Episode Report Card Aaron: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Gotta Serve Somebody
By Aaron | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.05.2003
Out at the tent cabin, Todd and Dana offer to watch Maya while Nate and Lisa take a "private nature hike" of their own. It takes some convincing, but at last they agree. The instant they're out of earshot, Dana gleefully spills Lisa's secret about her inability to achieve orgasm. Hmm. It looks like I forgot to also mention "gossip" back there when I was talking about malls, massages, and inappropriate orgasm locations. Nate and Lisa head off into the woods, but Lisa doesn't want to have sex because "something could crawl on [her]." As much as I hate to agree with Lisa about anything, I think we've already clearly established my views on the "great" outdoors in this recap, so I can't really say that I blame her. "We're not really Todd and Dana, are we?" asks Nate, which was totally the wrong thing to say to a psychotic spouse with some serious self-esteem issues. Lisa gets argumentative right away, of course, and interprets Nate's simple question to mean that he's only staying with her because of Maya. "Jesus, I can't fucking say anything!" shouts Nate, and with that, the fight is on full-force. "You have this totally narrow path I can walk on," he continues, "where I'm on your fucking leash. No smoking! Two beers a night! No smoking pot without prior written approval!" "Smoke your fucking lungs out!" screams Lisa, and I don't mind if I do. Flick…ahh. "I don't give a shit about smoking!" insists Nate. "I give a shit about being myself. About saying what I need to say, or even what I accidentally say and not having you fucking freak out on me, okay?" This seems to finally get through to Lisa, because she apologizes and looks fairly remorseful. She asks for a kiss, which only confuses a still angry Nate. "I want to get better at this," she tells him. "Help me, okay?" They kiss, and it slowly becomes more passionate as Nate orders her to take off her jeans and lie down on a nearby rock. "That rock is hard and cold," says Lisa. "It's like an anvil or something." Nate puts his jacket down for her, and then leans over her to whisper, "Close your eyes. I'm going to fuck you on this rock, but first I'm gonna make you scream so that everyone back at camp can hear you." There's some more dirty talk along those lines, but all you really need to know is that we finally get our first oral sex shot of the season, and the scene's final "fuck" count was Fk 8. Now that's the SFU we know and love.
We wrap things up this week in the car on the way home, as Lisa basks in the afterglow and even actually smiles a bit as she reminisces about all the times she and Nate had great sex. Unfortunately, every single one of them seems to have happened right after Nate got dissed by some other girl that he was trying to hook up with. Oy. Either Lisa doesn't realize the obvious implications of this behavior, or she's somehow convinced herself that it's a sign they were meant to be together, because it doesn't apparently doesn't bother her all that much. Nate, however, is anxious to change the subject as quickly as possible. "That's all behind us," he declares, and Lisa happily agrees. "It's nice now, that it's just us. I love you, Nate. God, I've loved you for such a long time." "I love you too, honey," he replies, not very convincingly. Man, this marriage is disturbing. But not, however, as disturbing as the fact that the car that isn't the Dirty Car is now blue, even though it was green just a few minutes ago. Hmm. Hey, maybe they finally found Paulie's car out there! That would be cool. Fade to white.