Cheapskateville!

Yet another former star with a current reality tv show, Tuckerville follows the trials and tribulations of country legend Tanya Tucker single mom. Although from the episode i caught tonite, it's more the kids raising her.

Layla, the youngest - i'm guessing 6-7, spends more time campaigning for her mom to quit smoking than playing video games with friends. And when her mom is under the weather (read as: recovering from a botox appointment), Layla makes her homemade soup (jot this recipe down. It's a keeper! 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1 can evaporated milk, half a bottle of honey, 1 raw egg, and a chocolate bar) to make her feel better.

Oldest son Jeremy (oh, wait i think that's the roloff's kids - i can't keep my reality in check!) tries to bail out of jail their "babysitter", but to no avail. judge sentences the sitter to a week in the slammer. ( Now here would have been a great application of Jerry Seinfeld's Butler sentence for criminals - the judge should have ruled that he be a butler to the kids he baby sits. i digress......)

In any event, a new sitter is found, from all apearances through the yellow pages....a dude with wayyyy too tight jeans, long curly hair who looks more like a village person (YMCA) than a sitter of young children. Left to care for Tanya's 2 sons this caretaker is subject to some rough-housing and then a friendly basketball game in the driveway where it's agreed the loser has to jump in tucker lake. Guess who loses? yep. but true to his word the tucker boys drive sitter down to the lake and he jumps in. which, brings up another point...if you're old enough to drive, do you NEED a babysitter??????

finally, Tanya arrives back home (she'd been out with her daughter catching up on her cattle herding skills at a local rodeo stampede. ) and asks the baby sitter how it went. he lies and says fine. Tanya reacts surprised and says, "really? we cant seem to get anyone to come back."

now, just as you think she's about to replace jail slammer with this dude, she reaches in her handbag to pay him and pulls out a 20 dollar bill (yes, i said T-W-E-N-T-Y) and asks him if he has CHANGE!!!!!! a $5 or a few singles!!! Now I am sorry, but you do NOT live in a house the size of TARA from Gone with the Wind, go to hypnotists to quit smoking, and spend thousands on botox and perma make-up and then give the baby sitter who put in at least 3-4 hours of work, jumped in a lake, and watched not one, but two kids who weren't even asleep for the night, twenty bucks!!!!!!!!

I am not a mom and my babysitting days are long behind me but that's just Wrong in any "...Ville" !

.... And you say no sitter wants to come back?

-Diva 4 out.