Bobby Brown: Opry-Bound?!

[We segue into a discussion of episode 2, when the cast cooks for the MuzikMafia. Bobby slept through the selection of head chef. And, he thinks, the food shopping.]

CARNIE WILSON: Getting Bobby up every day was a challenge. He's a night owl.
BOBBY BROWN: That was a television show in itself: Waking Bobby Up.

Waking Bobby Brown.
BROWN: Waking Bobby Brown. That's my new show.
WILSON: Like the second day we were there, Maureen comes in [to the girls' bedroom] saying that she slipped on Bobby's pee. That's how she woke up.

WHAT?
BROWN: [To EW] Don't worry about the pee. The pee is something else. I sleepwalk.
JOHN RICH [who's seen the first five episodes]: It's funny watching you walk around in your sleep, and Dee going like that [blocks face]. You're walking right at him.
BROWN: Bobby! No! Bobby! No!
WILSON: Just imagine, Dee's got, like, a bite guard. He's like [strained Nooo! Nooooo!] That next morning with Maureen and the pee. Oh God.
BROWN: My kids. My poor kids.
RICH: It ain't gonna hurt your kids.

How did you get along with Dee, Bobby? In the premiere, he says he can tell that you're both alpha males — and then you end up as roommates.
BROWN: Dee was really cool. We had little problems. He stayed in the shower too long; I slept too long. He probably had a problem with me sleepwalking. [Laughs]
RICH: Dee Snider has an obnoxious side to him that even gets on my nerves. He's a very intelligent guy.
WILSON: He complains a lot.
RICH: He's kinda whiny. Everything has to be this way and that way.
BROWN: He was always trying to, how can I put it... He was the Martin Luther King of the house. He was always trying to get everybody together to fight against this or that. ''It should be this way. We need this.''
RICH: He gets hyped up on coffee and doesn't know when to shut up, basically. [All laugh]
BROWN: He wanted coffee and he wanted sleep — how does that work? Do you want coffee or do you want to go to sleep?
WILSON: We actually said, 'If you don't feed us and give us more than two hours sleep per night, bye!'

Really?
WILSON: Yeah. I was really tired. And there was no meal schedule. It was like, you can have a bite when you're done. Eight hours later, maybe you can get a bite of a sandwich. I could have roughed it, but Dee was funny.
BROWN: It was definitely an interesting two weeks. It was great to get to know all the people in the house, even the crew. They were great. If I had to watch a television as somebody's sleepwalking, peeing on everything... [All laugh] I was just marking my territory. [More laughter] I just wish we could do it again. Part 2. The next season, with the same people.
WILSON: You never know. You never know.
RICH: What I'd like to do is take everybody's song and record it. 'Cause I swear to God, you guys can all have cuts with other artists on these songs. You could sing it if you want; you can sing it and somebody else could sing it; whatever. [To Wilson] That song you wrote could be a hit for four or five different artists I can think of off the top of my head.
BROWN: I would love to sing mine, and you can record it with anybody else. You've got to produce it, though.
RICH: Yeah, I'll produce it.

[To Rich] You have a label.
RICH: I do.
BROWN: There it is. I'm doin' a country album. [Laughs]

Check out PopWatch for salty outtakes from this conversation from Carnie Wilson and John Rich.