Episode Report Card Lady Lola: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Buttheads and Head Butts
By Lady Lola | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 08.28.2011
Ronnie returns to his room and sees the pile of shit Sammi left on his bed. He angrily starts tossing it into the garbage can. Sammi strolls up and starts taking it all back because this, she says, is a step too far. Your distinctions of class and decorum are what the Italians would call arbitrario, Sammi. She takes special exception to a pair of diamond earrings he gave her and yanks them from the garbage can. She even reclaims a pair of shoes that she gave him and for which she has no use. So what, then, was your point in putting that stuff on his bed? If you didn't intend to give it all back to him (thereby giving him full permission to do with it as he wished), then what did you intend? What was your point?
That night, the gang preps for a Situation-less night out at the club (he's been prohibited from going out for the next week). Perhaps loopy from the pain meds, Sitch admits to Ronnie that he was inspired to head butt the wall after pulling the same move in a fight with a much larger guy two years prior. He wanted to show how crazy and fearless he was, so he charged the wall. Only the wall two years ago was sheet rock. Last night, it was concrete. Ronnie can't help but laugh at what a jackass Sitch is. He knows full well that he never would have gone so far as to put Sitch in the hospital. And yet here that numbskull is, neck brace and all, thanks to his own harebrained high jinks.
Sitch continues pill-drunkenly rambling a semi-apology for meddling in SamRo 2.0's business and for fighting with Ronnie. All the while, Ronnie checks the trash and finds that all the stuff from Sammi that he threw in there earlier has been mysteriously removed. He recollects the shoes Sammi took and walks back into the room just as Sitch slurs, "...bangin' my head, you know what I mean?" Ronnie: "Exactly." Heh.
The ladies head out for a girls' night at what I'm guessing is the only Mexican restaurant in Italy (and, in fact, if you Google "Mexican restaurants in Florence, Italy," it's the top result). After the first shot and a round or two of margaritas, JWOWW gives Sammi some advice on how not to be a grubby bitch when talking to her boyfriends. For example, don't store up shit talk to use in case of an argument. Address gossip when and if it arrives. Sammi acknowledges she needs to work on herself a little.
Back at home, the guys plans their own night out as Sitch tries "to find a way to apologize to the wall" (Ronnie's words). They hit up il club, where Ronnie immediately zeroes in on a lady of questionable looks who is willing to buy him mojitos. But the real problem sprouts when an Italian guy creeps up on Pauly and keeps taunting, "Che cosa?" ("What?). Perhaps having taken in some of last night's hostility through osmosis, the normally good-humored Pauly gets in the guy's face and screams like a hyena. Vinny clarifies that Pauly is "white boy wasted" and in no state of mind to deal with such effrontery. Pauly eventually gets pulled back to cool off while the Italian in question stands back and smirks like a louche European villain of the cinematic variety. I'm surprised the producers didn't give him an adhesive mustache to twirl.