“I had two beers. It’s not like I was doing coke.”
-Juliet
This episode of “Ringer” was a little plodding at first, but boy did it bring the cliffhangers and shocking twists by the end. It was so twisty and shocking that it took all my willpower to switch over to Word and start writing this instead of just diving right into the next episode. These twists made me so sad for Bridget, because it looks like the little life she’s built for herself is going to come crashing down around her very soon. I guess I shouldn’t feel too sad because she basically stole that life from her (seriously evil) twin sister, but Bridget seems to genuinely care about the people in Siobhan’s life and wants to take care of them as best she can. Certainly beats her sister, who only seems interested in murdering all of them. Speaking of, we need some more real Siobhan character development post haste. She’s way to moustache-twirling and pure evil at the moment. There must have been something to turn her to the dark side (most likely involving the little kid from the photograph in the pilot), but without knowing that, her trying to kill multiple people back in NYC just seems silly.
The episode opens showing the crazy media frenzy that has taken place over Gemma’s disappearance. Henry’s being mobbed by photographers and reporters as he tries to get into a car. Over at the Martin apartment, Bridget has been watching the craziness on television. Before Bridget and Andrew can have much of a conversation about it, police arrive at the apartment with Juliet in tow. Juliet’s not in trouble, though. The police want to talk to “Siobhan.” Bridget goes into her dressing room, presumably to collect herself, but she actually makes a phone call from her old cellphone to Siobhan’s cell phone saying she thinks she really messed up. By the time she emerges from the dressing room, the police are saying they want to talk to Andrew too, because Gemma’s last phone call was from him. While this is going on, Juliet is also campaigning to be allowed to stay with a friend in Connecticut for a weekend. Andrew eventually relents.
At the local police precinct, Henry, Andrew, and Bridget are all being questioned about Gemma’s disappearance. Cops show both Henry and Andrew Bridget’s mug shot and ask them to identify the woman in the photo. Surprisingly, both correctly identify her as Bridget Kelly. This was quite the WTF moment, as up until now, we were lead to believe that nobody in Siobhan’s life knew anything about Bridget’s existence. After the opening credits, we get an explanation for this in the form of flashbacks to “Siobhan” (really Bridget) telling both of the guys about Bridget. Between this and the phone message se left herself, it’s obvious that she has some sort of longer game in mind with regards to keeping her new friends and family from being implicated in Gemma’s disappearance. Bridget seems to have all the pieces in place until Victor tells her that Malcolm is missing. This news makes her crack just a little.
Speaking of Malcolm, the crime lord and his minions have him hooded and in a van, presumably somewhere in middle-of-nowhere Wyoming. Malcolm manages to escape from the van by making his captors think he’s more high than he really is. They let their guard down and leave him alone in the van, and he escapes. We see him grab something from a house (presumably his own house in Wyoming), and then we see him at a truck stop. In the truck stop rest room, Malcolm recognizes a pair of boots that he can glimpse from below the stall. The boots belong to one of the crime lord’s minions. The minion tries to attack Malcolm and warns Malcolm that they’re going to keep following him, but Malcolm knocks the minion out and runs off.
Back in New York, Bridget is flashing back to the day she was three months sober. Bridget and Malcolm are celebrating with cake, and things go way too far. As in making out and sex too far. Apparently it’s taboo for NA folks to have romantic relationships with their sponsors. Which makes sense, really. Malcolm says he doesn’t regret it, but it absolutely cannot happen again. He assures her that while they can’t have romantic relationship, he’ll still be there for her whenever she needs him. Pulled back into the present day, Bridget has to listen to Andrew complaining about how she didn’t tell him the truth about having a twin sister sooner. Andrew is really, really pissed about this and believes that the omission could have put the whole family in danger. If only he knew who the really dangerous sister was…
Not feeling like she can really trust anybody else, Bridget meets up with Charlie at the coffee shop. She wants him to use his former cop skills to investigate Gemma’s disappearance more. She tells him that she’s certain the police have the wrong suspect. Charlie agrees to help only after Bridget tells him her “name” (she gives Siobhan’s name). After some digging, Charlie reports back that he hasn’t really been able to find out anything new. He thinks, however, that Gemma’s car might hold clues, and Bridget tells him the car’s location- JFK long term parking. She doesn’t tell him, however, why it’s there. This plot had quite the crazy ending. At the end of the episode, we see Charlie checking out Gemma’s car. He sees some blood inside it, and he makes a phone call. The phone call is to the real Siobhan! We see through a flashback that Charlie attacked Gemma on Siobhan’s orders. How twisted can this show get?
Backtracking a bit, instead of being in Connecticut, Juliet is at a party. Her friend Monica is really drunk, and Juliet is actually being responsible and trying to figure out the safest way to get her home. Juliet is going to hire a car to take them home (the best option, really), but Monica is really freaking out about how her parents will react if she doesn’t bring her car home. Meanwhile, back at home, Bridget and Andrew are having a heart-to-heart about all the lies they’ve told. Andrew is finally starting to get over not knowing Siobhan had a twin. Andrew also admits that at first he wasn’t happy to hear Siobhan was pregnant, but now he’s really happy. They’re in a much better place now, and they start making out when Andrew’s phone rings. It’s Mr. Carpenter (aka Logan from “Veronica Mars”) saying Juliet has been in a car accident. I was wondering what the heck he was doing there. It seemed kind of inappropriate to me. Andrew arrives on the scene and finds out that Juliet tried to drive Monica’s car so the car would be home and Monica wouldn’t get in trouble. Andrew has had it with Juliet’s antics and completely cuts her off from her trust fund. Needless to say, Juliet is pissed at Monica.
Over at the FBI, Victor gets some pretty major information. There has been ATM activity on Malcolm’s debit card, and there is video of him withdrawing cash from an NYC ATM. According to Victor, this means Bridget is probably still in NYC, instead of in Europe like the fake voicemail had said. Elsewhere in NYC, there’s a big swanky party to celebrate the opening of an art pavilion Gemma designed. Bridget and Henry are there and talking. Henry’s not doing well because he’s so upset about Gemma, and he wants to go home, so Bridget puts him in a cab. She turns around from the cab and sees Malcolm. This is such a shock that she faints. She wakes up in the hospital thanks to Malcolm calling an ambulance. Andrew is there, and he is insistent that Bridget have an ultrasound to check on the baby. This can’t possibly end well.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Body of Proof 2.07: "Hard Knocks"
It's time for another "Body of Proof" write-up courtesy of Sarah. Enjoy!
“I’m the child and you’re the adults. You’re supposed to be worried about my happiness. I’m not supposed to be responsible for yours.”
- Lacey
This week finds us with a young guy calling 911, but it doesn’t do much good. He passes out before the operator can get much useful information. Jump to Megan’s apartment where Lacey is bugging her mom about what guy she (Megan) is seeing. Megan tries to brush it off but finally tells her it is the FBI agent from the kidnap case. They have a coffee date. Unfortunately, Megan gets called to the crime scene of the 911 caller. He died before the EMTs arrived and Ames cancelled their date. Turns out the caller is 17-year-old Jake Brady. Megan finds bruises on his stomach and he smells like alcohol. She also finds black light paint on his cheek and Peter leads them on a trek to a rave spot. Bud and Sam go to notify the parents.
At the lab, Ethan announces that there was some kind of drug in Jake’s system but none of the party drugs they were expecting. Peter finds some strange yellow pills and Megan snatches them up and takes them to Ames since he has access to the federal drug database. When she gets back to the lab, Ethan shows that there were ligature marks on Jake’s wrists and Megan finds a spot on his side that determined time of death. Apparently when the 911 call was made, Jake had already been dead for four hours.
Over at the police station, Bud and Sam find a website for the woman who holds the raves, and they pick her up at the airport. She denies knowing Jake or anything that happened to him at the rave. As Megan is cutting up some body part, Curtis reports that Jake had no broken bones and Peter adds he had nothing in stomach to absorb the alcohol. Signs still point to an overdose. And then Agent Ames shows up with the yellow pills. Megan had told him to call with the results. He tells her that she could have found out what the drug was from her own database. It’s an ADD drug. They have a slightly awkward flirty moment when he asks her out to dinner that night before he hands over the evidence. Later, Bud and Megan head back to Jake’s parents’ house as Bud hasn’t heard anything from the dad. He’s got serious anger management issues. But he swears that Jake never took the easy way out (i.e. using drugs of any kind). They do manage to get a name out of him, Patrick.
Bud and Sam haul him in to interrogation and he admits to giving Jake the drugs and says he made the call because he freaked. But he didn’t put the sign on Jake. When Bud and Sam look confused, Patrick pulls up a picture on his phone. Jake is sitting on the ground with a sign that says “Dead Meat” on it. And from the picture they determine cause of death. Jake’s hands were bound and the sign was propped under his chin in such a way that it closed off his airway and he suffocated. So Ethan and Curtis are sent back to the rave spot to find whatever bound Jake’s hands. And we get a pretty funny scene with them breaking it down to Ethan’s sort-of techno beat boxing before they actually find the cable that they’re looking for.
On a wholly unrelated plot point, Todd is thinking of accepting a professorship at a law school out in California. Lacey is obviously not pleased about the possibility of moving. They’re going to fly out in a few days so Todd can meet the Regents, and he’s taking Lacey along. Back at the lab, Megan is running DNA on the skin cells found on the cable. It pops but it is a restricted profile. That means it is from a parent who submitted their child’s DNA in case the child got abducted. So Megan’s off to pump Ames for more favors, except he says no, especially since they aren’t dating. Megan offers to change that, and they end up at her apartment drinking wine. Just as things are getting a bit sexy, Lacey interrupts in a rather Ethan-esque fashion.
