Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 49 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Sunshine State
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Gini drags Jane to an Anna Freud lecture that gets them both steamed when she makes light of both sexual research and clitoral orgasms. Since Libby and Bill are in Miami recovering from the miscarriage, it's a fine time to hook Jane up and give her all kinds of orgasms, which is so scientific that Bill can't even focus on ignoring his wife. Eventually she sends his ass home and stays on, flirting with the horny old couple next door (Caroline Lagerfelt!) and inventing a fabulous new life for herself.
Jane sends Austin to a therapist (Alan Ruck!) to get over his impotence, which leads to some funny strange interactions and odd insights into the way Austin works; Barton Scully allows our old friend the hustler to sweet-talk him out being mad even after lying point-blank about telling Masters about their relationship. Libby's reinvention of herself ends abruptly when the husband of the old people couple hits on her and everything gets gross, but it doesn't go dark. One wonders what her newfound clarity means for their marriage, now that they've both fairly admitted it's not working.
Speaking of, a deeply unfulfilled Margaret Scully learns about the couples study over mah-jongg, and works up the courage to visit Gini herself and try to get in. When Bill returns, they interview her together, but everybody gets really quiet and sad when it's revealed just how little her marriage has taught her about the joy of sex, and then since she's never had an orgasm she's not allowed in the study anyway. It's Allison Janney so she's pretty mesmerizing regardless of what's happening, and heartbreaking to see the hope drain out of her eyes, but that makes it all the more delightful when she runs into Austin Langham and ends up having an orgasm in his car. Two birds, one very complicated adulterous situation.
After that mean lady doctor cuts loose on Bill with some (kinda valid) haterade regarding the fact that she can't seem to get half the respect Gini does, despite actually being a doctor, Bill thinks hard about everything going on -- Libby's executive realness, Gini's clinical aptitude, her inspired curiosity and theories about orgasms, and ability to make people take their clothes off just by acting normal and nice -- he decides, without prelude, to promote Gini to Research Assistant, freeing her up to focus on the research full-time. She responds by dropping her top and letting him try and make her come just from breast stimulation, which seems fair.
Next Week: Libby wants to try and get pregnant again, this time in secret; her partner in crime Ethan tries in earnest to move on. Barton discovers Margaret's infidelity, and she hopefully tosses that one right back in his face. Masters and Johnson try not to make it weird, but guess what, it's already weird.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!PREVIOUSLY
Bill blackmailed Barton Scully to get Room Five going again, but a hitch in the study gave Austin Langham a case of the sad dicks not even Jane could fix. Ethan's dating the Provost's daughter, and a new doctor on the wing, Lillian DePaul, gave Virginia the cold shoulder. But the big news, of course, was Catherine. Bill did his best to help Libby through her horrible miscarriage, but eventually it was Bill that needed support -- and Gini was there to supply it. It was sweet, horrible, and the best episode to date, by a smidge; even over the pilot, and tonight's episode, both of which are of course phenomenal. Plus Margaret Scully this week, my God.
ANNA FREUD
Sigmund: "So basically, it's natural for the clitoral orgasm to give way to the vaginal, because of how penises are magic. Any lady who requires clitoral stimulation during lovemaking is really just a creepy teenage masturbator, and should be put in a mental hospital."
Anna: "My dad, a soft scientist of some renown, was not kidding around when it came to which orgasms he was okay with."
Doctors: "But wasn't he a doctor, like us? Because that would make him right about everything."
Anna: "True enough. In his essay The Universal Tendency Toward Debasement In Love, he said sexuality was about the impossibility of connecting your drive for affection with your drive for satiation. Thus the reason men are huge creeps to women, and always have been, is because they can never have sex with their moms..."
Doctors: "Wait, what?"
Anna: "...And the reason women are cool with that is because they suck. Thank you."
TYPING POOL
Lucille: "Austin, you need to go to work. Go to your job. Leave us alone."
Austin: "But I have to see Jane immediately."
Kathleen: "She's not here. Virginia took her to a doctor or something."
Austin: "Oh my God, is she sick?"
Kathleen: "No, they went together. Somebody named Lloyd? Freed?"
FREUD
Gini: "Dr. Freud? Virginia Johnson, Washington University."
Dr. DePaul: "Oh, hell no. Now she's impersonating a human being?"
Gini: "I was just wondering if this nonsense about the clitoral orgasm was ever proven?"
Anna: "What do you mean, like by science?"
Gini: "Is there evidence to support a claim differentiating the physiology between the two orgasms, I mean."