Bree is the most interesting, deepest, most complex person in the series. This is a drama thinly veiled as comedy and on the whole is pretty dark; Bree is the soul of the ensemble, the one I really felt for.
When I first got into the show, it was the first episode of Season 4, and I thought Bree was a mean lady (not that she didn't have her reasons - Katherine was even worse toward Bree from the moment they met). But, over the course of that season and the rest of the series, it was fascinating to see the layers to Bree's character Much more than any other character, I've wanted to see a young Bree and how she fit into the world. Rex hinted at her being more carefree when they were younger, but she was always about the old-fashioned values of yesteryear.
The way she was treated throughout the series was actually heartbreaking. Her battle with alcohol, dealing with Andrew, the other housewives turning their back on her and almost driving her to suicide. The way she evolves throughout the seasons is great. By FAR the best character and arc in my opinion
I felt bad for Bree. She was a pain in the butt for the first season, but still, I wouldn't wish her family on my worst enemy. They were horrible people.
She just wanted everything perfect for her family. In the first season she seemed like a control freak but in the later seasons we see that she was just trying to make them a happy family.
I agree. It would be a living hell to live with her (although she gets better over time). However she obviously tries hard to create a loving and comfortable home (a little too hard it can be said), that said her family are so ungrateful.
Andrew turned out alright, he genuinely loved his mother and with time knew every thing she did for him was out of love, but Danielle was plain awful, she didn't give a care about her mom at all through most of the series.
@popcorn247, you kidding, right? Because I wouldn't wish a mother/wife like that to my worst enemy. She was a tyrant. She wanted the best for her family, but it was always HER idea of "the best". She didn't give a fuck about what her husband and her kids wanted. She always did things her own way, completely ignoring other family members' wishes and then bitched every time somebody dared to complain. Would you like to have a wife/husband who - when you would ask them to cook some bacon - would cook fish (that you completely can't stand), say it's healthier and feel offended when you would go to the loo and vomit after the dinner?
@Joshua Birdwell, you wouldn't. Unless you're a miraculous couple and each and every of your interests and wishes are exactly the same. Because every single time you would disagree, Bree would do things her own way, taking a big shit on your opinion on the matter. Because she "knows better".
@@Leonion6 still, she evolves over the series, in season 1 she s willing to please Rex by agreeing to hurt him so that he can feel pleasure. The absolute worst was Lynette, she was such a raging and controlling bitch. She constantly emasculated Tom, undermined him for not being succesful and rich enough, and when he finally became a big shot she bitched about it, too!
@@alucinado1021 I disagree with Lynette's behaviour at times she is controlling but Tom isn't blameless either he can be a useless idiot at times and his behaviour towards Lynette over Nora and Kayla was selfish and cowardly Lynette supported and backed him up and even took a financial hit over it and he blamed her for it not working out and Kayla going psycho and setting Lynette up on false child abuse charges.
@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 Well Lynnette got her mom killed, I mean. Kayla was a bitch, true, but Lynnette only decided to fight for custody to get rid of Nora. She didn't care about Kayla, and after that it was more like an obligation cuz well, she got Nora killed.
@bbaloo05, are you mad? What "dinner like this"? First, exotic food =/= good food. Not everyone likes this kind of stuff. Some people enjoy regular pasta with cheese much more than some super-hard-to-cook foreign dish. Bree makes her own cooking choices. She cooks dishes she likes, not dishes her family members asked her to cook, why on Earth should they be grateful? Go buy an expensive rare postage stamp for a friend who never showed any interest in collecting them. Will you expect him to be grateful for your useless (for him) gift too? After all, you spent a fortune on this postage stamp. Or just cook an exotic fish dish for a person who hates fish. Or go and rearrange books in your wife's/husband's personal bookcase because in your opinion the new order will suit his/her need much better. That's Bree's exact approach. She puts a lot of efforts into something no-one asked her to do (and it's often something she and she only find important) and then feels offended when people don't line up praising her for her efforts.
@ymarrero23, I'm not complaining (fortunately, my mother was nothing like Bree, and more like the opposite - she had little interest in my activities most of the time, so I usually experienced very little control from her and did what I wanted to do; only once she made me visit ballroom dancing classes for a couple of months, but when i said I didn't like it, she immediately agreed to stop it and she never forced me to do anything ever again - and at the same time she never neglected her 'duties', like cooking, buying books and toys for me despite having financial problems, taking days off when I would get sick and so on, so I really have nothing to complain about), I'm just trying to open your eyes, those of you who didn't study psychology and can't see that menace that hides behing Bree's visually calm and polite behavior. Because the price for that mistake is lives of children that are destroyed by such parents. Bree is a coursebook example of a bad mother. She's a classic example of selfishness (she always does everything the way she wants it to even if it means stepping over dead bodies) covered by false selflessness (she pretends that - well, she truly believes that - she does the best she can for her family, but it's not the case). People who blindly idolize her and blame her "ungrateful family" - I already feel sorry for their [future] kids. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Self-righteous people like Bree who "know better what's best for you" (even when it's about matters of tastes like food) can be very dangerous. Today they persistently cook food that their kid doesn't like, tomorrow they refuse to vacinate their kid because they've read some paranoid articles, the day after tomorrow they're trying to cure their kid with urine therapy instead of those horribly dangerous antibiotics. I've heard/read far too many sad stories about such crazy moms. These are the kind of people who try to convert their left-handed kids into right-handed, who force them to engage in activities / visit classes they're not interested in and have no talent for, try to "heal" their kids if they turn out to be gay and so on. They ruin their kids' chilhood with their despotism and then they act surprised and offended when their kinds grow up into angry and bitter people who hate them. They treat their kids like objects, property, rather than living people with feelings, wishes, emotions and feel offended when after their kids grow up they don't give a damn about them in return. Every single word Bree heard in this conversations (and neither Andrew, not Rex or Danielle were particularly impolite at the beginning, e.g. Danielle just calmly asked why they can't have more ordinary food at least sometimes - a perfectly fine question) - she had it all coming. You say (in another comment) your mom is a nightmare. Would you not prefer if many years ago someone pointed her at her mistakes and - maybe - she would have changed her behavior?
People are just different. If someone is annoying you for years with his/her perfectionism you wouldn't be grateful, you would HATE it - believe me … Love can be terrible and horrifying.
My favourite character in the serie ! She's such a complicated person...Throughout the seasons we see Bree's evolution! Marcia Cross is such a good actress !
Jesus fucking Christ, this whole comment section under this video is killing me... @barbiquearea, what is a "great dinner"? It's no absolute set of dishes, it's what YOU love. Bree never cooked things her family members wanted to eat, we clearly see it from the video. She cooked dishes she personally found great, even if those dishes made her family members vomit. Are you sure you would like your mom to make you eat things you don't like on daily basis?
@Jake from state farm , then what did you eat? Did you cook yourself what you liked? Or did you... I dunno... ordered pizza or something? It's better when your parents don't cook anything at all than when they cook stuff you hate and make you eat it.
