Girls Recap: Bad Friends

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By RJ | Monday, January 28, 2013 | 1:42 pm | 6 Comments
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Shoshanna hates everything and everyone in life right now, and Jessa knew she would get grumpy now that she is no longer a virgin. Shoshanna snarls at her and says she is moody because she got no sleep as Ray only wants to watch old episodes of “Ally McBeal” now. Sometimes I swear this show just exists to call out the touchstones of the Millennial girls’ cultural development- as I highly doubt there is a straight man in all of North America that would spend any time watching old episodes of Calista Flockhart making weird scrunchy faces. Not that it matters, though, as these two cultural references and a grand total of 45 seconds of screen time are all Jessa and Shoshanna get this week.

Hannah informs the gang of her plans to procure cocaine and then write an article about it. She figures Jessa will know somewhere to get it, because we all have those friends like Jessa, who even if they aren’t on cocaine will at least know someone who can get you coke. Marnie suggests Hannah hit up Laird, the weird guy who lives at the ground floor of Hannah’s building, as he is a junky. Hannah assumed he was a leper, and wants to know how Marnie knew he was an addict. Marnie says she talked to him at the mailboxes one day and confirmed his junkie status. Shoshanna confirms for Hannah that all the junkies in her building do indeed hang out at the mailboxes.

Now that I’ve had sex with one people, I’m worldly and I know where junkies hang out

Marnie is off to work at her new gig as a hostess, the job that induced a scoff from Hannah on the last episode. She plays along as an older gentleman pulls her over to his table and says his friends are all being bores as they just want to talk about work. He asks Marnie to bring him a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, to really get this party started. I don’t know about you but when I think about getting crazy, Sauvignon Blanc is my first choice. Soooo many of my stories are littered with lines like ‘so I was hammered on SB’ or ‘remember that time we drank an entire bottle of Pinot Grigio and ended up in a dumpster in Little Tokyo’. Marnie obliges but never brings the gentleman his wine.

As she turned away from his table, she sees Booth Jonathan, played by Jorma Taccone of the Lonely Island, in the club, and spins around, hoping he didn’t see her. It is too late as he calls out for her and approaches her. Booth informs her that it’s pathetic that she is working there, as she explains that all the good curatorial positions were already taken and she just needed a job. He makes some off hand comment about how he loves twenty-somethings who gives up on their dream as soon as they are forced to struggle. Easier said than done, Lonely Island.

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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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