Lacey says she doesn’t want to move to California but she didn’t want her parents to divorce and it happened anyway. Poor kid. The next morning, Bud and Sam confiscate the computer of the editor of the school newspaper and with Megan’s help and the information that the person they’re looking for as a rare chromosome disorder, find the kid who tied Jake up. Bud and Sam bring the boy in, but he says he moved the sign when Jake started to move and went home. So the sign position didn’t kill Jake. Megan continues to check the body, but Todd shows up and they have another argument (Megan certainly does a lot of it). Kate interrupts, and it’s even more awkward since she doesn’t know about the California move yet. She’s not pleased when he does dump it on her and she gives him a “are you kidding me?” look when he asks if Kate wants to go with him.
Megan is ranting at Peter about how she is going to lose Lacey when she realizes what killed Jake: a punch to the heart. She’s back to exam the body, taking out stitches from the Y incision over Jake’s heart when Ames shows up with roses, likely to apologize. She kind of sends him away though, because the flowers could contaminate the area, and Kate walks in. Kate turned Todd down for the move to California, and it’s obvious Megan is a little happy. The rest of the crew gathers and Megan finds the impression of a Greek Sigma. Looks like Jake’s dad punched him. As with the rest of the investigation, it’s not exactly as it seems. And Bud blurts out that he and his wife are expecting. And Megan determines why Jake’s dad isn’t responsible when Kate pops by to tell her to call Ames. She and Megan were both in honor society and pre-graduation they wore the ring one way and after they turned it around. Jake’s dad’s ring was facing the wrong way. Maxine, the editor of the newspaper, is the real culprit. She tutored Jake and when she saw the photo of him with the sign she went to go help him, but he didn’t even remember her.
Later that night, Megan and Ames are sharing another glass of wine when she tells him that she needs to focus on Lacey if she stays. Todd shows up frantic because he doesn’t know where Lacey is, only to find her hiding out in Megan’s apartment. Lacey doesn’t want to go. But she doesn’t want to ruin her dad’s career or Megan’s love life. When Megan and Todd finally get their heads on straight and ask Lacey what she wants, it becomes clear that she wants Todd to go to California and she can move in with Megan.
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“I’m the child and you’re the adults. You’re supposed to be worried about my happiness. I’m not supposed to be responsible for yours.”
- Lacey
This week finds us with a young guy calling 911, but it doesn’t do much good. He passes out before the operator can get much useful information. Jump to Megan’s apartment where Lacey is bugging her mom about what guy she (Megan) is seeing. Megan tries to brush it off but finally tells her it is the FBI agent from the kidnap case. They have a coffee date. Unfortunately, Megan gets called to the crime scene of the 911 caller. He died before the EMTs arrived and Ames cancelled their date. Turns out the caller is 17-year-old Jake Brady. Megan finds bruises on his stomach and he smells like alcohol. She also finds black light paint on his cheek and Peter leads them on a trek to a rave spot. Bud and Sam go to notify the parents.
At the lab, Ethan announces that there was some kind of drug in Jake’s system but none of the party drugs they were expecting. Peter finds some strange yellow pills and Megan snatches them up and takes them to Ames since he has access to the federal drug database. When she gets back to the lab, Ethan shows that there were ligature marks on Jake’s wrists and Megan finds a spot on his side that determined time of death. Apparently when the 911 call was made, Jake had already been dead for four hours.
Over at the police station, Bud and Sam find a website for the woman who holds the raves, and they pick her up at the airport. She denies knowing Jake or anything that happened to him at the rave. As Megan is cutting up some body part, Curtis reports that Jake had no broken bones and Peter adds he had nothing in stomach to absorb the alcohol. Signs still point to an overdose. And then Agent Ames shows up with the yellow pills. Megan had told him to call with the results. He tells her that she could have found out what the drug was from her own database. It’s an ADD drug. They have a slightly awkward flirty moment when he asks her out to dinner that night before he hands over the evidence. Later, Bud and Megan head back to Jake’s parents’ house as Bud hasn’t heard anything from the dad. He’s got serious anger management issues. But he swears that Jake never took the easy way out (i.e. using drugs of any kind). They do manage to get a name out of him, Patrick.
Bud and Sam haul him in to interrogation and he admits to giving Jake the drugs and says he made the call because he freaked. But he didn’t put the sign on Jake. When Bud and Sam look confused, Patrick pulls up a picture on his phone. Jake is sitting on the ground with a sign that says “Dead Meat” on it. And from the picture they determine cause of death. Jake’s hands were bound and the sign was propped under his chin in such a way that it closed off his airway and he suffocated. So Ethan and Curtis are sent back to the rave spot to find whatever bound Jake’s hands. And we get a pretty funny scene with them breaking it down to Ethan’s sort-of techno beat boxing before they actually find the cable that they’re looking for.
On a wholly unrelated plot point, Todd is thinking of accepting a professorship at a law school out in California. Lacey is obviously not pleased about the possibility of moving. They’re going to fly out in a few days so Todd can meet the Regents, and he’s taking Lacey along. Back at the lab, Megan is running DNA on the skin cells found on the cable. It pops but it is a restricted profile. That means it is from a parent who submitted their child’s DNA in case the child got abducted. So Megan’s off to pump Ames for more favors, except he says no, especially since they aren’t dating. Megan offers to change that, and they end up at her apartment drinking wine. Just as things are getting a bit sexy, Lacey interrupts in a rather Ethan-esque fashion.
Lacey says she doesn’t want to move to California but she didn’t want her parents to divorce and it happened anyway. Poor kid. The next morning, Bud and Sam confiscate the computer of the editor of the school newspaper and with Megan’s help and the information that the person they’re looking for as a rare chromosome disorder, find the kid who tied Jake up. Bud and Sam bring the boy in, but he says he moved the sign when Jake started to move and went home. So the sign position didn’t kill Jake. Megan continues to check the body, but Todd shows up and they have another argument (Megan certainly does a lot of it). Kate interrupts, and it’s even more awkward since she doesn’t know about the California move yet. She’s not pleased when he does dump it on her and she gives him a “are you kidding me?” look when he asks if Kate wants to go with him.
Megan is ranting at Peter about how she is going to lose Lacey when she realizes what killed Jake: a punch to the heart. She’s back to exam the body, taking out stitches from the Y incision over Jake’s heart when Ames shows up with roses, likely to apologize. She kind of sends him away though, because the flowers could contaminate the area, and Kate walks in. Kate turned Todd down for the move to California, and it’s obvious Megan is a little happy. The rest of the crew gathers and Megan finds the impression of a Greek Sigma. Looks like Jake’s dad punched him. As with the rest of the investigation, it’s not exactly as it seems. And Bud blurts out that he and his wife are expecting. And Megan determines why Jake’s dad isn’t responsible when Kate pops by to tell her to call Ames. She and Megan were both in honor society and pre-graduation they wore the ring one way and after they turned it around. Jake’s dad’s ring was facing the wrong way. Maxine, the editor of the newspaper, is the real culprit. She tutored Jake and when she saw the photo of him with the sign she went to go help him, but he didn’t even remember her.
Later that night, Megan and Ames are sharing another glass of wine when she tells him that she needs to focus on Lacey if she stays. Todd shows up frantic because he doesn’t know where Lacey is, only to find her hiding out in Megan’s apartment. Lacey doesn’t want to go. But she doesn’t want to ruin her dad’s career or Megan’s love life. When Megan and Todd finally get their heads on straight and ask Lacey what she wants, it becomes clear that she wants Todd to go to California and she can move in with Megan.
New Girl 1.04: "Naked"
“We grew up together. Locker rooms, swimming pools…penis fights. It just happens.”
-Winston
“Naked” was the first episode of “New Girl” after a long baseball playoff hiatus (since my Phillies didn’t make it out of the NLDS, baseball hiatus got real old, real fast this year). While this episode was decent, it was a bit of a whimper of a return. I adored “Wedding,” but this episode just seemed more immature than funny. It took Jess just a touch too far on the quirkiness spectrum. Slow-motion chicken dancing with a peck instead of a clap is fun quirkiness in my book. An inability to say the word “penis” is just kind of sad. I’m not going to gripe too much about this one, though, because I’m far behind enough in my blogging here to know that some amazing episodes come after this one. The slight misstep that was “Naked” was not at all a trend. And there was still some genuinely funny stuff in this episode, too. Winston’s sub-plot about needing to catch up on pop culture after living in Latvia for several years really cracked me up.
The show opens with a brief vignette that isn’t really connected to the rest of the episode. I think it’s meant to illustrate how Jess still hasn’t really completely fit in with the guys yet. Schmidt, Nick, and Winston are lounging on the couch watching a scary movie, and Jess interrupts. She flops down on the couch and starts talking about movies she’d rather watch like “Fame” and “An American Tale.” The final straw, though, is when she spoils the movie by telling the guys that a character is going to blow himself up. She had seen the movie already in theaters, but she had neglected to tell the guys that.
Nick has a date scheduled with a coworker, a really odd fellow bartender named Amanda. It’s the first time he’s really put himself out there since the big break-up with Caroline, and Schmidt and Jess are just full of advice. Unfortunately, some of Schmidt’s advice (to suck in his gut), which is backed up by Jess, makes Nick feel kind of fat. This leads Nick to start dancing in front of his bedroom mirror, just to get a sense of how he really looks. To continue this process (and maybe gain some confidence?), Nick also starts taking off all his clothes as he dances. Jess is bothered by the loud music and barges into Nick’s room to tell him to turn it down. She gets a view of the goods and lets out a little laugh-scream as she runs out of the room. Which really doesn’t help at all.
