The Plot Thickens

This week on The Plot Thickens, we’re recapping another landmark event in Babs and Glenn’s life as a married couple - their joint 70th birthday! Whit and Lennie (begrudgingly) are working with the dance coach Gulia and are doing their best to keep up and keep their relationship together at the same time. In the meantime, Will is pleading with Whitney to start sending him photos of her food - even one a day will do! But will Whitney send him photos of her meal from the buffet at the party? Unlikely. Finally, Whitney ventures to Kerryn Feehan’s comedy show to see what she’s all about, but an awkward confrontation leads to tears and zero reconciliation, so who’s laughing now? 

Are you ready for the biggest face-off since "down goes Frasier"? Good! Because Whit is going head-to-head and pound for pound with a skinny comedienne who thinks fat jokes are the funniest thing since Bugs Bunny. Whit thinks fat jokes are lazy and lack creativity. Either way, we're in trouble when the comedienne comes on the Maney Roy & LauRen show and makes her opinions known. Whit's also having issues in her romantic life, as we know. She's hoping that a ballroom dance number with Lennie might help to ease some of the tension in their relationship. But will a cake taste testing go too far when it comes to eating healthy? Will it ruin Whitney's chances of achieving her goals? Will trainer Will ever take Whitney seriously? All things will be revealed in this recap episode! 

On this second part of a noteworthy episode, we’ve got some big moments, tense confrontations, and lackluster responses. As we know, Whitney stopped by Lennie’s house on the way to her job at the radio station in the wee hours of the morning, and his truck was nowhere to be found. This week, Whit is putting her situation on the air and asking the hosts of the radio show their thoughts. Spoiler alert: they’re not good. 

Something is rotten in Greensboro this episode, and it's not the super boney fish that Will asked Whitney to cook and eat for a healthy dinner! With her back still in the healing process and her relationship with Will on the line, Whit gives swimming a try with crowd favorite, Mattie! And make no mistake, though she's harboring a "Happy Meal," Mattie is all woman and knows her worth! In complaining to Mattie about Will's hardball approach with her, Whit decides that her status with Will isn’t the only thing that's on the line - she comes to realize that maybe Lennie's communication with her isn’t what it should be. Will Whit and Lennie move forward and bolster their communication, or is this an irreconcilable difference? 

If we could say one phrase to describe this week’s episode, it would be “don’t drop the soap!” Poor Whitney blows her back out in the shower - whether it was reaching down for soap or something else, she’s out of commission for the Charlotte St. Paddy’s Day Parade and doesn’t know how she can coach the Big Girls when she can barely move! Especially because, as usual, we’re down to the wire on practices before we’re ready to perform. Will Whitney’s back injury ruin her chances of participating in her (alleged) first parade? Or will the “luck of the Irish” (aka Mattie) save the day as usual with a “jazzy” entrance? 

When Whit starts at the radio job (internship) she is quickly thrust (emphasis on thrust) into a situation (of her own making) where she's getting a little too cozy with a coworker. In radio, as Whit tells us, everything goes and you can get a lot more personal and explicit with radio folks than you can with other lines of work! Along with the workers comp issues - Whit threw out her back and it was "exacerbated" by the bagel run she did for her bosses - she also is having auto issues. The car she's been driving since the beginning just about burst into flame, totally preventing her from being at the LAST rehearsal before the St. Paddy's Day performance in Charlotte. 

This week on The Plot Thickens, we’re confronting some hard topics - everything from old fashioned views on how relationships should work to how well couples should know each other is on the table - and don’t worry, none of it will be drama-free! First, we’ve got Whitney telling Glenn that she wants to move in with Lennie -spoiler alert, y’all: Glenn does NOT like the idea of his baby girl living in sin! Then we’ve got a disastrous couples game night with Whitney and Lennie and Buddy and Heather - Whit gets competitive over which couple knows each other better and she’s not going to like it when Lennie guesses her favorite food incorrectly! Finally, Whit’s heading out on a bike ride with the guys from Recycles and she’s learning that going for a casual couple miles with Lennie in the park is very different from a coordinated 10-mile ride. Will she make it through or embarrass herself in the process? Tune in to find out! 

This week, we've got an episode of new opportunities for Whit. Whit's heading back to the gym with Will - after her first stair-stepping Rocky moment last week, she's back in the gym and weighing in. Also, Whitney's interviewing for a radio job - but it's not just any job, Whitney's going back to internship level! We took a deep dive into Whit's radio-rife past, and it turns out she was a big time producer back in Greensboro at a small local radio station. Looks like Whit got used to a lot of personal probes at her Greensboro radio job, and she's hoping to use those skills in her new job as Intern Whit. Babs is aghast - and has serious concerns about Whit's "comportment." Whit has the motivation to go back to radio? And at the entry-level, grabbing coffee and bagels? But what about those early hours and the long commute to Charlotte, NC? Whit's surprisingly game for this internship (even with the 3 AM wakeup). 

It may be the 2026 Winter Olympics, but our focus is fully on a show that took place about ten years ago - My Big Fat Fabulous Life! Recapping MBFFL is OUR Olympics. We start off this week with another update from Ryan Andreas' "Ask Me Anything" segment on instagram, which received a lot of excitement from the MBFFL community (and a lot of boredom from Ryan's wife)! Episode 3 was another packed one in Season 3 of the show - we had to break it down into two pieces. Last time, we saw Whitney beg Will, her former trainer, to take her back and Will accepted Whit with open arms. In this half of the episode, Whitney's back with Will and she's possibly starting to regret that decision as he puts her fitness to the test in a bit of a challenge to assess her current level. Will Whit falter at the challenge or rise to the occasion? 

Welcome back to an extremely tense episode - there’s heart-pumping, cardiologist-rolling drama left and right! In this first half of Episode 3, Whit makes a speech at her Alma mater, Appalachian State! Will she be crushed by questions she can’t answer, like “you’re not a doctor! What entitles you to an opinion on health at any size?” Or will she rise above by telling stories we wish Babs and Glenn didn’t have to hear about intimacy issues while being overweight?  Whit also visits her cardiologist for the first time, and begs for  Will, her former trainer, to take her back as a client.