Bondage and Beta Male Sexualitycgkm2099zDecember 7 2014, 04:17:32 UTC
Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality - I loved the opening to this episode. The scene between Jeff and Duncan is just a perfect fit for each character. Jeff getting caught between Duncan and the rest was hilarious. I’m really glad John Oliver came back for S5, and I hope to see more of him in S6. Last Week Tonight is on a break, after all. As an aside, I saw John Oliver perform at the DC Improv, and it was absolutely the funniest stand-up I’ve ever seen. He finished the show with 10-15 minutes of improvised material that started when a drunk woman in the crowd yelled something out. He started off on this tangent about what she said, and kept going. It was actually the funniest thing of the night. When you can just make stuff up on the spot and be hilarious like that, that’s a rare gift.
[Lover, to me, indicates a sense of intimacy, familiarity, and, yes, love or affection. While I believe that Jeff and Britta shared familiarity, I tend to think they lacked on all the other fronts I mentioned. Anyone care to disagree?]
Nope! It especially doesn’t make sense given his reaction to Britta in Intro to Knots. This episode scared me, because after Polygraphy, Geothermal Escapism and Cork-Based Networking, we’d hit a bit of a lull after the early J/A momentum. It felt kind of like S4 to me, and I was worried that they were going to do the return to J/B. I was a little confused too, because the first six episodes had virtually nothing shippy between J/B.
So, I don’t really want to defend Jeff here, but I wanted put in my two cents about the dynamic that goes along with him giving Duncan an hour to try to score with Britta. Guys have a code when it comes to women. If a friend of yours expresses interest in a woman, that means she’s off limits to you, at least initially. That sounds like it’s just calling dibs, but really it’s a matter of respect for your friend. You give him a chance and don’t try to sabotage him. If you discover that you like her, and she’s actually interested in you and not your friend, you can pursue her, but need to discuss it with your friend first. If you don’t respect the code, then you don’t respect your friend, and you’re just an ass that’s out for himself. Jeff starts out going after her, but it seemed like an instinctive response to his finding her attractive when everyone likes her rather than him trying to screw over Duncan (immediately prior, he had been ready to leave). Duncan throws it in his face and Jeff admits what he’s doing and realizes that he actually was being a bad friend. He agrees to stand down for an hour, and sticks to it. His casual arrogance regarding getting with Britta is skeezy, and the whole one hour timeframe doesn’t sit well with me, but I give Jeff some credit for at least being honest with Duncan in the end and keeping to his word. Jeff doesn’t win any friend of the year medals here, but what he did was actually a lot more honorable than what a lot of guys would have done. Also note that Duncan is surprised and pleased when Jeff says he’ll give him an hour. Because Jeff is one of the guys who always wins (not at love, because this isn’t love) and Duncan knows Jeff would likely be able to hook up with Britta. By agreeing to stand down, for any length of time, it shows that Jeff does have some level of respect for Duncan, and it’s likely that no one has done this for him before.
The scene with Britta and Duncan in the car struck a note with me because I’ve been Duncan there. It’s not always easy to do the right thing. Duncan was actually a great friend in this episode (despite Jeff’s assertion to the contrary) to both Britta and Jeff.
RE: Bondage and Beta Male Sexualitycgkm2099zDecember 7 2014, 04:18:00 UTC
I wasn’t crazy about the Abed/Hickey B plot, but kudos to Danny Pudi and Jonathan Banks for their performances. I found the opening of the bit really sad though, because he wants to be so excited about it, but it’s just driving home how much he misses Troy. I’m sure it was the first time he’s done anything with Kickpuncher since Troy’s departure and he just looks so sad to be doing it alone. So he makes an ill-placed attempt to bond with Hickey because he’s still desperate to fill the hole left by Troy. I want to know what incident caused Annie to ban glue guns from the apartment! The only other thing I want to touch on here is that when Abed finally goes over the edge, he says to Hickey “You have all this rage and shame and loneliness, which I don’t even know how to feel, much less understand.” That line doesn’t make a lot of sense to me because Abed is in the midst of feeling rage because he’s missing his movie, and it was loneliness that drove him into Hickey’s office. Are we to chalk that up to Abed not understanding the emotions? Because he clearly feels them.
I thought Chang’s subplot was amusing. This seems like the right level of crazy for Chang. And I liked the Shining reference at the end haha.
I loved the opening to this episode. The scene between Jeff and Duncan is just a perfect fit for each character. Jeff getting caught between Duncan and the rest was hilarious. I’m really glad John Oliver came back for S5, and I hope to see more of him in S6. Last Week Tonight is on a break, after all. As an aside, I saw John Oliver perform at the DC Improv, and it was absolutely the funniest stand-up I’ve ever seen. He finished the show with 10-15 minutes of improvised material that started when a drunk woman in the crowd yelled something out. He started off on this tangent about what she said, and kept going. It was actually the funniest thing of the night. When you can just make stuff up on the spot and be hilarious like that, that’s a rare gift.
[Lover, to me, indicates a sense of intimacy, familiarity, and, yes, love or affection. While I believe that Jeff and Britta shared familiarity, I tend to think they lacked on all the other fronts I mentioned. Anyone care to disagree?]
Nope! It especially doesn’t make sense given his reaction to Britta in Intro to Knots. This episode scared me, because after Polygraphy, Geothermal Escapism and Cork-Based Networking, we’d hit a bit of a lull after the early J/A momentum. It felt kind of like S4 to me, and I was worried that they were going to do the return to J/B. I was a little confused too, because the first six episodes had virtually nothing shippy between J/B.
So, I don’t really want to defend Jeff here, but I wanted put in my two cents about the dynamic that goes along with him giving Duncan an hour to try to score with Britta. Guys have a code when it comes to women. If a friend of yours expresses interest in a woman, that means she’s off limits to you, at least initially. That sounds like it’s just calling dibs, but really it’s a matter of respect for your friend. You give him a chance and don’t try to sabotage him. If you discover that you like her, and she’s actually interested in you and not your friend, you can pursue her, but need to discuss it with your friend first. If you don’t respect the code, then you don’t respect your friend, and you’re just an ass that’s out for himself. Jeff starts out going after her, but it seemed like an instinctive response to his finding her attractive when everyone likes her rather than him trying to screw over Duncan (immediately prior, he had been ready to leave). Duncan throws it in his face and Jeff admits what he’s doing and realizes that he actually was being a bad friend. He agrees to stand down for an hour, and sticks to it. His casual arrogance regarding getting with Britta is skeezy, and the whole one hour timeframe doesn’t sit well with me, but I give Jeff some credit for at least being honest with Duncan in the end and keeping to his word. Jeff doesn’t win any friend of the year medals here, but what he did was actually a lot more honorable than what a lot of guys would have done. Also note that Duncan is surprised and pleased when Jeff says he’ll give him an hour. Because Jeff is one of the guys who always wins (not at love, because this isn’t love) and Duncan knows Jeff would likely be able to hook up with Britta. By agreeing to stand down, for any length of time, it shows that Jeff does have some level of respect for Duncan, and it’s likely that no one has done this for him before.
The scene with Britta and Duncan in the car struck a note with me because I’ve been Duncan there. It’s not always easy to do the right thing. Duncan was actually a great friend in this episode (despite Jeff’s assertion to the contrary) to both Britta and Jeff.
Reply
I thought Chang’s subplot was amusing. This seems like the right level of crazy for Chang. And I liked the Shining reference at the end haha.
Reply
Leave a comment