Travis, The Dancing iPad

Cougar Town, S03E11

A hurricane blew into town, and Jules set up a party to ride it out with her friends.  Besides the wine running out, the biggest issue was that Travis looked like he finally had a chance to be with Laurie since she was having problems with Wade.  Jules was against her son getting together with Laurie until Bobby made her realize that Travis' happiness was more important than their personal feelings.  Travis ended up helping Wade patch up things with Laurie via a video call on an iPad and convinced Laurie to give Wade another chance even though it would ruin his own chance.

I usually don't pay attention to the few seconds for the title, but I noticed this time there was a quote from Abed:

"I didn't know it was back on either."

I started to wonder if they always do that sort of thing.  I keep forgetting that Abed loves Cougar Town.  It's just so random when you think about the kind of shows he usually enjoys (crime and sci-fi).  Then again, Abed is a jack-of-all-trades, really.  It's funny to think that he wouldn't have noticed that one of his favorite shows was back on the air.  Guess he has really been distracted by that Dr. Who knock-off he and Troy enjoy so much.

Anyway, back to this show.  I wasn't rooting for Travis to get with Laurie.  I'm sure it will happen one day, but thankfully it wasn't last night.  I mean, sure they would make a good and possibly entertaining couple, but I just can't care that much when Travis is involved.  It's like his nonchalant attitude has affected my feelings about him.  He always sounds like he's about to take a nap (or just woke up from one), so I tend to ignore what's going on with him.

That being said, I was laughing when he was acting as Wade's "body" by taping the iPad to his face and taking direction from Wade.  It was crazy ridiculous, but a little bit sweet in a weird way.  It sort of made me think of them making some kind of weird iRobot in the future where someone from a remote location could control a body and have their face show up in a screen as if they were there.  Watching Laurie dancing with Wade's screen face on Travis' body was oddly cute and scary.  It was funny that Travis let himself do that for Laurie's sake, but he drew the line when he had to touch her butt for him.  It was already a strange situation, so I don't know why that was too much.  Taping an iPad to your face for your rival in love should be too much.

Besides that moment, I didn't think anything was too funny except when Jules kept pouring herself a glass of wine, forgetting that the bottles were empty.  They were having a pretty good party (despite Jules fretting about a future grandson bore by Laurie and Travis) until the wine started to go.  I liked how the guys were smart enough to know that they needed to hurry up and get some more before things turned ugly.  And Ellie immediately turned to them and asked in a scary voice what were they whispering about.  I wish that they were unable to leave, just so I could see a wine-less Ellie tear them apart.

 Not one of the best episodes, but at least we didn't see the start of Travis and Laurie skipping around town together.  That can be put off for another season (if there will be one), I hope.  I guess with Wade enlisting in for another year, we won't be able to physically see him for a while.  It's just as well because it is a little funny that Laurie is walking around with him on a video call as if he's a real person.  I could stand to see her doing that more.  This show is often a little boring to me compared to some other shows (I laugh more watching Mad Men), so I'll ask for anything that might make me think watching the rest of this season is worthwhile.