Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, Chrisley Man

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Todd Chrisley: Entrepreneur. Father. Fashionista...Party Planner?
Chrisley
Todd Chrisley: Entrepreneur. Father. Fashionista…Party Planner?

Tonight on the season one finale of USA’s Chrisley Knows Best, Todd faces the biggest challenge of his life — planning his granddaughter’s first birthday party. The party starts at 10pmET/PT when Todd bets his wife Julie that he can throw just as fabulous a birthday for granddaughter Chloe as Julie can. I simply love a good family wager, especially when there’s smack talk involved…

Don’t you love how Julie just rolls her eyes at her husband? I bet that Julie is a hoot to hang out with; I imagine the stories she could tell would curl your hair! This is “reality” TV, with heavy emphasis on the quotation marks, so I’m almost positive that Todd didn’t simply wake up three days before Chloe’s first birthday and “decide” to throw her a lavish birthday party, but for the sake of entertainment, I’ll pretend that petting zoos are available on short notice, as are rental tables and linens, and multi-tiered cakes can simply be picked up at the local Piggly Wiggly.

Todd quickly realizes that party planning (even when you have more than three days) isn’t all fun and games, especially when the party is planned by a Chrisley. But any party that involves emergency cake surgery is a party that I want to be invited to!  Get me 20cc’s of Frosting— Stat!

The Season 1 antics of the colorful Chrisley family have tickled viewers’ funnybones, and USA has renewed Chrisley Knows Best for a second season. America has fallen in love with these wacky Southerners. It’s nice to watch this zany family for whom family values mean more than one’s net worth. There is no word on when Season 2 will return, but expect bigger and wilder Chrisley adventures to come.

Immediately after the East Coast airing of the show, fans can chat with Todd, Julie and some of their children on the free app Beamly (formerly zeebox.) The chat begins at 10:30pmET and is available for free download from the App Store, Google Play or at http://beamly.com.

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