Real Housewives of Potomac fans collectively gasped this week when Karen Huger, properly nicknamed the "Grand Dame," boldly proclaimed her colleague, Gizelle Bryant, had a “hot box” on the season 6 premiere.

While this explosive foray for the spoils of quintessential primetime victory had many a viewer clutching our proverbial pearls, for reality TV connoisseurs, it was just another day, another verbal jab. Since the launch of the show, which follows a group of housewives in a wealthy Maryland town, we’ve witnessed our favorite East Coast divas claw their way to high status and even higher ratings and the lessons on proper etiquette in the art of throwing shade are constantly bestowed upon us, free of charge.

The beauty of reality television is that we’re able to choose who and where we learn to take a masterclass on the art of responding to thinly veiled disrespect through the art of “clapping back.” Some of us have learned from the headmistress of shade, Tiffany Pollard and others have taken notes from esteemed southern belle, Phaedra Parks. 

Either way, we’ve decided to compile a list of some of the best clapbacks in reality television history.

Joseline Hernandez's callous greeting

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If you’ve ever watched, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, you know that Joseline Hernandez also known as “The Puerto Rican Princess” was integral to its success, past, and present. When Hernandez infamously greeted her former nemesis, Mimi Faust, with the cheeky “hey maid,” she cemented herself in the reality television hall of fame.

Nene Leakes' sage dating advice

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Nene Leakes is a woman of many hats. Leakes is a wife, mother, and entrepreneur but the season one reunion of Real Housewives of Atlanta may have garnered her the title of a life coach when she advised her castmate, Kim Zolciak-Biermann to “close your legs to married men.”

K. Michelle's faux fear

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Fellow Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta alum, K. Michelle has also been known to shake things up – in this case, a table. The songbird instantly went viral after a confrontation with castmate Karlie Redd led her to dismiss the situation by pretending to cower under the, now iconic, tagline "this b***h is shaking the table!"

Kandi Burruss-Tucker living rent-free

Hell hath no fury like a housewife's scorn. Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kandi Burruss-Tucker, one-fourth of the musical group Xscape, quickly let fellow housewife, Nene Leakes, know that she's more than an afterthought in her world. During the show's season 12 reunion last year, the musician, in all of her virtual glory, informed Leakes "I'm embedded in your brain" after a tense moment, subdued by only Zoom's mute button.

Monique Samuels creating a new clergy

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In honor of the RHOP season premiere this month, we’d be remiss if we didn’t take it back to a housewife veteran who brought life to the Bible scripture “sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”

After an entire season of bullying and scandalous lies at the hands of her, now former, castmates, Samuels showed up to the season 5 reunion with a binder full of receipts that would make Jesus, himself, weep. Cheekily conferring the nickname “pastor holy w***e” on behalf of Pastor Jamal Bryant’s alleged infidelity in response to his ex-wife’s salacious accusations on her marriage, Samuels changed the game on what it means to “clap back.”

'Tis the season to be saucy.