Mindy Should Be The Boss

The Mindy Project, S01E08

After Dr. Shulman's unexpected retirement, the practice started to lose its patients to a holistic birthing center on a different floor.  Jeremy and Danny sent Mindy off to be with her friends, claiming that they didn't need her, but they continued to lose business in her absence.

I can't believe what big jerks Danny and Jeremy were being by pushing Mindy off to the side pretty much the minute Dr. Shulman was gone.  Wow, they really do not value her input at all.  I don't know why Jeremy would think that Danny had all the answers when he couldn't even handle an issue with HR on another day.  I'm hoping it's less of a sexist thing and more of a friendship thing because I couldn't help but be pissed.  Sure, Mindy is a little out there, but she's a good doctor and has good ideas.

I'm not sure what I felt about the midwife brothers.  I didn't think they were as handsome and charming as all the other women seemed to think (but I also don't think that Jeremy and Danny are better looking than them either).  I liked how they came down and put Danny in his place about how doctors were drug dealers and such.  Danny sucked at showing them up.  All that education and he can't even properly talk smack.  Haha.

Danny also was horrible at talking to his patients.  He was calling one lady stupid because she had concerns about the medication that might be used on her baby.  No wonder his patients practically ran to their competition.  Jeremy, though, was no better.  He was acting too cocky about his looks and making comments that sounded dirty when telling the woman that she was going to stay with them.  It makes me wonder how they manage to get by talking to their patients at all without sounding like assholes or creepers.

While all hell was breaking loose at their practice, I liked that Mindy was enjoying the time with her friends.  My favorite part was that before she ran off to save her business, she had her friends made a human changing room and said:

Please don't judge my bra.

I don't know if that meant her bra was really ugly or raggedy.  In either case, I could identify with that. And it made me laugh and like Mindy a little more.

Of course, I really loved when Mindy came back to the practice, grabbed a patient's file and went down to the midwives for a showdown.  She did her best to deflect their charms, while letting all of their ex-patients know why it was a safer choice to choose their practice for their births in the event there were complications.  She not only sounded intelligent, but also showed that she is not playing around when it comes to stealing her patients.  I liked that she kept the mallet, in case that she needed to come to their center again and ring the gong.  I really liked when she announced her presence by banging on it.

For a brief second, she was a little turned on by one of the midwives wiping her fallen eyelash off and making her blow on it for a wish.  To me that was weird.  It wouldn't have made me swoon.  But to each their own.

It was sweet that Josh showed up at the end to spend some time with her, but I still haven't warmed up to him.  However, I loved his comments as he came into the room:

Why do hospitals always have the ugliest posters?  Indianapolis has a jazz fest?  Gross.

They were such random comments that I wouldn't have expected him to say upon arrival.  But he made some good points.

I'm glad that Mindy has proven how valuable of an asset she is to the business and how lost Danny and Jeremy would be without her for even a day.  Those morons better never put her in the corner again.  With Dr. Shulman gone, I think that Mindy should be the one in charge, really, but I'm sure that the other two would never admit to that.   At least they can never complain that she's useless, though.