Tonight, we had a couple of Halloween episodes, and a bit of
plot. Let get to it!
Raising Hope
Sabrina has a couple of gay friends, and she and Jimmy hang
out with them, causing Jimmy to feel the need to understand gay culture a bit
more.
He and Burt go to a gay bar, and Burt enjoys himself way
more that you would expect a straight man to.
He goes back on Halloween dressed as a mailman from Village people(yes,
he’s aware there is no mailman), leaving Virginia at home to pass out candy due
to her Bunco club being cancelled. She
does end up at the club dressed as a guy, though, and it is super cute.
Jimmy and Sabrina, though, have a much different
Halloween.
First, Sabrina’s friends ask her to donate an egg and
surrogate for them. Jimmy doesn’t like
this nearly as much as Sabrina does, but fails in verbalizing his
uncomfortableness. Sabrina decides to
go through with it, while Jimmy complains to his parents. They remind him that their family is not so
good with the whole word thing, and have him use a little subterfuge to make
the gay friends not want a kid.
He takes their advice, and Hope over to the friend’s house,
and leaves her there after a faux emergency, all while sneakily keeping her
binky on him, causing Hope to scream bloody murder as he leaves, and presumably
the rest of the evening.
Unfortunately for Jimmy, Sabrina finds out what he is trying
to do, and is PISSED. They go over to
the friend’s house, and are super surprised to hear no screaming Hope. Turns out, the gay guys are way more prepared
to be parents than Jimmy ever will be, and managed to wean Hope off her nook
with a ring pop, and get her to sleep.
Cause Hope would definitely have fallen asleep after a big chunk of
sugar like that.
Anyway, the guys decide that they want Jimmy to sperm donate,
but no longer have Sabrina surrogate, to take away the weirdness. Jimmy is totally into it, but Sabrina is
having the same weird feelings Jimmy was having before. Jimmy actually does the right thing when his fiancé
said she doesn’t like something he’s doing, and calls the whole thing off. It’s super cute, and made better with the fact
that Jimmy is green…not with envy, but with Hulk makeup.
This was basically a filler episode, there was no plot mechinations
at all, but it was still pretty fun.
I got some lines, too!
Burt, to Jimmy,
after he tells him about Sabrina’s plan to surrogate: “So, you agreed to someone
freeloading on your fiance’s uterus?”
Burt, to Virginia
as he’s about to go to the gay bar: “I’d bring you with me, but all the other
married guys’ wives don’t even know they’re there”
Jimmy, as he’s
about to tell the guys he can’t be their sperm donor: “I can’t believe I have
to deny people my sperm…there was time I
couldn’t give the stuff away.”
Happy Endings
This was another filler episode, but now that I think about
it, they are sitcoms. Season long arcs
are not going to be the norm, I suppose.
Anyway, the Halloween portion of the evening only consisted
of the open, which is unfortunate, because Happy Endings rocks a good costume
ep. The group is going as marionette
Jackson 5, and it is about as unwieldy as you would expect. They don’t even make it out of the apartment,
before giving up and having a good laugh at Dave attempting, and failing
miserably, at drinking while still attached to the rest of them.
So, three plots again this week, with the pairings shuffled
from last week.
Penny and Jane go
out on an adventure when Penny wants to buy a new car. Jane is super controlling as per usual, and I
just realized I am totally Penny. Not
that I’m complaining or anything, but I definitely wanted to write “ushe” for
usual, except I didn’t know how to spell it, and am fairly certain no one would
have gotten it if I had…
ANYway, Jane mentors Penny on buying a new car, with some
pretty spot on predicitions of how things were going to go in terms of when the
air would come on, and the comedically tiny glasses of water. Penny freaks out a bunch at Jane’s abilities,
but in the end, she learns from the master, and gets the car she wanted at much
lower that even she was expecting. OH,
and Jane totally got a much higher paying job from the Car Czar, which
constituted half of our forward momentum of the evening.
Dave and Alex are
apartment hunting, and turn down every single one for more and more ridiculous reasons. The realtor finally (figuratively)
bitch-slaps them, and they have an apartment on the last showing of the evening,
which is a good thing, seeing as it was the last apartment to be seen in all of
Chicago. This was kind of a boring
subplot, and pointless, because they are not going to be together long term, if
the writers know what’s good for them.
Max and Brad also
go on an adventure, mostly dealing with how to make Brad’s Saturday traditions
happen on the cheap, since Brad is currently jobless. They go to Overeater’s Anonymous for a
healthy breakfast, antagonize a burly guy to chase them for his morning run
with a trainer, go to a kids birthday party for…reasons…and stand on a street
vent for his steam. I’m not really sure
what the point of this plot was either, it really wasn’t that funny, and doesn’t
really seem to serve too big of a general purpose, but I guess we’ll see in
future episodes if it a catalyst for future events.
Funny line time!
Max, to a kid at
a birthday party, regarding a favorite kid pastime: “Sup, you guys talking
boog? Ja eat it?” *Kid shikes his head
yes* “ Ya gotta pick it and flick it, man!”
Realtor, to Dave
and Alex after a very long day of apartment hunting: “NO! no more althoughs,
you shut your face!”
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