Fair warning, I attended a screening of Iron Man 3 tonight in order to write a review for a children’s magazine. I enjoyed it a lot. I am not sure how my enjoyment of that movie will affect my opinions of this episode.
We start things off with a cake literally out of carrots, so colour me interested from the outset. Then Max jokes about how she and Chestnut should one day get the same rights as gay couples, and Caroline admits to subway molestation as being an acceptable poor man’s version of an actual massage. Oof. Maybe I should have waited a day before writing this.
Anyway, it turns out working in a diner and owning a horse don’t exactly line up, and ol’ Chestnut has to replace a shoe and has some kinda gross hoof fungus. These two wacky gals tried to ditch the animal way back in Season 1, but then decided to take it back, which I suppose was not a decisions without its own share of consequences.
It’s cool, though, those extra expenses can be solved by acting as extras in an SVU show that wants to film in the diner, which can go ahead so long as Han Lee, the boss man, allows it.
Man, it was awkward seeing the Asian set manager [who speaks accent-less English] begin a conversation with Han. It became almost unbearably uncomfortable when the diminutive Korean responds to the other man’s question about compensation with:
“Whoa, whoa, my Asian brother. Slow down, let’s enjoy the dance.”
He then proceeds to speak in Korean, which prompts the sort of answer I am seriously beginning to hate: “Dude, I’m from Pasadena.” It’s essentially the same response that Jim Morita gives Dum Dum Dugan in Captain America: The First Avenger, “I’m from Fresno, Ace.” It’s this whole bit where others judge immigrants based on their outer appearances only to be chagrined when they are revealed to be very much, in both cases mentioned, American. There’s something to be said about racial and cultural assimilation that I do not like, but we can follow that up some other time.
Then they’re filming and the director is super skeevy and macking on Caroline like . . . well . . . a guy who is less ruggedly handsome than he is. He hires her to be the waitress who gets shot [it pays $1,000 more!], which Max sees as him wanting to get in her pants. This appears to be pretty accurate, since he invites her up to his hotel for dinner. Max tags along, of course.
Rest assured, dear viewer, that nothing sketchy will go down in said hotel room. Date rape drugs are talked about as a means to put guys out of commission. Caroline’s date rape drug: talking about herself incessantly until guys get bored and pass out. Max’s date rape drug: an actual date rape drug.
The guy is straight-up looking to get into a threesome. Caroline isn’t exactly down with it, so the next morning Max replaces her. Knowing that her friend is basically getting the job by using her body, Caroline does her best to talk Max out of it, ruining some perfectly good shots. It’s also very fair of her, since Max ruined her dream gig not three episodes ago.
Sophie ruins the shoot by trying to barge on set, causing Caroline to stumble and fall on a switch which sets off the gunshot rig Max is wearing. Asian set manager very reasonably tells them they won’t get paid for that day, but Han hardballs him because he is a good guy.
The episode ends with their Current Total at $1,205, a whole grand up from last week. This struck me as particularly peculiar, since I was under the assumption that any money made playing extras would go directly towards Chestnut’s foot needs causing them to break even.
After this week we only have two episodes left to go before the season ends, and I’m still wondering where we go from here. The girls have talked about really pursing their dream right this time, and you’d think that we’d be given some real direction so close to the end. I’m going to be going into these last two episodes looking for that pull that’ll actually get me looking forward to Season 3.
Stray Observations:
- Cops by day, prostitutes by night. “Copstitutes.”
- This set director was raised by two white women, and therefore does not know how important family is to Asian culture.
- The fat balding guy who sets up the rig in Caroline’s blouse looked like the member of Tenacious D who is not Jack Black.
- The contents of Sophie’s purse: a Shake Weight and a 2L bottle of Fresca.
- 2 Broke Girls Cheesecake Menu: May-or-may-not-be Kyle Gass really digs around in Max and Caroline’s blouses. That’s really about it this episode.
