Girls Recap: Bad Friends

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By RJ | Monday, January 28, 2013 | 1:42 pm | 6 Comments
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Elijah follows her into her bedroom and tells her to make her mark- to which Hannah assumes he is talking about urine. Elijah says no, “make your mark on these blank fucking walls!” as Hannah takes out a marker and scrawls on the wall of her bedroom. The pair don’t spend much time in their apartment, though, as Elijah wants to take Hannah to a club to meet the gay DJ’s named Andrew Andrew.

Jame might think the magic happens in a stupid proverbial circle on the wall of her offices, but it’s clear from this episode of “Girls” that magic happens when Hannah and Elijah are on coke. At the club, the two continue to bond over non-sequitors about ‘sleeping with yourself being a favorite dream, and a worst nightmare’. Then Hannah leaves Elijah briefly and begins dancing with a guy in a mesh yellow tank top. He wants to know if Hannah wants to switch shirts, to which she obliges, as he must be some sort of mind reader. Plus, he thinks Hannah is a great dancer, to which she agrees, but inquires about how long the two of them have been dancing together.

The CDC does not recommend doing lines of cocaine off a toilet seat during flu season

At this point, Hannah is wearing the yellow mesh tank top, her tits hanging out, singing along to Icona Pop “I Love It”- it’s like the anti-anti drug commercials from the 80s and the world’s worst after-school special. Everyone should want to do coke after seeing this episode, especially if you’re getting paid $200 to do so.

This episode should also win the Emmy for “Best Use of Song in a Drug Montage” if that category exists, because even “Breaking Bad” is going to have a hard time competing with Hannah singing along to Icona Pop. By Lena Dunham’s own admission, the “research” for this episode involved waking up in a dumpster in Koreatown, so she should at least be rewarded for her commitment to her character.

Amy Poehler may finally get an Emmy for “Parks and Rec” if she agreed to wear this mesh yellow tank top

When Elijah finds Hannah on the dance floor, the two retire to the bathroom to continue their binge, doing lines off a toilet seat. Elijah suddenly wants to get honest with Hannah, telling her how he fucked Marnie after their party. Hannah is ill-equipped to handle this news, seeing as she’s in a less than perfect state. Hannah asks if it was sexual, and it really wasn’t. Elijah admits that he lost his boner (that’s the third episode in a row that’s featured the word ‘boner’, by the way) and he “didn’t even come inside her!”, which I guess is bonus points when you’ve devastated a friend by fucking her best friend.

After leaving the club, Hannah and Elijah go to a drug store, where the fighting continues. Hannah is obviously reeling from this news, and Elijah points out that she thinks they all live in Hannah’s World and it wasn’t even about her. To further prove his point, Hannah kisses Elijah, to which he responds with “when did you eat jerky?” Solid and poignant question, Elijah, but Hannah retorts with “that is of no concern of yours”. Seeing as she just kissed him, though, it is somewhat his concern.

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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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