@Jake from state farm , your attitude is stupid. You had your own problems, kids from rich families sometimes have their own. It's like comparing kids raised by neglecting parents and kids raised by overprotective parents. The former hated their childhood because their parents payed little attention to them, hardly ever spent time together. But they don't see that it also allowed them to enjoy a great extent of freedom and do whatever they want most of the time. Other kids complain about parents controlling their every move but don't appreciate the fact that at least their parents actually care about them, spend a lot of time and effort on them. You act like an arrogant douchebag because you experienced some hardships, but so what? Everyone did. And you literally can't imagine what it's actually like to have an I-know-everything-better-than-you control freak like Bree for a mother. Someone who wishes well but whose entire road paved with good intentions leads to hell for her family. And just so you know, I was raised in a poor family as well. In Russia, in the 90ies, in the middle of the economic crisis, by a mother working overtime at a job where they delayed the payments because the company had no money, and an unemployed drunkard abusive father (he never hurt me but he did hurt my mom and grandma). You think you're the only one who had rough childhood? Think again. And when I'm talking about Bree, I am not talking from experience and personal complaints (my mom was/is nothing like Bree, in both good and bad ways), I'm talking from coursebook knowledge of how people like her can be (unintentionally) bad for their families.
@Jake from state farm , It's not I who's ungrateful (did I not make it perfectly clear my view of Bree has nothing to do with my own life? I'm very grateful for what my mom did for me, but Bree is a different case entirely), it's you who's being an arrogant & ignorant fool who only sees the world through his/her own personal biased experience and fails to understand it's a lot more complex than you think.
Bree taught me to keep a house tidy at all times and how to be a fabulous homemaker unfortunately I must work lol but there’s never a time where my house isn’t tidy and that’s because of Bree
Michael was a born rebel, but a different kind of gay son character absolutely would have idolised her as a role model of prissy perfectionism. Bree is such an exaggerated expression of domestic femininity that her character could easily be embraced as a camp icon.
If I was Bree I would've taken the plate from Andrew, since he doesn't appreciate a nice homecooked meal. I would then tell him to go in the kitchen and make his own dinner.
You guys are entirely blind to the fact that this was endemic to a bigger problem. Bree's perfectionism made her family feel sterile and fake, the dinner just added to it. She was so obsessed with being perfect everyone just didn't want to deal with it anymore, that's not unappreciative, that's a normal response to excessive behavior.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627Yeah but it's weird for the kids to mention it at dinner like that instead of maybe asking for one night of takeout food. They knew how much pride she had in her cooking and could have went about it differently. Also the Dad siding with the kids by saying to pass the salt was worse bc he literally joined in on the insults. I'm sorry but there were times the kids and even Rex did such unnecessary things to Bree. I will admit the nicest one was Danielle and she was the one Bree criticized the most.
Knowing Marc Cherry (series creator) based Bree on his mother, makes so much sense when you see all the storylines and character development she gets. The writers love her. The fans love her. She is an icon! 🤩
Well Gabby evolved a bit after season 5 and started to become more selfless towards the end of the series. Lynette and Susan didn't really evolve until literally close to the series finale.
As an outsider it's easy to come to Bree's defense and want just a taste of her perfect catering but I think what the scene's expressing is that the family feel alienated from her because she is so obsessive and disconnected from what matters to them.
to be fair, she wasn't asking for anything absurd here, just a compliment She asked: "how's the food?" They only had to say: "It's lovely" Instead they wanted to show her they didn't care And I'm only talking about this scene in particular, Bree was a handful and I wouldn't want her as my mother, damn, I wouldn't want her as my aunt. lol
@@voidofme9192 nobody is obligated to give you a compliment.. she asked and her son gave her an honest answer. The fact that her daughter had the response she did meant she really cause a lot of trauma in that house
@@Liquethemodel I wish you someday know how it is to serve people and get nothing good in return. In the context of the story, this scene happened after many years of bree making an effort to give the best for her family and all they could say is "its ok". Maybe if someday you go through similar experiente you'll understand how ungrateful people can make you feel like shit.
@@voidofme9192 yea it’s heartbreaking, I took my son to see lightyear before he left for the summer after the movie I was just trying to casually talk (we don’t have much in common) and he got on his phone, I said I’m trying to talk to you before you’re gone 😢 he replied we did something you wanted to do now I want to do what I like. 💔 I just let him stay on the phone
Yes, she was definitely the perfect/ideal housewife and it's unfortunate that her family did not appreciate that. When she married Orson, they were more suited for each other.
@@jclyntoledo they didnt even end up together also, the lawyer she ends up with was perfect for her, and im glad bree end it up having a career in politics.... also hello 10 years later
I fucking love Bree. I know that everyone has this slight distaste for her conservative ways, but you have got to watch all of the seasons... I feel only then can you really love Bree. Poor thing just wants the American dream. The family waving in unison on their perfectly manicured lawn as you drive away... However, thats not what she gets an in the process of trying to achieve that goal, gets herself into so much shit... i think she finally realizes beaver cleaver is just not going to happen. Boy does she evolve into an iconic character... the woman who seeks perfection but will never get it. lol
The problem is - it's her idea of perfection. And every time her family members didn't look perfect, she would take a cleaver and chop off their unwanted parts. She's only iconic from the point of being a sad example of how people in most of destructive couples act, trying to always change the other person instead of finding compromise or changing themselves.
I agree with you, J King. She only wanted what was best for her family, she truly loved them. Maybe her ways of showing that weren't the best, but I'm glad she grew over the course of the seasons.
The thing is that her Mother instilled that thing of suppressing her feelings into her (she was dealing with Bree's father cheating on her), then her Mother died in front of her and Bree was left alone only for the girl to feel better once she rinsed the blood off the street, and then her father married this perfectionist harridan of a woman who never made Bree feel that she was ever good enough to match her standards (unlike Bree's mom who loved her as she was).
@@Leonion6 lol your commenting so negatively on every person’s own opinion..lol..we get it you have your own as well..but just replying on every comment you see that you dont see eye to eye with?..also this video is about bree..so your gonna get a lot of comments saying they adore her no matter shitty of a person you might see her. And if you try and reply with this comment as well...well...good for you...
I think Bree's defenders are missing the point: it's not that her family doesn't appreciate the effort that goes into a delicious gourmet meal, it's that Bree's obsessive perfectionism has become intimidating and rendered the home sterile to the point that they don't feel like a family. A gourmet meal is nice once in a while but when it comes to the day-to-day simplicity is the key.
It's like the therapist points out to Rex, she cooks for them, makes sure they have clean clothes and a tidy house. Where's the gratitude? They're all really at fault but it's not difficult to pay a compliment
That's part of why i enjoyed Katherine's character. The woman did nothing to Bree, except, threaten her sense of perfection, which drove Bree mad for a while. And, Bree remained extremely critical of her daughter. Most commenters think that Danielle is a complete terror, and, while she made bad decisions (particularly in Season 2 she was a train wreck), Bree never gave Danielle credit for anything. The incident with Bree secretly feeding Benjamin two hotdogs summarized their relationship. I find Bree fascinating to watch (Marcia Clark knocks it out of the part), but, she carried extreme faults that needed to be ironed out, not that Rex wasn't at fault in their decaying marriage, nor, were her kids perfect angels.
They don’t appreciate her. She does all this work for her family and they don’t bother to say thank you or be grateful, all they do is wine or nag. So what will happen if she doesn’t put in effort? They’ll ask her what she’s been doing all day. I can’t speak for Danielle but the men in her family definitely do not appreciate her one bit
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 People show love in different ways. If somebody spends hours in the kitchen to make you a good meal they show that they care about you and your wellbeing is important to them. What the kids are doing is the equivalent of somebody answering „whatever“ or „i don‘t care“ after somebody told them „i love you“/ „i care about you“.
