Ya'll Can't Eat Nowhere

Happy Endings, S02E18

Through the misfortune of Penny's birthday celebration, we not only learn that her parties have famously been cursed ("The curse of Penny's birthday strikes again), but also that her group of friends have managed to get themselves banned from almost every restaurant in the city.  It's not so unusual that people have a hard time deciding on a place to eat that everyone will like, but it's a different matter when you have to worry about if someone might be arrested from setting foot upon a suggested place.

I think that Brad's old custom of taking girls he wanted to break up with to a certain restaurant with a mariachi band and bolted down tables was damn smart.  I don't know what the kind of ladies he used to date before Jane, but I'm sure that crazy only attracts crazy, so I'm sure each time it could have been a scene.  I didn't think that he might have taken Jane there, but it was sweet when he explained to her how her self-assurance won him over, and he knew that he would never need the breakup restaurant again.  They are so good together.  Probably a little too good together, as they managed to get the gang banned from Medora for having sex in the bathroom.  They may be a cute couple, but they are some freaks when it comes to getting it on.  Seriously, do you two have to bang in every restaurant in town?  They need to start a stamp card and receive a free ice cream for their 20th "Oops!  You caught us!"

While I was shaking my head at everyone's ability to mark off the restaurants in town as if they were playing "Ooo, not there!" bingo, Max had me laughing with hunger-induced madness and his motto that night of "The curse of Penny's birthday strikes again."  The best time he used this was in a modified fashion when he accidentally hit the lights off without realizing it:

The curse of Max's love handles strikes again.

 Was it really a curse?  After all their mishaps that night, including Penny losing her shirt and getting everyone kicked out of Big Dom's, they all have dinner at Rosalita's (I could see that coming) and encounter a strange woman speaking a language they don't understand.  She blows salt on them and seems to curse them.  What's even stranger is that they all pretend (I think it is) they have switched bodies.  That was hilarious, even with Alex failing to do it (instead of imitating Dave, she just says "I'm Dave").  What in the world was that about?  I just love that a random woman can just show up and do that.

I think this was a great episode to provide evidence that all these people belong together.  They are such a bunch of misfits, to put it the nicest I can, who cannot do anything simply like even eat a different place (Rosalita's it shall be forever).  I think anyone should be so lucky to have friends like these they can identify with on the same level of insanity without having that one "normal" person in the bunch who can judge you.