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Aaaaand Kayla is "vaguebooking" from the hospital because if course she is! This episode was beyond the pale and Courtney suddenly offering to share her newfound gift is super hinky. Even if you totally believe in ghosts and mediums etc why would her father's ghost randomly appear in some woman's bedroom? Why not talk directly to a loved one?

Tina and Dudley should get together. I hate Tina. The way she laughed at Alex in the car really set my teeth on edge. Who does she think she is? She's a grating kind of crazy to me.

OMG I LOVE Trabbi!!!I hope they never break up. I don't remember Trey being a dick to her in the past. More a goofy lovable dork. He did tell her to go clean up gross stuff etc. but that was her job and he was her boss, so. Remember that hilariously odd party he threw? I also love that he has a past in porn! I'm sad that Lincoln and Ilana are sleeping with other people. I love them together. I'm finding Ilana kind of grates this season. To forcedly quirky or something.

So this show wants me to cheer for Ian but Sean, who has a disease that heavily features lying and a crushingly high relapse rate, is someone who should be thrown away. Maybe next season Deb's baby can go hang out with Kev and Vee's 15 babies so they don't have to deal with her anymore.

OK, when Mama Baskets said "The Chemical Brothers' Mother" I completely lost my mind for about an hour.

Is this it? Is this the final episode?

It was totally cracking me up as well! I was annoyed when Chip walked in and saw his mom obviously passed out on a floor covered in broken glass and jelly beans. His dumb nap quip really rubbed me the wrong way and knocked me out of the scene for a bit. I've been fascinated with the way they've been revealing the eating disorder of Mrs. Baskets. So far its been very deep and complicated with I suspect (hope) more to come. Usually her type of eating disorder is depicted on a superficial demeaning way. Here, it is subtle and compassionate and intricate.

While Sugar Pie should not be eaten by anyone ever, it seemed only slightly more sugar/flour/butter than the rest of the desserts shown. I think the hostess is really invested in making Christine feel like crap at every opportunity and I was totally ok with her kicking it into her garden. She could have graciously said oh my thanks we'll be sure to enjoy it but instead she went the all too obvious "oh we won't eat that we don't want to look like you, after all!" I LOVED the way Christine looked down when the hostess ignored what she was saying about Chip being ok now and did the whole "oh poopr him" routine. IT really reminded me of the grocery store scene in "Enlightened" where the two moms compare stories (brag/hide pain). They better not kill her off, I don't think I could keep watching.

Wait what callback to the bags! Help! Also I was on a rollercoaster ride during Ilana's whole HPV management talk.

I'm also happy Michelle cheated but wish she wouldn't let it tear her apart so much and definitely don't confess. He doesn't get to neglected and alienate her for so much, for so long and the decide, on a whim really, to shape up without there being consequences.

I realized today that what fuels my bottomless pit of love for Louie as Mrs. Baskets isn't just how awesomely believable he is and how fascinatingly hilarious the character is but that he's made a really really unusual personality so real. Louie's performance is not over the top even though the character is. Does that make sense?

Those two crazy kids should get together! Did anyone else semi-suspect that Fiona lied about having the abortion? Especially when Sean remarked that it didn't take as long as he thought it would. I don't put anything past this show anymore. I'm trying to ride out my Sherilyn Fenn trauma by reminding myself every two minutes that Hollywood is stupid. Two things that had me saying enough already this has gone way past too far: Frank's disgusting "parenting advice" for Debby and Gus being a total dick. I can't believe I gave half a crap about Fiona pawing his ring. I now see that it's entirely his fault for giving someone he'd known for two minutes something that valuable. He is now fully one of those Nice Guys™ in my opinion. Although I'm sick of seeing Fiona do dumb stuff like forget to get a divorce. I know she's addled and stressed but come on. I hope I never have to see Amanda again. I hated her Monica-like screechy, clingy, unstable ass from the get go. The flip side to Lip's mommy issues. Sure she taught him about these things called schedules and stuff but she wasn't worth the hassle at all. I don't feel a bit sorry for Lip's prof though. So the hardest part for me was the Nick/Carl story. When Nick first showed up I started to bristle a bit with most of the characters' reaction to him. Yes he's a huge, tall quiet guy but he's a huge tall quiet African American guy and it made me uncomfortable going "whoa" when they'd see him. The reactions were solely about his physical characteristics. I started to relax a bit as we got to know him and I was really pulling for him. He seemed tormented, sensitive and complicated with sweet future dreams of being a farmer. Why couldn't the show give me this? Let me see him get there. Show that sometimes people don't fall down and get it right at some point. The way his story ended was not only horrifying to me for the obvious reasons but it deflated me because they went with the tragic portrayal we've seen far too often. Yes, everyone in this show seems just busted and defeated but I really saw so much potential in Nick I wish they'd gone a different way. Amazing performances by the two actors and I'll miss the two of them together.