Meanwhile, Winston’s having a bit of a crisis because of a bad job interview. He had the skill for the job, but he failed at the pre-interview pop culture chit chat. This was because he lived in Latvia for several years. The interviewer blabbering on about TwitPics and Jersey shore folks was just gibberish to him. Schmidt decides he’s going to help Winston with this and starts rattling off a bunch of pop culture facts Winston is going to need to know. My favorite part of the exchange is when Schmidt mentions that Betty White is back, and Winston asks what happened to the rest of the Golden Girls. Winston’s little sad face when Schmidt informs him that they’re all dead is just too much! Winston’s pop culture education continues throughout the episode. For instance, we hear him watching the “Double Rainbow” video at one point.
Jess rushes out to the living room to try to tell Schmidt and Winston what happened. Before she can get out the whole story, Nick, now all hoodied-up in hiding from the world mode, tries to leave the apartment. After Jess tells the rest of the story, Schmidt is a little upset that he’s the only person in the apartment who has never seen Nick’s penis. Winston has seen it because he and Nick grew up together, and apparently that sort of thing is rather difficult to avoid in the locker room. Schmidt keeps trying to sneak-attack a peek at Nick in the bathroom throughout the rest of the episode. It’s super creepy, but it’s pretty damn hilarious, too. Which pretty much describes Schmidt all the time.
Nick’s date with Amanda doesn’t go well because Nick is super self-conscious about taking off his clothes. They end up spooning fully clothed all night. When Nick returns from his date the next morning, Jess really wants to talk to him about what happened. Nick has no desire to talk about it, and Jess ends up chasing him around the building, including on and off an elevator a couple times, trying to have the conversation. When Jess accuses Nick of being immature for refusing to talk, Nick calls her on the fact that she can’t say the word “penis.” Jess really desperately tries to say it for a while, but she just can’t manage it. Nick believes this proves his point (and it kind of does).
Winston has another job interview and he’s pretty bummed out afterwards. When Schmidt asks what happened, Winston explains that while he totally nailed the pop culture stuff, he struggled when the interviewer asked “Why do you want to do this job?” Winston hasn’t known any career other than playing basketball, so he’s not really sure why he would want another job (other than the fact that he needs money, obviously). Schmidt suggests they go for a run so Winston can blow off some steam. This turns out to be a great thing for Winston, but Schmidt doesn’t get very far before he can’t run anymore. He claims he has exercise asthma. Later, as Schmidt is recovering, he and Winston have a bit of a heart to heart. Winston said that he learned from the internet that everybody eventually has their time in the sun. He’s certain that his time and Schmidt’s time will come someday. I thought that was a nice sentiment.
Jess discusses the Nick situation with Cece, and Cece suggests Jess make it even by letting Nick see her naked. I’m pretty sure this has been a plot point in many sitcoms before. So much so that Abed even pointed it out in an episode of “Community” where Jeff and Britta were having some awkwardness once. Meanwhile, Nick apologizes to Amanda, and she accepts because she appreciates his honesty. Jess decides to take Cece’s advice, and she’s waiting in Nick’s room clothed only in a towel when Nick returns from a date with Amanda. Jess tries hiding behind the bed, but when Nick and Amanda start undressing, she just can’t take it anymore. Awkwardness and screaming ensue. And Nick gets a good view of Jess when she accidentally drops the towel.
This latest drama results in a big apartment meeting where Winston and Schmidt happily use Jess’ travel size feelings stick (Nick broke the regular size one) to basically tell Nick that he needs to lighten up. And that he should let Schmidt see his penis. Which kind of defeated the purpose of the feelings stick session, I think. Jess and Nick do eventually make up after Jess works really hard at finally being able to say the word “penis.” But she is still, apparently, unable to use anatomically correct terms for lady parts. Nick agrees with me that calling her vagina her “gumbo pot” (when asking Nick how much he saw) is just gross.
-Winston
“Naked” was the first episode of “New Girl” after a long baseball playoff hiatus (since my Phillies didn’t make it out of the NLDS, baseball hiatus got real old, real fast this year). While this episode was decent, it was a bit of a whimper of a return. I adored “Wedding,” but this episode just seemed more immature than funny. It took Jess just a touch too far on the quirkiness spectrum. Slow-motion chicken dancing with a peck instead of a clap is fun quirkiness in my book. An inability to say the word “penis” is just kind of sad. I’m not going to gripe too much about this one, though, because I’m far behind enough in my blogging here to know that some amazing episodes come after this one. The slight misstep that was “Naked” was not at all a trend. And there was still some genuinely funny stuff in this episode, too. Winston’s sub-plot about needing to catch up on pop culture after living in Latvia for several years really cracked me up.
The show opens with a brief vignette that isn’t really connected to the rest of the episode. I think it’s meant to illustrate how Jess still hasn’t really completely fit in with the guys yet. Schmidt, Nick, and Winston are lounging on the couch watching a scary movie, and Jess interrupts. She flops down on the couch and starts talking about movies she’d rather watch like “Fame” and “An American Tale.” The final straw, though, is when she spoils the movie by telling the guys that a character is going to blow himself up. She had seen the movie already in theaters, but she had neglected to tell the guys that.
Nick has a date scheduled with a coworker, a really odd fellow bartender named Amanda. It’s the first time he’s really put himself out there since the big break-up with Caroline, and Schmidt and Jess are just full of advice. Unfortunately, some of Schmidt’s advice (to suck in his gut), which is backed up by Jess, makes Nick feel kind of fat. This leads Nick to start dancing in front of his bedroom mirror, just to get a sense of how he really looks. To continue this process (and maybe gain some confidence?), Nick also starts taking off all his clothes as he dances. Jess is bothered by the loud music and barges into Nick’s room to tell him to turn it down. She gets a view of the goods and lets out a little laugh-scream as she runs out of the room. Which really doesn’t help at all.
Meanwhile, Winston’s having a bit of a crisis because of a bad job interview. He had the skill for the job, but he failed at the pre-interview pop culture chit chat. This was because he lived in Latvia for several years. The interviewer blabbering on about TwitPics and Jersey shore folks was just gibberish to him. Schmidt decides he’s going to help Winston with this and starts rattling off a bunch of pop culture facts Winston is going to need to know. My favorite part of the exchange is when Schmidt mentions that Betty White is back, and Winston asks what happened to the rest of the Golden Girls. Winston’s little sad face when Schmidt informs him that they’re all dead is just too much! Winston’s pop culture education continues throughout the episode. For instance, we hear him watching the “Double Rainbow” video at one point.
Jess rushes out to the living room to try to tell Schmidt and Winston what happened. Before she can get out the whole story, Nick, now all hoodied-up in hiding from the world mode, tries to leave the apartment. After Jess tells the rest of the story, Schmidt is a little upset that he’s the only person in the apartment who has never seen Nick’s penis. Winston has seen it because he and Nick grew up together, and apparently that sort of thing is rather difficult to avoid in the locker room. Schmidt keeps trying to sneak-attack a peek at Nick in the bathroom throughout the rest of the episode. It’s super creepy, but it’s pretty damn hilarious, too. Which pretty much describes Schmidt all the time.
Nick’s date with Amanda doesn’t go well because Nick is super self-conscious about taking off his clothes. They end up spooning fully clothed all night. When Nick returns from his date the next morning, Jess really wants to talk to him about what happened. Nick has no desire to talk about it, and Jess ends up chasing him around the building, including on and off an elevator a couple times, trying to have the conversation. When Jess accuses Nick of being immature for refusing to talk, Nick calls her on the fact that she can’t say the word “penis.” Jess really desperately tries to say it for a while, but she just can’t manage it. Nick believes this proves his point (and it kind of does).
Winston has another job interview and he’s pretty bummed out afterwards. When Schmidt asks what happened, Winston explains that while he totally nailed the pop culture stuff, he struggled when the interviewer asked “Why do you want to do this job?” Winston hasn’t known any career other than playing basketball, so he’s not really sure why he would want another job (other than the fact that he needs money, obviously). Schmidt suggests they go for a run so Winston can blow off some steam. This turns out to be a great thing for Winston, but Schmidt doesn’t get very far before he can’t run anymore. He claims he has exercise asthma. Later, as Schmidt is recovering, he and Winston have a bit of a heart to heart. Winston said that he learned from the internet that everybody eventually has their time in the sun. He’s certain that his time and Schmidt’s time will come someday. I thought that was a nice sentiment.
Jess discusses the Nick situation with Cece, and Cece suggests Jess make it even by letting Nick see her naked. I’m pretty sure this has been a plot point in many sitcoms before. So much so that Abed even pointed it out in an episode of “Community” where Jeff and Britta were having some awkwardness once. Meanwhile, Nick apologizes to Amanda, and she accepts because she appreciates his honesty. Jess decides to take Cece’s advice, and she’s waiting in Nick’s room clothed only in a towel when Nick returns from a date with Amanda. Jess tries hiding behind the bed, but when Nick and Amanda start undressing, she just can’t take it anymore. Awkwardness and screaming ensue. And Nick gets a good view of Jess when she accidentally drops the towel.
This latest drama results in a big apartment meeting where Winston and Schmidt happily use Jess’ travel size feelings stick (Nick broke the regular size one) to basically tell Nick that he needs to lighten up. And that he should let Schmidt see his penis. Which kind of defeated the purpose of the feelings stick session, I think. Jess and Nick do eventually make up after Jess works really hard at finally being able to say the word “penis.” But she is still, apparently, unable to use anatomically correct terms for lady parts. Nick agrees with me that calling her vagina her “gumbo pot” (when asking Nick how much he saw) is just gross.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
HIMYM 7.08: "The Slutty Pumpkin Returns"
“I want Scotch. American Scotch. From Scotland!”
