Loved this! The Seussian narration, the Olive backstory, Barbara Barrie as the bitchiest mama ever! LOVE. IT.
Jock-Off! HAH! I love how this show gets away with these little touches.
We do find out that the fruit in his pies does, indeed, go bad if he touches it again. Ned’s dad’s an ass. The scene on the porch between Vivian and Ned was SO sad and sweet.
The jockey bar (“We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone over 60” tall"). Emerson is the pure embodiment of snark, as usual. “Hello? Olive’s money? It’s Emerson.”
So how did they explain to Olive how they knew about the oath? And who was actually responsible for cutting the girth?
“You know that old song: I scream, you scream, we all scream I faked my own death.”
I also liked this episode. I laughed out loud quite a few times. Emerson’s discussion with the money was great.
One thing that bothered me, though… how come the horse was able to breathe fire out of its nostrils? Normally, I’ll accept just about any quirky thing in this show, but this one fact seemed to not make much sense even within the world of the show.
There was one plot point that seemed nonsensical at the time, but which one in particular is escaping me at the moment.
Wait, first of all, I have to wait two weeks for the stupid, useless CMA’s. Crap, that is just wrong. One more reason to hate country music.
I enjoyed this episode. Olive looked great with the long hair. I liked the crack by the evil mom about Olive still not having a man and pointing out her cleavage. Of course, in the scene Chuck was covered up.
The Bartender was the one that actually cut the girth. The 4 jockeys got together after the race and realized that the girth was cut, that it was not an accident. For some reason all 3 male jockeys decided to hide the fact and brow beat Olive into going along.
I love the aunts, they play off each other so well. I think at some point they might actually learn that Chuck is alive. The Parrot saying, “Help me, they changed me into a bird” was wonderful. Ellen Green is incredibly funny.
Jim
BTW: Barbara Barrie, was the Grandmother on Dead Like Me. She is always great in every role I have ever seen her. I loved her Mrs. Miller on Barney Miller. I’ve liked her in every little role since.
I also like the nod to film noir during the dialog between Olive and Emerson. They were speaking in quick, clipped sentences while shadowed by what seemed to be the slats of venetian blinds.
So when Chuck and Ned were kids, Chuck lived next door to Ned, right? That’s what I remember from the view out of the kitchen window in the first episode when Chuck’s Dad was brutally murdered by Ned.
So Chuck’s aunts lived across the street, then?
And if anyone here watches Ugly Betty tonight, drop back in and let me know if it is Kristen Chenowith and Idina Menzel in the roles of Glinda and Elphaba in the Wicked scenes. (They were the originals in the play, and just wonder if they reprised their roles in this upcoming episode.)
I’m trying to figure out how I keep missing this stuff. I was right there watching the show the whole hour but everyone keeps catching whole pieces of dialogue that went right past me!
I had it on DVR and had to rewind to catch it. It was right after a quick editing cut, IIRC, and I was expecting one of the foursome to speak, when the narrator chimed in with a little exposition. Easy to miss.
Ahem…Chuck’s Dad was not “brutally” murdered. Ned was just learning about his powers and was unaware of the one minute rule. At the least, Chuck’s dad’s death was an accident.
I want Ned to confront his father for being a jackass.
I loved Emerson laughing his ass off when Olive told him she used to be a jockey. And I loved Chuck wearing a sheet and twirling on the aunt’s front yard and moaning “boooooo” before she rang the doorbell for trick or treat.
Also – you’ll have to take my word for this, but I swear that it is true – when I first logged into this thread, the Google ad had the headline “Undo Circumcision Damage.” I was too stunned to remember to take a screen shot. Must be related to the “Girth” in the title.
That was great, I also loved Ned’s ghost costume of the kids sheets. Did I see that right, the dog had the pillow case on?
It seems like a miracle Ned is not a serial killer with how f’d up his life has been. Talk about guilt and abandonment issues. I can’t help but be sympathetic for him.
When Emerson and Chuck were standing in front of JJJ’s mother’s house, talking beside the car, there was a big whooshing noise that was never explained. Anybody else hear that? Maybe it was the mother’s flame thrower somewhere in the background?
I really like Emerson. “Don’t sit there and pretend like that’s a word everybody knows.”
[del]Was that the scene where the other jockey was leaning against the hood of the car? Because the TWOPpers are speculating about that. You notice that after Ned and Emerson ran off after hearing the neighing in the woods, the jockey kind of relaxes and tips his head back…some people think he was supposed to be peeing at that point.[/del] Never mind…you’re talking about Emerson and CHUCK, not Ned. Different scene.
(Un)Relatedly, did Emerson say “pissing” when they were all talking in the pieshop?
This was the first episode I’ve seen, and I really liked it. It’s been added to the DVR. Chi McBride is hilarious, especially considering the last show I really watched with him was Boston Public where he was so dour all the time. I know I’ve missed a bunch of backstory; can someone fill me in on what I need to know to be all up-to-speed?
My “so you can accept the fact that Ned can revive people, animals, and fruit from the dead according to certain specific rules but you can’t accept that” moment for this episode was when Olive’s past as a champion jockey was announced. Female jockeys are just not common enough or successful enouch for me to buy her involvment in the Jock-off. Also, why were there only 5 horses/jockeys in that race? (Not that adding more horses/jockeys makes things better . . . )
But I didn’t have a problem with a xenotransplant attaching horselegs to a human body.
Other than that, I enjoyed the episode–especially the moment when Ned tries to suggest that working for Olive is a little too close for comfort. And the list of evil things which cause people to suddenly drop dead–“faking one’s own death” and “talking too much”.
