Episode Report Card Lady Lola: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How Lemon Spent Her Summer
By Lady Lola | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.05.2011
Donaghy den. Kenneth emerges in a bright pink robe since his clothes mysteriously disappeared while he was in the shower. Jack tells him to give a twirl, which Kenneth reluctantly does while sing-song mumbling "This is not right, sir..." Jack bids Kenneth to go put on some of Avery's perfume before they head to Strawberry Fields to whip pennies at the drum circle. Kenneth finally draws the line: "I don't like to swear, sir, but no thank you. Now I haven't had a wife get kidnapped, but I did watch the episode of The Brady Bunch where Tiger ran away. We've all been through some bad stuff, Mr. Donaghy." Jack says he had the perfect woman and wonders if God is punishing him for having better hair. Kenneth tells him enough. He says if Jack wants him to be like Avery, he will be like her: Mean. Jack fondly reminisces, "She once made Rahm Emanuel cry in an airport lounge." Kenneth channels Avery in telling Jack he's pitiful and should be spending time with Liddy instead of "being weird" to Kenneth. Jack gets the message loud and clear. He thanks Kenneth/Avery and tells Sherry to put on Liddy's baby pants suit so she can come with him to work that day.
Meanwhile, there's an obvious sight gag in which Paul pulls the wool over Grimby's eyes (see what I did there?) by dressing up as 'Gina Jenna while Jenna adopts man-drag as a lighting tech. The point is that Jenna and Paul and nothing like normal and that Grimby can shove his morality clause up a sheep's ass. Then Paul and a be-bearded Jenna kiss gratuitously, completely with beard munching.
Central Park. Jack stumbles upon Lemon working the chain gang as he takes a walk with Liddy. He takes the occasion to teach Liddy a phrase she'll no doubt be using frequently in the future -- "Good God, Lemon!" Lemon tells him she's accomplished her dreams of being outdoors, wearing comfortable clothes, gardening, and learning Spanish. Jack cheerfully tells her he just took Liddy to Strawberry Fields, where Liddy spat up on a white lady's dreads. He adds, "It's nice to see that we're back to our version of normal." At which point, Jenna approaches dressed as a dog. She sniffs Jack, and Paul (in a three-piece suit and a leather daddy mask) runs up and tells Jenna that she's been bad and will go in the crate that night. Satisfaction and mischief simultaneously flash in Jenna's eyes as Lemon and Jack try to keep from vomiting. Just then, a golf ball hits Paul in the head. Of course it's from Tracy, who tells them, "I hit the ball onto a truck on the Long Island Expressway, and Tracy Jordan does not take mulligans." He tells Lemon it's a good thing she moved out her house because "some idiot ran his boat that I was driving into it." Liddy laughs and smiles beatifically as all the gang look down upon her lovingly. From a distance, Kenneth spies them through a telescope. He screams to the sky, "You see all the good that is in them? The capacity for love? Give me more time, Jacob, I beg of you!" To be continued...