@@and.me_7390 You know what else is the equivalent of saying "I don't care"? Completely ignoring the needs of your family, like what Bree did. This wasn't a show of love, it was a narcissistic attempt at imposing her own view of what the family *should* be onto them. She improved for sure, but this is not a show of love.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 It is a show of love. There is just the misunderstanding that the kids don‘t recognize it as a show of love and Bree not understanding that they seek a different sign of love. You just assume and take things for granted because you refuse to see the other persons side. Bree has literally a mental breakdown because doing the things she does for her family does not get seen by them. If you come home and your partner has cooked for you it‘s a sign of love and affection. If your partner has cleaned the apartment because they knew you‘d be too tired is a sign of love. If your partner shops groceries for you two, it‘s a sign of love. If your partner squeezes pimples out at your back (literally what Bree said in the series) it‘s a sign of love. Just because you are blind of it, does not mean it‘s not there.
She showed her love through the quality of her work and her family just took it for granted to the level of seeing it as oppression. So glad Bree finally realized her real worth and potential in the end.
@Angel Rios, what love are you talking about? When you truly love someone, you're trying to please them by doing what THEY want, not what YOU want. You listen to them, you're trying to make them happy according to their ideas of "happy", not yours. When you truly love someone, but have a conflict of interests, you look for a compromise or even let the other person have their way, you don't aggressively push your own. Bree didn't know the true meaning of love for many years, she only did things the way she thought would be best, regardless of others' opinions. At best she only realized it by the end of the series.
@@Leonion6Please rewatch the Show. All of the characters are multifaceted and nuanced. Also even Andrew thanked her for kicking him out when she did bc he was getting out of control. He realized later on that yes, she was controlling at times but even when she tried to connect and loosed up he would provoke her to be extreme.
@@jclyntoledo if your child is getting out of control, you already failed as a parent. Her entire long-lasting conflict with Andrew would have never happened if she hadn't been who she used ot be and were just a normal loving mother.
No, you wouldn't. Because being raised by Bree means you can shove all your wishes, dreams and desires up your ass, except for those that just happen to be the same as Bree's.
Bree you have inspired me and taught me to keep my house tidy at all times. After watching Desperate Housewives I became obsessed with learning to be an excellent homemaker unfortunately I’m not a stay at home homemaker I have to work but you’re a big inspiration.
This scene is so important! Beautiful writing cause everything said in this one scene literally affects the whole season each word is a seed for future scenes and gives a kick start to the character Arcs for all the Vaderkemps.
Imogen Onscreen Rex is a coward in my opinion. He never really defended Bree & they are all ungrateful for the effort she does. I am sure that if Andrew asked her nicely to prepare other kinds of food she would have gladly done it
@@fadyalhachem In fact, there s a scene when they go to therapy and Bree sews the shrink's button and he then asks Rex if he ever values the benefits of being with Bree such as having a neat home and great food
This is good but my personal favourite is when Andrew has done something wrong at school and you see Bree marching into school...All you see in the scene is her high heels marching in!! Classic. I wish that clip was on here.
My aunt is like bree. She spends hours cooking, making jams, crafts, decorating the house. She spends the rest of her time being upset that my cousins are ‘ungrateful’. But they don’t ask, want, need her to do all of that. Truth is; she does it because she wants to. The selflessness is a facade.
Oh heavens, the first sane comment under this video. It's shocking how blind people here are and how they would like Bree to be their mother without understanding at all what it would be like.
My mom was like this, she spent hours working on her garden. She then blame me for not congratulate her and angry at me, dad, uncle, and her physician for telling her to rest down.
Exactly. Bree only strives so hard to be perfect so she can in turn demand perfection from others. It's classic manipulative narcissist behavior. She does eventually grow out of it but that's sadly after she's wrecked Andrew and Danielle's childhoods.
True. I think the fault lies with bree here too. Her family isn't all the great either but bree isn't free from blame. She needs to listen to them as to what it is they want.
Bree wasn’t a perfect person or a perfect mom but she did so much for them, more than they deserved and they didn’t show any appreciation. I grew to love Bree in the later seasons
Bree can't have been easy to live with, but I really don't think her family is very nice either. They've my really grasped that they all value different things, and Bree has adopted the suburban perfection mask so thoroughly that she's very vulnerable to potential cracks in it.
Bree and Gaby have had the biggest growth. Lynette and Susan always stayed true to themselves and didn’t have to deconstruct all their beliefs and behaviors etc as much as Bree and Gaby did.
I am wondering if this was scripted like that or did Lynette and - Susan (they are saying, that Teri was pushing back a LOT towards the end of the series, we can imagine why). Does anyone know?
I don't think it's about approval. It's more about her obsession with perfection. In her head, she absolutely has to be a perfect housewife, mistakes are unforgivable. So in the first place, she does it for herself, to fit her own high standards, but yeah, when somebody implies that her dinner isn't perfect and some pizza is better than her cousine, it breaks her. She simply can't understand how anyone can consider junk food better than her chef-tier dishes. Tbf, I think most people have been in a similar situation, especially now. "Did 1 million people serioursly find that video funny?", "10000 likes for THIS?!" etc.
Why should be if she applies her cooking skills to making dishes her family members don't like? Just because you cooked something that is considered a high-quality "aristocratic" dish, it doesn't mean you deserve a medal for this if you cooked it for those who can't stand the taste of it.
@Art Hoe, I'd rather describe my state as "shocked" when I was reading comments under this video. Only very few people - those unlucky enough to have personal experience of living with people like Bree - pointed out she really isn't a good mom and had it coming, but it's horrifying to see that the majority of you is completely oblivious to how bad she is and can't see it was her that was the main cause of her family troubles. She doesn't think or understand she's bad (she herself was completely brainwashed by her own mom, who was even worse case, as we can see from her flashbacks), but she's "a road to hell paved with good intentions". Her main problem is she lacks empathy. She isn't flexible and doesn't realize that people are different and have different tastes/preferences. She has this set of rules carved in stone she follows thinking it's the only right way. She might as well be Carrie's mom because for anyone who studied child psychology Bree is a walking coursebook example of how not to raise your kids ("and this is my son, a criminal"). Her lines, the story of her family - it's amazingly accurate writing, really. She's a victim and an evildoer at the same time.
Leonion6 Bree could’ve taken the easy route and not cook shit for her ungrateful family and they would’ve appreciated her believe me. Sounds to me like you have serious issues lol
Hahahahaha! I have never watched Desperate Housewife but a friend just commented in a group that I remind them of Bree and I was referred to TH-cam to see some clips. She is such a hilarious character. I can't stop cracking up. And am I in any way like her? No comment. All I can say is, she's got lots of love to give and seems to get it back! And, her husband @ say something! Whew! He sure knows how to love this woman.
Bree may have been a control freak, but what she did, she always did it well. Andrew was downright vile for asking Bree to compromise her integrity. I’m so grateful my mom cooks like Bree. She may be a few crayons short of a full box, but I know she loves her family.
Compromising integrity?? What are you smoking, you don't compromise integrity by occasionally doing a simple dinner your kids would appreciate, why are you defending classic narcissistic behavior.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 I wouldn’t have exactly classified Bree as a narcissist. That was Andrew. Bree at least had compassion when she realized she did something wrong, she was just brought up wrong and was completely misguided. Andrew was much more spiteful. Overall, Bree never backpedaled. She was flawed of course, but whatever she did, she owned it, like being a provider and caregiver. Only a narcissist of a child would ask their parents to stop caring about them in was they know how.
