This episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians opened with the infamous “flour bombing” incident from last April. While it seemed fairly dramatic (and Kim seemed fairly mad) at the time, here we just saw Kim cracking jokes and brushing it off (both literally and figuratively) and stepping back out on to the red carpet. The incident is just a little blip in this episode, but if it hadn’t been around the same time Kim and Kanye started to get publicly cozy, it probably would’ve been a much bigger plot point.

Reality television is a fickle beast – some weeks, I’m ready to rip my eyes out from sheer boredom as the Kardashians repeatedly trip over themselves trying to create a decent plotline. But other weeks, 3 particularly juicy ones fall right out of the sky. In this week’s episode, Lamar Odom got released from the Dallas Mavericks, which meant the not-so-triumphant return of Khloe and Lamar to L.A., and the set of “Kardashians.”

On this week’s episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, the vacation from hell continued. Indeed, it became even more hellish. Khloe snuck off in the beginning of the episode, thankful she got to go crawl back into the safe arms of her “peaceful” gentle giant, Lamar Odom, claiming she needed “a vacation from this vacation.” I think we’ve all had those family vacations, so this expression seems particularly apt.

Just like an argument can be made that the real story of Mad Men is about the women who inhabit Don Draper’s universe, I’d be willing to consider that perhaps the real story of Real Housewives of Orange County is about the men who buzz around our cast members like so many horse flies. Other than Drunk Sarah getting kicked out of the party, last night’s episode was almost entirely about the husbands and boyfriends.

First, the good news: this episode provided us with an hour’s worth of scintillating travel porn. The Dominican Republic definitely just got the Kardashian bump, and it looked absolutely stunning. In the words of Liz Lemon: “I want to go to there.”

The bad news: the Kardashians were on their absolute worst behavior. This DR getaway is on the fast-track to becoming the vacation from hell, despite the five star resort vibes and swoon-worthy scenery.

GREAT NEWS, Kardashian fans! All the truly great television is FINITO for the season. So now we can kick back with everyone’s favorite extra vapid Kardashians and enjoy their triflin’/totally staged drama, 100% guilt-free! “Mad Men” – OVER. “Game of Thrones” (if you like that triflin’ medieval drama) – OVER. The season finale of “Girls” was last night, and it was perfect.

I did myself a MAJOR disservice by watching the season finale of Mad Men BEFORE I settled in for a new episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” Sunday night. Really, it was like watching the Cirque du Soleil open for a juggling monkey. Or seeing The Beatles open for Hall & Oates. (if you’re quietly thinking that you’d rather see Hall & Oates, then get out of here, HIPSTERS!) If only I had watched the Kardashians first, I could’ve been so much more satisfied with what was (comparatively) a much meatier episode than usual.

First, I will say this: When the warning about brief nudity showed up at the beginning of last night’s season finale of Mad Men, Roger Sterling’s bare ass was the last thing I expected to see in an episode chock full of things that I mostly expected to see. The surprises that we did get were surprising in a very different way than the things that happened over the last few weeks, though.