Sunday’s episode of Sister Wives saw Kody and Robyn Brown and their kids travel to Wyoming to bury the ashes of Kody’s late son Garrison Brown. However, the scenes featuring Kody & Co. in Wyoming did not go over well with many of the show’s viewers, some of whom felt Kody and Robyn handled the situation in a “disrespectful” way, turning the trip to bury Garrison into a family vacation that focused mostly on Kody.
During the trip– which took place several months after Garrison’s death from suicide in March 2024— Kody treated his family to sightseeing around Cody, Wyoming— a place Kody and his (now ex) wives Meri, Janelle and Christine and their kids had lived prior to Kody meeting Robyn. He also took his family to eat ice cream, see a Wild West show and ride in a stagecoach, all while bragging about signs he had a hand in selling that still remain in the town.
#SisterWives #SisterWivesTLC @TLC GTFOH🤬with this shit 💩
They are there for GARRISON, to bury
his son that was so heartbroken of
what exactly you are filming
Kody with his new family without a
care in the world about them
Kody is only happy when he talks
about Kody &… pic.twitter.com/bMArHwn9G7— JamieLee (@Wallflower2u) May 12, 2025
Viewers were not happy that the solemn journey of bringing Garrison’s ashes home to Wyoming somehow turned into a Kody-centric vacation for the ‘Sister Wives’ patriarch, Robyn and their kids. (As fans know, Kody and Garrison had been estranged for several years at the time of Garrison’s death, partly due to Kody’s relationship with Robyn.)
“Is his son’s ashes in the trunk while they have their ice cream and good Wild West time? Anyone else find this a bit disrespectful?” one person wrote on X.
“Didn’t talk to his son for the last 5 years of his life and is now making this trip about himself. What a self-centered loser!” someone else wrote on the platform.
“Kody turning Garrison’s burial into a weekend getaway for his family just pisses me off,” another person tweeted. “I know you can’t be doom and gloom the entire time… but this just feels weird.”
#SisterWives #SisterWivesTLC @TLC
Oh FFS are you kidding me with this
BULL SHIT 💩?!?!
He just drove his SONS ASHES there
to be BURIED, that KILLED HIMSELF
because KODY prioritized his NEW
FAMILY over his OG KIDS
Did he leave GARRISON in the CAR
while he REMINCES, gets ice… pic.twitter.com/g0grV2bMGm— JamieLee (@Wallflower2u) May 12, 2025
During the episode, Kody and Robyn explained that the trip would include the day around town, followed by a day at Kody’s family’s ranch, then a graveside service for Garrison. (In March 2024, a memorial service was put on by the Nevada National Guard for Garrison that was attended by nearly all the Brown Family.)
“I wanted to, do in a sense a pilgrimage,” Kody said. “I want to take his remains, I want to take him home. I want to put him in the ground next to his grandma and his grandpa, and kind of finish the circle.”
“We all drove up to Wyoming and Garrison is our passenger,” Robyn stated, adding that they still have family in the town and go there every year to visit them. “This year is very different. Wyoming is where Kody’s roots are. They’re where Garrison’s roots are.”
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Viewers expressed on social media that they felt it was wrong to include so many scenes of Kody having fun with his family in an episode that was supposed to be about Garrison.
“Am I tripping out or is Kody making his son’s ‘pilgrimage’ about signs (and about himself)?” someone wrote on X.
“It was disgraceful to see them make this trip about themselves,” another person commented. “Not once did you hear Kody say Garrison would have liked this or Garrison’s favorite ice cream was. They only talked about Kody and his memories of his own life during this pilgrimage.”
“TLC, what the hell is up with this Kody and Robyn vacation? This is the most disrespectful s**t ever,” someone else tweeted.
As The Ashley previously reported, Kody and Garrison (as well as most of his other kids) became estranged during the COVID-19 pandemic, and sadly, the father and son had not made amends before Garrison’s death.
During the episode, Kody explained that doing “happy things” is a way to get through his grief over the loss of Garrison.
“We’re moving through our grief because you need that time of mourning,” Kody told viewers before getting choked up. “And we’re doing mourning things to respect and love the dead. To mourn, and to own that pain. And we’re doing happy things so that we are moving on from mourning. So, we have faith in the hereafter and in our own futures.”
Kody also discussed how his feelings of grief tend to sneak up on him.
“Grief hits you in waves,” he told viewers. “When it hits me, I can’t run from it. If I cry it out or if I sob it out, I can cut it short, but when that wave comes, I cannot prevent it from affecting me.”
New ‘Sister Wives’ episodes air Sundays on TLC.
