# Is Nip/Tuck always like that? (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371 "2006-09-27T15:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/1 "2006-09-27T15:12:33Z")
I’ve not watched it before this season, except for catching a few eps as part of a marathon leading up to this season that I flipped back and forth to. Do they often build entire episodes around lame-ass urban legends? Doggy peanut butter and kidney thief in the same episode seems kinda like overkill. Is the show supposed to be a serious drama at all or is it best classified as soap opera? ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/2 "2006-09-27T15:41:18Z")
Jumped, the shark, it has. Good seasons, two, at most , now past. More ominously, the show has crossed the **Melrose Place Threshhold** , the point at which all of the interesting/legal sex pairings between and among cast members has occurred. It is now, like the late period Marilyn Manson, reflexively playing all the old angles in order to shick a thoroughly jaded, indifferent and acclimated audience. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/3 "2006-09-27T15:42:16Z")
in short, yes. It’s probably the most ridiculous shows I’ve ever seen. That’s what usually makes it fun, but using the kidney legend was the most cringe-worthy moment in the history of the show for me. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/4 "2006-09-27T16:47:25Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] the point at which all of the interesting/legal sex pairings between and among cast members has occurred. [/QUOTE] Not quite, and I will continue to hold out hope for the very last one remaining. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/5 "2006-09-27T17:22:54Z")
This season is by far the worst. Definitely watch the previous ones instead - I liked season 2 the best. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/6 "2006-09-27T17:33:32Z")
Marginally saved by the dream sequence with Escobar, but sadly, I was disappointed withe the UL stuff. The outrageousness in seasons past was in line with the characters, but now they’re such puppets of the silly plots that I don’t believe their motivations anymore. Is Christian going to fall for a Nigerian Scam next wee? C’mon. Liz took getting her kidney getting stolen with such, um, aplomb that I could hardly believe it. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/7 "2006-09-27T17:46:06Z")
[QUOTE=bobkitty] Not quite, and I will continue to hold out hope for the very last one remaining. 😃 [/QUOTE] We all are! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/8 "2006-09-27T18:00:13Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] in short, yes. It’s probably the most ridiculous shows I’ve ever seen. That’s what usually makes it fun, but using the kidney legend was the most cringe-worthy moment in the history of the show for me. [/QUOTE] The Nibbled Nipple was more cringe-worthy for me, but mostly because Half-Pint’s nib was nibbled. It vaguely reminded me of the kid from The Toy who became a porn star. (shudder!) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/9 "2006-09-27T19:02:21Z")
My peeve (which is _so_ last season) is how they managed to get \*\*almost everyone \*\* carved by the Carver but have such skill that no one has a scar showing, even soon after the attacks. What’s the last sex act? Christian and Sean one-on one? or has that happened already? ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/10 "2006-09-27T19:19:40Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] What’s the last sex act? Christian and Sean one-on one? or has that happened already? [/QUOTE] That has not happened, and that is exactly the one I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/11 "2006-09-27T21:59:09Z")
A question about the Dog Lady… I don’t recall them saying much else other than PB was involved. Did she get drunk and pass out or did she willingly let the dog eat her tit? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nip-tuck-always-like-that-spoilers/374371/12 "2006-09-27T23:00:26Z")
[QUOTE=liirogue] A question about the Dog Lady… I don’t recall them saying much else other than PB was involved. Did she get drunk and pass out or did she willingly let the dog eat her tit? [/QUOTE] She didn’t willingly let the dog eat her tit; but she willingly put peanut butter on her pussy and let the dog lick it off. That was the big “gotcha ya” of that scene - revealing to the audience that her affection for her dog was… more than normal. (It’s also a very common Urban Legend - friends hide in basement for supririse party, where they know woman will go b/c that’s where she lets the dog out, woman calls to dog and turns on light, friends yell “surprise!” and woman is naked with peanut butter on her pussy).