Megan and Kim are ecstatic that they're going to Domenico's hometown of Acquaro, Italy. He meets them at the top of the hill, and we find out that, while picturesque, Acquaro ain't exactly bustling. Domenico says that the village is so small, if you fart on one side of the village, someone will hear it on the other side. I'm guessing, however, it has more to do with the local diet than with the square milage of the town. Salami and goat's milk seven days a week, plus unpaved roads lead to some unpleasant side effects.

"Watch out for that pothole...(ripping sound)...did somebody just step on a duck?"

The village is really low maintenance - it has one butcher, one bakery, one church, and that's it. Megan didn't understand how nobody was working and everyone was basically doing nothing. She admitted that she has never been out of the country, but honestly, haven't you met a hipster by now?

All this guy needs is a Che shirt and a derby he found at the salvation army and he's bonafide hipster scum.

Domenico takes Megan on the first day-long date to his cousin Rocco's bar. For some reason, Rocco is dressed like one of the nihilists in The Big Lebowski, only odder/gayer. That, or his jacket is from the future and self-dries like Marty McFly's in Back to the Future Part 2.

"Donatella Versace designed it. It smells like cigarettes, vagina, and grappa."

Domenico and Megan talk about how it's the first time he's brought a girl home to the family, and so they're both nervous. He asks her, if he picks her, why she would want to be with him. She says it's because he's sweet, much sweeter than her ex-boyfriend, who by the simple fact of her talking about him, she's not over. If Domenico is hoping for That's Amore 2, he'd be well served to pick Megan. After the conversation, they leave his cousin's bar and the camera shows us what it really looks like on the outside.

Either his cousin is a squatter, or Acquaro hasn't really recovered since 1945.

After the bar, they move on to a butcher shop. Like many places in Europe, the butcher has very fresh meats available, and do the slicing on-site. Megan is not pumped about it and the smell makes her start to gag a little. She calms down however as Domenico cheers her up, and they laugh as a pig's head is sliced off. Could it be a metaphor for what Megan hopes is Kim's fate?

Excuse the amateur photoshop skills, friends.

Megan is a bit nervous that Dom's family is going to make her cook, considering the last time she cooked anything she almost gave Domenico salmonella. Unfortunately for her, one of the first thing Domenico's mother does is throw on an apron when she meets her. The whole family, which includes Dom's mother father, grandmother, grandfather, great aunt and great uncle, seems ecstatic to meet Megan, although all foreign people seem excitable to me, including my extended relatives.

Despite her hesitation, Megan digs in with the cooking but is a little disoriented since everyone is speaking in Italian. She helps the family make some noodles, and for some reason gets an applause when she's done. Dom's mother even says, "I like her." They all ask Megan the basics - does she have any brothers and sisters, where her family is from, and how many kids she wants to have. She responds to the second inquiry that her grandmother is from Italy, which seriously confuses Dom's family. They all ask why she can't cook?

Yyyyeaaaah, so let's talk about how many kids I want to have...

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