RELATED STORY: ‘Sister Wives’ Star Kody Brown Opens Up About Grieving Son Garrison: “Out of the Blue, It’ll Overcome Me”
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Unlike Janelle, Meri, Christine and their children, who talk about what Garrison was like and what he liked, all Kody talks about is his grief, what could have been and what HE will be missing in the futuru. It only shows that Kody didn’t really know Garrison and all he talks about is himself.
I’m so happy for the 3 that got away! Meri, Janelle, and Christine raised the 13 children they had with that idiot (Kodi) with love and together as the siblings they are. They all, the moms and children deserve the most happiness, the other 2 (Kodi and sobbin Robyn) deserve to fall off the face of the earth!!
He didn’t design it.
He didn’t craft it.
He didn’t do the delivery and installation.
He likely took a call, did some paperwork, a follow up call to make sure the client was happy with their sign (maybe)
Yet hearing him blather on and on like he’s the most impressive and impactful being who sold this incredible life changing cool sign on the planet (A business buying a very average sign with him as the middle man…) was horrifically cringey.
He was so… genuinely hyped for himself, that blowhard bragadocious tone, I felt second hand “okay grandpa” and secondhand embarrassment.
It just all screamed as loudly as it could “LOOK HOW IMPRESSIVE AND COOL I AM!!”… with zero self awareness. Kinda sad and pathetic.
Also… kind of grossed out Garrison was placed to rest with Cody and Cody’s family.
Cody was not in his will. Cody was problematic. The show was problematic to Garrison.
He should be buried where his siblings and mother intend to be. They’ve all put Cody and this place behind them.
I dunno. It all just made me feel really uncomfortable.
On the first paragraph, how and WHY do you know that?
You sound like a social media junkie. The telltale sign is the trained monkey mentality of ripping into everything about a person just because you don’t like them.
There’s nothing wrong with being proud of your work. It was the timing that was wrong.
Grow up!
Hahahaha!!! His creepy family is living their karma with having to listen to this troll endlessly brag with thee most boring details of signs he “built”……I’m sure they really wanted to stuff their ice cream cones into his corn hole.
Kody talked about a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage would’ve been him alone with his thoughts and son’s remains from Arizona to Wyoming. Or to make the trip with G’s brothers. That boy hadn’t been able to get five minutes of his father’s attention for years bc Kody only spends time with Robyn’s kids. And on this final trip, he made Garrison an afterthought to a happy fun road-trip for Robyn’s kids. And for Robyn to describe him as a “our passenger” was so rude. She should stop speaking about him on tv. Really she should stop speaking about any children not her own.
I am really hoping the “ashes” he had were fake, and Garrison’s actual ashes were with Janelle or his brothers. Not lugged around disrespectfully while Grody pleasures his ego.
I was put off by this too, especially considering Robyn said they go every year. They could have postponed the fun for this trip!
His narcissism knows no bounds.
The giddy vacation of the Robyn-Browns was indeed a disgraceful display of disrespect for Garrison, whom they were estranged from. As someone pointed out, his ashes were in your trunk, for Pete’s sake. Show some respect and some decorum. The narcissistic behavior of Kody was also on full display, even to the degree that TLC dared to show his Robyn-kids getting bored with his ramblings on and on about himself and his stupid, ugly signs. Not even his, really, the signs that he peddled for someone else.
You know how back in the people used think watching a human fight a bear or a lion was entertainment? Why do I feel like future generations will look back on this with a similar level of cringe?
As gross ez robin and Kody are.. TLC is worse.. I am absolutely shocked that they didn’t include the filming at the national guard memorial, but i’m also glad cube, because they wanted to keep that private for garrison to celebrate garrison’s life, I knew he wouldn’t have wanted it on t v
Did anyone really expect anything less from these two self-centered, vile human beings? They deserve each other.
Absolutely! A match made in hell. They’re despicable.
Time and time again. All he has done is proven that all he cares about is himself and his little life with Robin. He’s all in it for the fame and the money and nothing more his actions over and over again to prove this.
All the kids that have been the byproduct of these families who have been exploited by TLC really should get together and do a class action lawsuit for all they’ve endured. As a result, it’s deeply disturbing how this is a standard conduct of behavior for that Network.
This. How many kids of been hurt by TLC exposure and the network’s habit of turning a blind eye to child abuse happening in front of their families. Let’s see, the Duggar kids being actively brainwashed into a fertility cult for entertainment, the Gosselin mom treating her kids to a healthy dose of verbal and physical abuse, the Brown kids being thrown away by their father, Jacob Roloff being abused by a TLC staff member. Have I missed anyone?
*have been