@@HeyMyLifeIsLibby "Only a narcissist of a child would ask their parents to stop caring about them" oh shut up, if you can't empathize with your own child's plights, you got something wrong in your brain. Midguided or not, Bree was the adult of the situation, she should've been able to talk to her kids about THEIR wants and needs rather than forcing her idea of it onto them. Stop enabling shitty behavior, it's embarrassing.
I understand the point of view of her family. It would be a bit suffocating to live in such a structured home, but they should have been more polite about their desires. She spent a ton of time making this meal, so they should have waited until later and come together to ask for something different. Telling your mother that the food you are eating is mediocre, when she spent hours cooking it, is rude and ungrateful. I lived in a very structured household growing up as well (not to this extreme but similar), and I would have never made a suggestion like this while eating the food she worked for three hours to make. Also, in absolutely no circumstance is it okay for a husband to allow such behavior. He undermined her in front of their kids after she asserted that he has authority as the “man of the house.” He should have told the children to be polite and talk about this later or something of the sort.
@shattered beautyx, surprised? Lol, it's a classic case. It's what happens when your mother is a tyrant who never listens to what you want and always does things her own way. it's what happens when a mother never really loved her kids (a necessary part of love is being perceptive of the other person's wishes and interests). And what should they be grateful for if she never did things the way they wanted? Would you be grateful to your mother if you wanted to be an artist, but instead she would make you start ballet dancing classes? Would you be grateful to her if you asked her to cook your favorite dish, but instead she would cook something that you can't stand?
Season 8 should have ended with Andrew, Danielle and Benjamin visiting bree. She didn’t expect them so offered to take them to that pizza place but instead they offer her cook her this food.
So effing sad. They played Bree off as an OCD compulsive narcissist who didn't care about her family, but it fact it was the other way around. She had such a soft demeanor easy to talk to- I would have loved a home cooked meal and to conversate with this woman and call her my mother, especially since I never had present civilized parents with good morals and values.
I don't think she was ever shown as a narcissist, but rather completely conservative and rigid in her ways. To a fault, it got to the point where she was controlling, making it a tense situation in the house, but all of the fault doesn't fall squarely on her, by any means and the show depicts that Andrew was portrayed as an ass during his teenage years, while Danielle was a ditz, who got herself into a dangerous situation with Matthew Applewhite. Rex was shown as a dismissive jerkass too
They went out of their way to explain what they wanted and she shunted it for what SHE wanted, that's classic narc behavior. Don't enable that, you loon.
if they wanted to get rid of her it would have been more reasonable to say "mom, 3hs, wow, you could make something out of this. You should profit from your cooking instead of wasting your talent on us".
One of the few Bree scenes where I can not completely indentify with her. I would never make complex hâute-cuisine dishes on a daily basis, wasting 3 hours over and over again. And I would never serve somthing like that to my or any other children. Of all my friends, I am the one consideres to be Bree, the one with the legendary cooking skills, but the main reason for that is I take normal dishes (like Spaghetti Bolognese) everyone likes and everyone eats ... and enhance it to perfection. And everyone says: "I am speechless. The best I ever ate." That's the art. I love watching people eat my food.
I could cook basic things by the time I was 7. My mom had a "You eat what I cook or you cook for yourself" policy. And I was very picky and lot of food don't sit well with me. If they had an issue with what she cooked they they should've gotten involved in the kitchen. They could help her pick things they would like or cook for themselves and not bitch about what they get. Yes, she is too much. But they are spoiled, rude and ungrateful. Of course, this is as much the parents faults. Those kids didn't spoiled themselves.
Not sure how this ended up on my suggestions but it is hilarious as I used to laugh at this scene with my brother because our mom was/is obsessed with cuisine & we wish to have eaten some delivery pizza every now and then for dinner. 😂
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Bree is the most interesting, deepest, most complex person in the series. This is a drama thinly veiled as comedy and on the whole is pretty dark; Bree is the soul of the ensemble, the one I really felt for.
When I first got into the show, it was the first episode of Season 4, and I thought Bree was a mean lady (not that she didn't have her reasons - Katherine was even worse toward Bree from the moment they met). But, over the course of that season and the rest of the series, it was fascinating to see the layers to Bree's character
Much more than any other character, I've wanted to see a young Bree and how she fit into the world. Rex hinted at her being more carefree when they were younger, but she was always about the old-fashioned values of yesteryear.
I always found Lynett more interesting.
The way she was treated throughout the series was actually heartbreaking. Her battle with alcohol, dealing with Andrew, the other housewives turning their back on her and almost driving her to suicide. The way she evolves throughout the seasons is great. By FAR the best character and arc in my opinion
“Most interesting, deepest” bruh you lost the understanding of what it is to be interesting and deep. She is the most boring bitch ever.
same
I felt bad for Bree. She was a pain in the butt for the first season, but still, I wouldn't wish her family on my worst enemy. They were horrible people.
She just wanted everything perfect for her family. In the first season she seemed like a control freak but in the later seasons we see that she was just trying to make them a happy family.
I agree. It would be a living hell to live with her (although she gets better over time). However she obviously tries hard to create a loving and comfortable home (a little too hard it can be said), that said her family are so ungrateful.
Andrew turned out alright, he genuinely loved his mother and with time knew every thing she did for him was out of love, but Danielle was plain awful, she didn't give a care about her mom at all through most of the series.
@popcorn247, you kidding, right?
Because I wouldn't wish a mother/wife like that to my worst enemy.
She was a tyrant. She wanted the best for her family, but it was always HER idea of "the best". She didn't give a fuck about what her husband and her kids wanted.
She always did things her own way, completely ignoring other family members' wishes and then bitched every time somebody dared to complain.
Would you like to have a wife/husband who - when you would ask them to cook some bacon - would cook fish (that you completely can't stand), say it's healthier and feel offended when you would go to the loo and vomit after the dinner?
Danielle was fine! (Mostly)
Bree has her flaws, but she means well. If she was my wife, I would cherish her until the day I die
@Joshua Birdwell, you wouldn't.
Unless you're a miraculous couple and each and every of your interests and wishes are exactly the same.
Because every single time you would disagree, Bree would do things her own way, taking a big shit on your opinion on the matter. Because she "knows better".
@@Leonion6 still, she evolves over the series, in season 1 she s willing to please Rex by agreeing to hurt him so that he can feel pleasure. The absolute worst was Lynette, she was such a raging and controlling bitch. She constantly emasculated Tom, undermined him for not being succesful and rich enough, and when he finally became a big shot she bitched about it, too!
lol wtf
@@alucinado1021 I disagree with Lynette's behaviour at times she is controlling but Tom isn't blameless either he can be a useless idiot at times and his behaviour towards Lynette over Nora and Kayla was selfish and cowardly Lynette supported and backed him up and even took a financial hit over it and he blamed her for it not working out and Kayla going psycho and setting Lynette up on false child abuse charges.
@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 Well Lynnette got her mom killed, I mean. Kayla was a bitch, true, but Lynnette only decided to fight for custody to get rid of Nora. She didn't care about Kayla, and after that it was more like an obligation cuz well, she got Nora killed.
This is the meanest thing I've ever seen in my life. I would be the most appreciative if someone would make a dinner like this. soo irritating.
Those like Bree are too few in this world unfortunately. Young ladies should follow her example
bbaloo05 yes sadly! My mom is like Bree in the food section & she goes crazy if someone dissed her cooking. I just love her cuisine
@bbaloo05, are you mad?
What "dinner like this"?
First, exotic food =/= good food. Not everyone likes this kind of stuff. Some people enjoy regular pasta with cheese much more than some super-hard-to-cook foreign dish.