-Barney
“The Slutty Pumpkin Returns” was a follow-up to a beloved episode (“Slutty Pumpkin”) that could have threatened to kill my love for the original. “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap,” I’m talking to you. While some aspects of the episode certainly did sink to that level, the episode was saved by a hilarious Barney and Robin subplot. It was a reminder of why they work so well together as a comedic duo. Throw in some classic HIMYM Canadian jokes, and this particular plot was right up my alley. On the other hand, I was kind of disappointed to see that the HIMYM powers that be once again felt the need to sink to stunt casting. The Slutty Pumpkin is kind of iconic in HIMYM mythology, and I was so disappointed when I learned she would be portrayed by Katie Holmes. Holmes wasn’t terrible in the role, but she wasn’t spectacular either, and because of that, the show didn’t really accomplish anything creatively by finally introducing us to the woman inside the (hilarious in description but kind of lame when you actually see it) costume.
The gang is all hanging out at Ted and Robin’s apartment, and Robin reveals something awesomely hilarious that she learned by being Facebook friends with Barney’s dad. It turns out Jerome’s mother was Canadian, which makes Barney ¼ Canadian. Barney doesn’t take it well at all. He has a bit of a freak out and ends up leaving the apartment in a huff. This definitely made me chuckle. Robin spends the rest o the episode torturing Barney about his heritage, which was amazingly hilarious and so something I’d expect Barney to do in a similar situation. She has a bar maid deliver Canadian whiskey to him instead his usual Scotch, and that’s only the beginning of the torment.
Meanwhile, in the main (kind of annoying, mostly because of Katie Holmes) plot, Ted is walking down the street and sees the infamous Slutty Pumpkin costume in a shop window. He gets the shopkeeper to look in his records and find who rented the costume in 2001. It’s a woman named Naomi, and against his better judgment (and mine), Ted soon shows up at her door. I find this plot kind of disappointing, mostly because the Pumpkin was funnier when its sluttiness was left to the imagination. “It was carved in strategic places” is hilarious. The actual costume? Not so much.
The final plot of this episode centers around Lily and Marshall. Lily’s grandparents want to move to Florida full time, and they give Lily and Marshall their Long Island house. Surprisingly, Lily, always the city girl, is kind of happy about it and potentially wants to move there. Later, Marshall discusses this with Robin, and Robin warns Marshall that Lily’s change in opinion about the suburbs is likely due to “pregnancy brain.” I really found this whole plot to be kind of ridiculous and borderline offensive, honestly. As soon as Robin makes the pregnancy brain suggestion, we see Lily looking like she’s barely able to function or string together a coherent sentence.
Ted and Naomi go on a date, and while it’s very well planned by Ted (he arranges dinner on the apartment building rooftop where they first met at the Halloween party), the date ends up being incredibly awkward. Even hand holding and cuddling on a lounge chair on the roof his horribly uncomfortable. Unfortunately for Ted, Naomi seems to be really into it. The second date is even more awkward. Naomi tries to come on to Ted by singing the Barenaked Ladies song “One Week,” which was popular when they first met in 2001 (oh how I miss 2000-2001 era music). I approved of the singing and of Naomi declaring it their song” because I first really got into music in 2000 and 2001, so the song has some nostalgia for me. Ted, however, thought it was just really strange and awkward, and he runs into the bathroom of Naomi’s apartment to escape. The bathroom has a pretty awesome lavender and black color scheme going on, by the way. Must file that away for when I actually own my own place someday.
Lily finally claims to agree with Marshall that now is not the best time to make any major life decisions like deciding to move to the suburbs. She says she’ll call a Realtor to start looking into selling her grandparents’ house. When she takes Marshall out to the Long Island house to meet the Realtor, though, she ends up having been manipulating Marshall all along. She arranges for super cute Trick-or-Treaters to show up to the door in a bid to convince Marshall that he really does want to move to the suburbs immediately. Lily continues to try and convince Marshall to move, even though he’s staying strong. Eventually, Lily realizes that she really shouldn’t be making big life decisions while pregnant when she accidentally gives objects that aren’t candy (like a stapler) out to some Trick-or-Treaters. The fact that the candy-less Trick-or-Treaters proceed to egg the house doesn’t help, either.
Leading up to the big rooftop Halloween party at Ted and Robin’s building, Robin and Barney make a deal. If Barney wears a Mountie costume to the party, Robin will drop the Canada jokes at Barney’s expense. Also, Ted shows up at Naomi’s apartment and tires to break up with her, but she’s wearing the Slutty Pumpkin outfit and has made him a Hanging Chad costume. Instead of saying they need to break up, Ted pulls a classic “Schmosby” and says he loves her. This, of course, results in the relationship very much continuing, as much as Ted doesn’t really want it to.
Of course, Barney can’t show up to the Halloween party in a Mountie costume. He ends up going as far in the other direction as possible- shirtless with American flag shorts and an Uncle Sam hat. It’s rather glorious, in typical Barney fashion. Robin, dressed in a Vancouver Canucks uniform, isn’t quite so impressed. Ted and Naomi show up at the party as well, and Robin and Barney are very surprised to find out they slept together, considering Ted wanted to end the relationship. Robin keeps checking both guys with her hockey stick when they say stupid things, and I found that very amusing. By the end of the night, Naomi ends up breaking up with Ted. She had been feeling things were awkward, just like Ted had been, but she had been too nice to say anything before getting a little tipsy at the party. And so the legend of the Slutty Pumpkin has reached its rather disappointing conclusion.
-Barney
“The Slutty Pumpkin Returns” was a follow-up to a beloved episode (“Slutty Pumpkin”) that could have threatened to kill my love for the original. “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap,” I’m talking to you. While some aspects of the episode certainly did sink to that level, the episode was saved by a hilarious Barney and Robin subplot. It was a reminder of why they work so well together as a comedic duo. Throw in some classic HIMYM Canadian jokes, and this particular plot was right up my alley. On the other hand, I was kind of disappointed to see that the HIMYM powers that be once again felt the need to sink to stunt casting. The Slutty Pumpkin is kind of iconic in HIMYM mythology, and I was so disappointed when I learned she would be portrayed by Katie Holmes. Holmes wasn’t terrible in the role, but she wasn’t spectacular either, and because of that, the show didn’t really accomplish anything creatively by finally introducing us to the woman inside the (hilarious in description but kind of lame when you actually see it) costume.
The gang is all hanging out at Ted and Robin’s apartment, and Robin reveals something awesomely hilarious that she learned by being Facebook friends with Barney’s dad. It turns out Jerome’s mother was Canadian, which makes Barney ¼ Canadian. Barney doesn’t take it well at all. He has a bit of a freak out and ends up leaving the apartment in a huff. This definitely made me chuckle. Robin spends the rest o the episode torturing Barney about his heritage, which was amazingly hilarious and so something I’d expect Barney to do in a similar situation. She has a bar maid deliver Canadian whiskey to him instead his usual Scotch, and that’s only the beginning of the torment.
Meanwhile, in the main (kind of annoying, mostly because of Katie Holmes) plot, Ted is walking down the street and sees the infamous Slutty Pumpkin costume in a shop window. He gets the shopkeeper to look in his records and find who rented the costume in 2001. It’s a woman named Naomi, and against his better judgment (and mine), Ted soon shows up at her door. I find this plot kind of disappointing, mostly because the Pumpkin was funnier when its sluttiness was left to the imagination. “It was carved in strategic places” is hilarious. The actual costume? Not so much.
The final plot of this episode centers around Lily and Marshall. Lily’s grandparents want to move to Florida full time, and they give Lily and Marshall their Long Island house. Surprisingly, Lily, always the city girl, is kind of happy about it and potentially wants to move there. Later, Marshall discusses this with Robin, and Robin warns Marshall that Lily’s change in opinion about the suburbs is likely due to “pregnancy brain.” I really found this whole plot to be kind of ridiculous and borderline offensive, honestly. As soon as Robin makes the pregnancy brain suggestion, we see Lily looking like she’s barely able to function or string together a coherent sentence.
Ted and Naomi go on a date, and while it’s very well planned by Ted (he arranges dinner on the apartment building rooftop where they first met at the Halloween party), the date ends up being incredibly awkward. Even hand holding and cuddling on a lounge chair on the roof his horribly uncomfortable. Unfortunately for Ted, Naomi seems to be really into it. The second date is even more awkward. Naomi tries to come on to Ted by singing the Barenaked Ladies song “One Week,” which was popular when they first met in 2001 (oh how I miss 2000-2001 era music). I approved of the singing and of Naomi declaring it their song” because I first really got into music in 2000 and 2001, so the song has some nostalgia for me. Ted, however, thought it was just really strange and awkward, and he runs into the bathroom of Naomi’s apartment to escape. The bathroom has a pretty awesome lavender and black color scheme going on, by the way. Must file that away for when I actually own my own place someday.
Lily finally claims to agree with Marshall that now is not the best time to make any major life decisions like deciding to move to the suburbs. She says she’ll call a Realtor to start looking into selling her grandparents’ house. When she takes Marshall out to the Long Island house to meet the Realtor, though, she ends up having been manipulating Marshall all along. She arranges for super cute Trick-or-Treaters to show up to the door in a bid to convince Marshall that he really does want to move to the suburbs immediately. Lily continues to try and convince Marshall to move, even though he’s staying strong. Eventually, Lily realizes that she really shouldn’t be making big life decisions while pregnant when she accidentally gives objects that aren’t candy (like a stapler) out to some Trick-or-Treaters. The fact that the candy-less Trick-or-Treaters proceed to egg the house doesn’t help, either.
