Mindy Ain't No Lamp

The Mindy Project, S01E07

Mindy made Danny her gynecologist when she found that her previous one had been retired for some time and when Danny accused her of having feelings for him that would make her impossible as a patient.  Jeremy got Morgan and Betsy to help him break into Mindy's apartment to decorate for a half birthday party, but Jeremy was really there to get back a watch he had misplaced after his last hook up with Mindy.

I still have issues about whether I want to hate Danny or not.  He's quite an easy-to-hate character, but there is something about him that is sort of funny and likeable, so I can't totally commit to loathing him just yet.  This time I was very tempted to write him off as the least loveable character when he was asking Mindy all these questions at her appointment in the rudest way.  I wasn't even sure if all the questions were ones that he asked all his patients, but even so the way he just assumed the answers on his own made me mad.  And I just got even more on Mindy's side when he was making fun of her weight (oh, hell no!).  I know that he and Mindy were playing a game to see which of them would chicken out on this new patient-doctor relationship between them, but he was taking it too far.  I might have wanted to see him get stabbed if Morgan (who is really starting to seem like the best person they could have hired ever) gave Mindy a way to find her inner warrior to fight against Danny.  Sometimes I think he needs to be a therapist, not a nurse.  He's pretty good despite his colorful past.

Thanks to him when Mindy unleased her revenge on him and was making him uncomfortable during the breast examination, I was laughing a lot.  This might be the funniest thing I've seen on this show yet.  Plus, Mindy won in the end and Danny ran home.  Couldn't ask for a better conclusion than that.  But I guess since Danny started acting like a human being, I didn't hate him so much when he caved.  He's a really difficult character.  If I had to bet my money, though, I think that I'm always going to lean toward hating him.

One other thing that was funny in the Danny and Mindy story was when Mindy was talking to him about the retirement card she had made:

[Danny] Take the sunglasses off the sun.  Makes no sense.  The sun’s the only thing that never needs sunglasses.
[Mindy] Um, the sunglasses are the best part.  That is how you know that the sun is cool.

Although I'm conflicted about Danny's personality, he's definitely necessary because he is a great contrast to Mindy's cute comments like that.  That joke wouldn't really work if Danny wasn't so critical and unimaginative.

I'm not so sure what I think about Jeremy so far.  We got to know him a little when he and Danny were at the DMV, and in this episode we saw that he's not above using people, but not impervious to what someone like Betsy might think of him.  He's still a bit of a mystery to me.   I do like that Betsy pretty much berated him for trying to steal the watch from Mindy's place.  I definitely like her because she seems like a pushover, but she will speak out when it's something important like her friends.

Lastly, I don't know if I like Mindy with Josh and all.  That was truly a nightmare to see him in her jeans and comment about the room in the back.  If I was her, I don't know if I would ever be able to face him.  Especially if I was wearing jeans at the time.

Pretty good episode in all.  I feel like Morgan is about my favorite character at the moment.  Mindy comes in at a close second.  The guy who always seems to be hitting low blows at her insecurities, on the other hand, is gunning to be my least favorite one, Danny.  I hope, though, he will grow on me soon.  Also, I want to see more of Jeremy because I can't really have an opinion about him either way.  I'm being impatient because this is a new show that needs time to slowly characterize everyone, but I don't care.  I wanna know what they're all about as quickly as possible.