Bree makes her own cooking choices. She cooks dishes she likes, not dishes her family members asked her to cook, why on Earth should they be grateful?
Go buy an expensive rare postage stamp for a friend who never showed any interest in collecting them. Will you expect him to be grateful for your useless (for him) gift too? After all, you spent a fortune on this postage stamp.
Or just cook an exotic fish dish for a person who hates fish.
Or go and rearrange books in your wife's/husband's personal bookcase because in your opinion the new order will suit his/her need much better.
That's Bree's exact approach. She puts a lot of efforts into something no-one asked her to do (and it's often something she and she only find important) and then feels offended when people don't line up praising her for her efforts.
@ymarrero23, I'm not complaining (fortunately, my mother was nothing like Bree, and more like the opposite - she had little interest in my activities most of the time, so I usually experienced very little control from her and did what I wanted to do; only once she made me visit ballroom dancing classes for a couple of months, but when i said I didn't like it, she immediately agreed to stop it and she never forced me to do anything ever again - and at the same time she never neglected her 'duties', like cooking, buying books and toys for me despite having financial problems, taking days off when I would get sick and so on, so I really have nothing to complain about), I'm just trying to open your eyes, those of you who didn't study psychology and can't see that menace that hides behing Bree's visually calm and polite behavior. Because the price for that mistake is lives of children that are destroyed by such parents.
Bree is a coursebook example of a bad mother. She's a classic example of selfishness (she always does everything the way she wants it to even if it means stepping over dead bodies) covered by false selflessness (she pretends that - well, she truly believes that - she does the best she can for her family, but it's not the case).
People who blindly idolize her and blame her "ungrateful family" - I already feel sorry for their [future] kids.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Self-righteous people like Bree who "know better what's best for you" (even when it's about matters of tastes like food) can be very dangerous. Today they persistently cook food that their kid doesn't like, tomorrow they refuse to vacinate their kid because they've read some paranoid articles, the day after tomorrow they're trying to cure their kid with urine therapy instead of those horribly dangerous antibiotics. I've heard/read far too many sad stories about such crazy moms.
These are the kind of people who try to convert their left-handed kids into right-handed, who force them to engage in activities / visit classes they're not interested in and have no talent for, try to "heal" their kids if they turn out to be gay and so on.
They ruin their kids' chilhood with their despotism and then they act surprised and offended when their kinds grow up into angry and bitter people who hate them.
They treat their kids like objects, property, rather than living people with feelings, wishes, emotions and feel offended when after their kids grow up they don't give a damn about them in return.
Every single word Bree heard in this conversations (and neither Andrew, not Rex or Danielle were particularly impolite at the beginning, e.g. Danielle just calmly asked why they can't have more ordinary food at least sometimes - a perfectly fine question) - she had it all coming.
You say (in another comment) your mom is a nightmare. Would you not prefer if many years ago someone pointed her at her mistakes and - maybe - she would have changed her behavior?
People are just different. If someone is annoying you for years with his/her perfectionism you wouldn't be grateful, you would HATE it - believe me … Love can be terrible and horrifying.
My favourite character in the serie ! She's such a complicated person...Throughout the seasons we see Bree's evolution! Marcia Cross is such a good actress !
i also cant forget this scene. this established her as the most sophisticated housewife.
Bree's kids are so ungrateful. I would kill to have a mother willing to put so much effort into giving me a great dinner every night.
Jesus fucking Christ, this whole comment section under this video is killing me...
@barbiquearea, what is a "great dinner"? It's no absolute set of dishes, it's what YOU love. Bree never cooked things her family members wanted to eat, we clearly see it from the video. She cooked dishes she personally found great, even if those dishes made her family members vomit.
Are you sure you would like your mom to make you eat things you don't like on daily basis?
Exactly!
@Jake from state farm , then what did you eat? Did you cook yourself what you liked? Or did you... I dunno... ordered pizza or something?
It's better when your parents don't cook anything at all than when they cook stuff you hate and make you eat it.
@Jake from state farm , your attitude is stupid. You had your own problems, kids from rich families sometimes have their own.
It's like comparing kids raised by neglecting parents and kids raised by overprotective parents. The former hated their childhood because their parents payed little attention to them, hardly ever spent time together. But they don't see that it also allowed them to enjoy a great extent of freedom and do whatever they want most of the time.
Other kids complain about parents controlling their every move but don't appreciate the fact that at least their parents actually care about them, spend a lot of time and effort on them.
You act like an arrogant douchebag because you experienced some hardships, but so what? Everyone did. And you literally can't imagine what it's actually like to have an I-know-everything-better-than-you control freak like Bree for a mother. Someone who wishes well but whose entire road paved with good intentions leads to hell for her family.
And just so you know, I was raised in a poor family as well. In Russia, in the 90ies, in the middle of the economic crisis, by a mother working overtime at a job where they delayed the payments because the company had no money, and an unemployed drunkard abusive father (he never hurt me but he did hurt my mom and grandma). You think you're the only one who had rough childhood? Think again.
And when I'm talking about Bree, I am not talking from experience and personal complaints (my mom was/is nothing like Bree, in both good and bad ways), I'm talking from coursebook knowledge of how people like her can be (unintentionally) bad for their families.
@Jake from state farm , It's not I who's ungrateful (did I not make it perfectly clear my view of Bree has nothing to do with my own life? I'm very grateful for what my mom did for me, but Bree is a different case entirely), it's you who's being an arrogant & ignorant fool who only sees the world through his/her own personal biased experience and fails to understand it's a lot more complex than you think.
I would have been the best gay son Bree could have ever asked for. That woman was a goddess of a homemaker!
B K hahaha same. Nothing against my mom (she is amazing) but she is much less formal than I am and Bree would fit my personality more closely.
Bree taught me to keep a house tidy at all times and how to be a fabulous homemaker unfortunately I must work lol but there’s never a time where my house isn’t tidy and that’s because of Bree
@@davidarmstrong1421 and you are a man and you live alone? just asking
@@davidarmstrong1421 are you a Virgo??
Michael was a born rebel, but a different kind of gay son character absolutely would have idolised her as a role model of prissy perfectionism.
Bree is such an exaggerated expression of domestic femininity that her character could easily be embraced as a camp icon.
If I was Bree I would've taken the plate from Andrew, since he doesn't appreciate a nice homecooked meal. I would then tell him to go in the kitchen and make his own dinner.
Yo le habría comprado una lata de frijoles con cerdo y se ha habría servido fría directa de la lata al otro día, y al día siguiente, y al siguiente.
Agreed 3 hours for a home cooked meal is effort compared to pork and beans!
You guys are entirely blind to the fact that this was endemic to a bigger problem. Bree's perfectionism made her family feel sterile and fake, the dinner just added to it. She was so obsessed with being perfect everyone just didn't want to deal with it anymore, that's not unappreciative, that's a normal response to excessive behavior.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627Yeah but it's weird for the kids to mention it at dinner like that instead of maybe asking for one night of takeout food. They knew how much pride she had in her cooking and could have went about it differently. Also the Dad siding with the kids by saying to pass the salt was worse bc he literally joined in on the insults. I'm sorry but there were times the kids and even Rex did such unnecessary things to Bree. I will admit the nicest one was Danielle and she was the one Bree criticized the most.
Knowing Marc Cherry (series creator) based Bree on his mother, makes so much sense when you see all the storylines and character development she gets. The writers love her. The fans love her. She is an icon! 🤩
Y'know? Idk that but now that you've mentioned it, that makes so much sense. So Marc Cherry in a way was Andrew?
