Randi's family

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Okay...is it just me or does her family just seem a tad bit too uptight?

I certainly hope they have some sense of humor....I dont think I could stand it if my family was as uptight as they are showing themselves to be at this point.

I can see the concern...but goodness....let it loose for a few minutes...they are so serious!

I have two older brothers that are over protective to an extent...but from what I saw tonight and from the previews I have seen...her older brother is just a tad bit TOO overprotective...its nice and all...but isnt it just a tad bit too much?

I guess we will see more of them next week....but I'd like to see some sense of them being a little less frigged.

What do you all think?

her brothers are just making statements and no actions were taken. the brothers didn't even say anything about breaking steve and randi.

therefore, they're not overprotective, yet.

Personally her mom seems like a total snot...I mean.."I will bring Randy home if I dont like this guy" since when is a 23 year old run by her mother..shes an adult and her mother should start treating her like one...maybe thats why shes such a brat..

Remember that FOX only shows what they want you to see? Its all for the bottom line for the ratings? Do you really think they will show you all the normal goody stuff? No they won't-they want to show one extreme and the other of Steves fake actor family. They pick what scenes they want -they want to show the uptight snobs vs. the over the edge lunatics-its a gas and FOX is brillant. I love it but agree the Coys are uptight as it is all portrayed. Yes, the mom is a little over protective BUT this is and unusual situation for all of them and FOX wants to get the spirited moments in.

Nah, people are creatures of habit. Those naturally funny and those tight@sses. The Coy family are the REAL McCoys and won't change much. Besides, they know that the whole world would be watching them and they have to go back to maintaining a normal work life in their community. Bruce and Catherine are two typical high morals from Littleton holding strong family values which are very primp and proper - a role model type. Both brought up their daughter Randi to act and behave in a certain fashion. Therefore, I don't think normal people will act out their wildest fantasies on the TV camera. That is a distinct difference for professional actors who proud themselves in diversifying their acting skills to portray a wider set of TV roles.

LOL!! The real McCoys huh? Scary!

I dont think Ive ever met a family as uptight as they have portrayed themselves...they almost act as if they are too good for anyone.....well so far...of course I will reserve the right to change my mind in the upcoming weeks if they show a different attitude!

Just like a woman right?

uptight is not the word, try protective and not letting daughter make own decisions. Some would call that controlling.

As to the woman side of the mom, she wants everyone to know she has fangs and claws just ready to rip.....

You at a lost for words when posting? Nah..... You arlready know that I thought highly of your ability to take either side of an issue. Why you jump all over MJ but not SP. Now it's the REAL MC Coys you think are too uptight. Even Randi doesn't let much burst through. The only time I saw her break outside of that holier-than-thou attitude was when she ripped the back hair wax off Steve lying on his tummy.

The two in-law families are so much apart. Steve's family know how to put up some nice theatrics. Randi's family got some snot up their nose.

I think Pappy Coy had two differenct concerns about this whole mess.

Before the big announcement that they were getting married ON TV in just 3 days, I sensed his main concern was that he was going to be forced to pay for a big wedding for Randi while knowing all the time that the marriage didn't have even a remote chance of success. I think he was just visualizing a lot of HIS money going down the drain.

He told Randi that everything would be okay but that was just after the lunchtime engagement announcement at the pavilion. At that time, he was still visualizing an engagement period of at least several months, long enough for Randi to come to her senses and call off the wedding. He was a little worried but not really too stressed out. He felt that time was definitely on his side.

Then, after the announcement that they were going to get married on TV in just 3 days, I'm sure his concern about the money evaporated because he knew that "the reality show" was going to foot the bills. After that announcement, his whole focus shifted to one of resistance for Randi's sake.

Now, he is dead set against it because he's sure that Randi must be going through some type of aberrant mental activity, a fugue state perhaps, and maybe she won't come out of it (and snap back into the honest, logical and level-headed daughter he thought he raised) before the wedding takes place. The stress level has just jumped tremedously because there doesn't seem to be enough time to do anything but just dig in his heels and refuse to participate.

This could be a much better show if they hadn't gotten ahead of themselves in showing the promo clips. We already know that Randi's wedding will definitely take place, at least we know that she will get as far as the altar. We've seen those scenes. So there really isn't any dramatic tension in the plot until we get to that point in the story. Fortunately, what it lacks in drama, it more than makes up for in comedy.

Old Scout

Okay....

I gave her mom and dad big brownie points for cutting the cord and saying that they decided to support her decision....but.

WHATS with those siblings of hers? I still think her brother is just a tad bit over the edge about her getting married.

He said she isnt thinking about the family...Hello Pat! People dont always get married to a person the family likes. He is going to have to face that reality.

I know its fake..but goodness already!

And whats with her making statements that her family needs the money...do they look like they need money?? And she said more than anyone Pat needs it. They dont look money starved to me by ANY means!

