2 Girls On A Plane

2 Broke Girls, S02E16

The random hookup Max had from a backstage at a concert earned the girls two tickets to the Grammys and a trip to LA on a private plane.  They were fortunate to meet 2 Chainz on the plane, but not so lucky when the plane had engine trouble.

I felt a little out of the loop that I had no idea who 2 Chainz was, nor what song Caroline kept singing and referring to.  It would have helped me find her horrible singing even funnier.  Still, I enjoyed how unnatural it sounded for her to keep talking about "big booty hos."  It doesn't seem like that would be her jam at all.  Nor would it be the kind of music that Han would be listening to either.

The best thing was that Max got a bit of luck by screwing a guy who could get her Grammys tickets and rides on a private plane--wow.  Among the girls' random fortunes, this is one of the top.  I wouldn't have expected that they would get to fly in a plane like that any time soon.  It was also a nice twist that it happened to be Caroline's old plane.  It sort of reminds you of all the things she's lost.  Now that I've been watching this show for a while, it's hard for me to remember that Caroline didn't grow up in the same financial background as Max.

One of the funniest things that happened on the plane was when Max put her boobs on a sleeping 2 Chainz to sneak a picture of the two of them together.  That was just so Max-like to go that far.  And it was so Caroline-like to get caught with her ass all up on him when he finally did wake up.  The two of them should have tried being a little quieter if they didn't want to get found out.

The other thing I liked was when Caroline was talking to the co-pilot and he was relishing all of the drugs he did.  He tried to assure Max that he was off the stuff by saying that he went sober after seeing the movie Flight, which Max remarked was still in the theaters.  If some pilot felt like he could relate to that movie, no matter how long ago he was sober, I would not be flying with that guy.  Denzel did some crazy shit in that movie, and it is not a movie I want to hear referred to by a pilot while in the air.

Speaking of pilots, I was a little grossed out by Pilot Bill hitting on Caroline.  Mostly because he's twenty years older and has probably known Caroline since she was in her early twenties, at least.  Eww.  He just had this creepy vibe that I wish that Caroline didn't have to cater to in order to ensure them a safe flight.  I hope that she turned him down once that plane crashed into a cornfield.

I liked this episode, and I'm wondering if Max will still be seeing that guy from backstage.  It's been too long since she was involved with anyone, and it'd be nice to turn the spotlight on her love life for a little while.  It might distract me from the fact that I wish Andy was back.  I'll want him to be back even more if I have to see Caroline lower her standards for people like Bill.  She might be broke now, but she needs to maintain some kind of standards.

Just Call Roger "Daddy"

American Dad, S08E04

Stan kicked Roger out of the attic so that his newly widowed mother could live there and resisted at first when Roger and Betty were married right away.  Stan grew to love Roger as his new dad, but thought his mother was in danger when he saw someone had left a website open that offered advice on how to kill one's spouse.  Steve and his friends also found a lost script for a Fast and Furious sequel.

It took me nearly to the end of the episode to not be grossed out by Roger being involved with Betty.  He's just so nasty!  It's times like this that I'm reminded that he's an alien just playing dress-up and also has screwed more people than Stan's ever seen in his life.  It just made me skin crawl a little to see his hands all up on someone that closely related to Stan.  Stan seemed more angry about it than wanting to vomit, like I did, mostly because I guess he didn't like the idea of having a new dad.  I never expected Roger to try and fulfill that role to Stan nor did I think that he would be successful in establishing a loving (yet weird) father-son relationship with him.  I mean, Roger was a pretty good stepdad.  Knowing Roger, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop because Roger always has some kind of ulterior motive when one of his personas is doing something good for someone else, but he remained good until he had to kill off his character (which was really convenient).  I was a little surprised that Betty was trying to off Roger, but she is Stan's mother, so that crazy had to come from somewhere.

I think the only gag I really liked was where Roger kept having pictures of himself and Stan that had just happened or were about to happen.  It was really weird.  It reminds me of when I look at pictures in movies and such and always wonder who was there at that exact perfect moment to capture the pictures.  Because they would be too in the moment pictures for someone to have just casually happened to get them on film.  This joke wasn't hilarious, but I appreciated it.

I didn't appreciate too much the story about Steve.  Did not need to see the characters from those horrible Fast and Furious movies making out with each other.  I think we could have been all right not having a side story at all.

This episode was okay.  I think what I liked most was that Roger was genuine for a change.  He's usually such a bastard while trying to pretend to be a saint that it sometimes makes me mad.  Also, Stan learned a little that his mother isn't so perfect, so maybe we won't have to see her again anytime soon.  I wouldn't mind seeing Roger acting nice again sometime. He's disgusting and weird, but he really makes the show entertaining (He just needs to not be so conniving all the time).