Best Friend Toilet

Bob's Burgers, S03E15

Gene, after losing his chance to care for a flour baby, happened upon a super-intelligent toilet and befriended it as he began to care for it.  Their friendship was compromised when a dangerous man started stalking Gene, wanting to take the toilet back.  Bob also found that while wearing a suit he had gotten from the funeral home, he was more popular and attractive than he ever was without it.

Gene taking care of a bag of flour was doomed from the start.  An egg would have just been impossible--he has the grace and delicacy of an a drunken ox.  Now, Gene and a toilet are about the best match I could think of, without considered something imaginary.  It having the ability to speak and do things like play music is just a bonus.  It felt very natural for Gene to be out in the middle of the woods talking to a toilet like it was some random kid he had just met.  The only thing I thought was weird was that the toilet was able to work fine without being hooked into anything.  I mean, it was charged and all, but how would one actually use it to relieve fluids?  Where would those go if flushed?  I don't know.  I kept wondering about that the whole the time.  Good thing Gene never used it to pee.

I thought Gene assembling his friends and family to help the toilet escape Max Flush was pretty cute.  It was a nice parody of E.T.  It was definitely thinking outside of the box by replacing the alien with a toilet.  I haven't seen that version yet, so it helped keep my interest throughout.  I also liked how the kids managed to lure Max away with one of their friends dressed as Gene and by leaving a decoy on the ferry.  Those kids are good.  They would have been rid of the guy for good if he hadn't been able to swim back to shore.  You would think that Max would have caught up to them sooner, but they are damn smart.  I like when they band together to do some kind of operation, like when they were selling peeks at the nude beach.  They need to do more projects that involve the kids plus their friends.

It was almost sad when Gene had to part with his new best friend, and when he told it that he loved it, the toilet kept saying "Vomit now."  No matter if you felt a twinge of sentiment for the bond Gene seemed to have formed with the toilet, you couldn't possibly not find the tiniest bit in humor in their final exchange.  It was almost as if the toilet wanted to vomit from Gene getting overly emotional at the end.  I'm glad it happened as it did with Gene yelling futiley to express his feelings and the toilet just thinking he needed to toss his cookies.

I liked Bob's story as much as I did Gene's--that was a pleasant surprise.  Bob isn't the most respected or good-looking guy around, so to see him have people nearly treating him like a celebrity because of a suit was bizarre, but an entertaining story.  It was amazing that he was being given free drinks and women were flirting with him.  The same guy who looks like a hairy bowling pin.  I thought Linda might spoil his fun, but she seemed just as dazzled by Bob in his suit as strangers were.  I felt sadder when he had to part with the suit more than Gene had to with the toilet.  I mean, that suit really improved his life.  It's a shame that police officer recognized the suit--Bob deserved to live in the glory of his clothing a little longer.  I think it's the best thing that's happened to him in a long time.

There was also a line earlier in the story that I liked.  Louise had an amusing reaction to his suit:

Wow, Don Draper's kinda fat this season.

Suggesting that Bob even looks like a fatter version of Don Draper is a pretty damn good compliment.  I mean, Louise isn't known to say very nice things in general, so that's as about as good as he's gonna get.

I liked this episode.  It was one of those rare ones where I wasn't irritated at anyone and the story wasn't centered around events of bad luck.  Gene having a best friend that was a toilet was a surprisingly good match, considering how unusual Gene is.  It was also one of the better E.T. spoofs that I've seen in a while.  I wish that Bob had a little more time with his suit, though.  He's never going to get the money or success to be as respectable and beloved as he was on his own, so it feels like that was his one opportunity to shine.  But I guess since Gene had to say goodbye to something he loved, it was only fair that Bob would have to do the same.

A Big Tub Of Crazy

New Girl, S02E10

Winston and Jess worked together to sneak a tub on the roof and tried to cover up the damage it caused to Schmidt's suits with fake robberies.  Nick decided to break his rule about crossing the bar to meet a girl he was interested in and got in the middle of her drama.  Schmidt professed his love to Cece and wanted to show her that he was serious about being a relationship with her that involved children.