In thinking about that though...does anyone think that maybe the family is in on the whole joke? Maybe Randi is the one and only victim in this?

still good entertainment even thru the hardship of lying.
who knows if they'll get the money... fox is just excellent on editing

Did anyone see Randi on Fox news after the show tonite? She is very pissed at Steven Bailey, the actor. She says that she only knew Steve Williams the character and 'I don't know this Steven Bailey person who did lots of mean things to me. I'm still not over it yet." Oh. My. God. Randi is a stuck up girl who has had her pretty blonde butt kissed her entire life and her family is completely tight-assed and snooty. No sense of humor whatsoever and yes, absolutely controlling. It's pretty obvious that 'Steve Williams' is a decent, albeit goofy, guy, respectful in his own way. He's done nothing to hurt Randi in front of the Coys, doesn't call her mean names, order her around, show signs of abuse, etc. So the only thing the Coys are concerned about is the fact that Steve doesn't live up to their stuck-up suburban lifestyle. You've heard the cracks they made about Steve's appearance, right, and his lack of college? I think that says it all. I really hope that Randi loses the money, but I can't imagine Fox letting her walk away with nothing, even if her family objected.

i wish i watched today's news. damn. i would love to see her face when she describes the stuff that angers her. it's just too funny.

Tonight's show was just a total waste of time. The only reason I've found for watching this show is the hilarious behavior of Steve. But tonight, we hardly saw Steve at all; and when we did, he was having to play it serious in some scenes with Randi.

The plot wasn't advanced a bit in tonight's show. When last week's show ended, the wedding announcement had been made and the Coy siblings were pissed. Now here we are 2-1/2 days later (one hour on screen) and nothing has changed. The wedding is 12 hours away and the Coy siblings are still pissed and planning to skip the wedding. Nothing new has been added.

So what happened during the intervening time? Nothing funny, that's for sure. Instead, we had to sit there and watch the Coy family walking around pissing and moaning and wringing their hands. 1/6th of the total time for this "series" just passed by without any significant advancement to the plot. Espisode 5 was just a waste of time.

If I had been one of the writers or the producer or director of this show, I'd have made sure that something happened this week. Maybe I would have had a skeleton from Steve's closet accidentally revealed to the Coys (maybe a crazy ex-wife that Randi knows nothing about shows up and trys to wreck the wedding plans).

Or perhaps, I would have had Steve's flaky family raise some objection to the wedding, something serious enough (in their warped minds) to make them want to call off the wedding or back out of any participation, something that required Randi, or even her parents, to actually get involved in trying to bring the Williams family back into the wedding so that it can go forward on schedule.

Something to put a lot more stress into the plot and force the Coys, including Randi, to act against their own preferences in order to make Randi "happy" by having the wedding go ahead on schedule. Know what I mean?

We're led to expect that something surprising will happen at the wedding next week. I hope so.

Would it be too much to ask for there to be some comedy in next week's show also? Probably.

Old Scout

Has anybody realized yet that the Coy'ds may be in on the whole thing, and the joke just may be on Randi? I thought this from the first week that they showed the family, and my suspicions have grown stronger every week. What does everyone else think?

Hmm, I've heard tha theory before, but I can't see how they would be in on it. What's happened on the show that makes you think they are?

I think the ending that we've been discussing here for the last few posts would have been MUCH better than what they actually did.

I don't know who wrote the plot for this show but I suspect that it was someone who just walked it in off the street. It started out too good for me to believe that it came out of FOX's "think tank" in Long Beach. If the real writing talent had been able to keep creative control of the series all the way to the end, the last two episodes would have played out with a lot more pizzazz. But I suspect that FOX put their own people on the project somewhere around the fourth episode and they quickly sucked all the life out of it.

FOX has a crack team of hirsute dwarfs chained up in the cellar of an old warehouse near the docks in Long Beach. They are the cream of the writing talent for the network and they earn their daily gruel by coming up with all these weird "reality show" ideas. Most of them are pretty awful but that's okay 'cause it's FOX.

Anyhoo, those little bastards are a tricky bunch and they can get awful jealous sometimes. I think that's what happened here. In the first few episodes, the show was just too good for FOX and so the Long Beach Boys grabbed the scripts and made a few editing changes for the last two episodes to tone it down a bit. That pretty much killed it.

It takes a show like ObFi to come along every now and then so we can recalibrate our giggle response. After some quality time with Steve Bailey, we're prepared to accept a few months of FOX's normal programing idiocy (When Animals Attack, Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee, Blind Date, etc).

You know how it feels -- a brief bit of excitment followed by a long period of boredom. Kinda like the way your pet python felt after you fed him the neighbor's annoying Maltese. Burp! Time for a nice long nap.

Old Scout

You might be right, as to why the inconsistent shows between the fourth to the distinct differences and boring tone for the Fifth and Sixth.

I think that the show came down to an abrupt ending with the Coy family calling their lawyers during the Fourth. Things went into a turmoil and the front office Fox had to take charge to tone it down, put up hush money and bought the Coys to agree to do re-takes, over and over and over..... until they finally showed us those story lines as rigged. None of the nasty things that spurted out of Catherine, Melanie and their brothers were EVER aired but kept hush, hush..... in their out-takes.

I like to see their lawyer's out of court settlement papers.

Hello, I've been missing in action. What will we ever watch now that the show is over. IT was a hoot! I value all of your viewpoints.
Cheers...Hogworts

where do you get your intel, ken nj? i've never heard this on the media before. are you some sort of snooper? if you are, hook me up with her! j/k, but where do you get all your info from?

From the public domain and reading between the lines.