Such nice people! It seems he kept parking in this woman's spot and wouldn't move so she had his car towed? So he threatens her, verbally abuses her, spits on her stairs and calls in his wife to beat him up? I wish they'd use their time to maybe do things like teach their youngest to read at her age level. Many times most of us have thought wow this show is so scripted so fake, generated drama etc but obviously the truth of their lives and behavior is not all that far away is it?

I had a few thoughts about this episode I wanted to share here. First of all I realized it was very naive of me to expect this show to actually offer up a deep profound true to life version of what living with a "creative" is like. We were pretty much led to believe that Molly somehow became a successful author, right? So knowing quite a few published authors myself I assumed that she brought in way more money with each book than she ever did as a teacher and more than Mike brought home as well. Even so, I"m not someone who believes that if you make more money you get to treat the other person as your servant. Not at all but I just really wanted Molly to say hey listen, I'm a writer so even when I'm not sitting at my laptop typing in the big words, I'm writing. So even if I'm in some tacky bar with my mom and sister, I could very well come up with something that will inform my next book and put more food on the table, got it? Mike has set hours and a set salary. Not everyone does. Some people are like Molly so if they decided to make her this author why not just go a little deeper? We're not all that dumb. Why can't Mike bring home a pizza or something if he's so helpless. Thing is he wasn't helpless he was being very aware of how petty he was being. Second of all, I really can't deal with a sitcom that's running right now acting like it's "I Love Lucy" or something. A shoutout is fine but this just needed to go deeper. ETA: I was shocked by how awesome Vince was. The last time I paid any attention to him he was pretty much presented as a skeevy loser and Joyce treated him like crap. Not only was he totally comfortable with himself and what he enjoyed outside of any of the petty scorekeeping Mike was so heavily into, he offered up realistic, helpful and generous relationship advice!

Thank you! During that scene I was thinking that the way her character had been written (empowered, confident, competent) makes it totally unbelievable to me that she'd fold at all! She would have told the guy to sit down and would have said exactly what you just did and launched into her presentation. The actor who plays Lip is amazingly gifted. The way his eyes and flushed face were all moist with emotion while the drunk puking prof was confessing her feelings to him. Wow. Once again I'm at the point I was I think last year with this show. I don't think the comedy part works. Well, first of all it's rarely funny to me and second of all most of the actors are really good and would be better served in a drama. The subject matter is really dark and the writers maybe just don't know how to do dark comedy well instead week after week I get dumb jokes. I really didn't find it hilarious that Kev just watched a human being immolate himself in the middle of the road but the way it was shot and played I pretty much get that I was expected to. The Debbie and Frank show is nauseating, not funny, not interesting and honestly I'm starting to worry that a stellar talent like Macy maybe has a huge drug problem or something otherwise why would he lower himself to this garbage. Lip's complicated love life is sure to end in murder not sure whose yet. I was seriously disgusted with Fiona for even thinking of pawning that ring. She really should have given it back to him, song or no song. If it was just a ring he got at a store for her I could see her saying well fuck it it's mine to do what I want with it but the backstory made it 100% wrong for her to keep it let alone sell it and for such a small amount it adds insult to injury. Everything she touches turns to shit. What I really liked about the show in the first few seasons was just seeing how miserable and uniquely difficult their lives were. I loved hearing Fiona's insights into how people on the other side of the tracks viewed her. For example if she had a job that was mainly due to her young sexy self, she'd at some point say that even though the guys thought she was hot, she was still trash to them and beneath them. That sort of painful insight was really compelling to watch. Frankly if they wanted that house so much couldn't they have still bid on the higher amount because with Fiona's loan she could have asked the murdering drug addict sure to be baby daddy to go in on it with her or something like that? I mean she's not above hocking a priceless ring for chump change so why is she so suddenly noble when it comes to getting money for the house?

