It’s the morning after Shannon Storms Beador got stoned out of her gourd on a weed muffin in Amsterdam and she’s not the only one of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” who’s moving slowly.
But she’s by far the most dramatic about her experience as their second day in Amsterdam begins on the new episode that aired on Thursday, Oct. 23.
“I don’t really know what the levels of highness are,” Shannon says as stumbles around her hotel room in a plush white robe, struggling to stick her undereye gel patches in place and spilling what looks like a soft drink in a wine goblet down her front. “But I’m definitely still feeling the effects of the Space Cake.”
“The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip farm in the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Jennifer Pedranti, Emily Simpson, Tamra Judge, Heather Dubrow, Shannon Storms Beador, Gretchen Rossi, and Gina Kirschenheiter. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip farm in the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here is Gina Kirschenheiter. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip field on a trip to the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Emily Simpson, Tamra Judge, Gina Kirschenheiter and Heather Dubrow. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip farm in the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here are Emily Simpson and Jennifer Pedranti. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip field on a trip to the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Gretchen Rossi, Shannon Storms Beador and Jennifer Pedranti. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip field on a trip to the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Shannon Storms Beador and Jennifer Pedranti. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip field on a trip to the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Emily Simpson, Gina Kirschenheiter and Gretchen Rossi. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip field on a trip to the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Emily Simpson and Tamra Judge. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) “The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip field on a trip to the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Heather Dubrow, Tamra Judge and Gina Kirschenheiter. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) Show Caption1 of 9“The Real Housewives of Orange County” visit a tulip farm in the Netherlands on the episode that aired Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Seen here, left to right, are Jennifer Pedranti, Emily Simpson, Tamra Judge, Heather Dubrow, Shannon Storms Beador, Gretchen Rossi, and Gina Kirschenheiter. (Photo by Mark de Blok/Bravo) ExpandShannon being Shannon she wants tell everyone about so later she faces Adeline, one of her college-age twins.
“I had something called a Space Muffin,” she tells her daughter. “I’m going to be stoned for two years.”
Adeline just smiles and laughs a little.
“Yeah, they’re strong here,” Shannon says.
It’s the housewives second day in Amsterdam and now they’re moving on to mushrooms, as in the psychedelic kind of ‘shrooms, for a trip – and “a trip” – to view the Netherlands’ famous tulip fields.
“I ChatGPT-ed our drugs,” Heather Dubrow announces as the women gather in the lobby of their hotel after breakfast. “We need 3 to 4 grams each.
“Apparently when you take these mushrooms colors are very vibrant,” Heather explains. “So I thought what better colors to see than tulip fields.”
Gina Kirschenheiter, the only housewife up to join Heather in the psylocibin silliness, is endlessly amused by it.
“Heather is absolutely the friend in high school that my mom warned me about,” Gina says to the camera. “And no one would ever expect it.”
It’s 10:20 a.m. when Heather and Gina eat their AI-prescribed doses.
“It tastes a little like walnuts,” Heather says.
“It tastes like mushrooms,” Gina counters.
Clearly, they’re not seeing the vibrant stuff yet.
On the drive to the fields, Jenn Pedranti compliments Shannon on the fulsome abundance of her bust today.
“It’s called the full-suit bra,” Shannon says, and then begins wrestling up her top to show Jenn what looks like the kind of old-timey swimsuit women wore to the beach 100 years ago.
“I like Spanx because it sucks it in tight,” Shannon tells the camera of her fondness for form-fitting foundation wear. “Spanx ’til I die!”
They reach the tulip fields, which don’t deserve what’s coming.
“I think I do feel the mushrooms,” Gina says as the screen starts to fill with shape-shifting tulips, some of them with cartoon mouths.
“I’m getting some Wizard of Oz vibes,” says someone – Gina? Heather? Dorothy Gale of the “Real Housewives of the Prairies of Kansas”?
Gina wants to run, not tiptoe, through the tulips, so off she, Heather and Tamra Judge run, arms outstretched like Maria von Trapp in an alpine meadow two countries to the east.
“I’m gonna pee in the tulips,” Gina announces out of nowhere.
Somewhere in tulip field, the flowers with animated mouths are screaming, “Noooo!!!”
The preceding part of this recap has been sponsored by High Times magazine. We now move on to our regularly scheduled programming of “Housewives in a Hot Tub Floating Down a Canal.”
That’s right, this is apparently a thing you can do in Amsterdam: Rent a small boat that is filled with hot water and pilot it yourself down a canal, Dutch housewives not included.
“It’s a crockpot,” Emily Simpson declares as she gets into her canal-going jacuzzi boat. “I’m waiting for someone to throw some carrots in. We’re having housewife for dinner.”
Emily has brought trucker hats – “truckerpets” in Dutch – for all the women to wear. Each has a different funny slogan printed on the front, if you find incredibly dirty phrases for at least three different sex acts funny, that is.
“Seeing Heather Dubrow wearing a hat that says “I {bleep}” on it is my favorite thing ever,” Emily says in a confessional.
Emily has rigged the seating assignments so that she, Tamra and Gretchen Rossi are in the same one. Her goal: To try to mediate a truce between Tamra and Gretchen, who have years of bad blood and backbiting to overcome before that’s gonna happen.
“Jumping in a hot tub with Emily and Tamra is like setting myself up for a death trap,” Gretchen observes.
“This is my last-ditch effort to bring these two together,” Emily says.
And you know what? It works! Kinda, sorta, for the moment.
As Shannon, the only one in the other boat with boating experience, steers the hot tub carrying Gina and Jenn into the side of a much larger boat, Emily gets Tamra and Gretchen to agree, again, to try, again, not to be so mad and mean at each other.
Gretchen actually gets choked up as she apologizes to Tamra for letting her worse angels trigger the temper tantrums she’s tossed at Tamra.
She’s still crying when the other five head for dinner at a fancy food hall. We know it’s a food hall because on the front it says Foodhallen. They consider hot dogs and tacos, which, um, ladies, you’re in the Netherlands, at least order the pickled herring tacos.
Heather points to one restaurant in the foodhallen that features a neon sign that reads, “It’s Boom Boom Sausage Time!” and declares that’s what she’s going to tell her husband Terry when she gets back home.
Gretchen eventually covers the tracks of her tears with a fresh coat of foundation and arrives two hours after the others. Remarkably, she and Tamra do not come to blows. All is good … until the final moments of the episode when the next morning, Gina tells Emily about some “incredibly alarming posts” that Gretchen had liked on social media.
How did she see them? Tamra showed Gina two weeks earlier when they went to a dispensary back home in Orange County.
“I’m not stupid,” Gina tells Emily, forgetting how she wanted to pee on the tulips just one day earlier. “Tamra’s doing this because Gretchen brought up the rumors [about Tamra].”
She sighs and looks worried, a sure tell when Gina is about to insert herself into the storyline in an explosive manner.
“I’m genuinely confused by this,” Gina says. “Anything I’ve ever heard Gretchen say is love and light. I mean, for goodness’ sake, the woman is over 40 and she still wears headbands and bows.
“She doesn’t seem like the kind of person who’s walking around launching hate campaigns at people.”
Hope you got some sleep last night, Gretchen. Things are about to get bumpy.
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