Leading up to the big rooftop Halloween party at Ted and Robin’s building, Robin and Barney make a deal. If Barney wears a Mountie costume to the party, Robin will drop the Canada jokes at Barney’s expense. Also, Ted shows up at Naomi’s apartment and tires to break up with her, but she’s wearing the Slutty Pumpkin outfit and has made him a Hanging Chad costume. Instead of saying they need to break up, Ted pulls a classic “Schmosby” and says he loves her. This, of course, results in the relationship very much continuing, as much as Ted doesn’t really want it to.
Of course, Barney can’t show up to the Halloween party in a Mountie costume. He ends up going as far in the other direction as possible- shirtless with American flag shorts and an Uncle Sam hat. It’s rather glorious, in typical Barney fashion. Robin, dressed in a Vancouver Canucks uniform, isn’t quite so impressed. Ted and Naomi show up at the party as well, and Robin and Barney are very surprised to find out they slept together, considering Ted wanted to end the relationship. Robin keeps checking both guys with her hockey stick when they say stupid things, and I found that very amusing. By the end of the night, Naomi ends up breaking up with Ted. She had been feeling things were awkward, just like Ted had been, but she had been too nice to say anything before getting a little tipsy at the party. And so the legend of the Slutty Pumpkin has reached its rather disappointing conclusion.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Person of Interest 1.06: "The Fix"
For your reading pleasure, here's the latest "Person of Interest" write-up from Sarah.
“I never thought I would know what happened to her. And now I also know the man responsible.”
- Finch
This week we begin with a woman, Zoe Morgan, walking out of her apartment and Reese greeting her at the car. He’s obviously not who she’s expecting and she even calls to verify his story of her usual driver being sick (she gets Finch on the other end of the line). As Reese drives off, Finch appears. Looks like he’s going to do some leg work this week. He complains about not being able to pick the lock as Reese arrives at the location he’s supposed to be taking Zoe. Finch gets inside and finds nothing personal at all in the place. And from Reese’s perspective, it appears Zoe has just done a drug deal with some shady kids. Finch finds a gun in her living room under the sofa. Only problem is, it wasn’t drugs she got from the shady guy. It was a gun. Zoe has Reese drop her at a swanky party. Reese isn’t so sure it’s a good idea to stay in the car so he follows Zoe inside and sees her hand over the gun to a cop. Apparently his nephew (also a cop) left it in a subway bathroom. Woops. Turns out Ms. Morgan is a fixer.
We also have a case of the week for Detective Carter. She’s got a 70-year-old dead guy who happens to be an enforcer and gangster. And he skated on the murder of Marlene Elias (she was stabbed multiple times in the chest with a kitchen knife). So I guess we know why the crew a few weeks back wanted that knife. Out in the city, Zoe has another meeting. She’s going to make a blogger shut up about a high-powered executive’s affair so his CEO father-in-law doesn’t find out. She pays the blogger 40 grand. He’s creepy and a blackmailing jerk but not capable of killing Zoe.
Carter has asked the cop who worked the Elias murder to come in to fill in some of the blanks. It seems a pretty typical case. Cocktail waitress has an affair with an upper level mobster, and when she keeps begging him to leave his wife; he has his knife man off her. Too bad Mr. Mob and Elias had a kid together. Seems likely, now that he’s all grown up, he could be the killer. Meanwhile, Reese is driving Zoe to another meet, and he gets the vibe that things are off when there are two guys waiting. She brushes him off and tries the make the hand-off of the recording she got from the blogger when a third guy appears and they try to grab her. Reese intervenes and gets Zoe out of there without too much damage (well the back window of the car is shot out). They need to find out what was on the recording. Zoe made a copy, but it’s not very high quality. They pull up to find one of the businessmen dead from heart failure. Someone’s cleaning house. Unfortunately, Zoe’s taken off in the minute Reese left her alone in the car.
Back at HQ, Finch is working on cleaning up the recording from the flash drive, and he discovers the woman’s voice belongs to a woman named Dana Miller. She worked for the company that hired Zoe to fix the problem. She was having the affair with the heir apparent to the empire, and she died six months earlier from a brain aneurysm. Finch knows this because she was one of his numbers before he met Reese. And now Finch is off for a very important business meeting. He’s just bought stock in the company, and he uses the opportunity to meet with Lawson (the heir and the one who had Dana killed) and plant a bug in his office. Lawson’s muscle reports in about getting the flash drive and killing the other guy but Lawson says they need to get rid of both Zoe and Reese.
Back on the Elias case, Carter gets a call from the former cop. He found some information on Elias’s son. He was a runway except for one woman who looked after him. He sent her Christmas cards. So Carter is going to swing by to get them. I’m not sure I trust this guy. But then again, maybe I’ve seen too many cop drama. Anyway, Finch manages to clear up the audio a bit on Dana’s recording. She was going to blow the whistle on an unsafe drug. Reese hasn’t had any luck finding Zoe until she turns her cell phone back on. He meets her at fancy restaurant, and she explains that Dana worked in clinical trials and five days before she died, she was transferred out and her access suspended. So now Zoe and Reese are going to team up to do something illegal. Apparently Zoe’s got connections on the force because she strong-arms a cop into making sure no one responds when there’s a break in at the company that night.
The break-in is going fine at first. They find that the new migraine drug that has just been FDA approved was altered. Well, the report anyway. Six people died and were dropped from the list. Finch also manages to clean up the rest of the recording. It turns out Dana was going to go to the CEO about the drug. Unfortunately, Lawson’s muscle and the cop that Zoe strong-armed show up, and Zoe and Reese get taken hostage.
We get a little moment where Reese and Zoe bond. We find out why Zoe became a fixer (she met one when her dad got caught up in a corruption case). Things start spiraling out of control as Finch tries to reach the CEO. He gets to hear the rest of the recording. The CEO was in on the whole thing. Back at the offices, Zoe bargains her way out of handcuffs (she says she sent a copy of the report to a friend and she’ll take them to the person who has it. She also slips Reese a way to get out of his own cuffs. They could make kind of a fun team. Reese manages to stab his captor with a syringe (so his body count for this episode is 1). And while on the road, Zoe calls Finch with a location; the navy yard. Reese swoops in to save the day as Finch has dinner with the CEO and ruins him quite spectacularly. Finch takes all of the CEO’s money. Zoe obviously gets a portion, and Dana Miller’s family does as well. And Zoe’s cop finds himself facing corruption charges. All in all, not a bad haul. I really do hope they bring Zoe back. We end with Carter showing up at the former cop’s apartment to find him dead. She exchanges fire with who she assumes is the killer, and she nails him enough to leave some blood.
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“I never thought I would know what happened to her. And now I also know the man responsible.”
- Finch
This week we begin with a woman, Zoe Morgan, walking out of her apartment and Reese greeting her at the car. He’s obviously not who she’s expecting and she even calls to verify his story of her usual driver being sick (she gets Finch on the other end of the line). As Reese drives off, Finch appears. Looks like he’s going to do some leg work this week. He complains about not being able to pick the lock as Reese arrives at the location he’s supposed to be taking Zoe. Finch gets inside and finds nothing personal at all in the place. And from Reese’s perspective, it appears Zoe has just done a drug deal with some shady kids. Finch finds a gun in her living room under the sofa. Only problem is, it wasn’t drugs she got from the shady guy. It was a gun. Zoe has Reese drop her at a swanky party. Reese isn’t so sure it’s a good idea to stay in the car so he follows Zoe inside and sees her hand over the gun to a cop. Apparently his nephew (also a cop) left it in a subway bathroom. Woops. Turns out Ms. Morgan is a fixer.
We also have a case of the week for Detective Carter. She’s got a 70-year-old dead guy who happens to be an enforcer and gangster. And he skated on the murder of Marlene Elias (she was stabbed multiple times in the chest with a kitchen knife). So I guess we know why the crew a few weeks back wanted that knife. Out in the city, Zoe has another meeting. She’s going to make a blogger shut up about a high-powered executive’s affair so his CEO father-in-law doesn’t find out. She pays the blogger 40 grand. He’s creepy and a blackmailing jerk but not capable of killing Zoe.
Carter has asked the cop who worked the Elias murder to come in to fill in some of the blanks. It seems a pretty typical case. Cocktail waitress has an affair with an upper level mobster, and when she keeps begging him to leave his wife; he has his knife man off her. Too bad Mr. Mob and Elias had a kid together. Seems likely, now that he’s all grown up, he could be the killer. Meanwhile, Reese is driving Zoe to another meet, and he gets the vibe that things are off when there are two guys waiting. She brushes him off and tries the make the hand-off of the recording she got from the blogger when a third guy appears and they try to grab her. Reese intervenes and gets Zoe out of there without too much damage (well the back window of the car is shot out). They need to find out what was on the recording. Zoe made a copy, but it’s not very high quality. They pull up to find one of the businessmen dead from heart failure. Someone’s cleaning house. Unfortunately, Zoe’s taken off in the minute Reese left her alone in the car.
Back at HQ, Finch is working on cleaning up the recording from the flash drive, and he discovers the woman’s voice belongs to a woman named Dana Miller. She worked for the company that hired Zoe to fix the problem. She was having the affair with the heir apparent to the empire, and she died six months earlier from a brain aneurysm. Finch knows this because she was one of his numbers before he met Reese. And now Finch is off for a very important business meeting. He’s just bought stock in the company, and he uses the opportunity to meet with Lawson (the heir and the one who had Dana killed) and plant a bug in his office. Lawson’s muscle reports in about getting the flash drive and killing the other guy but Lawson says they need to get rid of both Zoe and Reese.
