Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson might not be the star of From Not to Hot, but he"s sure getting some screen time.
OBut on tonight"s episode, his last mediation with Mama June left him so angry that his new wife encouraged him to calm down.
He had his own idea for how to blow off steam … and it involves his wife, Jennifer, and their shared bedroom. That"s right, folks. Sugar Bear wants to bang out his frustrations.
From Not to Hot is about more than just June Shannon"s insane weight loss and total makeover.
It"s about her life and her family"s life. And that includes her ex-husband, Sugar Bear.
In tonight"s episode, he is fuming about his latest interaction with the From Not to Hot star.
"In mediation, I knew June was trying to push my buttons," he tells the confessional.
Nobody can push your buttons like family, folks. Especially an ex.
"And one of these days," he says. "I"m afraid I might just blow up again."
June Shannon accuses him of domestic violence, so that"s … not a reassuring thing to hear.
The on-camere conversation between Sugar Bear and his wife, Jennifer Lamb, begins on a much more playful subject.
Sugar Bear wants to go to bed, and he does not wish to sleep.
Jennifer quickly understand what has him all riled up.
"You"re just frustrated because of what happened at mediation."
And she knows how he processes that.
"More than anything, you just take it out in the bedroom and then you sleep."
Jennifer cautions him against letting his anger get the best of him.
"If you let this anger out in front of people, like lawyers and judges, that"s what June wants."
Really, he should be processing his anger in a healthy way, regardless.
"When they see that, there is no way Mike they will let you see your daughter by yourself."
And really, should any child"s safety be risked around someone with anger management issues? The answer is, categorically, no.
"You got to be the calm, Mike, and not the blowed up Incredible Hulk person."
That is a truly incredible line. Imagine Chris Hemsworth delivering that line to Mark Ruffalo in Thor: Ragnarok instead of parodying the ridiculous "sun"s going down" line from Age of Ultron.
Of course, in this same episode, Jennifer White confesses that she has some reservations about Sugar Bear seeing Alana in the first place.
"I can"t help thinking that Alana might not be Mike"s."
A DNA test was brought up when Sugar Bear complained that June Shannon was keeping his daughter from him. But Jennifer"s right — it could backfire.
"I know I would love Mike"s child just like I love mine, but that lawyer said something that keeps sticking in my mind."
She has some definite opinions on how to respond to the test.
"If it turns out that Alana"s not his, June Shannon would be out of my life forever. I sure in the hell ain"t paying child support for a kid that’s not Mike"s."
And Jennifer believes that she has good reason to doubt Alana"s paternity.
"When he was with June, he was working a lot of nights. I wanna do a DNA test."
And you can see that clip below.
In the end, though, Jennifer suggests a "healthy" stress-relief technique: throwing cinderblocks at photos of June Shannon
(We don"t know how common it is for someone to have cinder blocks on hand, but apparently Mike"s issue is that he doesn"t have any photos of his ex)
We"re not necessarily saying that it"s the healthiest way to process things, but … it"s better than actual violence against a person.
Progress?
