The group does fun Nashville activities: They ride the bull, get drunk by a lake, and pedal a bar around the streets. But they do all this in a tense atmosphere, because at the first dinner, Teresa accuses Marge of spreading rumors about Louie, Marge denies it, and then Teresa throws drinks and plates at her before storming home and checking into a hotel.
At the farewell cocktail party, Louie asks her brother Joe for permission to marry Teresa. It’s granted, and then Louie tells Teresa it’s time to leave, implying that she doesn’t need this show anymore, which is the scariest thing to happen all trip, aside from when the women record a song together.
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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.