Back on the Elias case, Carter gets a call from the former cop. He found some information on Elias’s son. He was a runway except for one woman who looked after him. He sent her Christmas cards. So Carter is going to swing by to get them. I’m not sure I trust this guy. But then again, maybe I’ve seen too many cop drama. Anyway, Finch manages to clear up the audio a bit on Dana’s recording. She was going to blow the whistle on an unsafe drug. Reese hasn’t had any luck finding Zoe until she turns her cell phone back on. He meets her at fancy restaurant, and she explains that Dana worked in clinical trials and five days before she died, she was transferred out and her access suspended. So now Zoe and Reese are going to team up to do something illegal. Apparently Zoe’s got connections on the force because she strong-arms a cop into making sure no one responds when there’s a break in at the company that night.
The break-in is going fine at first. They find that the new migraine drug that has just been FDA approved was altered. Well, the report anyway. Six people died and were dropped from the list. Finch also manages to clean up the rest of the recording. It turns out Dana was going to go to the CEO about the drug. Unfortunately, Lawson’s muscle and the cop that Zoe strong-armed show up, and Zoe and Reese get taken hostage.
We get a little moment where Reese and Zoe bond. We find out why Zoe became a fixer (she met one when her dad got caught up in a corruption case). Things start spiraling out of control as Finch tries to reach the CEO. He gets to hear the rest of the recording. The CEO was in on the whole thing. Back at the offices, Zoe bargains her way out of handcuffs (she says she sent a copy of the report to a friend and she’ll take them to the person who has it. She also slips Reese a way to get out of his own cuffs. They could make kind of a fun team. Reese manages to stab his captor with a syringe (so his body count for this episode is 1). And while on the road, Zoe calls Finch with a location; the navy yard. Reese swoops in to save the day as Finch has dinner with the CEO and ruins him quite spectacularly. Finch takes all of the CEO’s money. Zoe obviously gets a portion, and Dana Miller’s family does as well. And Zoe’s cop finds himself facing corruption charges. All in all, not a bad haul. I really do hope they bring Zoe back. We end with Carter showing up at the former cop’s apartment to find him dead. She exchanges fire with who she assumes is the killer, and she nails him enough to leave some blood.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Body of Proof 2.06: "Second Chances"
Once again, Sarah's back with another "Body of Proof" write-up. Enjoy!
“You can’t convince someone you’ve changed if they don’t want to believe you.”
- Zoe
We begin with a rather disorienting image of a beaten young woman being dragged through the forest. She finally stops moving and sees a very blurred figure leaning over her. Cut to Megan and Lacey at Megan’s apartment. Megan is quizzing her daughter on Latin phrases. Do people really still study Latin in high school? [Ed. note: my high school offered Latin when I was a student there ten years ago, way back in the olden days of the early ‘aughts] Lacey complains that Megan promised they could watch a movie, but their argument is cut short by Todd’s arrival. Apparently he and Kate are taking Lacey to Boston for the weekend. And cut again to the crime scene. Megan and Peter are going over the body while Bud talks to a meth addict who was apparently caught rifling through Jane Doe’s pockets. The girl suffered lots of trauma, including a broken tibia. Bud suggests that the girl was out there with the druggie to get high and things went south. Megan’s not sure she’s a user. As she and Peter leave the scene, Kate arrives and says she wants to consult on the case. Megan’s not exactly thrilled (she’s still put off about Boston).
Bud’s brought meth head back to the precinct, but the interrogation goes nowhere. He’s too strung out, and he keeps saying he didn’t know the girl and he didn’t kill her. Over at the lab, Megan, Ethan and Curtis are going over the body, and they find a tattoo of 4 horses on her wrist. Peter shows up with a new suspect from the bloody handprint on Jane Doe’s body: a young woman named Zoe Brandt doing 4-7 years for beating her drug dealer nearly to death. Bud and Megan make the trip out to see Zoe and we learn that she was doing work release two days a week at the stables where the Jane Doe (Brinn Walker) worked.
As Kate and Megan continue to examine Brinn’s body, they discover through x-rays that she had a lot of old riding injuries. And Peter discovers she was a champion equestrian. Kate is trying to determine the cause of a spiral fracture in one of her ankles when Megan points out that it would be consistent with the injuries if Brinn’s foot got caught in one o the stirrups and she was dragged along by a horse. At the stables, the manager says that Brinn was a pro, didn’t ride without a helmet and only rode one horse (which was all tucked away in its stable). Megan’s not so sure she trusts the manager. The horse Brinn rode flinched when he touched it and apparently horses are very sensitive to people (I’m not a big horse fan myself. I’m allergic to hay). So Megan decides to use Lacey as a resource since her daughter rides, too.
Back at the lab, Kate gets into autopsy by dissecting Brinn’s lungs since Megan is gone and so is Ethan. She’s trying to be helpful to make up for taking Lacey to Boston. She and Curtis find a foreign piece of matter in the tissue. Strange. Peter and Ethan have been sent back to the forest to see if they can prove Megan’s theory that Brinn was riding a horse before she died. Peter finds hoof marks in the dirt so it looks like Megan was right. It also helps that Ethan finds horse manure and Peter finds the horse. Megan has Lacey swing by the lab to look at safety vests and finds out that she really doesn’t want to go to Boston. Her friend’s birthday party is that weekend, but Todd doesn’t care. I think Megan is a little happy about this development. And she’s even more excited when Lacey points out that Brinn’s foot couldn’t have gotten caught in the stirrup because most riders use ones that release if you get caught. So it’s time for a field trip back to the stable with Lacey in toe. Lacey shows how the stirrup should work, but she also finds the one that Brinn was riding was tampered with. I really dislike the stable manager. He’s creepy.
Apparently I’m not the only one who finds him creepy. Brinn’s boyfriend, James, thought so, too. Apparently Mr. Creepy kept making passes at Brinn. Megan and Peter keep him talking while Bud inspects Brinn’s storage shed. Bud finds all kinds of trophies and ribbons and Lacey sneaks up on him. When Peter pops in to tell her that Megan is looking for her, Lacey remarks that she doesn’t understand how Brinn could have fallen off her horse. That is indeed the question of the hour. Megan gets back to the lab to find that Kate did the lung dissection. She’s a little short with her, but they do uncover an injection point in her hip (being drugged is the only way she could have fallen off the horse and gotten a blow to the stomach to force her stomach contents into her lungs). They head upstairs so Kate can take a sample to the lab for analysis when they find Todd waiting. He’s really pissed that Megan took Lacey to a crime scene, but he refuses to let Megan have Lacey for the weekend. Way to use the kid to make your ex hurt. Jerk.
Peter also swings by with some results from a white powder they found under Brinn’s fingernails. It was a mixture of horse feed and a compound used to treat pain in horses. Apparently her boyfriend’s horse was disqualified for having too much of it in its system. Now he’s not looking so grief-stricken after all. Turns out Brinn’s boyfriend amped up his own horse for an edge in the competition, but he denies killing Brinn. As Bud tells Megan he thinks Lacey wants to spend more time with her, she gets results from the lab. Someone shot Brinn up with horse anesthetic. So now it’s back to Zoe. Zoe denies she did anything to Brinn and that the argument a guard saw shortly before Brinn died was Zoe begging Brinn to stop calling her (Zoe’s) mom. Bud still wants to know how Zoe’s fingerprints ended up on the box of horse sedatives (with one vial missing). She says she was putting the sedatives away because Brinn asked her to. Some guy was trying to put a white horse down.
In the lab, Ethan is going through the horse’s waste and finds out that the horse was sick with an injured leg and Mr. Creep from the stables sold the horse to a guy who returned it when the horse couldn’t compete. Poor horse. So Brinn was trying to take care of it. On a coffee break, Kate is trying to convince Todd that Megan has changed. He doesn’t want to accept that and denies he invited Lacey to go with them because he’s afraid of losing her. Before Todd can counter her too much, Kate gets called back to the lab. The horse has all kinds of problems including arthritis, splints and someone filed its teeth down with silver nitrate to make it look younger. All signs once again point towards Mr. Creep.
Ethan and Peter find an empty bottle of the sedative that was in Brinn’s system and the syringe. Mr. Creep claims he got caught by Brinn and that he would stop and she could have the old horses for her prisoner program. The last time he saw the syringe, Brinn had it. I still don’t trust him. And I really don’t like Todd either. He lets Megan have Lacey for the weekend but balks when Megan says she wants Lacey every other weekend. He doesn’t stay long. Lacey calls Megan, complaining that Todd is late picking her up. And so, Megan goes and after some beating around the bush apologizes to Kate for be being so bitchy and thanks her for nudging Todd into letting Lacey stay. Unfortunately their happy moment is ruined when Curtis brings in the results of the syringe. There wasn’t enough in Brinn’s system to kill her.
So it’s back to the body to try and find more evidence. It comes in the form of glitter. And the manure at the scene didn’t belong to the horse Brinn was riding. Her boyfriend thought she was cheating on him with Mr. Creep and so he killed her. Later that evening, Peter stops by the morgue to tell Megan some of the prisoners who worked with Brinn were taking up a collection for a memorial service. And the program will still continue so Zoe can get a job when she gets out of prison. And Bud brings by her daughter. I think he finally believes people can change. We end with Megan and Todd telling/asking Lacey if she wants to spend more time with Megan, she can start with alternating weekends. Finally, some progress in Megan’s favor.
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“You can’t convince someone you’ve changed if they don’t want to believe you.”