It's amazing to see how much Bree has evolved over the seasons.
Right, that's why she is my favourite. The others all stayed the same.
Well Gabby evolved a bit after season 5 and started to become more selfless towards the end of the series. Lynette and Susan didn't really evolve until literally close to the series finale.
As an outsider it's easy to come to Bree's defense and want just a taste of her perfect catering but I think what the scene's expressing is that the family feel alienated from her because she is so obsessive and disconnected from what matters to them.
to be fair, she wasn't asking for anything absurd here, just a compliment
She asked: "how's the food?"
They only had to say: "It's lovely"
Instead they wanted to show her they didn't care
And I'm only talking about this scene in particular, Bree was a handful and I wouldn't want her as my mother, damn, I wouldn't want her as my aunt. lol
@@voidofme9192 you ruined it.
Started off great and you just drove the whole thing into a ditch smh
@@voidofme9192 nobody is obligated to give you a compliment.. she asked and her son gave her an honest answer. The fact that her daughter had the response she did meant she really cause a lot of trauma in that house
@@Liquethemodel I wish you someday know how it is to serve people and get nothing good in return. In the context of the story, this scene happened after many years of bree making an effort to give the best for her family and all they could say is "its ok". Maybe if someday you go through similar experiente you'll understand how ungrateful people can make you feel like shit.
@@voidofme9192 yea it’s heartbreaking, I took my son to see lightyear before he left for the summer after the movie I was just trying to casually talk (we don’t have much in common) and he got on his phone, I said I’m trying to talk to you before you’re gone 😢 he replied we did something you wanted to do now I want to do what I like. 💔 I just let him stay on the phone
i will be very appreciative if someone cooks me high cuisine everynight
Yes, she was definitely the perfect/ideal housewife and it's unfortunate that her family did not appreciate that. When she married Orson, they were more suited for each other.
@@jclyntoledo they didnt even end up together also, the lawyer she ends up with was perfect for her, and im glad bree end it up having a career in politics.... also hello 10 years later
I fucking love Bree. I know that everyone has this slight distaste for her conservative ways, but you have got to watch all of the seasons... I feel only then can you really love Bree. Poor thing just wants the American dream. The family waving in unison on their perfectly manicured lawn as you drive away... However, thats not what she gets an in the process of trying to achieve that goal, gets herself into so much shit... i think she finally realizes beaver cleaver is just not going to happen. Boy does she evolve into an iconic character... the woman who seeks perfection but will never get it. lol
The problem is - it's her idea of perfection. And every time her family members didn't look perfect, she would take a cleaver and chop off their unwanted parts.
She's only iconic from the point of being a sad example of how people in most of destructive couples act, trying to always change the other person instead of finding compromise or changing themselves.
I agree with you, J King. She only wanted what was best for her family, she truly loved them. Maybe her ways of showing that weren't the best, but I'm glad she grew over the course of the seasons.
The thing is that her Mother instilled that thing of suppressing her feelings into her (she was dealing with Bree's father cheating on her), then her Mother died in front of her and Bree was left alone only for the girl to feel better once she rinsed the blood off the street, and then her father married this perfectionist harridan of a woman who never made Bree feel that she was ever good enough to match her standards (unlike Bree's mom who loved her as she was).
Thats a quite interesting analysis
@@Leonion6 lol your commenting so negatively on every person’s own opinion..lol..we get it you have your own as well..but just replying on every comment you see that you dont see eye to eye with?..also this video is about bree..so your gonna get a lot of comments saying they adore her no matter shitty of a person you might see her. And if you try and reply with this comment as well...well...good for you...
I think Bree's defenders are missing the point: it's not that her family doesn't appreciate the effort that goes into a delicious gourmet meal, it's that Bree's obsessive perfectionism has become intimidating and rendered the home sterile to the point that they don't feel like a family. A gourmet meal is nice once in a while but when it comes to the day-to-day simplicity is the key.
It's like the therapist points out to Rex, she cooks for them, makes sure they have clean clothes and a tidy house. Where's the gratitude?
They're all really at fault but it's not difficult to pay a compliment
EXACTLY!!!!! Agreed!
That's part of why i enjoyed Katherine's character. The woman did nothing to Bree, except, threaten her sense of perfection, which drove Bree mad for a while.
And, Bree remained extremely critical of her daughter. Most commenters think that Danielle is a complete terror, and, while she made bad decisions (particularly in Season 2 she was a train wreck), Bree never gave Danielle credit for anything. The incident with Bree secretly feeding Benjamin two hotdogs summarized their relationship.
I find Bree fascinating to watch (Marcia Clark knocks it out of the part), but, she carried extreme faults that needed to be ironed out, not that Rex wasn't at fault in their decaying marriage, nor, were her kids perfect angels.
she showed her love in the wrong way but it was love after all... therapy for her and then for the whole family could have solved all their problems
They don’t appreciate her. She does all this work for her family and they don’t bother to say thank you or be grateful, all they do is wine or nag. So what will happen if she doesn’t put in effort? They’ll ask her what she’s been doing all day. I can’t speak for Danielle but the men in her family definitely do not appreciate her one bit
complaining about getting a nice home-cooked meal, really?
Complaining about pointless amounts of effort for the fake image of perfection, that's the whole point.
We all want what we don’t have.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627
People show love in different ways. If somebody spends hours in the kitchen to make you a good meal they show that they care about you and your wellbeing is important to them. What the kids are doing is the equivalent of somebody answering „whatever“ or „i don‘t care“ after somebody told them „i love you“/ „i care about you“.
@@and.me_7390
You know what else is the equivalent of saying "I don't care"? Completely ignoring the needs of your family, like what Bree did. This wasn't a show of love, it was a narcissistic attempt at imposing her own view of what the family *should* be onto them. She improved for sure, but this is not a show of love.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627
It is a show of love. There is just the misunderstanding that the kids don‘t recognize it as a show of love and Bree not understanding that they seek a different sign of love.
You just assume and take things for granted because you refuse to see the other persons side. Bree has literally a mental breakdown because doing the things she does for her family does not get seen by them.
If you come home and your partner has cooked for you it‘s a sign of love and affection. If your partner has cleaned the apartment because they knew you‘d be too tired is a sign of love. If your partner shops groceries for you two, it‘s a sign of love. If your partner squeezes pimples out at your back (literally what Bree said in the series) it‘s a sign of love.
Just because you are blind of it, does not mean it‘s not there.
I lost it at unexpected “ARE YOU ON DRUGS?” Lmfaoo this whole scene it’s sad and comical at the same time
That is an ungrateful family..!!
Bree is really annoying with her perfectionism - I understand both sides.
Bree Is a wonderful woman. I like her very much. Her children are very ungrateful and her husband Is a weak man.
She showed her love through the quality of her work and her family just took it for granted to the level of seeing it as oppression.
So glad Bree finally realized her real worth and potential in the end.
@Angel Rios, what love are you talking about?
When you truly love someone, you're trying to please them by doing what THEY want, not what YOU want.
You listen to them, you're trying to make them happy according to their ideas of "happy", not yours.
When you truly love someone, but have a conflict of interests, you look for a compromise or even let the other person have their way, you don't aggressively push your own.
Bree didn't know the true meaning of love for many years, she only did things the way she thought would be best, regardless of others' opinions. At best she only realized it by the end of the series.
