Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Babies on Board
By Lady Lola | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.10.2011
Back on the plane, yet more babies are crying as the failed NBC sitcoms play for a second rotation. One highlight is Gals on the Town, a Lipstick Jungle/Cashmere Mafia redux starring Aisha Tyler, Teri Polo, and infamous show killer Lindsay Price. Sample opening credits lyrics: "Love and friendship, having it all... or maybe just a great pair of shoes! One of them has to be Asian and they be good at their jobs!" At this, the air marshal disintegrates into sobs, a woman staggers down the aisle begging for someone to do something, and Lemon's neighbor echoes her cries. Lemon stands up to rally the passengers and remind them of the magazine-buying, leg-crossing, Chili's Express-eating people back in the terminal. "We were like them once, and we can be again!" Though the woman in the aisle fears they're just "airplane folk now," Lemon is certain that Carol is a reasonable, compromising man (and not just about sexual positions). She tells them if they can come up with a list of things they want, he'll certainly give them those things. Everyone cheers.
A few moments later, Carol shuts down all her demands. He doesn't want to waste gas by turning on the air conditioning, he refuses to force Stuart -- a dance major from Carnegie Mellon -- to clean bathrooms, and he denies them food because the potato chips are specially packaged for mid-air opening and, thus, might kill someone if opened on the ground. She says he can at least tell them when they're taking off. In about half an hour, of course. She thinks he should decide to help them because they're people. He thinks she should decided whether he is just another authority figure she's rebelling against... like that police horse she yelled at. Snorts back Lemon, "If I can't poop in the street, why should my tax dollars pay for someone else to?" She tells him he's terrible at his job and realizes quickly, perhaps from the glares of the flight crew surrounding her, that she overstepped her bounds. He presses the PA button, and Stuart cheerfully snarls, "And the Captain has turned on the 'Fasten Seatbelts' sign. All passengers, including any lipless middle-aged women in lesbian clown shirts, should please take their seat at this time." Carol and Stuart pound fists as Lemon skulks back to steerage and the crying babies.