Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 63 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT An Airbag Saved My Life
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.17.2013
Marilyn: "But he flip-flopped on the..."Peter: "He keeps an open mind. It's one of the reasons I love him."
Marilyn: "In this case, that mind was being influenced by Natalie Flores, of the lobbyist Joe whatever it was."
Peter: "Are you suggesting he's on the payroll of a New York lobbyist?"
Marilyn: "No, I think it's personal."
Peter: "Then shut the fuck up about it. Jesus."
She gets pregnant all over the place, wheezing and moaning and urping and eating her stupid Pop-Tarts, and he is gallant and everything, and they have a Moment. Once she's befuddled him past whatever his point was -- which I can remember, even if he can't, which is that she should shut the fuck up about it because it doesn't concern her in any way -- she's just like, "Okay, we're clear that I won and you're going to order Eli to stand down, despite his love feelings?" And Peter's just like "Pop taaaaarrrrrrts" and it's so dumb and he's so dumb and Mitch Chambers is pointless this week.
LG
As Robyn Burdine is inscribing a bullet with the "LC" of El Culebra in order to indicate that Tomas Ruiz's wife and children will be murdered sometime soon, and then sliding it into the mail slot of her house like she's not got enough shit going on right now, Lyman is meeting with the partners once again to explain himself about Natalie.
But there is a certain kind of comedy that I find pretty slippery when it comes to this, and it has to do with audience more than intent, so it's like, "How many racist one-liners can Howard Lyman crack in a row before it stops being a joke about Howard Lyman and starts being a stand-up routine about wetbacks?" When does it stop being the character and start being the show? And the answer is, this many. Plus maybe one more.
And that's with the understanding also that no amount of Kalinda being in this scene leverages it, either. White people need to cut that shit out. Like the horrible gay marriage episode, having Owen in it didn't make it less horrible. It made it more horrible, partly because Owen is kind of awful but mostly because that's not how that works. And awkwardly cramming her into this scene might make you feel better and you might think it makes it look better, but nope. Just awkward.
GOV
Peter: "I'm calling off the speech again. Did you know that some people think that fair districting practices force ghettoes into existence? Some white vote suppressors do, anyway."