'She Can't Really Sing': The Best Real Housewives Hot Mic Moments

And yet, every season, we get an unsuspecting housewife (or husband, or father) saying something they really shouldn’t, just when they thought the cameras had stopped rolling.

From Barbara announcing that LuAnn “can’t really sing” (while at LuAnn’s cabaret show) to LeeAnne Locken’s baffling carnival talk at a doctor’s office, these are the moments that made us—and the boom operators—gasp, stand up, and clap our hands. I mean, they’re just hands… but they work quite well.