So did you give him a gun or what ? <| sep |> Pyramid was production not Abby so that the audience would immediately recognize the face with the name and all the moms knew it so all the fights over Abby and the pyramid are just for show . Abby has no say who is on or off the ' dance moms team ' that is production . Abby has little say in song title or theme and has to pick the music from a set library that ' s production to fit in with the episode ' s storyline so the fights about Abby choosing ' They don ' t want my kind around here ' for Chloe , etc , is for show . That a lot of the voice overs are frankenbites taken from elsewhen to fit the plot of the episode the white board episode in season 4 where Abby is ' mean ' to the girls is LOADED with them . That a lot of the moms ' confessionals are producerprompted . That the girls only have 68 hours a week to learn , clean and perform a dance moms dance . That Holly was just an acquaintance to the other moms until she was cast on the show . That Christi was like Red Leader in Star Wars ' Stay on Target . Stay on Target . ' since season 1 with her ' Abby sets Chloe up to fail ' in order to cast her daughter as the underdog . That the reason Maddie , Mackenzie Melissa were cast on the show was because during the casting interviews all the mothers complained about Melissa and why was this little eight year old Maddie front and center in these groups instead of the older girls . That Gianna was cast only because Melissa told production that they needed her . That Christi talked Kelly into signing the contract for the show . That Abby had to take those original girls put into a group by production with all different technique levels and make them gel into a cohesive unit . That some of the girls wanted to make a career out of dance and some of those girls did not . That the ' TWO DAYS UNTIL COMPETITION ' etc intros are false in season 1 . That reaction shots are usually taken from elsewhen . That only the moms , the girls , and Abby know the real truth of the real and not the audience which get a heavilyedited , overproduced , partiallyscripted , storylined unReal reality tv show .