That's an interesting angle about what may be driving her behavior but I would still add that she really glamorizes and romanticizes the "good old days" of the wiseguys etc. Neil really doesn't seem to be a part of that. She wants Al Capone.

I know it's awfully early to say this but I SO BADLY want Baskets Mom Louie Anderson to have his own full hour show every week.

I keep meaning to post about how every time I watch this show I wonder to myself what their Spanx budget it. This week Renee's "gardening outfit" was particularly laugh out loud ridiculous. I'm also tired of Drita's pathetic tough talk. Does she know we've all heard how Lee talks to her? Didn't he cheat on her a few seasons ago and have a baby with someone in her hair salon? Did I dream that? She even went to a divorce lawyer about it and tried to hock her ring. Someone posted a week or so ago about how she was laying heavy stuff on her little kid and I agree. Why would she do that? That's her burden. It was clearly freaking her daughter out. I was also annoyed with Ang. She is talking as if Neil never works when it seems like he does. Also he was totally right about how those wise guys of yesteryear are no longer around ( I wasn't sure if he was saying she can't attract them anymore or if they're all dead) but he seems really supportive and caring so why was she abusing him on camera like that? I genuinely felt uncomfortable with the way she yelled at him and the stuff she was saying to him. That part didn't seem scripted to me because why would he go for that? Her house is ridiculous. Even when she had the bar how did she pay for all that? You're also right that she should have known all along that with her history and the talking she was doing about the lifestyle on tv what did she expect? If Storm is willing to be this much of a creepy, disrespectful dick on camera, what goes on in general? Karen has zero self esteem. I couldn't believe she was still seeing him after that first episode humiliation. It was genuinely cringeworthy to watch her comply in the parking lot when she was all set to break up with him. He's gross. I don't understand why she's always defending her family name (yea ok) but puts up with him. Workslame, I hope your husband is doing well with his treatment.

Oh yes! I forgot to say that! I laughed so hard when I first saw him. He looks exactly like Caroline Rhea. I love he plays the mom as mom not some hahahhah I know you all know I'm a man playing a mom.

I'm not a sports person so I didn't even know there would be a football game. I can't imagine waiting until Saturday and having the self control to not watching ep 2. I can't believe I'm paying over $200/mo for cable and having this happen.

Aaaaaaaaargh! Tivo messed up due to the football game and I didn't get this ep at all and it's not showing as repeating at any point! How do I see it before watching ep 2 tomorrow? I have been looking forward to this evening for weeks!

I really find I lose momentum wrt my investment and interest when this happens. I need to look forward to a new episode otherwise it's out of sight out of mind. I have to say Season 1 didn't live up to the hype for me at all and this season is just odd to say the least. I don't really know where she's going with it and I find her way of saying stuff pretty annoying. I'm sticking with it because the descriptions of what it was like for him are pretty interesting but I could really do without her lame attempts at humor.

I loved Louie Anderson as his mom as I knew I would. I'll keep watching for him and to see where things go.

Yes and also I kept thinking what they thought they'd accomplish with this move if she goes ahead and has his baby. She could still minimally come after him/them for hold support, no?

Yes! I love Svetlana! When she slapped that hipster and he loved it!