- Zoe
We begin with a rather disorienting image of a beaten young woman being dragged through the forest. She finally stops moving and sees a very blurred figure leaning over her. Cut to Megan and Lacey at Megan’s apartment. Megan is quizzing her daughter on Latin phrases. Do people really still study Latin in high school? [Ed. note: my high school offered Latin when I was a student there ten years ago, way back in the olden days of the early ‘aughts] Lacey complains that Megan promised they could watch a movie, but their argument is cut short by Todd’s arrival. Apparently he and Kate are taking Lacey to Boston for the weekend. And cut again to the crime scene. Megan and Peter are going over the body while Bud talks to a meth addict who was apparently caught rifling through Jane Doe’s pockets. The girl suffered lots of trauma, including a broken tibia. Bud suggests that the girl was out there with the druggie to get high and things went south. Megan’s not sure she’s a user. As she and Peter leave the scene, Kate arrives and says she wants to consult on the case. Megan’s not exactly thrilled (she’s still put off about Boston).
Bud’s brought meth head back to the precinct, but the interrogation goes nowhere. He’s too strung out, and he keeps saying he didn’t know the girl and he didn’t kill her. Over at the lab, Megan, Ethan and Curtis are going over the body, and they find a tattoo of 4 horses on her wrist. Peter shows up with a new suspect from the bloody handprint on Jane Doe’s body: a young woman named Zoe Brandt doing 4-7 years for beating her drug dealer nearly to death. Bud and Megan make the trip out to see Zoe and we learn that she was doing work release two days a week at the stables where the Jane Doe (Brinn Walker) worked.
As Kate and Megan continue to examine Brinn’s body, they discover through x-rays that she had a lot of old riding injuries. And Peter discovers she was a champion equestrian. Kate is trying to determine the cause of a spiral fracture in one of her ankles when Megan points out that it would be consistent with the injuries if Brinn’s foot got caught in one o the stirrups and she was dragged along by a horse. At the stables, the manager says that Brinn was a pro, didn’t ride without a helmet and only rode one horse (which was all tucked away in its stable). Megan’s not so sure she trusts the manager. The horse Brinn rode flinched when he touched it and apparently horses are very sensitive to people (I’m not a big horse fan myself. I’m allergic to hay). So Megan decides to use Lacey as a resource since her daughter rides, too.
Back at the lab, Kate gets into autopsy by dissecting Brinn’s lungs since Megan is gone and so is Ethan. She’s trying to be helpful to make up for taking Lacey to Boston. She and Curtis find a foreign piece of matter in the tissue. Strange. Peter and Ethan have been sent back to the forest to see if they can prove Megan’s theory that Brinn was riding a horse before she died. Peter finds hoof marks in the dirt so it looks like Megan was right. It also helps that Ethan finds horse manure and Peter finds the horse. Megan has Lacey swing by the lab to look at safety vests and finds out that she really doesn’t want to go to Boston. Her friend’s birthday party is that weekend, but Todd doesn’t care. I think Megan is a little happy about this development. And she’s even more excited when Lacey points out that Brinn’s foot couldn’t have gotten caught in the stirrup because most riders use ones that release if you get caught. So it’s time for a field trip back to the stable with Lacey in toe. Lacey shows how the stirrup should work, but she also finds the one that Brinn was riding was tampered with. I really dislike the stable manager. He’s creepy.
Apparently I’m not the only one who finds him creepy. Brinn’s boyfriend, James, thought so, too. Apparently Mr. Creepy kept making passes at Brinn. Megan and Peter keep him talking while Bud inspects Brinn’s storage shed. Bud finds all kinds of trophies and ribbons and Lacey sneaks up on him. When Peter pops in to tell her that Megan is looking for her, Lacey remarks that she doesn’t understand how Brinn could have fallen off her horse. That is indeed the question of the hour. Megan gets back to the lab to find that Kate did the lung dissection. She’s a little short with her, but they do uncover an injection point in her hip (being drugged is the only way she could have fallen off the horse and gotten a blow to the stomach to force her stomach contents into her lungs). They head upstairs so Kate can take a sample to the lab for analysis when they find Todd waiting. He’s really pissed that Megan took Lacey to a crime scene, but he refuses to let Megan have Lacey for the weekend. Way to use the kid to make your ex hurt. Jerk.
Peter also swings by with some results from a white powder they found under Brinn’s fingernails. It was a mixture of horse feed and a compound used to treat pain in horses. Apparently her boyfriend’s horse was disqualified for having too much of it in its system. Now he’s not looking so grief-stricken after all. Turns out Brinn’s boyfriend amped up his own horse for an edge in the competition, but he denies killing Brinn. As Bud tells Megan he thinks Lacey wants to spend more time with her, she gets results from the lab. Someone shot Brinn up with horse anesthetic. So now it’s back to Zoe. Zoe denies she did anything to Brinn and that the argument a guard saw shortly before Brinn died was Zoe begging Brinn to stop calling her (Zoe’s) mom. Bud still wants to know how Zoe’s fingerprints ended up on the box of horse sedatives (with one vial missing). She says she was putting the sedatives away because Brinn asked her to. Some guy was trying to put a white horse down.
In the lab, Ethan is going through the horse’s waste and finds out that the horse was sick with an injured leg and Mr. Creep from the stables sold the horse to a guy who returned it when the horse couldn’t compete. Poor horse. So Brinn was trying to take care of it. On a coffee break, Kate is trying to convince Todd that Megan has changed. He doesn’t want to accept that and denies he invited Lacey to go with them because he’s afraid of losing her. Before Todd can counter her too much, Kate gets called back to the lab. The horse has all kinds of problems including arthritis, splints and someone filed its teeth down with silver nitrate to make it look younger. All signs once again point towards Mr. Creep.
Ethan and Peter find an empty bottle of the sedative that was in Brinn’s system and the syringe. Mr. Creep claims he got caught by Brinn and that he would stop and she could have the old horses for her prisoner program. The last time he saw the syringe, Brinn had it. I still don’t trust him. And I really don’t like Todd either. He lets Megan have Lacey for the weekend but balks when Megan says she wants Lacey every other weekend. He doesn’t stay long. Lacey calls Megan, complaining that Todd is late picking her up. And so, Megan goes and after some beating around the bush apologizes to Kate for be being so bitchy and thanks her for nudging Todd into letting Lacey stay. Unfortunately their happy moment is ruined when Curtis brings in the results of the syringe. There wasn’t enough in Brinn’s system to kill her.
So it’s back to the body to try and find more evidence. It comes in the form of glitter. And the manure at the scene didn’t belong to the horse Brinn was riding. Her boyfriend thought she was cheating on him with Mr. Creep and so he killed her. Later that evening, Peter stops by the morgue to tell Megan some of the prisoners who worked with Brinn were taking up a collection for a memorial service. And the program will still continue so Zoe can get a job when she gets out of prison. And Bud brings by her daughter. I think he finally believes people can change. We end with Megan and Todd telling/asking Lacey if she wants to spend more time with Megan, she can start with alternating weekends. Finally, some progress in Megan’s favor.
Friday, December 2, 2011
HIMYM 7.07: "Noretta"
“I can turn this around!”
-Barney
“Noretta” falls among my less liked episodes of “How I Met Your Mother,” mostly because I found the central theme of the episode to be rather juvenile, and the resulting jokes were mostly just pretty gross. I’m sorry, but characters picturing their significant others as their parents just isn’t funny to me. It’s just awkward. I like comedy just fine, but I prefer witty comedy as opposed to comedy that just goes for the cheap laugh. And I’d classify Lily and Marshall’s dads looking like they are about to have sex as cheap laughs. Granted, Barney’s plot in this episode was also more cheap laughs than wit, but I didn’t mind it quite as much. Maybe because the cheap laughs weren’t really gross? I was feeling more sorry for Nora than grossed out as Barney desperately tried to salvage their ruined several times over date night. I’ll also do my best not to start ranting about how this episode made Ted extra pathetic. He’s supposed to be the optimistic romantic, not the clingy loser.
Anyway, the episode opens, as they often do, with the gang sitting around a table at MacLaren’s. Barney’s brother James is in town, so they have a bigger booth than usual to accommodate the extra person. Wayne Brady was kind of wasted in this episode (because he’s only in the opening scene), but I know he comes back in the most recent episode, so I’m not going to complain too much. Barney’s super excited because he thinks he’s going to get lucky with Nora later that night. She told him earlier that she had a special treat for him. Nora herself appears and starts to tell Barney more about the actual treat. They’re going ice skating, which, needless to say, doesn’t interest Barney a whole lot. Then Nora says they’re going to shag afterwards, and Barney is feeling much better.
After Barney and Nora leave the table, James begs the rest of the gang to ask him what he thinks of Nora. After being prompted several times, James lets loose with the truth. Nora reminds James of his and Barney’s mother. Apparently Loretta Stinson has a thing for Julie Andrews and would often affect a British accent and act like Maria or Mary Poppins. Barney and Nora return to the table to get Nora’s raincoat, and instead of seeing Nora, James starts seeing his mom instead. After Barney and Nora leave, the conversation at the table turns to Lily not feeling sexy anymore because she’s putting on pregnancy weight. Marshall desperately wants to change her mind with compliments, but he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth instead. Finally, continuing the theme of honesty, Robin asks Ted how he feels about Kevin. Ted likes Kevin overall, but he feels weird about this one time he saw Kevin standing in the living room of the apartment in his boxers. Robin assures Ted she’ll talk to Kevin about it.
