Cougar Town, S01E02
Of course, this episode was the start of Jules' wedding planning. I thought she might start with a lot of grand and crazy ideas of her vision, but she needed to accommodate some of her friends' needs first, like Ellie and Andy's need of a place to have sex during the event. I liked that Grayson asked if he got a say about the wedding because it was his too, and the gang just laughs at him. Only in a parallel universe would he be able to put his own two cents in. I forgot that Jules is a people-pleaser and doesn't want anyone unhappy with her. After all, she pretty much worn down Grayson from an disinterested neighbor to a fiance.
I admire Grayson for trying to fight back in the tiniest way, since his power is basically nonexistent with Jules around, by refusing to accept "Thanks, Babe" as an end to a conversation. But I like how Ellie and Jules were confused at first why he was still there and hadn't listened to Jules' command to go to go ask her dad for her hand. Jules sweet talks him into going, so his little stand is pretty much pointless.
Grayson and Travis visiting Jules' dad was funnier than I expected because he soon asks Grayson to shoot one of his horses. But in fact, he is just screwing with him and lets Travis in on the joke. I wondered if it was just because he didn't like Grayson (which I could understand; he's not easily likeable), but it was because he wanted to test how far he'd go for the sake of his daughter. Bobby had been a bad husband and he didn't want to see her with another unfit guy. Compared to some other shows I've seen where the dad tested the new husband/boyfriend, I'd say Grayson got off easily. Not that I wanted to see him shoot a horse, though. But it was nice to see Travis and Jules' dad bonding together to play around with Grayson. He got them back by almost shooting the horse. Who wouldn't when Travis was questioning his manhood by asking how it was possible a grown man such as himself hadn't already killed a horse. I loved when Travis said that in his monotone voice.
Also, Jules as an eavesdropping ninja, as Travis put it, was a nice joke. I especially enjoyed her using his powers of stealth to pop up next to Bobby and Andy on the roof. I would hate to have her as a friend because I feel like I'd want to talk about her, but would feel like I'd always have to check over my shoulder first.
Bobby was trying to express his approval of Jules and Grayson's engagement with the gift of zip-line, but that story was not that interesting to me. I did think it was kinda cool when Jules finally used it and ended up landing on the hood of Laurie's car. She took a pretty nice fall.
The best thing of the episode was Ellie and Andy's ritual of expressing murderous anger. Whenever Ellie got so mad at Andy she wanted to kill him, she would just "do" it. They would act out the killing moment, complete with blood and murder weapon, and Travis would photograph it. Then they kept past "murder scenes" on their walls to remember them. Man, I like that idea! If only I could do that, but with my friends. It's a pretty unusual, but entertaining way to channel out your fury. And later you can laugh about it and realize how silly you were. I mean, Andy just left the ice cream out too long; did he really need to be bludgeoned to death with a bat?
I won't really mention the whole co-maid of honor (Co-MOH) thing. Of course, Jules would do that. I do want to say that Ellie and Jules' relationship is so creepily close, it's funny. Like how they both keep bags in their cars in preparation of running away together one day. In a Thelma and Louise fashion? They're a good match, though. Someone very self-centered and someone who gets joy from making others happy. You could easily imagine the two of them married, because they kinda are already (kinda like in Scrubs how Turk and JD were).
Wish there were more jokes that I liked, but that whole murder-pretending thing was good enough to satisfy me this time. I wonder how ridiculous Jules is going to get soon about planning the wedding. I hope it's something that even a whipped Grayson will have to fight against (though he won't win).
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