Girls Recap: Bad Friends

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By RJ | Monday, January 28, 2013 | 1:42 pm | 6 Comments
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Still, we don’t get to see Allison Williams naked. She must have an ironclad no nudity clause in her contract because there wasn’t even side boob. There was no boob. Only Lonely Island ass, which no one wants or needs to see.

When Hannah returns to her building, she knocks on Laird’s door and he lets her in to his dim apartment. Hannah skirts the issue by making small talk about having passed Laird in the halls but never saying hello. Laird knows all about Hannah and Marnie, though, and is glad she made the first step. Laird, a short-statured man with a full beard and a knit wool cap, informs Hannah that he is now clean but he will help her out because he always pointed to do something for her.

Hannah wants to make it clear that she isn’t judging Laird, because she understands sometimes it takes whatever it takes to get through life.

Note to self: hang out in the mailroom of my apartment building and get to know the neighbors. Maybe one day one of them will want to buy you drugs. Maybe this is how apartment buildings in NY and LA differ, because the only person who was hanging out by our mailboxes was apparently stealing people’s mail and, eventually, their identities. All things being equal, I’d rather hang out with a drug addict or, ideally, a neighbor who binges on Sauvignon Blanc.

Back in her apartment, Hannah informs Elijah of her plans to go on a coke binge and write an article about her experiences. She wants to know if it is too early to start at 4pm, as she doesn’t know the rules about binges. Elijah informs her that the only rule that applies here is basic human decency, but this doesn’t faze Hannah. He is more interested in knowing what Hannah will be wearing during said binge, to which she replies she will be wearing the outfit she wore earlier to the JazzHate offices. Elijah objects and rummages through her clothes. He hands her a tiny top and shorts and says the outfit “is inspired by a girl I went to middle school with, who fucked her uncle and her stepfather. It’s called power clashing”. Oh, Elijah, you will be missed.

Beware- your stepdad will want to bang you if you wear this

It becomes clear after Hannah has changed clothes that the binge has officially commenced, as Hannah and Elijah frantically relate all of the things they want to accomplish in life, but have yet to do. Among such lofty goals, she wants to get married in a veil even though she claims to be against the industrial marriage complex, and she wants to learn how to properly write a check because she often confuses where the date and the amount go- the sort of stream of consciousness rambling that often follows ingesting large amounts of drugs (I’ve heard). Elijah suggests they write all of this down, as Hannah is frustrated that she is a writer and she isn’t cataloguing any of this winning material.

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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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