Claudie-A Review

That poor lady has been dragged through the mud and her family has totally collapsed on itself. Firstly, Claudie was collecting children. She had 12 kids and only 5 of the adult females have come back to help her. That's less than half. I'm assuming the other seven children have cut off all ties with her. She had to leave her house and move into a homeless shelter because either the kids didn't want her in their home for fear that she'll start hording in their house, or they just didn't want to be bothered by her.

Jim, Claudie's hubby's hair is *beep* awesome! His hair kicked ass on so many levels. Jim's hair was a white flat top which was all puffy. The way Jim was acting, however, I know he was one something. What it is, I'm not sure....It could be crack, it could be heroin, or it could be that angel dust.

The story about Claudie going out shopping for a few hours and Jim rallied the dozen kids together to clean the house only for Claudie to come home all pissed off and call the cops on her family for "moving her stuff" was disturbing. Gimmie a break. Oh, and Jim ended up leaving her. They had flyers up for him and they had him on the news and everything. They found Jim 12 days later, chilling in Vegas. I think they were talking about divorcing or something, but who can blame the guy? Who would want to live in trash like that?

So on the day the cleanup is supposed to be surveyed and started, the hoarding specialist and Claudie happen upon Jim, who has been gone for 13 months. Jim is just in the house out of the clear blue sky, and he's playing the organ and acting all nonchalant. Jim's a damn playa. A crackhead playa. Then, the damn hoarding specialist wants to see the refrigerator. AY MADON, not the fridge! I'm not sure what all was happening in the fridge, but the fridge, as well as everything in it, has turned black! The sight of that fridge made me itch. There's no doubt about it. I felt disgusted after peering into the fridge. Sick *beep*

Also, the cleaning took a back seat to the tepid family drama. Firstly, Jim told the hoarding specialist that he would come back home if Claudie cleaned up the junky ass house. When Caludie pulled Jim to the side to ask him, he never gave her a clear answer. This pissed Claudie off so they both sat down on a bed, where Jim claimed that his future plans "sorta" involved Claudie. The hoarding specialist stated that she wasn't a marriage counselor, which is exactly what those two needed. Jim then told Claudie to hush because "the cameras are rolling!".

Claudie then went apewire. Claudie claims that it was her hubby Jim who caused most of the junk in their house. Bitch, you weren't cleaning anything and if someone dared to clean up that junk shop you call a home you'll call the cops on them and rip open the trash bags to throw the *beep* back where it was. Claudie also blamed neighborhood kids and said that they broke into her home and scattered things around her house. So Claudie will have us to believe that some neighborhood kids broke into her home and deposited 37 years worth of *beep* in her house as a prank? I'm calling bull *beep* on that.

Yeah, they got that junk shop that Claudie calls a house clean, but that's the least of Claudie's problems. Firstly, Claudie went ape *beep* on her daughters, screaming that they brought the Hoarders crew to her home to "shame her" and she was staring down her daughters like she's ready to fight them. Jim decided to go back to Vegas because he loves warm weather. While Jim was wearing his immortal Philadelphia Eagles Starter jacket (Goddamn, I thought those went out of style in the mid 1990s), he told his wife and the hoarding specialist that he has to go back to Vegas because he has "books to read" and he "likes to read". I'm sure that translates into: "I love gambling and I have some sexy young girlfriend with money so I'm going back to Vegas!". When asked about how Claudie will support herself and pay the bills in her home, Jim just shrugged his shoulders and stated: "We're gonna have to let the Lord work it out. God will make a way." When the hoarding specialist got pissed and asked him to be clear on his intentions, Jim screamed "I'm a herbologist!!" Isn't a herbologist someone who grows weed? A botanist is someone who studies plants, but I don't think he meant that.

So in the end, Claudie returned back to the homeless shelter, Jim and his awesome hair went back to Vegas to get on those slots, and Claudie had a falling out with some of her children after the episode.

My question to the people on this board is....would you let Claudie stay with you?


Other Memorable Events:

Tonya Harding as the hoarding specialist

Claudie's teeth. Those teeth remind me of Jaws 2.

Claudie's daughter named "Katheleen" (pronounced KATH-THEE-LEEN).

Jim's awesome Indiana Jones Hat.

Claudie crying because she hasn't stepped into her closet since 1986.

Claudie wearing a freaking Tupac ALL EYEZ ON ME shirt. That is just gold.


Caludie's Memorable Quotes:

[to daughter]"Next time you say that, I'm gonna sock you with my fist bust you in yo damn mouth!"

[to daughter]"Don't yell at me, ho!"

[to her daughters]"Y'all got me on camera to shame me!"

[to everyone in the room] "My husband is a tramp! He been bringing stuff in here!"(is that a double entendre?)


Daughter {to Claudie}: "Hoarding has destroyed your family, Mama!"

We don't know these people or what the state of the marriage was in before Jim took off, so it's not exactly clear if it was in fact hoarding that destroyed the family. Both Claudie and Jim created their situation. But I still for some reason don't believe that hoarding is the only issue that destroyed their family. What say you?

Knock it off, Hudson.