Girls Recap: Bad Friends

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By RJ | Monday, January 28, 2013 | 1:42 pm | 6 Comments
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Only bad friends let you go on coke benders and call it a job assignment.

Just be grateful I’m clothed, bitch

Hannah, barista of the month, sits in the offices of JazzHate, a website presumably for hipsters who are rebelling against the rebelling with non-ironic ironic blogs about all these things that they once hated and now love. It’s terribly confusing to be a hipster.

Jame, not Jamie, is offering to pay Hannah $200 for each story submitted and seeing as Hannah is probably not making a living wage to serve coffee to douchebags, this sounds like a dream come true. Hannah is elated, thinking she is being hired, but Jame points out this is a freelance gig, which we all know is a fancy way to point out that Hannah will not be receiving health care or any other benefits. Jame even points out Hannah’s lack of fanciness. Little does she know that the mere fact that Hannah is wearing clothes right now suggests that she is taking this very seriously.

Jame suggests Hannah do something outrageous for her first story, like a three-way with people she meets on Craigslist or doing a whole bunch of cocaine and seeing what happens. In regards to the latter, I have seen enough “Behind the Music” to tell you that rock magic happens.

Jame agrees, as she motions for Hannah to check out the wall. A framed picture holds the words “THIS IS YOUR COMFORT ZONE”, while a circle a few inches north of the frame is being pointed to with the words “This is where the magic happens”. Do you get it? Jame wants to make sure Hannah gets it. Of course, Hannah gets it, because it’s a trite mantra hanging in the wall of the offices of some douchey blog.

The only thing missing is a mirror with the words ‘Insufferable Hipster’ written on it

Still, Hannah will not be participating in a Craigslist three-way as she has enough problems on where to focus her energy when she is with one lover. Hannah Horvath, not a multi-tasker, ladies and gentleman. She will need to remove that word from her resume. She doesn’t immediately shy away from the idea of doing a large amount of cocaine, though. Hannah has never done cocaine before because she has weird nasal passages.

Hannah meets up with Jessa, Shoshanna and Marnie on the street, selling their used clothes off of racks, because it’s Brooklyn and that’s what you do in Brooklyn. Master of closing sales, Jessa, is informing a girl that one of Tom Petty’s heartbreakers once complimented the shirt she is purchasing because they just don’t make sleeves like that anymore. Eh, I’d be more impressed if it was one of the Blowfish, but I guess a Heartbreaker will do.

This picture is straight from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce website

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I learned I was different in the third grade.  They would bring in our parents as tutors to help with difficult subjects like math, which is a testament to just how underfunded the California school system has always been.  Michael Weber's mother was tutoring me and one of my classmates in multiplication.  I did not care for the speed at which the lesson was progressing. 

I threw out a line from the most classic of movies, 'Back to the Future', when I simply stated "Let's see if these bastards can do 90!"  Michael Weber's mom was not impressed.

Its sad when the peak of your comedic career comes in the third grade, but I've never let that hinder me.  I still plug away at my boring day job while I dream of a day that I can tell the Michael Weber's moms of the world to suck it for not appreciating my sense of humor.

 

6 Comments

  1. 1
    annie annie
    Posted January 28, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    Great reacap!

    I thought this was the funniest episode of ANYTHING I have seen in a long time. Lena totally nailed it with this one, her coke adventure with Elijah was pure gold. I loved the entire thing.

    I was SOOO disappointed by Booth Jonathan! Last season, I thought the line he told Marnie “Im a man and I know how to get things done” was so freakin hot, only to follow it up this season with bizarre dirty talk involving a scary doll. Boooooo! Oh well….but he does have a nice ass.

  2. 2
    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 28, 2013 at 10:14 pm

    M’kay, I’m old, must be the New Coke.

  3. 3
    badgerfreak
    Posted January 29, 2013 at 5:33 am

    What a crazy episode. I do have to say I enjoy coked out Hannah. She was far less in her head about things. There was so much nakedness though, it could’ve been cropped a bit. The weird sex between Booth and Marnie was…creepy. The doll. What!? And then when he finally blow his load, he rolls off her and she just laughs. I didn’t understand the laugh. She looked uncomfortable and was not enjoying the sex at all. I dunno. Maybe that was her realizing he’s not as amazing as he said he was?

    I find it very odd that we’ve had a collective of 3 minutes for both Jessa and Shosh. Did they have a falling out with Lena or something?

  4. 4
    RJ RJ
    Posted January 29, 2013 at 7:55 am

    I’m guessing the storytelling dictated little screen time for Jessa and Shoshanna, as they had to explore Hannah’s adjustment to not living with Marnie and the fallout of Marnie sleeping with Elijah. Since Jessa and Shosh both had big, life changing events occur at the end of season 1, I expect we’ll start to see where they’ve landed now that the Hannah/Elijah/Marnie triangle has been somewhat resolved.

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    annie annie
    Posted January 29, 2013 at 11:32 am

    I think Jemima (Jessa) was pregnant during the filming of this…..so maybe thats why she hasn’t been around much?

    @badgerfreak…..I think you’re right about the laugh. it was probably a nervous ” omg did I just describe a weird doll during sex??” laugh.

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    darci
    Posted February 7, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    I love how this show has tonal swings that rival the worst of my mood swings. It goes from snarky to serious, zany and silly comedy to some really dark comedy, and usually all in one episode; sometimes even one scene. This was definitely the case in this episode and I loved the schizophrenic nature of it, it seems so much more like real life than the classic TV format of just choosing one tone and keeping it all the time.

    Oh and one other thing, I now wonder after seeing this episode if Kreayshawn’s “Bumpin Bumpin” is about cocaine. Always figured it was more just about dancing, but after it played during Elijah and Hannahs argument in the bathroom at the club, and with this episode featuring Hannah doing cocaine and that drug sometimes being done as ‘bumps’ it got me thinking…

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