MLP's acting, I hate to say it, is notably off in some scenes, because of the sitcommy dialogue in the episode. Usually she tries to make these cheesier lines work, but this week she's willing to just do the mug-and-trail. Like, she tells him to sing "Me and Mrs. Jones" to the baby, because they've got a thing going ozzzzzzz, and says the last words into her pillow. That's some Two And A Half Men shit right there, and it looks from here like it's just that she honestly doesn't know what to do with the shit. I mean, the more emotionally complicated things, the bathroom scene, she gives you her usual twice what the writers do, so I guess it evens out. But it's still irritating to watch, because she's usually perfect, and because it's irritating in its own right.
So a few hours later Nancy starts hitting Andy again, and he's like, "But I fed him!" So she explains that now he has pooped: "That's how babies work." Andy explains that optimally, she would be the one dealing with poop, while he would contribute things like funny faces, and she's like, "Make funny faces while you wipe his ass, I need to pump." A few hours after that, she basically punches Andy again to go feed him, and Andy says that probably he wants his mommy. What Andy means is, "He wants his mommy," but what Nancy hears is, "He wants you to breastfeed him," so she says she's empty. Nobody's going to disagree there, babe.
Andy whines that she's trying to break him, and she tries to explain the very realities of the Way Of The Baby: "Shit and food, shit, and food. Mostly shit: wiping shit, keeping him away from shit, minimizing the external shit." Parenting, therefore, is shit. Andy asks about love, and she's like, "Oh, it's there. It's just buried under all the shit." He says he feels used, and she reminds him she's got to clamp a person onto her breast every three hours, and that's the cue for Andy's Sexual Adventures Part 1,532: These Nipple Clamps One Time, which sounds about as boring as anything, so she shoves him out to deal with it.
Dean heads over to Super Lucky Happy Cannabis Club to finally tell Silas and Doug the fake story about the reclaimed pot getting jacked, so they don't realize he gave it to Celia. There's a sad little hand-Sharpied sign that says Currently Out Of Stock, and Silas's sad little pout, and Doug's horrible face being shitty, and Dean's funniest line in the lie is about how he was finally felled by guys "selling stuffed tigers at the mini-mart," and have you ever stopped to go to those guys? Nobody I know ever has, but you see those giant black blankets with tigers or wolves sometimes covering the windows of your finer drug-dealer apartment complexes, so I know somebody does. One day I will. Anyway, Dean whines and still has the bruises from Celia's beating and is generally so sucky that Silas honestly has no choice but to punch him in the face.













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