@@Leonion6Please rewatch the Show. All of the characters are multifaceted and nuanced. Also even Andrew thanked her for kicking him out when she did bc he was getting out of control. He realized later on that yes, she was controlling at times but even when she tried to connect and loosed up he would provoke her to be extreme.
All I'm saying is the show is a lot more nuanced than you are giving it credit for and that includes the character of Bree.
Also my last comment was replying to the other comment in this thread. I fully agree with OP 😊.
@@jclyntoledo if your child is getting out of control, you already failed as a parent.
Her entire long-lasting conflict with Andrew would have never happened if she hadn't been who she used ot be and were just a normal loving mother.
If anyone wanted to know, the piece in the background is Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor.
Thank you
i love the nod to american beauty in this scene
Andrew: Can we just have a normal dinner? Bree: how’s the ossobuco?😂😂
I literally said "Nobody asked you to spend 3 hours cooking dinner!" right before the son said it 🤣
If I was raised by bree I’d be so greatful
No, you wouldn't.
Because being raised by Bree means you can shove all your wishes, dreams and desires up your ass, except for those that just happen to be the same as Bree's.
Bree you have inspired me and taught me to keep my house tidy at all times. After watching Desperate Housewives I became obsessed with learning to be an excellent homemaker unfortunately I’m not a stay at home homemaker I have to work but you’re a big inspiration.
This scene is so important! Beautiful writing cause everything said in this one scene literally affects the whole season each word is a seed for future scenes and gives a kick start to the character Arcs for all the Vaderkemps.
You are not wrong.
Rex was such a lousy husband.
I love Rex's expression of deep concentration, and then...................... "pass the salt". What a statement lol! :-D
I think Bree is in the right here and even if she wasn't Rex shouldn't have let the kids talk to her that way
I agree
Imogen Onscreen Rex is a coward in my opinion. He never really defended Bree & they are all ungrateful for the effort she does. I am sure that if Andrew asked her nicely to prepare other kinds of food she would have gladly done it
@@fadyalhachem Umm i'm not sure, she's hates low-end food
@@sylvaindonovan6910 yeah perhaps. It's also a need from her to be validated I guess or rewarded for her hard work. It's a flaw
@@fadyalhachem In fact, there s a scene when they go to therapy and Bree sews the shrink's button and he then asks Rex if he ever values the benefits of being with Bree such as having a neat home and great food
This is good but my personal favourite is when Andrew has done something wrong at school and you see Bree marching into school...All you see in the scene is her high heels marching in!! Classic. I wish that clip was on here.
Yes, that is also a good scene.
That was Gabrielle
She was my fav character in this show!
0:56 I FELL OFF MY CHAIR WHEN I SAW THIS OMG HAAAAAAAA
I LOVE BREE
Bree was amazing. Her family did not deserve her.
"Her family did not deserve her."
True, but not in the way you mean it.
Yes, her family didn't deserve someone demonstrating classic narcissistic behavior.
Bree is really the Queen of this Lane. Great Acting, you never get tired of great acting.
My aunt is like bree. She spends hours cooking, making jams, crafts, decorating the house. She spends the rest of her time being upset that my cousins are ‘ungrateful’. But they don’t ask, want, need her to do all of that. Truth is; she does it because she wants to. The selflessness is a facade.
Oh heavens, the first sane comment under this video.
It's shocking how blind people here are and how they would like Bree to be their mother without understanding at all what it would be like.
My mom was like this, she spent hours working on her garden. She then blame me for not congratulate her and angry at me, dad, uncle, and her physician for telling her to rest down.
Exactly. Bree only strives so hard to be perfect so she can in turn demand perfection from others. It's classic manipulative narcissist behavior. She does eventually grow out of it but that's sadly after she's wrecked Andrew and Danielle's childhoods.
True. I think the fault lies with bree here too. Her family isn't all the great either but bree isn't free from blame. She needs to listen to them as to what it is they want.
My mum is also like this.
Aww bless her.
Love all of the the "American Beauty" references during this scene
Bree wasn’t a perfect person or a perfect mom but she did so much for them, more than they deserved and they didn’t show any appreciation. I grew to love Bree in the later seasons
Bree can't have been easy to live with, but I really don't think her family is very nice either. They've my really grasped that they all value different things, and Bree has adopted the suburban perfection mask so thoroughly that she's very vulnerable to potential cracks in it.
This reminds me so much if the dinner scene from American Beauty. Even the lighting is similar.
Bree and Gaby have had the biggest growth. Lynette and Susan always stayed true to themselves and didn’t have to deconstruct all their beliefs and behaviors etc as much as Bree and Gaby did.
I am wondering if this was scripted like that or did Lynette and - Susan (they are saying, that Teri was pushing back a LOT towards the end of the series, we can imagine why). Does anyone know?
This feels like an American Beauty homage
Bree is always looking for the approval of others.
I don't think it's about approval.
It's more about her obsession with perfection.
In her head, she absolutely has to be a perfect housewife, mistakes are unforgivable.
So in the first place, she does it for herself, to fit her own high standards, but yeah, when somebody implies that her dinner isn't perfect and some pizza is better than her cousine, it breaks her. She simply can't understand how anyone can consider junk food better than her chef-tier dishes.
Tbf, I think most people have been in a similar situation, especially now. "Did 1 million people serioursly find that video funny?", "10000 likes for THIS?!" etc.
Bree is my spirit animal. And probably the spirit animal of many gays, too. She is so proper, talented, put together, etc lol.
I feel sad for Bree that she's not appreciated for her cooking skills.
Why should be if she applies her cooking skills to making dishes her family members don't like?
Just because you cooked something that is considered a high-quality "aristocratic" dish, it doesn't mean you deserve a medal for this if you cooked it for those who can't stand the taste of it.
@Art Hoe, I'd rather describe my state as "shocked" when I was reading comments under this video.
Only very few people - those unlucky enough to have personal experience of living with people like Bree - pointed out she really isn't a good mom and had it coming, but it's horrifying to see that the majority of you is completely oblivious to how bad she is and can't see it was her that was the main cause of her family troubles.
She doesn't think or understand she's bad (she herself was completely brainwashed by her own mom, who was even worse case, as we can see from her flashbacks), but she's "a road to hell paved with good intentions".
Her main problem is she lacks empathy. She isn't flexible and doesn't realize that people are different and have different tastes/preferences. She has this set of rules carved in stone she follows thinking it's the only right way.
She might as well be Carrie's mom because for anyone who studied child psychology Bree is a walking coursebook example of how not to raise your kids ("and this is my son, a criminal"). Her lines, the story of her family - it's amazingly accurate writing, really.
She's a victim and an evildoer at the same time.
Leonion6 Bree could’ve taken the easy route and not cook shit for her ungrateful family and they would’ve appreciated her believe me. Sounds to me like you have serious issues lol
Who drinks white wine when eating ossobuco?
Yeah, indeed! I consider Bree's family to be ungrateful. If it be me and I have a mom like Bree, I would definitely be proud of her.
I'd love to have Bree's cooking for a mom... Imagine all the delicious food you get to eat.
Reminds me of Betsy. One of Kimberly’s multiple personalities in Melrose. I was sooooooo happy when she was cast in this show. Marcia is awesome.
Yes!! Betsy was the prototype!
Hahahahaha! I have never watched Desperate Housewife but a friend just commented in a group that I remind them of Bree and I was referred to TH-cam to see some clips. She is such a hilarious character. I can't stop cracking up. And am I in any way like her? No comment. All I can say is, she's got lots of love to give and seems to get it back! And, her husband @ say something! Whew! He sure knows how to love this woman.
