Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B- | 64 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT The Tri-Funk-Ta, or Meatball Walking
By Lady Lola | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2012.02.09
Duck phone! JWOWW answers, and Roger doesn't even recognize her voice. He tells her he's stuck at work and is going to be late for her date. He'll be there by 5 PM, but she has to be back home by 6:30 PM. He asks if she wants to reschedule, she gives him a disappointed "meh," and the argument quickly spins out to a climax of her unloading all her grievances (and calling him out for being at the beach with his boys, not her) on him. She rains her wrath down on him and hangs up without giving him the chance to respond. She tells Sammi she feels like Roger doesn't consider a priority for him, concluding, "the damage is done." Honey, the damage was done when you put on those pink boots and that Flashdance top.
Pauly and the Meatballs head to work, aching to make trouble. They bitch about the broken air conditioner then spend several minutes playing the follow game (i.e. running one after another). They're short enough that Danny can barely see their neon pink trucker hats bobbing up and down over the clothing racks. When he's not looking, they slip out of the store and go running down the Boardwalk. Freedom! Now they know what it must have felt like for William Wallace. One of their coworkers immediately guesses they probably ran to the bar (where there are, indeed, ordering two shots of SoCo... what was that about AA, Snooki?). Danny heads off to bring back the "dingbats."
As he walks out, Pauly jokes, "Put the music on, the boss is gone!" But there would be no music. Except maybe the Bernard Herrmann-esque shrieking of violins because Pauly quickly spots his stalker, whose clear awareness of the camera and pointed looks at the camera are kind of starting to think she's a little wackadoo. I know a Situation she'd get along nicely with! Pauly walks deeper into the store to hide from his pursuer. Coincidentally, that's exactly what Snooki and Deena do when Danny (who, according to Deena, "is being such an annoying") arrives at the bar. Shockingly Snooki's gamble on hiding under a ping pong table in broad daylight doesn't pay off. The girls, it turns out, are not above the law, and Deena tells Danny as they shame-walk back home, "You're not my friend anymore." Adding insult to injury, just a few minute later, a girl asks, "Where a good place to get a drink on the Boardwalk?" Since the girl is apparently a bachelorette, the girls appoint themselves her Meatballs of Honor and take her for a drink. Danny notices a little later and asks, "Are you kidding me?" The shift is winding down, so he defeatedly asks Pauly to tell the Meatballs they're in trouble.