At the ice rink, Nora skates around while Barney happily tells a kid getting ready to skate that he’s going to get lucky with Nora that night. It looks like Barney’s hopes might be dashed, though, when Nora falls on the ice and loses a tooth. Barney vow to turn the night around, and he takes Nora to a really shady 24 hour dentist who gives her a gold tooth. That’s not the end of their terrible night, though. Just after Barney convinces Nora to go out for another drink, a rat jumps on her head. Once again, Barney vows to turn it around. He does so by offering to draw Nora a bath at his apartment so she can relax. Nora agrees. The night is starting to turn, and after her bath, Nora and Barney go out on the balcony of Barney’s apartment. When an upstairs neighbor decides to commit suicide by jumping, falling right by Barney and Nora. That ruins the mood for sure, and Barney has to comfort a crying Nora. Later, while they’re sitting on the couch, Nora says that now she wants to turn the night around. She starts singing “My Favorite Things,” and all of a sudden Barney realizes the resemblance to his mother.
As promised, Robin tells Kevin that he needs to be fully clothed in the apartment common areas. What Ted told Robin wasn’t the full story though, and Kevin thinks Ted is nuts. Which is probably not something a psychologist would actually say, but whatever. Ted was wearing a loose-fitting bathrobe, and Kevin caught a glimpse as Ted went to the kitchen. Startled, Kevin dropped coffee on his lap, and that’s why he didn’t have his pants on when Ted saw him standing in the living room. Robin tells Kevin to be nice to Ted because Ted is the only one in the gang not in a relationship, and he hasn’t exactly gotten any in a while. Kevin sort of makes an effort at this, but he breaks and throws a fit when Ted ruins a movie at home night with Robin. Ted was pretty obnoxious, switching their movie to a coin documentary, getting a backrub from Robin, and inviting Robin to a concert. After Kevin throws his fit, Robin explains that she wouldn’t have been the first person Ted would have invited to the concert (Weird Al Yankovic) by a long shot, and we see a really funny montage of Ted calling different random characters to prove it. Kevin feels bad for Ted and pretends to be a huge Weird Al fan. He offers to go to the concert with Ted, and Ted is really excited about it. At this point, Kevin’s striking me as a little too perfect and desperate.
Marshall has a new strategy for trying to make Lily feel sexier. It’s a board game called “Chutes and Lilies.” Instead of having the intended effect, though, it unfortunately makes Lily think of her dad. We learned in season 5 that Mr. Aldrin is always making board games. It gets worse when Marshall draws a nice bath for Lily, but she keeps seeing her dad instead of Marshall. The whole storyline is just gross, really. And it gets even more obnoxious from there. Lily finally admits to Marshall that he’s reminding her of her dad. Marshall responds by saying he thinks Kevin’s theory about how people gravitate towards romantic partners who remind them of their parents is bunk because Lily’s not like Marshall’s mom at all. Lily’s finally feeling better and is about to make a move on Marshall, when all of a sudden Marshall realizes who she is actually like. His dad. The climax of the whole thing is a really unfunny scene of Marshall and Lily in bed picturing each other as their dads and getting completely grossed out and backing off.
The episode wraps up with the gang back at MacLaren’s. Barney admits that Nora is like his mother, but he has a different spin on it than the rest of the gang. He thinks that if Nora is at all like his mother, he’s lucky, because his mom is the best person he knows. Marshall expresses the same sentiment about Lily and his dad, and they leave the bar much happier, presumably to go have sex. Ted realizes that he’s been intrusive to Robin and Kevin, and he tells them to go home and enjoy their movie while he hangs out at the bar a while longer. A woman approaches Ted, and it turns out she’s a massive Weird Al fan. Just as Ted is really liking where things are going, the woman starts to remind him of his mom. He decides to just go with it.
-Barney
“Noretta” falls among my less liked episodes of “How I Met Your Mother,” mostly because I found the central theme of the episode to be rather juvenile, and the resulting jokes were mostly just pretty gross. I’m sorry, but characters picturing their significant others as their parents just isn’t funny to me. It’s just awkward. I like comedy just fine, but I prefer witty comedy as opposed to comedy that just goes for the cheap laugh. And I’d classify Lily and Marshall’s dads looking like they are about to have sex as cheap laughs. Granted, Barney’s plot in this episode was also more cheap laughs than wit, but I didn’t mind it quite as much. Maybe because the cheap laughs weren’t really gross? I was feeling more sorry for Nora than grossed out as Barney desperately tried to salvage their ruined several times over date night. I’ll also do my best not to start ranting about how this episode made Ted extra pathetic. He’s supposed to be the optimistic romantic, not the clingy loser.
Anyway, the episode opens, as they often do, with the gang sitting around a table at MacLaren’s. Barney’s brother James is in town, so they have a bigger booth than usual to accommodate the extra person. Wayne Brady was kind of wasted in this episode (because he’s only in the opening scene), but I know he comes back in the most recent episode, so I’m not going to complain too much. Barney’s super excited because he thinks he’s going to get lucky with Nora later that night. She told him earlier that she had a special treat for him. Nora herself appears and starts to tell Barney more about the actual treat. They’re going ice skating, which, needless to say, doesn’t interest Barney a whole lot. Then Nora says they’re going to shag afterwards, and Barney is feeling much better.
After Barney and Nora leave the table, James begs the rest of the gang to ask him what he thinks of Nora. After being prompted several times, James lets loose with the truth. Nora reminds James of his and Barney’s mother. Apparently Loretta Stinson has a thing for Julie Andrews and would often affect a British accent and act like Maria or Mary Poppins. Barney and Nora return to the table to get Nora’s raincoat, and instead of seeing Nora, James starts seeing his mom instead. After Barney and Nora leave, the conversation at the table turns to Lily not feeling sexy anymore because she’s putting on pregnancy weight. Marshall desperately wants to change her mind with compliments, but he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth instead. Finally, continuing the theme of honesty, Robin asks Ted how he feels about Kevin. Ted likes Kevin overall, but he feels weird about this one time he saw Kevin standing in the living room of the apartment in his boxers. Robin assures Ted she’ll talk to Kevin about it.
At the ice rink, Nora skates around while Barney happily tells a kid getting ready to skate that he’s going to get lucky with Nora that night. It looks like Barney’s hopes might be dashed, though, when Nora falls on the ice and loses a tooth. Barney vow to turn the night around, and he takes Nora to a really shady 24 hour dentist who gives her a gold tooth. That’s not the end of their terrible night, though. Just after Barney convinces Nora to go out for another drink, a rat jumps on her head. Once again, Barney vows to turn it around. He does so by offering to draw Nora a bath at his apartment so she can relax. Nora agrees. The night is starting to turn, and after her bath, Nora and Barney go out on the balcony of Barney’s apartment. When an upstairs neighbor decides to commit suicide by jumping, falling right by Barney and Nora. That ruins the mood for sure, and Barney has to comfort a crying Nora. Later, while they’re sitting on the couch, Nora says that now she wants to turn the night around. She starts singing “My Favorite Things,” and all of a sudden Barney realizes the resemblance to his mother.
As promised, Robin tells Kevin that he needs to be fully clothed in the apartment common areas. What Ted told Robin wasn’t the full story though, and Kevin thinks Ted is nuts. Which is probably not something a psychologist would actually say, but whatever. Ted was wearing a loose-fitting bathrobe, and Kevin caught a glimpse as Ted went to the kitchen. Startled, Kevin dropped coffee on his lap, and that’s why he didn’t have his pants on when Ted saw him standing in the living room. Robin tells Kevin to be nice to Ted because Ted is the only one in the gang not in a relationship, and he hasn’t exactly gotten any in a while. Kevin sort of makes an effort at this, but he breaks and throws a fit when Ted ruins a movie at home night with Robin. Ted was pretty obnoxious, switching their movie to a coin documentary, getting a backrub from Robin, and inviting Robin to a concert. After Kevin throws his fit, Robin explains that she wouldn’t have been the first person Ted would have invited to the concert (Weird Al Yankovic) by a long shot, and we see a really funny montage of Ted calling different random characters to prove it. Kevin feels bad for Ted and pretends to be a huge Weird Al fan. He offers to go to the concert with Ted, and Ted is really excited about it. At this point, Kevin’s striking me as a little too perfect and desperate.
Marshall has a new strategy for trying to make Lily feel sexier. It’s a board game called “Chutes and Lilies.” Instead of having the intended effect, though, it unfortunately makes Lily think of her dad. We learned in season 5 that Mr. Aldrin is always making board games. It gets worse when Marshall draws a nice bath for Lily, but she keeps seeing her dad instead of Marshall. The whole storyline is just gross, really. And it gets even more obnoxious from there. Lily finally admits to Marshall that he’s reminding her of her dad. Marshall responds by saying he thinks Kevin’s theory about how people gravitate towards romantic partners who remind them of their parents is bunk because Lily’s not like Marshall’s mom at all. Lily’s finally feeling better and is about to make a move on Marshall, when all of a sudden Marshall realizes who she is actually like. His dad. The climax of the whole thing is a really unfunny scene of Marshall and Lily in bed picturing each other as their dads and getting completely grossed out and backing off.
The episode wraps up with the gang back at MacLaren’s. Barney admits that Nora is like his mother, but he has a different spin on it than the rest of the gang. He thinks that if Nora is at all like his mother, he’s lucky, because his mom is the best person he knows. Marshall expresses the same sentiment about Lily and his dad, and they leave the bar much happier, presumably to go have sex. Ted realizes that he’s been intrusive to Robin and Kevin, and he tells them to go home and enjoy their movie while he hangs out at the bar a while longer. A woman approaches Ted, and it turns out she’s a massive Weird Al fan. Just as Ted is really liking where things are going, the woman starts to remind him of his mom. He decides to just go with it.
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