Something’s been bugging Gina Kirschenheiter: Unexplained terrors at home. Seeing things she’s sure are not hallucinations.

That can only be one thing, Gina reckons, and so she does what any of us would do: She orders an exorcism.

This may be the first such procedure undertaken on “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” And it is just as ridiculous as you can imagine it would be.

“Something is haunting me,” Gina declares as the exorcism, or “extraction,” as her psychic medium Shauna calls it, is about to begin.

Emily Simpson has come over for moral support. You know how people say there’s always one friend you’d call when you’ve got a body to dispose of? Emily’s the one you call when you’ve got a demon in your body.

Not that Emily is taking this Bad Thing inside Gina for granted. When Shauna drives up, Emily pulls her hoodie up over her own head.

“Don’t hide!” Gina scolds.

“No, I’m afraid it might get in me!” Emily replies.

If Lucy and Ethel ever had an exorcism storyline on “I Love Lucy,” this is how it would have gone down.

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Gina thinks she knows how the Bad Thing got inside her. During the sweat lodge ceremony in Cabo, when Noella Bergener started to freak out, the ceremony ended unceremoniously. Gina had a mini-panic attack, and Shauna thinks it’s because the ritual did not reach its intended result.

“There’s an opening, and that’s when you can bring things home with you,” Shauna tells her.

“I don’t want it in me,” Gina tells the camera. “It’s so gross, whatever it is.”

“I’m actually going to be pulling it out of your mouth,” Shauna tells Gina, who winces and looks like she’s about to cry or throw up or both.

“I hate everything about this,” she tells the camera. “And also, I know I didn’t declare it with customs.”

Let this be a teachable moment: When the border guards ask you if you’ve brought any livestock, tequila or malevolent entities with you on your return from Mexico, speak up.

The actual extraction is absurd. Shauna rubs Gina’s tummy. Gina whimpers that she’s scared. Shauna starts to pull what might be an invisible rope out of Gina’s mouth hand over hand over hand. Then she holds it up, and – puff! – blows it out the window.

That’s got to be a violation of the homeowners association covenants in Gina’s neighborhood, but probably not worse than painting your house the wrong shade of beige.

At this point, Emily is holding a pillow over her head and wishing in a later confessional that she’d worn a hazmat suit instead of shorts.

“Extraction works,” Emily declares after Shauna asks her to look into Gina’s eyes and see how much brighter they are now.

“I just hope it’s not in my car. Like, I parked across the street.”

Gina, meanwhile, feels great. Well, except for the slight regret that she didn’t extract This Thing from her body before she got into a squabble with Shannon Storms Beador at the start of the episode.

“I should have cleared this before I had that little sit-down with Shannon,” she tells Emily.

Here’s what else we extracted from this week’s episode:

• Gina and Shannon opened the night with a continuation of their fight at Jen Armstrong’s party from the previous episode. It’s too boring to get into except for the amusement of watching Shannon misuse the phrase “put a pin in it” for at least the third week in a row.

Shannon believes Gina’s ego has gotten too big, like a balloon, so to the confusion of everyone, she’s been telling the other housewives that Gina needs to “put a pin in it,” a statement she invariably follows with a hand gesture – pin meet head.

Jen and Heather Dubrow finally catch wind of it and explain that like, “Inconceivable!” in “The Princess Bride,” those words don’t mean what Shannon thinks they do.

• Jen takes her three kids to see a new billboard for her aesthetic medicine practice. “Frown lines? Treat them today!”

She also makes the mistake of asking her kids what they think. “It looks like you when you were younger,” son Vince tells her.

• Noella meets with Kate, her “teacher of conscious relationships,” or as Noella describes her, “she’s kind of like my soul’s translator.”

Noella tells the camera that she’s tried practically everything else from the New Age catalog.

“I’ve done ashram, I’ve worked with shamans, psychics, tarot readings,” she says. “I’ve worked with reiki, sound baths, traditional therapy. Some nice work with ayahuasca with a spiritual healer. Vortexes in Sedona — that stuff is amazing.”

• The episode ends with another party, this time it’s Gina and the occasion is the launch of her CaraGala beauty and skincare product line.

Everyone shows, and everyone is nice to each other. Even Noella gets a break from her rival housewives given that her father, the former KNBC weatherman Christopher Nance, has just died in the timeline of the filming.

Emily, demonstrating once more that she’s the best friend of any of the wives, offers to go to the funeral with Noella if she doesn’t want to go alone.

Then the words “Five days later” flash on the screen, and it’s clear the blue skies are gone, and, who knows, maybe the Bad Thing is back. The housewives are on a trip to Aspen…

Stay tuned.

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