teresa and her sister-in-law Melissa Gorga want the title. An argument could be made that Melissa deserves the crown solely for the way she hung her head out the airport van window and hollered at the men who, having just landed in the country were now peeing on the side of the highway, “Have some claaaaaaaass!” On the first day’s boat trip, Melissa and Teresa, and their respective Joes, have a tense pose-off in their bikinis.
Poor Albert Manzo. Any travel agent can tell you, there is a difference between a trip and a vacation and Albert is not on a vacation. Despite his wife Caroline assuring him it would be just the two of them, here he is escorting her elderly parents up a mountain and babysitting the screaming Giudice children about a cruise ship.