I've been trying to figure out how Aviva Drescher is going to hold her own on this season of The Real Housewives of New York. She's happily married with children, and she seems relatively laid back, not one to dive into the drama -- not exactly the makings of an interesting Housewife. Tonight her role became a little more clear -- she's an instigator.

She doesn't want to be in the firing line, but oh does she like to see those shots go off. Tonight the flames she was fanning were those between Ramona Singer and LuAnn de Lesseps.

Though they've feuded long and hard over the years, Ramona and The Countess finally seemed to have reached some sort of truce, but Aviva was out to put an end to that. True, LuAnn's move at the wine party was low (where is her etiquette book?) -- trying to trick Ramona with her own wine. I'm sure they were hoping she'd criticize it, saying it sucked or something. 

As we gear up for the season premiere of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Sunday, all of the ladies are out talking to the media. NeNe Leakes is busy dishing on Kim Kardashian's divorce (she hopes it wasn't caused by "one blowout fight"); Kim Zolciak is all about her wedding plans; and Phaedra Parks is out blaming Bravo and other reality television creators for encouraging bullying. Kind of an odd way to promote the show she's on, but okay.

"Unfortunately I do think that reality TV has spawned a whole culture of bullying," she told the Associated Press. While I think she's overestimating the influence of the Housewives substantially, she does have a point.

The past came back to haunt Tamra Barney in more ways than one on this week's episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County. As if she didn't have enough drama with Gretchen Rossi, none other than Jeana Keough had to come strutting back onto the scene. Instant cattiness and snide remarks from both ensued as Tamra considers Jeana a spy for Simon, and probably rightfully so. 

The newly slimmed-down Jeana believes Tamra is "totally at fault" for the split with Simon, which as anyone who has watched the show can totally see is not true -- the guy was a controlling creep. So while I used to like Jeana, after seeing her interrogate Tamra and make her little comments tonight, I'm starting to believe what Tamra said:

Jeana looks great; she just has a nasty soul. Jeana has this way of acting like she cares about you so much, but I don’t trust her as far as I can throw her, and god knows that wouldn't be very far.

Kim Kardashian took a lot of heat when she appeared nude last fall in W magazine. She was covered in silver paint, but it covered very little and was deemed more racy than her Playboy spread. On this week's episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York, she explained just why she did it -- she didn't mean to.

She started off all excited about the shoot, detailing how ALL of her was covered in the silver paint. “I had to bend over and they painted like in my ass,” she told Kourtney. A lovely thought. She described how it would be all artistic, and all her parts would be covered by buildings and such.

Then she saw the actual pictures ...

Sahar, charmed by an Edible Arrangement, couldn't say goodbye to Pablo on the season finale of The Real World: New Orleans, but the entire cast had to say farewell to the Big Easy.

There were tears, there was thunder ... there wasn't a fruit bouquet in the world big enough to ease the ache in their hearts. And yet, another season came to an end and the roommates were forced to move on.

Let's take a look at how they each bid adieu:

Ashlee is homeless ... and bored. Mardi Gras is over, the house homophobe/closet gay is gone, and for the most part, all emotional hang-ups have been exposed. So what's left for the cast of The Real World: New Orleans?

Well, they could pretend to be homeless. 

Ryan packs his bags. Clearly this week's episode of The Real World: New Orleans was all about Ryan's shenanigans, but it was also nice to see Preston settle down. He said goodbye to all the "Big Thangs" of his former promiscuous life and declared Marty his official boyfriend. Aww. 

Now on to Ryan, who eventually decided to give up all the free Subway sandwiches and rode off into the NOLA night for good. 

Sahar dealt with stage fright and the rest of the roommates dealt with the terror that is Ryan on this week's episode of The Real World: New Orleans.

If that weren't enough scary for one episode, the house also got its very own pet cemetery thanks to McKenzie. The blonde Floridian gently laid to rest a pet fish in a home-crafted Ziploc coffin. Later, she willed a different gilled friend to live, using only her words and a soup ladle.

I can already see this season's spin-off: McKenzie: The Fish Whisperer.