if you watch Teen Mom OG online, you know that Amber Portwood’s fiance, Matt Baier, is pretty much the worst.
This current season has been described as a sort of "apology tour" for Baier, but it could more accurately be called a "hey, everyone, I’m not as big of a douche as you thought!" tour.
Baier seems to be making an effort to convince fans that Amber isn’t actually making the worst mistake of her life by marrying a middle-aged gold-digger who tried to bang all her co-stars with scenes like this "bonus clip" from the most recent episode:
Does MTV have some stake in rescuing Baier’s reputation?
Everyone who watched Teen Mom OG Season 3 Episode 5 knows that
Is this clip intended to show us that Baier went to such great lengths as calling Amber’s cousin to get her out of the house for a couple hours?
Did Baier complain that he didn’t receive enough credit for throwing such a "wicked pissah"?
It’s possible we’ve devoted way to much though to this.
In any event, many fans believe that Baier’s main goal in hosting the party was to make nice with Amber’s baby daddy, Gary Shirley.
That may seem admirable, but knowing Baier, we can’t help but see the selfish motivation behind his actions.
“Gary [Shirley] and Kristina are coming,” Matt tells Amber’s understandably surprised cousin at one point in the episode.
“I just invited him because it’s not like he’s not a major part of our life, so I just invited him.”
You may remember that Shirley was the first one to call Amber’s attention to the fact that Baier is a deadbeat dad.
Seems like an odd to "just invite him" to a party for the hell of it.
It also seems like the move of a guy who’s out to convince the people in his life (especially his meal-ticket, Amber) that he’s not what he appears to be:
Which is of course, a conniving jerk.
What makes Baier worse than Adam Lind and the other horrendous exes of the Teen Mom franchise is that he’s actually considerably smarter than them.
It pains us to pay him that compliment, but then again he’s also about two decades older than his co-stars.
And sadly, the guy seems to be devoting the sum total of his intellect to wriggling out of child support payments and convincing his girlfriend that he’s not his terrible as everyone says.
In conclusion: trying to not look like a D-bag somehow actually makes Matt Baier look like MORE of a D-bag.
We don’t quite understand it, either.