“You’d rather I serve PORK and BEANS?!”
Admito que Bree fue de mis tres personajes favoritos, genial, me encantaba su perfeccionismo, quiero una novena temporada
One thing I’ll agree with Andrew on is Bree acting like she’s running for the mayor of Stepford. My god she would’ve fit in PERFECTLY
Bree is me. I am this character.
Bree may have been a control freak, but what she did, she always did it well. Andrew was downright vile for asking Bree to compromise her integrity. I’m so grateful my mom cooks like Bree. She may be a few crayons short of a full box, but I know she loves her family.
Compromising integrity?? What are you smoking, you don't compromise integrity by occasionally doing a simple dinner your kids would appreciate, why are you defending classic narcissistic behavior.
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 I wouldn’t have exactly classified Bree as a narcissist. That was Andrew. Bree at least had compassion when she realized she did something wrong, she was just brought up wrong and was completely misguided. Andrew was much more spiteful. Overall, Bree never backpedaled. She was flawed of course, but whatever she did, she owned it, like being a provider and caregiver. Only a narcissist of a child would ask their parents to stop caring about them in was they know how.
@@HeyMyLifeIsLibby "Only a narcissist of a child would ask their parents to stop caring about them" oh shut up, if you can't empathize with your own child's plights, you got something wrong in your brain. Midguided or not, Bree was the adult of the situation, she should've been able to talk to her kids about THEIR wants and needs rather than forcing her idea of it onto them. Stop enabling shitty behavior, it's embarrassing.
I miss this show so much!!
I understand the point of view of her family. It would be a bit suffocating to live in such a structured home, but they should have been more polite about their desires. She spent a ton of time making this meal, so they should have waited until later and come together to ask for something different. Telling your mother that the food you are eating is mediocre, when she spent hours cooking it, is rude and ungrateful. I lived in a very structured household growing up as well (not to this extreme but similar), and I would have never made a suggestion like this while eating the food she worked for three hours to make.
Also, in absolutely no circumstance is it okay for a husband to allow such behavior. He undermined her in front of their kids after she asserted that he has authority as the “man of the house.” He should have told the children to be polite and talk about this later or something of the sort.
Her kids, and husband are so mean. I wish I had mother like her. She is so perfect.
I would be lucky to have a mother like Bree.
This scene always reminds me of American beauty
this is the moment we all knew Andrew was gay...have you ever heard a teenager referering to food as "cuisine"? LOL
I would be DELIGHTED if my mom serve cuisine. These kids are beyond
BEST?!?! Is the saddest EVER.
hahaha I love her
Omg äntligen med svensk undertext
I would like to see Bree in Master chef. She definitely win the Master Chef title. :D
"Pass the Salt" genius 😂😂😂😂
It's an "American beauty" reference 😊
"Pass the Salt!" :D :D :D
"Pass the salt". A great burn.
For Bree to be such a perfect housewife you'd be surprised her kids are physcotic, evil and so ungrateful, but I love Rex. Rex and Bree were my fave❤️
@shattered beautyx, surprised?
Lol, it's a classic case. It's what happens when your mother is a tyrant who never listens to what you want and always does things her own way.
it's what happens when a mother never really loved her kids (a necessary part of love is being perceptive of the other person's wishes and interests).
And what should they be grateful for if she never did things the way they wanted? Would you be grateful to your mother if you wanted to be an artist, but instead she would make you start ballet dancing classes? Would you be grateful to her if you asked her to cook your favorite dish, but instead she would cook something that you can't stand?
@@Leonion6 sounds like a trash mother, honestly.
Those children didn't deserve a mother like Bree. Thankless bunch of people!
If your boyfriend doesnt understand why this is one of Bree's best scenes, don't marry him.
the best scene of hers, in my oppiniom , is when she picked up the phone and listen that Rex passed...
pass the salt!!!! always makes me laugh!!!!!
Season 8 should have ended with Andrew, Danielle and Benjamin visiting bree. She didn’t expect them so offered to take them to that pizza place but instead they offer her cook her this food.
Lol now every time my mom asks "hows the food", im gonna reply with a question how its made then comment with "its okay. its good." :3
I love this scene
I'm Bree.
So effing sad. They played Bree off as an OCD compulsive narcissist who didn't care about her family, but it fact it was the other way around. She had such a soft demeanor easy to talk to- I would have loved a home cooked meal and to conversate with this woman and call her my mother, especially since I never had present civilized parents with good morals and values.
I don't think she was ever shown as a narcissist, but rather completely conservative and rigid in her ways. To a fault, it got to the point where she was controlling, making it a tense situation in the house, but all of the fault doesn't fall squarely on her, by any means and the show depicts that
Andrew was portrayed as an ass during his teenage years, while Danielle was a ditz, who got herself into a dangerous situation with Matthew Applewhite. Rex was shown as a dismissive jerkass too
Conversate? It’s converse, dear.
They went out of their way to explain what they wanted and she shunted it for what SHE wanted, that's classic narc behavior. Don't enable that, you loon.
On the surface yes, they seem like horrible ungrateful people. But it's her own obsessiveness with perfection that has caused them to be so resentful.
Bree is such a good mum
Notice this isn’t the same dining room shown in the rest of the episodes.
I would kill to get a mom like her....who cooks to this extent daily? I love her
Somebody who does so for validation
Obsessive-Compulsives and control freaks.
if they wanted to get rid of her it would have been more reasonable to say "mom, 3hs, wow, you could make something out of this. You should profit from your cooking instead of wasting your talent on us".
Her home cooked meals sound much better than what I ate for lunch.
One of the few Bree scenes where I can not completely indentify with her. I would never make complex hâute-cuisine dishes on a daily basis, wasting 3 hours over and over again. And I would never serve somthing like that to my or any other children. Of all my friends, I am the one consideres to be Bree, the one with the legendary cooking skills, but the main reason for that is I take normal dishes (like Spaghetti Bolognese) everyone likes and everyone eats ... and enhance it to perfection. And everyone says: "I am speechless. The best I ever ate." That's the art. I love watching people eat my food.
Moody dining room style. Like it!
"Pass the salt" hahahahahahaha
"Pass the salt!"
HAHAHAHAHA!
i wish i had a mother like Bree!
My fav bree😍
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA pass the salt
She reminds me of myself 10 years ago. Thank god i got therapy
I could cook basic things by the time I was 7. My mom had a "You eat what I cook or you cook for yourself" policy. And I was very picky and lot of food don't sit well with me. If they had an issue with what she cooked they they should've gotten involved in the kitchen. They could help her pick things they would like or cook for themselves and not bitch about what they get.
Yes, she is too much. But they are spoiled, rude and ungrateful. Of course, this is as much the parents faults. Those kids didn't spoiled themselves.
'Pass the salt'😅😅😅😅😅👌
They explain it so mean. They could create a balance between cuisine and pizza night.
I named my daughter after this woman.
Not sure how this ended up on my suggestions but it is hilarious as I used to laugh at this scene with my brother because our mom was/is obsessed with cuisine & we wish to have eaten some delivery pizza every now and then for dinner. 😂
Bree is so Virgo coded
Whats the name of the song pleaaasee
Duh! do you really care?
It's the Chopin waltz in C-sharp minor op. 64 no. 2
Thank you very much for telling the song's name!!! ^^
Thank you very much for telling the song's name!!! ^^
Pol Esteva Now you can play it when you are having the same soup Bree makes. Kidding.