Keeping Up with the Kardashians Recap: Momager Dearest

Kris Jenner has a war of words with daughter Kourtney

By Erin La Rosa May 28, 2012 2:00 AMTags
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As soon as you make amends with one Kardashian daughter, trouble brews with another one—are we right, Kris Jenner?!

On this week's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Momma Jenner is out of the woods when it comes to Khloé Kardashian's paternity issues, but she's in the doghouse with Kourtney Kardashian.

"Kourtney has always been the toughest critic on me," Kris explains. "And ever since I wrote my book, it seems to be bringing up a lot of emotions for everyone involved."

Like, the kind of emotions you feel while out to lunch with your mom and suggest that she might be embarrassing you...?

"My mom's just like, talking about some hot guy at the concert and I just find every little thing she's saying annoying," Kourtney says. "She's a married woman, it's just inappropriate."

And Kylie Jenner is annoyed with her sister Kendall Jenner's typically shy nature when they get a gig as a Seventeen West Coast Fashion Contributor. Mainly because part of the job is recruiting models for the magazine, something Kendall isn't exactly up for!

"I'm just such a shy person, I don't know if I can just walk up to random people," Kendall says.

Actions speak louder than words, Kendall! And on a trip to Malibu to find new models, Kylie ends up being the only one taking action while Kendall sticks to the sidelines.

"I know Kendall's a shy person, but this is an amazing opportunity and we're so lucky and she just needs to get over it and finish the job," Kylie says.

When Kylie vents to Kim Kardashian about Kendall's lack of teamwork, the older sister imparts some important words of wisdom. "You have to figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are and meet in the middle," Kim says, explaining that Kourtney and Khloé once helped to bring Kim out of her shy stage. Kim? Shy? Imagine that.

Speaking of which...Kourtney is definitely not shy about making her feelings toward Kris known, as she lets out another hurtful comment while hosting a family dinner in her home. When Kris asks to speak to Kourtney alone, the two finally get what's been going on off their chests.

"I don't understand how you could do that to your family," Kourtney says, referring to her mother's affair and subsequent divorce.

"I didn't do something on purpose specifically to hurt you," Kris says. "I was too young and stupid to make a good decision. If I had to do it all over again obviously I wouldn't do it."

But the talk isn't enough to placate Kourtney, who still feels resentment about her mother's tell-all memoir.

"I think Kourtney being so closed-off definitely affects our relationship a lot of times, because she doesn't really seem to ever want to get help from everybody," Scott Disick says after trying to talk things out with his gal. "So, it's tiring for me to always be trying to get something out of her."

Meanwhile, Kim is starting to develop trust issues with Bruce Jenner after he takes Kim, Kendall and Kylie on a hike and picks up a spider friend along the trail. He starts to chase the girls around with the spider's help, which arachnophobia-prone Kim doesn't seem to find amusing.

"It's just not funny, I am so afraid of spiders," Kim says. "He wants to mess around with me and joke around? Well, Mr. Olympics can hurdle his way home. He can sprint, javelin his way, whatever."

While Bruce hurdles home, Kim schemes a way to get him back—let Poppa Jenner borrow her Ferrari and then pretend someone has stolen it on his watch.

"Bruce thinks that he's going to a go-cart track to have fun with Brandon [Jenner], but little does he know as soon as they get in there we're going to go and pick up the Ferrari with my spare key," Kim says. "Bruce will have no idea that we're really tricking him." Very sneaky, Kim!

Sure enough the plan works and when Bruce comes out to find the car missing he goes into panic mode. Luckily, Kim and her partner-in-crime, Scott, let him in on the joke before he completely loses it.

"I can't believe my little Kimmy pulled this thing off," Bruce says afterward. "Kim, good job, you got me."

Bruce, you just got punked! And that's what Kris probably thinks is happening to her when Kourtney apologizes for her bad behavior and acknowledges that she hasn't been as nice to her mom as she could have been.

"I had no idea that something from my behavior in the past would have such a profound effect on Kourtney today," Kris says. "But the fact that she's doing something about it and opening up to me is pretty fabulous."

We couldn't agree more, Kris! Want more Keeping Up with the Kardashians?! You don't have to wait a whole week this time, because E! is bringing you an all new episode on Monday, May 28 at 8 p.m.!