Let’s be clear: Erika Jayne (a.k.a Erika Girardi of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) is no Nicki Minaj. She’s no M.I.A. But that’s because Erika Jayne is Erika Jayne.

There comes a time in every Real Housewife’s career when she must decide how to make her mark, lest she be dropped by Andy Cohen. She has to decide: Will she be a DeShawn Snow, Quinn Fry or Cindy Barshop? Or will she rise to the occasion like a Tamra, a Vanderpump, a Ramona?

On Tuesday night we witnessed the union of two Real Housewives clans that should have been crossover magic. In a way, the gathering of the Beverly Hills housewives at the home of New York housewife Bethenny Frankel was amusing, but the potential for greatness was somewhat sullied by Bethenny’s inability to not act…