I'm not surprised that Winston was the one that wanted the tub out of all of the guys.  He has a weird sensitive side about him that differs from the one that Schmidt has.  I am surprised, though, with him being involved in a scheme that he wasn't a little more level-headed than Jess was.  I mean, to agree that they should fake a robbery by meth-heads was a really bad idea that no one should have been on board with.  I guess with Schmidt's precious suits being damaged, Winston just lost his cool and went to Crazytown.  If they had thought of a better idea of explaining why Schmidt's suits disappeared in the first place, they wouldn't have to resort to a fake robbery.  I thought Schmidt was smart, but he didn't really question the robbery at all.  But maybe he was smarter than them because he did have the security camera in his room (although he seemed to use it only for gross purposes).

Winston further surprised me by increasing his freaking-out level to naked man on the roof patio.  I actually loved the flashback when Winston had his first case of the "willies" where he ran out of his car during a driving test.  If I was him, I don't know if I could recover from such an embarrassing end to a test.

Besides that flashback, I also enjoyed seeing Remy again.  He was only there for two brief moments, but each time, he managed to extend the invitation for some 3-way sex.  I love how creepy he is!  He's the best super ever.  

One last thing about this story that stood out to me was Winston being relieved that Jess is as crazy as he is.  Um, hello.  He didn't just meet Jess yesterday.  They're all crazy in that apartment!  They've proven that time and time again.  But I guess Winston just thought she was quirky until she got trapped into a closet and began shrieking inside of it like she was buried alive.  I suppose that's on the level of getting the willies and stripping down to your briefs in a panic.

Nick's story was just full of red flags.  Like, he should have never spoken to Angie in the first place.  But my favorite part of that story was when Mike came looking for Nick and Nick pretended to be named "Ricardo" and was blabbering in Spanish (or something that sounded like Spanish).  That was both a cowardly and funny defensive move for him to make.  Mike did look like someone who didn't mind busting someone's head, so maybe that was the best course of action.

I also liked when Nick was in the middle of Angie and another stripper's fight and he said:

I'm super aroused!  I think I just became a dirtbag!

After all that craziness, I never thought he would see Angie again, but apparently she's going to be around for a little while?  I mean, a kiss doesn't guarantee that he's got a new girlfriend, but it does look good for him.  I'm disappointed that he's not looking Jess's way, but it's not so bad that he has someone to temporarily cuddle with until he gets to his senses.

I'm also disappointed that Schmidt blew it with Cece.  Like Nick said, we all knew that he was in love with her, so him telling Cece so seemed like he had a good shot restoring their relationship.  Especially since Schmidt is ready to have kids immediately.  I can't blame Cece for taking Schmidt's commitment toward her with a grain of salt and cutting him off when he stood her up for dinner to drink with his boss and former sex buddy.  Cece has to start thinking about her future and the way Schmidt is acting, she can't be sure that he's not going to set her up for a future that only exists in a dream.  I didn't like seeing Schmidt so crushed.  He went from calling the bathtub a "medieval flilth couldren" to not giving a damn that Winston and Jess wanted to get one.  I prefer the Schmidt who is happily flipping through a binder of pictures of himself in suits and talking about summer condoms than a heartbroken one.  He's gross, but he has feelings.  I hope that Schmidt gets one last chance to prove himself to Cece before her arranged marriage gets finalized.

This wasn't the funniest episode, but it was still good.  I'd like to see Jess and Winston team up again one day.  They're an unusual pair, but they seem to have some things in common when it comes to their brand of crazy.  Not too thrilled about Nick dating Angie, but it is what it is.  I'm confident that someone who dates a thug like Mike and picks fights with her fellow strippers won't stay in Nick's life for too long.  Schmidt needs to hurry up and make one last grand gesture to get Cece back.  As much as I dislike his sexy talk with Cece, Schmidt and Cece are made for each other, and I can't stand to watch Cece end up with someone she doesn't love.