Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Age Before Beauty
By Lady Lola | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.14.2010
Jenna sashays in blowing bubbles with her gum and wearing a mini skirt, a shirt that says "LEGAL-ISH," and an even more outrageous headpiece (think Carrie Bradshaw's bird wedding accessory in the Sex and the City movie). She stops cold to tweet that she's hanging out with Lemon. Across the room, Cerie covers her ears and screams for the guys to stop with their latest trick. Lemon asks what they're pulling now. Toofer explains that Frank is torturing Cerie with a high-pitched tone only people with young ears can hear. Jenna overacts that she hears it, too: "Ugh, my ears are, like, dying. Facebook!" Except Frank already turned it off. The writers have a laugh at Jenna. Frank says he also has a low frequency tone only audible to people over 40. He switches it on, and Jenna winces and screams while asking if he's playing it yet. She runs out, and Jack comes in, cupping his ear and bellowing that he needs to talk to Lemon. Completing the triumvirate, Kenneth staggers by the office with both hands over his ears, shrieking, "What is happening to me?!" Ladies and gentleman, the world's oldest Page!
Jack and Lemon retreat into her office. He asks her why Danny skipped out on their lunch date today. "I had a porterhouse for two alone. I am very angry... and sleepy." Jack finds part of Danny's CHiPs costume in Lemon's couch, and she makes no excuses for it. We're even treated to a flashback of their role play. Jack puts on his best indignant face and rehashes his speech about how Lemon is compromising the show. Lemon tells him that he's being hypocritical since he takes Danny away from the show on a whim. She thinks Jack's jealous that Danny's with her and not him. Jack reiterates Danny's value as his wing man in this barren desert of masculinity called TGS. Lemon says she likes having a man around, too. Jack says they can't both get their way. And so the pissing contest begins.
Tracy's dressing room. Baby girl Sue shows her first signs of rebellion. Tracy wants her to stay in for board game night. She wants to go out with some guy named Doug. And the extended parents-versus-teenager family metaphor carries on from there, ending with Sue screaming, "I'm not like you. I'll never be like you!"
Jack and Danny watch a hockey game. Well, more like Danny talks Jack's ear off with every inane, slumber party-ish detail about his rendezvous with Lemon (the phrase "tongue girth" is bandied about). Jack realizes he's losing the battle while staving off sideways glances from the real men in adjacent seats. Meanwhile, Lemon is at home watching CNN with candles lit and a glass of wine. Dr. Sanjay Gupta expounds about the rise in female libido just before menopause, the so-called "Dirty 30s." Lemon takes that little nugget of inspiration and texts Danny, who totally bails on Jack. So, while the game's stuck at nil all, I know one robot who's definitely gonna score tonight. Ha cha!